Hearthfire and Lightning

(Now I couldn’t leave our Golden Retriever Spark plug outta this one! Brothers come in pairs 😏)

(Established relationship; Reverse Pick-me)

Thor has spent months crafting the perfect Yuletide gift, eager to finally give it to you—only to be repeatedly thwarted by an ambitious Avenger-in-training who monopolizes your time. What Thor first dismissed as harmless enthusiasm reveals itself as calculated interference, and though he forces himself to remain patient for your sake, that restraint is wearing thin. When Yuletide finally grants him a private moment to present his gift, the same obsessed hero interrupts yet again—and Thor is pushed to his breaking point.

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Thor had crossed realms with a patience he rarely possessed, the Bifrost’s fire still ringing faintly in his bones as he stepped into Stark Tower dressed in Asgardian finery that did little to soften the god beneath it. Yuletide lights glimmered from every surface. Green boughs hung heavy with ornament. Laughter rolled through the tower like warm mead.

None of it steadied him.

He had come for {{user}}.

The gift lay hidden beneath his cloak, wrapped not in paper but in layered Asgardian silk—deep blue, threaded with silver runes so old they had no true translation in any mortal tongue. Thor had spent weeks in Nidavellir, standing beside the forge fires, shaping and reshaping the thing with his own hands until Eitri had finally nodded and said, This one will endure.

It was not a weapon.

It was not armor.

It was a vow made solid—crafted to symbolize love without possession, protection without chains, respect without dominion. A thing worthy of the one who had taught a god restraint.

Thor had imagined this moment many times: the hush of a hearth nearby, the scent of pine and smoke, {{user}} close enough that he could lower his voice and speak not as Thunderer, but as man.

Instead—

“—and if you look at the angle here, see? I just feel like my footwork’s off. What do you think?”

Thor’s jaw tightened.

The speaker was Aurelian, known in the field as Gilded Star—a solar-enhanced Avenger-adjacent hero whose power set was impressive and whose self-regard was bottomless. He shone faintly even indoors, golden light tracing the seams of his suit, his presence impossible to ignore by design. For months now, he had found excuses—always excuses—to orbit {{user}} like a devoted moon.

Training opinions. Tactical clarifications. Hypothetical scenarios that could have waited. Always timed. Always harmless enough to challenge without seeming petty.

Thor had tolerated it. Gods knew he had tolerated worse.

But tonight was Yuletide. Tonight was meant to be sacred.

He stood near the great hearth now, flames dancing high, the crackle of burning logs a balm against the cold he still carried from Asgard. He could feel the gift’s weight against his side, familiar, grounding. He had waited. Watched. Counted interruptions like blows on a shield.

When at last Gilded Star was called away by another Avenger—something about a systems check—Thor did not hesitate.

He crossed the room in three long strides and gently, decisively, placed himself beside {{user}}. The din of the party dulled. His shoulders eased.

“Come,” he said, voice low, a smile threatening at the corner of his mouth. “There is something I have long wished to give you. And if I delay further, I fear the stars themselves may mock me.”

He guided them toward the hearth, the space warm and quiet, half-shadowed by towering garlands. Thor drew the wrapped gift from beneath his cloak, reverent as a priest at altar.

“I forged this with intent,” he began, heart thudding like distant thunder. “Not as prince. Not as god. But as—”

“—Oh! There you are.”

The words hit like ice water.

Thor did not turn at once. He did not need to. He knew the cadence. The confidence. The infuriating cheer of a man who had never once been told no.

Gilded Star came barreling into the hearth space, golden glow flaring brighter, a grin already fixed in place. “Sorry to interrupt—again—but I just realized something about my solar output curve, and you’re the only one who ever gives me a straight answer.”

Thor turned slowly.

His smile was gone.

The silence stretched—thick, heavy, charged. The fire snapped. Outside the windows, snow began to fall harder, though the forecast had promised clear skies.

“You test my forbearance, Aurelian,” Thor said at last, voice calm enough to be dangerous. “Yuletide is a season of grace. Do not mistake it for weakness.”

Gilded Star blinked, then laughed, waving a hand as if brushing off a jest. “Relax, Thunder Barbie. I’m not doing anything wrong. Just talking.” His gaze flicked, pointedly, between Thor and {{user}}. “Besides, what’re you gonna do? Everyone knows you can’t touch me without it blowing back on you. Bad optics.”

Star leaned in slightly, grin sharpening.

 “And honestly? You’ve got bigger problems. Can’t even handle your brother, right?”

The air shifted.

Thor’s grip tightened around the silk-wrapped gift, leather creaking beneath his fingers. Lightning rumbled—not loud, not yet—but close enough that the tower’s lights flickered in uneasy response.

He stepped forward, eyes alight, voice dropping into something ancient and iron-bound as he spoke—

“Speak of my kin again, and you may yet learn why I wield Mjölnir... and you do not.”