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"Loki…"

"Loki me not!" I shouted and snapped my mouth shut, seeing his face. Stupid, wearing his feelings on his sleeve. I could read him like a book. I could!… I could see sadness and hurt swirl in his blue eyes. What great warrior let his enemy see his feelings? Stupid!

"Brother…"

"I am not your brother!" I yelled and he looked so broken. So weak. Pathetic, really. "I am tired of your miserable presence. Leave. Now" I turned my back on him and walked to the farthest corner of my cell. I was held captive but that didn't mean I was to break. I still was a God. Still a prince.

"No" he spoke and suddenly he was not as broken as I wished for him to be. Maybe I didn't mean to him as much as I thought. Maybe all his words were just that – mere empty words… "Listen to me brother…"

"How many times I'm to tell you – you're not my brother!"

"But you are mine!" he bellowed. "You may speak as you wish. You may push me away. But that does not change that you are my brother. And I will always look at you like that"

"Like what?" I appeared before his face but he didn't even flinch. "You will see me as your shadow? A pathetic existence following you around? Will you see me like nothing but an inferior being?"

"You are mistaken, my brother" I hissed at him. "You were always dearly to me. You were my friend and my comrade. My shield brother as my blood one. Your existence never seemed to me like pathetic or inferior. As our parents never looked at you like that"

"Odin had taken me as a freak on a leash!"

"But our mother loves you still! You call yourself a monster, when no one else does. You speak of yourself as a shadow, when we all saw a genius in a time of normalcy. We never saw you as an inferior – we had looked up to you, admired you…"

"You are lying!"

"Am I brother?" his hand reached out to me and I stepped away. "You call yourself the God of Lies. If I am not telling the truth, would you not be the one to know about it? Hear me, brother. I am certain your heart is not completely eaten by your hatred. I refuse to believe you are evil. I know you"

"Do you, brother?" I whispered, staring at him. "Then how come you did not see all of this coming?"

"Because that is not you, Loki. It is only your misguided part speaking. It was your pain that led you this path"

"Path to the power!" I raised my arms. "Was it not what you always looked for? Power, power, more power! And when you did the same as me – you attacked another realm, even if Joutenheirm is seen as a realm of monsters – you were simply banished for three Midgardian days. Three days! Where is your justice brother? The one you are so set on protecting!"

"I did not kill hundreds…"

"No. You did not kill. You slew them. In Odin's name. How is that different from my actions? Ah, yes. Midgard is under your protection, when Joutenheirm falls under none. Look me in the eyes, brother and tell me that you are not a murderer. Same as me" he stayed silent, hurt and betrayal visible on his face. "That is what I was thinking, brother. And now leave. Leave me to my punishment, I deserve" I turned away again and ignored the emptiness, when the door closed after him…