Of healing and discussion
They immediately took the two unconscious men to the med wing or more med floor where Bruce had set up two beds with ivs and really soft blankets.
As Bruce and Natasha did what they could for the gods the rest of them went and got changed before going to the large lounge that served as a waiting room on the floor.
"How did you not know about them being together? Or having kids?" Clint turned to Thor who snapped out of his thoughts.
"Close to my banishment Loki stopped talking to me. We had never been extremely close. Time works differently in my world to here. One year here is roughly 40 years in Asgard, so though they are about two years apart at home there would be but a few weeks difference here. By our ages on Asgard, I am 1090 years old where as my brother is 1048 and Alfljotr is 1050. In your years we are in our late twenties, they are both roughly 26 years of age and I am but a year older than that. Their sons from the look of them would have been about seven here making them but 280 in Asgard. I was too busy with my friends to bother to notice my brother had pulled away." His voice was deep and saddened and he was looking at the ceiling though not truly seeing it.
"Why does Alfljotr look so different?" Steve still couldn't get the sight of the cave out of his head but he needed to try and get his mind away from it.
Before he could answer Nat and Bruce walked in and all attention turned to them.
"We have done all we can but they slowly seem to be healing. We wrapped Loki's eyes and put some salve on his chaffed limbs. We have had to wrap most of Alfljotr as he was missing bits of flesh though he seems to be regrowing it himself." Bruce sat down as Nat informed them what they had had to do before perching on her own chair.
"Good I am glad they are healing. Thank you both." Thor nodded to them.
"We learned that Thor is only 27 and they are only 26 by our time yet are in their thousands by their time. Also the kids would have been about seven." Clint's voice held incredulity that faded to moroseness by the end.
"Ah yes you had asked about Alfljotr. He has lived on the outside of Asgard for most of his life. As a child he was very sickly and unfortunately his family didn't want him to be around other Aseir. His birth was widely considered a mistake and a curse, his mother had an affair with a light elf and unfortunately died giving birth to him.
He is the half brother of my friend Fandral. Fandral's father named him Alfljotr which literally means elf light, it was a way to remind him that he was a mistake and to forever slander him and his birth just by saying his name. He nearly died at 5 because he was so sickly, his mothers sister looked after him for a short time till he could look after himself at which time she moved back to her house and left him alone. Fandral visited him occasionally but he like his father cares little for him.
Only my mother ever helped him teaching him to control Sedr or magic. I guess that this is how he met my brother." He sighed still thinking about how he should have noticed his brother was not himself… he should have noticed a lot.
"If he is a light elf would being in that cave have been pretty bad? Like don't light elves need light?" Tony had watched films where that was the case before.
"Yes that is true but it can be any light, fire, starlight, the sun or the moonlight would work so the torches in the caves would have kept him from fading." Standing and making his way to the door behind which his family lay. "You should all go and rest I will stay with them in case they wake. I promise to alert JARVIS should I or they need your assistance."
The other avengers made their way to the elevator as he stepped inside the room and sat on a comfy chair between the two beds.
*****
Thor was dosing ten hours later when Loki surged awake. He was gasping and clawing at the bandages around his head
"NO brother leave them alone!" Thor went to pull Loki's hands away but was violently pushed back by Loki's magic.
"I have to get them off I have to know if I can see." He had finally found the end of the bandages and was quickly unwrapping them.
It was a tense few seconds as Loki blinked against the light before sighing in relief. Then all hell broke loose! Loki started sobbing and Alfljotr awoke screaming. His eyes unseeing.
Loki tried to get to his lover but found the i.v and his injuries stopped him. Alfljotr was thrashing and screaming and no amount of calming words or gentle hands could stop him.
"Jotr love please calm down you are safe! You are hurting yourself more!" Loki had asked Thor to move him into the other seat next to the beds and was trying to run a soothing hand up the other mans arm.
It took another ten minutes before he had tired himself out by which time the other avengers had been alerted. Alfljotr was crying but still staring at nothing and not hearing the soothing lullaby Loki was humming.
Thor gestured to the others and all moved to the adjacent sitting room and settled into the comfy chairs.
"They are dealing with the trauma my kin caused. Loki appears to be fully healed, his magic has come back and is probably the reason that he has healed. However Alfljotr's magic was forcefully turned against himself so it is taking a lot longer to heal as his magic needs to fully turn back under his control and it hasn’t yet, though it is no longer harming him as it was before." Thor explained what he understood he was sure there was more but his brother could explain when both of them were healed properly.