Terror
Thor, frozen in utter horror and terror, stared at Loki. The left side of Loki's face was normal and as he smiled that emerald-eye held mischief, but on the right side, there was no flesh only bone. Slowly, one of Loki's hands, the skeletal one, rose to brush hair from his face and eye, the socket i-it was empty too.
Loki took a step forward, his head tilting and eyebrow furrowing over his half-visible nose cavity. Hurt was evident in Loki's tone, "Do you not like this Thor ? After all, this happened because I saved you." That tone became quavering, "How could I have possibly let that thing kill you when I loved you even more than myself ? Why do you fear me now ? Stop leaving me !"
Unconsciously, he had started to back away and he stopped when Loki glared at him. Once they had jested that he had taken Loki's strength and Loki in turn had taken the eloquence that should have been his; now, though it was no longer funny. "I...you, Loki. I-I cannot..." Anguish filled him as his brother wrapped his arms about himself.
A pitiful look through the remaining long eyelashes, "You cannot what Thor ? Love me, is that what you were going to say ?"
Despite the disgusted half of him, the stronger half still wanted to go and comfort Loki. To hold his brother, stroke his hair and tell him that his love knew not a single boundary. When he took a step forward the nightmare/dream ended and his eyes jerked open to see the wall of his bedchambers in Avengers Tower.
Guilt was heavy in his stomach while bile rose in his throat because Loki had not appeared in his Wanda induced vision. H-he was forgetting Loki, with a hard swallow he got up and instinctively stumbled toward the outer wall of windows. Only to have his heart suddenly ache as he realized that there were too many lights and clouds to see the stars...Loki had loved looking at the stars. The times that they had spent all night gazing upward before everything had changed were innumerable.
As if from some far realm he heard himself say, "I swear that I will not forget you, Loki. I cannot forget you, I still love you."
Time and motion blurred together before he noticed that he sat on the roof's edge. The roof had changed so much since he and Loki had fought here, it was almost impossible to realize that this was in fact the same place. It seemed even the universe wanted to forget that Loki once had lived in it. Truly, it was more terrifying to him if someone should forget Loki then to forget himself because at long last the wish for equality between them had finally come true.
Someone moved to sit down beside him and surprise filled him to see that it was Banner. Banner did not say anything, they merely sat in silence as a star shot through a patch of blackness overhead. Of all the stars the shooting ones had held the honour of being Loki's favourite, perhaps Loki had sent the star to reassure him. It was a lovely thought and he smiled in response.
