Only thing I own is the story.

I don't even know what this is, it just came to me at like three in the morning and yeah I was listening to No One Mourns the Wicked from the Wicked OST and idk, Wicked just makes me think of Loki.

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warning: punctuation rape. *that'showiroll*


Thor isn't stupid.

He can see the way people act since the day his brother fell from the bifrost.

He sees certain lightness on them, as if a big burden had been lifted from their shoulders. He doesn't care about the random citizens he hears saying Asgard is better now without the younger prince, with no one to make them feel stupid by his very presence.

Idiots the lot of them.

He doesn't care when he hears the guards talking derisively of the way Loki fought, mocking his cowardly ways, his womanly acts of magic. He recognizes some of them and knows half –at least- of them wouldn't even be alive if it weren't for his brother's prowess with magic.

He doesn't care when his own friends say everything is best now without Loki. The third wheel. The odd one out. They only put up with him for Thor's sake.

He doesn't care that no one in Asgard cares about his baby brother's demise.

It makes his blood boil, but he doesn't care.

What makes him sick though, is when he sees that same lightness on his father's figure, when he sees the man eyes shine with happiness over some trivial matter.

Thor cannot imagine feeling happiness over anything. His brotherbestfriendpartnerincrime is gone.

He is gone and has left Thor behind.

He has never felt so empty before. As if a part of his very soul had been teared apart.

It hurts when his mother wont let him even pronounce his brother's name. It hurts most because it is not out of mourning for a lost son.

Loki was a traitor she said. He defied our King and attempted against Asgard's crown prince. He killed his own father in cold blood. He tried to annihilate his own people -this confuses Thor because, regardless of race and blood, weren't they Loki's people? Wasn't Odin Loki's father? Wasn't Asgard Loki's home?-.

It makes him feel hopeless when he hears her saying that, those are the words of a Queen, not a mother. Not his mother.

His mother. Loki's mother loved both of her children, he never doubted that. But the all-mother cannot love one that wronged her King. For once he wishes his mother was not as loyal to Asgard –to Odin- as she is.

But what about what they did to Loki. Because he knows what Loki did.

All of it he knows. He knows why it was wrong as well.

What he doesn't know is why it never mattered when it was him defying father, when he tried to kill the Jotuns, when he hurt Loki in battle -never with the intention of killing him granted- none of it mattered when it was him. Just Loki.

Loki turned wicked she said once. His mind was lost in hate and resentment. It is not for us to mourn something that was lost long ago, no one should mourn a wicked soul.

So, Thor doesn't.

Thor doesn't mourn a lost mind.

He mourns a brother in arms.

A friend.

A brother.

His brother.

When is about Loki; defending him, understanding him, loving him... mourning him. It is upon Thor and Thor alone to do it. No one else would.

For no one mourns the wicked.