you can probably see this coming but: another teddy bear fic?anyone who doesn't have one yet
Guess what? THERE IS NO THOR BEAR. Now that needed to be remedied.
Not as long as I would have liked, but I wrote A Thing. Yay?
Thor is loud and boisterous. He doesn'tbelieve in things like an “inside voice” and if he wasn't anactual demigod, one might be tempted to call him a frat boy. He mighteven be flattered, in a way. But then, you never really know withgods.
Thor is thunder and flash, literally.That is why it is easy to forget that there is also a very differentside to him, one that is calm and quiet and wise beyond humanunderstanding. It's very easy to see him as the one-dimensional imagethat he really is not, and it's very difficult to start seeing allthe little nuances that make Thor what he is.
Tony knows that he has only just begun to put together the smallest part of the puzzle that is Thor.
Tony finds Thor on top of the Tower, onthe observation deck, sitting on a bench and staring up into theseemingly endlessly blue sky. The weather is nice and warm today, andTony can just feel the temptation to lie in the sun all day and donothing.
Tony wordlessly takes a seat next toThor and looks up into the sky, too. Looking up into the sky stillmakes him a little nauseous, sometimes; the memory of a dark holetearing it open creeping up on him unbidden far more often than helikes to admit.
He is sure that when Thor looks up intothe sky, he sees something entirely different, though. Tony wonderssometimes if Thor perceives the world differently from them, if hesees things that humans are unable to. Normally, this curiosity wouldinevitably lead him to ask Thor a thousand questions and maybe run afew tests, but he has a feeling that all he would get as an answerwould be one of Thor's many mysterious smiles.
“Is it difficult?” he finds himselfasking instead.
Thor shoots him a sideways look, butthey both know that the other one has a sharp mind, and playing dumbwould be entirely pointless. Tony knows that Thor understoodimmediately what he was referring to.
“Sometimes,” Thor answers thequestion after a moment's pause. “The time when my heart belongedto one place was an easier one. But never have I rued the day thatbrought me here. I have lost, arrogance and ignorance and peace ofmind. The certainty that things are as they should. But more thanthat, I have gained. I have grown. My misfortune has turned out tohave been a fortune all along. And for that, I am grateful.”
“I hope for you that you will neverget to the point where you're forced to choose,” Tony replies,unable to keep a sigh out of his voice.
Thor remains quiet and does not reply,but the silence is not entirely uncomfortable. There is not much Thorcould say to that, anyway, Tony figures, since there will probablycome a day when Thor is forced to make choice he is unwilling to makejust now. And Thor is very much aware of that.
“You have been busy,” Thor sayseventually, smoothly changing the topic.
“Yes,” Tony replies and smileslightly. “I've been working on something. Specifically, somethingfor you.”
Thor turns his head and levels Tonywith a look and a raised eyebrow.
“I know, what can you possibly give aprinceling who already has all the riches in the world andcomes from a place much more technologically advanced?” Tonyteases, but he's smiling, and Thor is smiling back at him. “I'mstill waiting for some of that tech to make it on my work bank, by the way.”
Tony hesitates for a moment, but heeventually pulls out the plush toy he has been hiding. This moment isalways very embarrassing, and Tony finds himself wishing to sink intothe floor. But Thor has probably already known that this was coming,and had patiently let Tony steel himself for it.
The bear is a light blond, and it iswearing Thor's armour and red cape. The outfit is completed with aremovable helmet, the silly winged helmed that Thor actually wearsonly rarely and that everybody loves making fun of. The little wings cover the ears of the bear when worn, and it looks, frankly speaking, adorable.
In one hand, thebear holds a copy of Mjölnir. The bear has a small magnet inits hand, so the hammer can be detached and “magically” bereturned back into Thor Bear's hand.
“You have to squeeze the hammer,”Tony says.
Thor looks up at him, his expressionpretty clear in its meaning.
“Okay, no,” Tony says withconviction. “Not that you're not attractive and all, but just no.Don't make me think about things like that.”
Thor shrugs a little, as if such athing doesn't require any larger reaction than that, but he dutifullyreaches out and give Thor Bear's hammer a gentle squeeze.
The hammer responds by sending aharmless little spark of lightning across Thor's fingers.
Thor laughs out loud, delighted.
He immediately tries it out at leastfive times more, laughing every time the spark dances along hisfingers.
“What a formidable beast,” heexclaims.
And then he reaches out, but not forthe bear, but for Tony. He gives him the biggest, warmest, mostengulfing bear hug that Tony has ever been the recipient of.
“Thank you, my friend,” Thor says.“It is an excellent present.”
Tony says nothing. But he definitelyhugs back just as strongly.
