On A Leash

Asgard

 "That's certainly a-a hypothesis," Thor didn't get the reaction he was hoping for from Strange.

"Could you tell us what you found with the study,"

"Of course," he smiled, "I haven't logged much in yet but you're welcome to check the data. I'm just going to go do some research on Afraid?"

"Freya" Thor cleared.

"Right. Well, enjoy, your majesty." Strange bowed but frowned when he left, not believing his kiss ass behaviour.

"Bucky did pretty well compared to our gym session, your vitals only picked up a little bit," you told Thor, who was hovering over your shoulder. He still wasn't sure about the cause of his feelings.

"Do you remember when I told you I knew a place we could eat without people bothering you?"

"Yeah," you responded, looking at Bucky's and Nat's scores. That super soldier serum really helped for the first few minutes.

"Did you...I don't know, did you want to check it out?"

"Are you asking me out?" you bluntly spoke. Thor seemed shocked at your confidence.

"W-what? N-no...yes. Okay. Yes, I'm asking you out," he went to go lean on the wall but hit a fire alarm. The two of you were doused in water within seconds, "please don't let that affect your answer, or do,"

"Okay. Yeah, let's go." you nodded and spat out some water that fell into your mouth.

*

Peter and the others noticed that you had been spending a lot of time with Thor lately. Some team members had gathered around the kitchen table after a gym session.

"Are you jealous?" Wanda asked.

"What? No. Of course not," Peter saw the two of you come out of the lab dripping wet.

"What the hell happened?" Nat asked, keeping a respectable distance from you.

"Somebody may have hit the fire alarm. You'll want to cancel any emergency services on their way," you responded politely. Thor chuckled and kept walking to his room.

"You two seem...chummy," Peter smiled.

"Yeah. He's taking me out for dinner,"

"Oh! Ow! Ooh, that's great!" Peter's voice was far too loud for the space that he was in. He punched the kitchen counter firmly but not harshly, "have fun!"

"Yeah cheers," you disappeared to your room.

"What the hell was that?" Nat asked Peter.

"I have no idea," Peter buried his head in his hands and leaned on the counter in shame.

*

It was Asgard. He took you to Asgard.

Heimdall beamed you up like he was Scotty in Star Trek. It wasn't your favourite type of transport given that you had the breath knocked out of you like it was some sort of super-fast rollercoaster where it had you feeling like you were falling in reverse but Thor was there clinging onto you- well, you were clinging onto him, hoping not to fall out of the beam.

"So that was-"

"Exhilarating?"

"Puke-inducing" you retorted.

"She's funny, I like her." Heimdall complimented you. Thor loved the face you made when viewing the city from Heimdall's place of work.

"Do  I have to walk all that way?" you asked, it seemed ridiculous.