Ow dear.. What will happen next? I am wondering about this more than you are as readers probably. :P . Forgive my: not always correct sentences, words, spelling and grammar. Native tongue is Dutch, not English. I do try my hardest to at least keep it readable though ^_^.
I hope you will enjoy, or something like that.

Thor, standing at the side of the big round room, empty in the middle, but with high seats all around, filled by ancient, annoyed and arrogant council members. His father sits on his throne, but Frigga isn't present, not able to bear hearing her youngest son's punishment.

The great big doors open and Loki is brought in, a guard on each side and two behind him. His collar is still in place, his hands are cuffed and to Thor's great terror, a muzzle has been placed over the younger god's mouth.

He tries to lock eyes with the younger one, but Loki just looks to the floor, in obvious distress and seemingly having a hard time keeping up with the guards their pace. Not having even been granted the time to recover from all his injuries. Loki then looks up slightly. The great big walls of the room standing tall before him. The only windows are high up and barely wide enough to stick your hand through.

The council members are located high above him as well, looking down on him with their dark faces. Loki just wants to run. He starts thinking of possible ways to escape but he then directs his gaze over to his brother who is now looking darkly at Odin and Loki just directs his face down again.

He cannot escape even if he wanted to, he has no magic and he is greatly outnumbered. And he knows whatever the punishment may be.. he probably deserves it. He knows he has done so much wrong, so much damage, caused so much grief. All because his own heart had hurt. He would speak.. about what had happened, about how he knows that he has done horrible things, but that he was under the control of both the tesseract as the Chitauri. But he really does not want to bother anymore.

He has his Thor's love, even though Thor does not know exactly what had happened, he had given him his love anyway, and that is all that really matters to Loki.

Plus, would the council members even listen to him.. believe him.. He was a monster after all, it does not matter under who's control you are if you are a monster. He had slain plenty of beasts himself to know that this was true. And even if he did want to speak about his reasons, he would not be able to now.. for they had silenced him with this horrible contraption that was painfully placed over his mouth, imprisoning his silver tongue. His greatest weapon.. his words.. Even many of his magic spells were controlled by words. And now in his sorry state, in pain, silenced, ashamed, without magic and with no parents to stand up for him, he just wants this to be over with.

He looks back to the floor and sees the shadows of the council members sneaking towards him. The high windows with the setting sun cause the shadows to slowly make their way towards the center of the round room. All designed to scare the criminals that are on trial. To show the ultimate power of the council. He knows this. His father had told him this once, so he would think that this knowledge would protect him from the eeriness that is caused by this phenomenon. But it is not so.

He takes a small step backwards to escape the shadows in front of him, but he is quickly pushed back to his previous position by the guards. He sees that Thor wants to protest, but he holds his tongue, with great effort. Knowing if he tries to protect Loki now, the council members would only become more agitated.

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'Loki No-oneson' The first council member then starts, taunting. Thor sees Loki cringe a bit at this comment, but he holds his pose. 'You have committed great crimes varying from treason to murder. Your crimes will not go unpunished.'

Another then starts to speak 'We, the council have made a decision.' Thor's eyes shoot up with these words, staring at the council member in surprise, and before the council member can continue, he intervenes 'How have you come to a decision without a trial?' Thor asks with obvious anger in his voice. 'Because the evidence is overwhelming Odinson' the council member speaks calmly. 'A trial would only bring danger to our fair observations and knowledge of the situation. If we would allow him to speak.. his treacherous words will poison our minds, like he has tried to poison yours and everyone else s.'

Rage fills Thor's eyes. 'How can you be so blind!' he then yells. But he is quickly silenced when his father stands up. 'If you cannot hold your tongue Thor, I will have you leave this room.' He speaks coldly. Thor stares at him with disbelief as he fights the urge to indeed leave and drag Loki with him.. 'Can we proceed?' the previous councilmember asks, anoyed. Odin nods and sends a warning look at Thor who has no choice now but to hear it out.

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Loki stares in disbelief when Thor stands up for him. No-one just stands up to the council members, not even Odin would without a really good reason. But he also knows that the council will not listen to Thor, not until he is king. Though, no matter if Thor's words will come through to the council members thick heads. What matters is that Thor did not just leave him to his fate all alone.

Thor is now being silenced by his father and Loki just waits calmly to hear out his fate. Happy that at least one person still cares about him, he has decided to accept his punishment.

His thoughts silently drift off to happier places while the councilmembers inform him of his punishment. His thoughts drift to his mother's embrace, Thor's kisses and all the happy times they had when they were children. Playing in the sun, sparring, being bored together when it was raining and trying to get Thor to read a book. Loki just smiles behind his muzzle, hearing the punishment all to well through his thoughts, but not caring anymore.

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Thor's eyes widen in shock. '..Mouth stitched shut, eyes blinded, and magic taken away, banished from Asgard.' The world around him starts darkening, spinning even, looking at the council members who have appeared to have started laughing in his eyes. It is like a bad dream. But he holds his tongue, he holds his composure, and he holds his peace. Silently watching as Loki is led out of the room. Then his father rises and leaves, followed by the council members, one by one, until Thor is all alone. The room still getting darker as the sun sets.

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Loki, pushed into a cell, immediately missing the warmth and comfort of the bed and room that he had stayed in for these past days. He ignores the guards as they snort at him, and goes to sit down on the old, uncomfortable chair in the corner. He knows his situation will only go downhill from now on, so he enjoys his time on the uncomfortable chair as much as possible as he looks around, making use of his still working eyes for as long as he can.

A great sadness is burning in his chest, accompanied by fear and regret. But he refuses to show weakness to the guards standing outside, looking at him with a little bit to much glee to his taste. It won't be long until they come to take of the muzzle, only to sew his lips together. And he does not even want to think about how they will take his sight from him. With a spell perhaps? Or will they burn them out? He knows the torturers of Asgard are capable of great cruelty.

Slightly starting to shiver he turns away from the guards, turning his chair to the side so he doesn't have to look at their mocking faces. The little bit of light left in his cell, disappears as the evening sun finally disappears to let the day go to the night. He tries to sigh softly, but feeling that this is quite difficult to do with a muzzle, he just groans, annoyed.

Refusing to lay on the bed and fall asleep. Not wanting to ruin his last moment with his eyes intact with sleeping. He stands up to look out the window. Looking at the lights in the distance, he calms down again.

It feels soothing, the dark and the cool breeze on his face. It slightly helps with the irritation of the muzzle and he is pleased.

Standing with his back to the guards now, not letting them spoil his last moments of peace, he suddenly hears a crash. Sounding like a weapon hitting metal and he turns around, surprised. The guards as well are suddenly alert, wondering what or who could have made that noise.

One of the guards decides to investigate, leaving Loki's sight as the other is eyeing him carefully as to not try anything funny. Loki just tries to snort at him. How is he going to try anything funny now.. he is stuck in a cell, stupid guard. But almost as soon as the other guard had left, he comes crashing back. To loki's slight satisfaction, right into the other guard who immediately topples over, falling to the ground with a silly look on his face.

Loki can't help but want to snicker, but he quickly takes his eyes off of the two guards and directs them to the place where the guard came flying from in the first place. Eyes widening in shock. He tries to speak through his muzzle, speaking the name of the one that now stands before him. But nothing but 'Mmmgg!' comes out. 'Loki' the man before him now speaks, Hammer put back into his belt.

Slightly short chapter, I know. Especially compared to chapter 2. But I like it better this way. (I hope you do to)
I hope you enjoyed reading though. Please review, leave suggestions, or whatever you want really.

characters still don't belong to me. (have to remind myself of that every once in a while.. unfortunately)