Awakening
Vali jerked awake, still feeling the pounding of his feet and his heart. He ran a hand over the stubble on his face as he sat up and looked around his bedroom. He hated dreams of Asgard, they were a reminder of what he once had and what he would never have again. Vali stretched and headed toward the bathroom. It was only a dream but he could still feel his brother's blood staining his skin. He would never forgive Odin for what had happened and what he had done. The sins of the father should never have been used to punish his children. He turned on the sink and bent down to wash his face, needing to feel as clean as he ever would. Of course he and Narfi had not been the only children to pay all of his older siblings were still being punished to this day as far as he knew. Vali rubbed his face dry with the hand towel before looking at himself in the mirror. Some days he barely recognized himself, expecting to see the child he'd been instead of the man he'd become.
His father's green eyes were the first thing he noticed every time. He could remember when his grandmother would tell him how she was glad he'd gotten his father's beautiful eyes and he had been so proud of them. Now they looked back at him from a tired face, his curly hair was kept short but first thing in the morning it was always a mess. He definitely didn't look like an heir of Asgard.
Making his way out of the bathroom, Vali headed to the kitchen to make himself some coffee. He may have the day off but once he woke up there was no going back to sleep for him. Once the machine got going he picked up his phone and flopped down on the couch to see if he'd missed anything important. With no new texts he moved to Facebook and forgot how to breathe as his uncle's face beamed up at him from the screen. Vali managed to take a gasping breath as he tried to calm himself down. Thor was here on Earth, Thor was here on Earth and with Darcy. Funny Darcy he'd met while on vacation was with his uncle who had always seen the people of any realm but Asgard as beneath him and taking Facebook pictures of him. Maybe he was still dreaming and this wasn't real, he could close his eyes and when he opened them again he would no longer be seeing a face from his nightmares. Vali closed his eyes rubbing at them before looking back at his phone screen, wishing with all his might that the image would change.
Thor was on Earth and he was more afraid than he'd been since he'd first arrived on the planet as a blood soaked child all alone. He needed to know why his uncle was here. Was he looking for Vali or was he here for something totally unrelated. As far as he knew nobody had come looking for him at all but he couldn't be sure. He sent Darcy a message as quickly as he could type, telling her to message him the minute she could. He needed to make sure she was ok and see if she had any idea why Thor was here.