When Pansy returned, Loki had somehow pulled himself back together. He didn’t meet her eye as he let her wrap her arm with his, but he could sense her uncertainty as she took in the crater that now took up the entire middle of the field. Patting her hand with reassurance, he calmly said, "Thank you." She nodded once, and then they left the field behind, returning to the hospital and a brighter future than Loki could have ever dreamed of in his wildest, most desperate dreams.