On the other side of the door, Loki flicked his eyes shut. Had there ever been a time, Loki wondered, when he would've been allowed into his brother's room without a justification? There must have been. And even as Loki pushed the exasperation aside, he couldn't keep the memory from stirring: those times in their younger years when he had been small and reluctant to leave his brother's room, afraid of the twisted thoughts that wormed their way into his brain some night, the terror that shook him awake. Surely, Thor could protect him even then. Surely, nothing was bigger or stronger than his brother, surely, nothing could ever, ever bring him down.
Loki knew better now. He stepped away from the door, whisper-quiet, and padded down the to kitchen to fill a tall glass with water, grabbed a bottle of extra-strength aspirin from the medicine cabinet then returned to the door. He'd thought about crushing the aspirin into the water to head Thor off in case he refused the medication -- which really was the least that could be done, given how many fad hangover drugs existed for exactly this purpose -- but Loki decided against it. Even if it was good for him, Loki couldn't bring himself to drug his brother. Especially not after the spread at the party tonight. He reached out and turned the handle, his shoulders relaxing when it turned under his hand. Good. At least he wouldn't have to pick it open, if Thor decided to be unreasonable.
"For your ever-generous, much-smarter brother, of course," Loki said, a faint smirk tipping up the corners of his mouth as he closed the door behind him. He glanced subtly around the room, and his stomach unclenched a little when he saw that no bottles were obviously visible. Even down the hallway, Loki was sure he would've heard some of the scrabbling that would've been caused by Thor's hiding a bottle. So he crossed the room and held out the water first. "Drink," he said softly, holding the pills out after. "And take some of these. You're head's going to hurt like a struck thumb soon, if it doesn't already."