Not even a god can bring back the leaves that have fallen.
It came in fragmented pieces; the voices swirled around his ears needling its way into his brain so that the words seem to be branded permanently on to him.
He remembered Allfather's voice booming in the still royal chamber of Asgard, the same words that haunted his dreams now as someone above him echoed in a soft whisper what someone who he once regarded as his father said in a deathly tone. Only one word registered in his mind, leeching away into his very being.
… exiled…
That single word made him want to furiously rub the spot over his heart to wipe the feel of grime away, as if that one word had casted a cover of filth upon him. Everything had blurred after that moment when Thor had roared out a defiant "NO!" that shattered the deathly silence. He remembered shrugging his guards off and reaching towards his former brother- whether to console him, scoff at him, try to stop Thor from making an utterly stupid decision that started the whole fiasco in the first place, he didn't know- and then suddenly, blackness.
A whirl of motion. Then he was opening his eyes to meet the blue worried eyes of the God of Thunder. And looming behind the meaty man was an unimpressionable Nick Fury.
This was his current predicament and he blanked his face, his breath coming in and out in a steady manner, showing no indication that what just happened affected him in any shape or form.
And yet… the word was still there, hanging in the air, practically tangible. He closed his eyes for one painful second, so briefly that there was no way that the inscrutable Director of the so called secret organization S.H.I.E.L.D could take any meaning out of that single gesture, letting the word wash over him
…exiled…
And the second time he opened his eyes, they clashed with the stoic grey-blue stormy eyes of one Clint Barton.
The Hawk.
And then nothing else mattered as the man opposite of him enunciated his name in a clipped voice.
"Loki."
- Very short interlude into what Loki is going through before Natasha got that call about Thor's rather uninvited guest.
- Next chapter might take a while before I put it out there cause of college and freaking Russian class.
- Hope it makes sense and meets expectations?
- Reviews are much appreciated.