There was something sharp in his pocket – like a tiny needle, poking him in the side through his clothes. Thor grimaced and fished around in his pocket. His fingers scrabbled across metal – smooth, covered in a light pattern of scratches.
“Whatcha got there?” said Rocket, from the chair by Thor’s bed. He was messing around with the complimentary tablet that the Wakandans had put in every guest room. Everyone who’d survived had been herded into these rooms, hoping that they’d be able to rest after their ordeal.
Things exploded on the screen, the light flashing across Rocket’s fur. His tiny hands shook.
Thor sat heavily on the edge of the bed. He pulled the metal object from his pocket and stared at it, turning it over in his hand. It was his eyepatch. He hadn’t worn it since Rocket gave him the cybernetic eye, but something had told him to keep it in his pocket. For sentiment’s sake, if nothing else.
“Oh, pshh, that old thing,” Rocket drawled. He waved a dismissive hand, not looking up from his game. “You can toss that, you don’t need it anymore. That eye still giving you trouble?”
It was, frankly. It kept getting stuck in awkward positions, and sometimes everything got hazy in that eye. But it didn’t get as many stares as an eyepatch did – and Thor didn’t want to hurt Rocket’s feelings.
“Nah, it’s fine,” he said. “You’re right -”
“ ‘Course I am.”
“Maybe I should get rid of this.”
Shink!
Thor yelped as something sharp poked his hand. “What the hell?” he spluttered, dropping it. A tiny sliver of metal, no larger than a sewing needle, had come off the patch and stabbed him.
Rocket gave him a look over the tablet. “Now what,” he said flatly.
“It stabbed me!” Thor insisted, standing up and pointing at the eyepatch, which was now sitting rather smugly on he ground. He glared at it. “It just -”
He paused.
“It what?”
He ignored Rocket and slowly knelt on the floor by the eyepatch. It was gleaming oddly in the light – not the shine of polished bronze, something deeper. Greener.
Thor slowly reached out to prod it with one finger.
Blam!
An explosion of light, and a figure suddenly towered over him. “Holy shit!” Rocket yelled, grabbing his gun.
Thor just sat there and stared.
His brother stared back – grimy, pale, and bleeding from several nasty-looking wounds, but alive.
“Loki?” he breathed.
The trickster was silent for a long, long moment. Finally he spread his hands and said, sheepishly, “Mbleurgh, it’s me.”
It came out more like a question than a response, but it didn’t matter. Thor shot to his feet and wrapped his arms around his brother. Tears surged from his eyes. If Loki noticed, he graciously said nothing. “You’ve got to stop doing this to me,” Thor croaked.
He felt Loki smirk into his shoulder. “I told you,” he said softly. “The sun would shine on us again.”
Everyone in Infinity Wars gonna be complaining about how hard these last few years have been for them until Thor rolls up with no hair, no hammer, and one eye.
Don’t forget “my planet had to be destroyed to keep my sister from killing like the whole universe so now me and all my people are refugees. But hey, Loki’s back, that’s good news!”
Peter(raises his hand in the back): “…My homecoming date‘s dad turned out to be my arch nemesis and a building fell on me!“
Thor (smiles and gives a thumbs-up): “Good for you! (aside, to Tony)…Who is that person? Do we know him or did he just show up?”
T’Challa: My dad died, too.
Thor: I apologize for your loss, I know how it feels
Thor: (To Steve) Who is that handsome man dressed like a kitten?
Starlord: My dad turned out to be this giant, planet eating god and tried to kill me so I had to kill him.
Thor: These things happen sometimes.
Thor: (to Banner) Are we just picking up strangers with sad family stories or…?
This is now canon, you can all go home, there’s no need to see infinity war
sometimes life is like that
Somebody did beautiful fanart???? Of a post I contributed to?????? This is amazing????????
This is so fucking awesome xD
This is the plot of IW. Everything else can go back to the script.
An underrated scene I don’t see a lot of people talking about is the Thor and Gamora scene when he’s told Gamora is Thanos’ daughter. The Guardians are worried Thor is about to release some misdirected blame on Gamora. We know better that Thor gets families. When he pats her shoulder and says, “Families are complicated,” we know he’s being 100% sincere.
He doesn’t know her story. He doesn’t know Thanos murdered half of her people, mother included, and indoctrinated her onto his side. He gets she probably didn’t ask to have a genocidal conquerer for a father. Yeah, Thor is the big guy of the Avengers, but he’s also an intelligent and empathic person and I live for scenes like that.
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