Eight Letters (слэш)

"Hey," Natasha says, voice unusually soft. Suddenly she's sitting next to him – between him and Sif – and putting an arm around his shoulders. "He's alright." She hesitates. "The higher-ups sent a nuclear bomb into Manhattan. Tony took it and flew it up into the wormhole instead. He fell through just before I had to close it because of the shock wave, but his suit was completely out of juice. I'm sure he did his best to contact you as soon as he could."
Bloody hell. Closing his eyes Loki takes a deep breath, and then another. "What an asshole."