TITLE: Wake up!

CHAPTER NO./ONE SHOT: One Shot

AUTHOR: wolfpawn

ORIGINAL IMAGINE: Imagine your good friend Loki, sitting beside you, poking you awake when you fall asleep during lectures.

RATING: Teen.

NOTES/WARNINGS: None.

"Right, last semester we focused on the Viking voyages and pillaging of Britain, this semester we are going to focus on their travels further west again to the smaller and somewhat formidable island of Ireland. We will again focus on their settlements there, taking note of areas that still retain their Viking names such as the city of Waterford, originally Waterfjord, the influences that their culture had on the native people, and the way that it remains somewhat embedded in the country still today.

Images flicked across the screen containing everything from political maps to Viking images and artefacts found across Ireland over the years. Around the lecture hall students added notes to their lecture material, some people commenting quietly on how they had Viking names even though their family were apparently Irish somewhere back the line. You took some notes, though you could barely see the pages in front of you, let alone the large lecture screen and your writing would require Tom Hanks in the DaVinci Code to decipher. You just hoped the notes were on the correct pages. Why in the name of Vahalla had you decided to take the latest train possible back to college after the weekend? Listening to your brother arguing with your dad at the dinner table was not worth the exhaustion you were suffering as a result of your head only reaching your pillow at 3am and it was barely passed 6:30 when you were in the shower preparing for today. All you could think about now was the 11am tutorial and study group where you had to partake in discussions on the material covered. The fear of being torn a new one by the tutor however was clearly not reason enough in your exhausted mind for your body to stay awake as your head and eyes droop slowly downward, too heavy to keep up.

The next thing your brain registers is an odd sensation against your side. You know it is just your best friend and favourite trickster Loki poking you with his pen; you swat the offending item away and try to continue sleeping. Then after a few failed attempts to get you to sit up, you feel a sudden sharp prod that both hurt and tickled. You gasp and nearly jump into the air, one arm flailing as it made contact with some part of the student on your other side. You turn around to apologise only to see the assaulted student is none other than the colleges star sports person Thor, staring at you in both shock and concern as to your sudden jolt. His friends Fandral and Hogun, as well as his girlfriend Sif were laughed into their hands and joked about him nearly pissing himself and jumping like he got electrocuted. You apologise profusely for a moment before turning the other direction to give Loki a scathing look. You are met with a face that is trying to look innocent and also trying not to burst out laughing simultaneously. "Loki!" you snarl quietly through gritted teeth and he loses the fight against the laughter and lets his head fall onto his folded arms, shoulders shaking with the force of his silent laughing.

"Something you want to share with the rest of us, Mr Friggason?" the lecturer asks, much of the hall now facing both you and Loki.

Your heart is pounding almost audibly as Loki raises his head, his face still red from laughing. "I am merely laughing at the ridiculous way in which some modern historians try to imply that the same men who drew out such works as the Book of Kells and the like would think to be foolish enough to use round towers, not as a look out post, but as a sort of fortification from attack against Viking marauders. As though these intelligent men would forego fleeing to safety to hide in the more conspicuous building for miles around, some reaching one hundred meters in height, with no real defence or means of escape. It's not as though curiosity and intrigue would not naturally cause Vikings to go and investigate these structures." He states.

You cannot but be impressed by Loki's ability to think on his feet at the response he came up with. His quickness of mind was always something that impressed you about him. The lecturer laughed at his analogy, and behind you, you could hear the thunderous rumbling of Thor's chuckles along with the laughter of other students.

"I am glad one of you noticed the severe error in modern logic regarding this matter, however, could you please refrain from distracting the lecture with your laugher." Loki nodded and raised his hand slightly as an apology, causing the lecturer to continue where he had left off.

You look sideways to see Loki's emerald green eyes meeting yours and a wide smug grin on his face. He leans closer to you "Well at least you are awake now, I think we need to get a coffee after this lecture, and since I saved your ass, you're buying." He whispered. You nod in agreement, laughing again at his on the spot answer.