"Thor." A most beautiful lady had spoken, age did not falter that beauty in the least, and Thor had nothing but warm feelings towards this woman, she made him feel safe, she cared for him, she would always listen and always love him. For she was Frig, wife of Odin, Queen of Asgaard and his mother. "You seem weary my child."
Thor sighed as he sat on the star and his chin rested in his hand. "It is nothing dear mother." He assured as he glanced over the magnificent landscape, and towards the broken rainbow bridge.
"My son." Frig sat down on the step next to him. "You grown so much, in such a short time, but you've also become so burdened. I am proud of how you carry these burdens, it assures me you can indeed carry the weight of a throne, but even a king need to become vulnerable, and if not towards ones own mother, then who?" she asked.
Thor looked down, averting his mothers glance. "Has it all ready been a year?" he asked as he looked towards the rainbow bridge ones again.
"Tell me son, what do you feel?" Frig asked as she gently placed her hand on her sons.
"I miss him." Thor then at last admitted, he didn't need to say a name; it was so often in the air regardless of what any one said. "I just wish I could see him again, tell him that… I really did appreciate him, a sharper wit has yet to be found, how could I not admire that? What matters muscles and swords when he with a wave of a hand could turn the intruder to ice and with a few words turn foe to aly, very well placed words. I never told him because I thought he knew, he was never in my shadow for I could only admire him."
"Then say it now." Frig spoke softly. "What you say here wont escape these walls." She promised.
"He was supposed to be always with me, as my right hand, he could step up as I failed. That was what I always assumed, and I took that for granted." Thor shook his head. "To think there was a time, where he could get me into so much trouble, but I could always count on him to get me out again in the end. Always." He stated.
"You were two naughty boys indeed." Frig nodded. "Always together, always out to do miss-chief, my two boys. Like light and dark you were different, and yet didn't want to be without the other."
"How did he come to hate me so?" Thor asked. "That he would rather perish than letting me safe me?"
"I cannot tell." Frig answered. "I loved him as much as I love you, but now the past is the past, and you must look to the future, future king of the realm."
"Aye." Thor nodded. "But for this moment, let me try and understand, so I may not make the same mistake ones again, so I may learn, hopefully one day, I can make up for what has passed due to my wrong doings."
A new voice entered the chamber, a strong voice that would always demand to be listened to. "You may not have to wait for that long, son of mine." Odin stated as he himself entered.
"Father." Thor raised to stand on his feet as he faced Odin.
Odin held up a hand, signalling for Thor to relax. "I was sitting at my thrown, watching over the realms and my eye finally reached earth, that realm you hold so dear."
Thor blinked. "What about it Father?" he asked slightly confused.
"I beg of you to listen me out, I carry news of great importance, but it may not be what you hoped for." Odin told in a deeply serious voice.
"No matter the case, I listen and consider, as a wise man would." Thor promised without hesitation.
Odin smiled slightly before his mouth returned to a frown. "Loki." He simply said. "Has appeared ones more, he is alive and he is on earth."
Thor silenced, completely dumbstruck as he starred at his father, clearly he did not believe his own ears, that was until his grin spread from chin to chin and he exclaimed. "Father! What wondrous news!" he gladly exclaimed. "Mother, Loki." He cheered helping his mother to her feet. "He made it through! Father we must find a way to fetch him back!" he stated towards his father. "So he can come home!"
"Son." Odin held up a hand as to silence him. "Loki is on earth with a purpose." He told in a grave voice. "Even if you came to him, he would not come home easily and not on his own violation." Odin sighed deeply for ones looking tired even old. "He intends to make his own kingdom now, out of earth."
"What?" Thor blinked. "But the humans would never allow such thing, they do not need kings."
"Then Loki will force them." Odin told. "He is prepared to threaten and follow up on his threats with slaughter."
Thor was silent, it was like a fist had grabbed his heart, not allowing him to breath. "Impossible." He finally managed to whisper. "That is not the Loki I know."
"Would the Loki you know try and slay all the ice giants?" Odin asked. "And yet he did, you were there."
Thor's head dropped. "If I could just speak to him."
"And what if he does not listen?" Odin asked.
"Then for the sake of the humans, I would have to stop him, even if it pains me to do so." Thor stated as he looked up. "Father please, send me to earth, let me try to make him see reason."
"If you gave me time, I could might summon enough magic to get you there, but I would not be able to get you back." Odin told.
"It matters not." Thor stated surely. "An entire realm may depend on my success, my own safety be damned. They need me more. And so does Loki"
"So be it." Odin nodded. "I shall go and see from where I can summon the magic, if you want to return, you would have to find the tesseract while you are at earth, it was lost there many centuries ago, but has now been re-found."
"Who has it?" Thor asked.
"Loki." Odin answered. "And he intends to control his army with it, you may have to face some very hard decisions my son, but I know I can trust you." Were his last words as he exited the hall and the great door closed behind him.
"Thor." Frig whispered. "Will you fight Loki?" she asked in a slight shiver.
"Only if I have to mother." Thor assured her taking her hands. "First, I shall to speak to him. Only when he leaves me no other choice will I fight him, and I pray that it shan't go that far."
"But if it does." Frig held her sons hand tightly. "Swear to me you will take care of yourself, I cannot bear to loose two sons."
"You shan't loose as much as one." Thor promised. "But only regain what was lost, we shall make it work. Loki is here mother, then all can be well again." He told assuringly in a slight smile. Before he at last embraced his mother in a tight hug.
Frig returned the hug, but as Thor didn't see her eyes felt with tears. "If only I could believe it could be so simple." She whispered so silently that no one could hear. "If only." She whispered…
AN; you know, I am so sold on Thors and Lokis story now... at least my own interpretation, I don't know if this how the comics depicts it, but I really like the concept of Thor genuinely loving Loki... as a brother you know, but you get the idea! I really like that dynamic! And how you could argue it's partially Thors fault Loki ended up the way he did, and you could argue Thor had nothing to do with it.
Wouldn't change that Loki blames Thor, and Thor blames himself willing to accept what-ever Loki says about the matter as fact. (even though he is a liar and a cheater!)
And I can't wait till seeing Thor 2 where.. Loki wont be the main villain, but he'll be there, At least according to Tom Hiddlestones Twitter... don't you just love Twitter? it's such weird information you get out of that, and you know it's directly from the source, which is.. a little weird.