Summer Clouds

Tension Within

A/N: Okay, so Steve sounds OOC, and the title is shit. Still, there's always cheese.

*Kind of like a flashback*

Steve's POV: 

Tony wasn't the only one to have found Savannah's sketchbooks, however. Steve had found a discarded one, a few days ago, and he had attempted to show it to Bruce. As they got to the distressing parts, the Doctor had begun to go a little green. Steve wasn't entirely sure whether or not it had to do with anger, or if it was just Dr. Banner feeling queasy. The Captain knew that he was experiencing both, and so he'd hurriedly whipped it away, to go and study it in private.

She was exceptionally talented at art, he concluded, even if her subject was rather... bizarre. And twisted. Disturbed, definitely. But talented, nonetheless. Still, the sketches worried him, and he wondered how Savannah really was coping with the loss of her best friend. And when she believed that it was all her fault, well...

He decided that Savannah needed to see Loki again, and he determined to speak to Thor as soon as he got the chance. 

As it happened, he got the chance later that day.

'Thor,' he said, 'I need to speak to you.'

'Is it on Savannah and my brother?'

'Yes,' Steve answered, surprised, 'But how did you-'

'I know my brother.' Thor replied, simply.

'She needs to see Loki again.'

'But how? The Allfather would not permit it.'

'Don't you see, Thor? Her guilt is eating her from the inside out. She needs to see him, at least once more, if for nothing more than closure.'

'I know,' Thor sighed, 'I have tried to reason with Father, but I finally know where we get our stubbornness from.'

'What about your mother, Frigga?'

At that, Thor brightened.

'Yes, friend Steve,' he said, 'This may work. For since Loki was brought to Asgard, my mother has not spoken to my father. This is the longest they have gone bearing a grudge over an argument.'

'Argument? Frigga didn't agree with it?'

'Of course not,' Thor said, sounding vaguely affronted, 'What mother wishes for her children to suffer?'

'What father?' Steve retorted. He had objected the most to Loki's reincarceration in Asgard, other than Savannah, and Thor, of course.

'As much as I disagree with his decision, Odin is a king as well as a father, and it would not do to show favouritism, just because Loki is his son.'

'A king foremost, then?'

'Indeed. He has doubts about it himself, but he cannot go back on the conditions of a punishment. The rules are ultimate, regardless of the situation.'

'Have you tried asking your mother?'

'No, the thought did not cross my mind.'

'Then you should.'

'You are right, Captain,' Thor said, looking as if a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders, 'I shall go at once.'

Thor called for Heimdall, and in a flash of overdramatic golden light, disappeared.

And Steve went back to analysing Savannah's drawings, slightly dazed.