Among The Stars ✰ Thor Odinson

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Thor woke up with a start, a small gasp escaped his mouth as he was finally freed from his nightmare. He looked around the forest as his heartbeat slowed. The sun was just beginning to rise. The first rays of sunlight spilled over the tops of the trees. With additional light from the dying campfire.

Thor's eyes drifted down to the woman who slept at his side. It was a miracle that his sudden movements didn't wake her. Milena was always such a light sleeper. Thor admired her. Milena was curled up beside Thor on their makeshift bed. Her hair spread across the pillow behind her, the blanket was pulled up to her chin, and she had one hand resting in between them.

Milena looked calm and content in her sleep, her position making her look almost innocent and vulnerable.

However Thor knew not to underestimate her.

Milena had one hand tucked underneath her pillow and Thor knew that her hand was tightly gripping onto one of her daggers. Another dagger rested in the sheath on her thigh. Milena was taught to always sleep with one eye open and always be ready for an attack.

Thor learned this the hard way. Her first week on Asgard he got a bit to excited to show her around, he loudly knocked on her doors and opened them before she even had a chance to let him. He was met with two guns pointed straight at his face. How she managed to sneak the guns on Asgard he never knew.

Eventually Thor convinced her to get rid of the guns. Still, she slept with her daggers. The marks in the wall in her room in Asgard, and in Jane's house proved that it took Thor a couple of times before he learned.

Without really thinking Thor brushed the hair out of Milena's face causing her to flinch awake. When she saw Thor's face she almost immediately calmed down.

"Did you have the nightmare again?" She asked softly. A part of her already knew he answer.

Thor nodded. The image of Surtur setting Asgard ablaze still ingrained in his mind.

Milena gently cupped his face. Thor's beard had gotten longer and you could almost tell that he was a man who had been travelling for two years. Thor leaned into the touch and placed his hand over hers, he turned his head to kiss her palm and turned back to her.

"Are you sure about your plan?" Milena asked warily as she stroked his cheek. Thor's plan to get captured in the realm of fire didn't seem very safe.

Thor nodded. "We've been looking for the infinity stones for two years and have found nothing but war among the realms. The least I can do is see find out why I'm having horrible nightmares."

Milena nodded and pressed herself closer to Thor's warm body. "Okay. As long as your sure."

"I'm sure."

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"Why did I trust you." Milena grumbled quietly.

The two of them were laying in in two separate metal cages that were attached to the ceiling of a cave that they were in. Milena didn't remember much about how they got captured. They left their weapons and began walking around the blazing realm, next thing Milena knew she was knocked out, then she was waking up in a cage.