SPN/Thor fic: The Tomato in the Mirror 5/4
Title: The Tomato in the Mirror
Chapter: 5/4 (Missing scene)
Characters: Sam Winchester, Thor Odinsson, Phil Coulson, Nick Fury, several Avengers and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and guest-starring Dr. Stephen Strange, Sorcerer Supreme of Earth
Pairing: Gen
Rating: T
Length: 3k (of 22k total)
Warnings: Two uses of the F word, several uses of the S word, mild ( Read more... )
Loki wants to see ruined, rotten, horrible things in people, so he pushes them until they snap. He longs to believe that unshakable love and understanding can exist, but he's not daring to get his hopes up enough to see what's in front of him and be satisfied with his experiment. Thor only got here on the tail end of the exercise, so he has no idea that Loki is digging for a particular answer. Dean is the only one who was around for Loki-as-Sam's tentative, escalating pattern of acting out and freaking out, and got to see that Loki had never been satisfied with declarations of loyalty.
I don't think Thor's an idiot, but let me put it this way: If I needed to know about ballistics, war history, horsemanship, hand-to-hand, or orienteering, I'd ask Thor. Thor loves that stuff. But Thor, at least until the movie Thor, was a spoiled jock who got away with only paying attention to subjects that were fun for him, and was surrounded by people who liked him and actively worked to help him get his way. I think he's used to life being much simpler than it is for most people. I mean, he seemed to enjoy talking cosmology with Jane, so he understands abstract concepts enough to have fun with them, but he's also oblivious enough not to notice the conspicuous lack of pottery shards on the diner floor.
Neither Loki nor Thor pick up on Dean's obvious lie because Loki had already decided what Dean was going to say, and in fact was banking on Dean answering like he did in order to make a point to Thor, and Thor wasn't around to see what prompted Dean to lie and generally assumes people are telling the truth unless the motivation to lie is clear.
I guess I still got a bit to work on in the clarity department.
But thanks for following this!
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