Juliet

Summary: Bruce and Thor go one what Thor hopes will be the first of many dates.  They’re interrupted by a favourite student of theirs.

Dinner on Thursday, Thor kept thinking. We are having dinner together on Thursday.  It kept cycling around his head.

He couldn’t decide whether he thought it was a date or not.  One moment he thought everyone has said that he’s been nicer, been warmer to me than anyone else.  I could swear I saw his eyes linger on me.  We’re going to dinner, somewhere nice, it is not unreasonable to assume that it is meant to be romantic.

But doubts crept in.  It was his friend that arranged the dinner, not him.  He knows I’m new to the city, he’s just being polite.  I shouldn’t make any assumptions.

Thor hadn’t thought that he would become romantically interested in someone so soon after moving to Edinburgh.  It had been some time since he and Jane parted ways, and Loki had hold him many times that he ought to move on.  He’d considered it, but to Thor, there didn’t seem to be much point in dating someone just to be in a relationship.

Bruce had been a surprise.  Many evenings of his had been spent pouring over papers written by him, invigorated by the connections he made, the way he could relate science together in the way it was designed to be related.  Until only a week ago, ‘Banner, B. D.’ was just a collection of thoughts written on paper to Thor.  Now they had met, Thor found himself unable to think of much else besides Bruce and work.