•3rd POV•
Loki presses a beer to his mouth and started guzzling it down.
"Woah Loki slow down, you might hurt yourself."

Loki put the drink down, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and looked at Stephen. Loki lightly laughed.

They were sitting at a bar that they had found nearby. There were a few people in it, but it for some reason wasn't that full.

"So what, your a drinker now?"

"Well I was alone for five years, what else was I supposed to do?"

"Yeah good point."

They went silent for a moment, Loki dragging his finger against the rim of the beer bottle.

"Soo," Stephen started. "Whats with the outfit? I thought you were into always looking nice."

"Oh,umm," loki looked down at this sweatshirt. "Heh, it's funny, really. I was just too suicidal to care about my outward appearance." Loki said, smiling oddly widely before taking another long sip from his beer.

"...that's not funny." Stephen muttered.

Loki looked at Stephen and lightly laughed under his breath.
Loki's smile was like a warm sunlight shining on Stephen's face. Stephen couldn't help but stare at the man in front of him.

"What?"
Loki pulled Stephen at his thoughts.
Stephen blinked. "What?"
"What?"
"What? I- What?"
"I dunno, you?"
Stephen staired at Loki for a moment.
"Okay." He said, smiling.

•.•.•

They stayed at the bar for a few hours, Loki trying to fill in everything that happened over the past five years and Stephen trying to listen without crying or something.

At the end of the night, Stephen was a bit tipsy, while Loki got hammered.
Loki's cheeks had became a deep red (the rest of his face was pink), he was lightly hiccuping and could barely stand straight.
It wasn't hard to convince Loki to go home.

Stephen ended up having to call an Uber since Loki could barely hold his own weight, let alone walk.

The Uber driver ended up giving them flairs through the rear view mirror, and while Loki didn't notice anything (because duh) Stephen was very bothered by it, and was a bit irritated after they got out of the Uber.

It was really odd for strange to see Loki so drunk, since he's used to the elegant, broken Loki instead of an impulsive mess.
Stephen had to help Loki out of the car, and even after that Loki still ended up falling about three times.

They both fell asleep almost the moment they hit the bed.