Disclaimer: I don't own Thor.
A/N: Compared to my other chapters this one is kind of long.
Thor was about to fall asleep under a nice soft red comforter in the Stark tower after a hard day of fighting criminals. There was so many who tried so hard. Sometimes he didn't understand Earth and why they fought each other all the time. Then again Earth's experience with other planets was limited. It had taken outside forces for Asgard to bind together as a planet as well. He thinks. He's not actually really sure since history that wasn't full of battles had never been that interesting to him.
"Thor I need to speak with you." Thor jolted awake and was out of bed within moments. He called Mjolnir to him which had only been a few feet away. He scanned the room looking for an intruder, until he realized that he recognized the voice. Thor sighed and instead searching the walls until he found what he was looking for. His father's image was projected onto the wall. His father looked stoic as always and Thor found himself falling into the chair that Mjolnir had been sitting moments earlier.
"I'm not coming back." Thor said wearily with a shake of his head. When his brother was pretending to be their father he let him go. But his actually father was not so lenient. Thor still couldn't believe that Loki had faked his death to be king of Asgard and that Thor hadn't noticed at all. Then again most of the time he had been on Midgard...earth he should probably start calling it earth since the residence did so. He also couldn't believe that Loki managed to escape the palace without being captured. Then again his brother knew the palace more than he was sure anyone else did since he was always sneaking around it as a child. Loki probably knew or had put some hidden passageways in. Besides the fact that his what his brother lacked in strength, he made up for in speed.
"It's not about that it's about...Loki." Thor frowned. Two mentions of him in one day?
"Has he done something?" Thor asked worried. His brother was smart and cunning and usually used those traits of his to hurt people. Odin's face was a mask and Thor frowned.
"What is it father?"
"I need to you talk to you in person, where no one can interrupt or overhear." Thor nodded and got up from his bed.
"As long as you promise that you will not keep me from returning to earth." Thor said and after a moment his father nodded. Thor nodded as well showing his agreement to his father's terms.
"I will send the Bitfrost to the top of the tower you are in." Thor nodded. The people of New York were used to seeing strange things since they lived in the same city as the Avengers. That and all their foes like to try to destroy them there. Thor got dressed and took the elevator to the top, wondering what his father wished to discuss with him that would make him call him on Midgard in the middle of the night? He waited until the doors opened onto the roof and said.
"Heimdall open the Bitfrost." he was surrounded by the rainbow bridge which allowed him to travel very quickly home. He looked around the observatory and smiled at Heimdall who respectfully nodded back at him. Thor found a man waiting with a horse there for him and Thor rode quickly to the palace, where he and his father would talk. Thor dismounted when they got the stables and feed the horse some sugar cubes. Thor then made his way into the palace and as quickly as he could to his father's study.
He stood before the door of his father's study not much later and knocked. It had been a long time since he had been to his father's study. Thor wondered what it was that was so important that his father would make him come to Asgard from Midgard. The door opened and Thor heard his father's voice say
"Come in." Thor did as he was told and saw his father use Gungnir to close the door behind him. His father gestured to a seat across from him a chair covered in red fabric which Thor sat down in and looked at his father. His father wasn't looking at him though, but seemed to be lost in memory.
"Father?" Thor asked after his father didn't speak for a while. At Thor's voice he slowly looked at him and he seemed sad and...guilty? Was he reading his father's face right? He wasn't the best and reading expressions and he often time misinterpreted looks, but he thought his father looked like he was feeling guilt.
"Thor, there is something I must tell you." he said slowly and carefully like he was choosing his words carefully. Thor didn't like this. This reminded him too much of the time his father had told him that Loki was a frost giant and had gone insane after finding out about his heritage. His father had said it was about Loki after all. But what could be so bad to cause his father to look as he did?
"There is something he said before he left something that I may have... misattributed until now." he said in the same careful and slow voice.
"What?" Thor asked although he wasn't entirely sure that he wished to know.
"He said he may be the god of all lies, but I was the father of all lies. For awhile I thought he was talking about his heritage." Thor frowned.
"He has to have been. You haven't lied about anything else have you?" Thor asked confused. His father was a virtuous man and had only tried to protect Loki with the lie. But Loki had become mad when he learned the truth.
"I...I tried to do the right thing for Loki." he said slowly and Thor had a feeling that that meant that his Father had lied to Loki again in a different matter. Then again if his father lied it had probably have been for a good reason. For some reason even though Loki lied to others frequently, he became the most offended when he himself was lied to. He didn't understand it.
"I tried to do the right thing for the both of you." his father said wearily. He looked his age at the moment when normally he looked like he was centuries younger and spryer than he actually was.
"Father, I don't understand." Thor said and he didn't. His father made it seem like Thor should know what he was talking about though, but he didn't. Was he supposed to?
"I know my son and it's my fault that you don't." Thor furrowed his brows even more confused.
"Loki said one more thing 'I remember'." Thor was still confused. If the words were supposed to mean something to him they didn't. "It should have taken a shorter time for me to realize what that meant, but I just thought Loki meant that he remembered all the slights against him. My mind is not what it used to be and I...I didn't want to believe. I had hidden the memories myself. Though not as thoroughly as they are hidden in you. I did not want to remember and for that...I may have unintentionally hurt Loki."
"Father I must insist you tell me what you are talking about because I don't understand." Thor said earnestly.
"There is only one way you will understand Thor and that is why I had to have you here."
"Father what-" His father suddenly pointed Gungnir at Thor's head. For a moment Thor was sure that Loki managed to steal his father throne again and was going to use Gungnir to kill him. Thor though couldn't move out of the way when a light green light streamed from Gungnir and hit him in the head. Thor's knees suddenly gave way and he collapsed onto the floor. What had his father or Loki done to him? He stared at the bright ceiling of his father's study and wondered what the purpose of the blast seemed to be? It didn't appear to be made to kill him since he was still alive. In fact he wasn't sure why he had collapsed to the floor either, since he was not feeling weary. But there was something wrong with his head. It didn't hurt exactly but he could tell there was something wrong with it.
"What did you do to me?" Thor asked his father confused or maybe it wasn't his father, but Loki he reminded himself again.
"What did you do?!" Thor yelled.
"It should become apparent in a moment." Odin said stoically. Thor opened his mouth to ask what that meant, when his body went completely slack.
A/N: I'm sorry we had to take a little detour but you'll definitely see what's going on with Loki next chapter :) How much do you hate me now?
A/N: Also I'm going to try to update tomorrow in the morning but if I don't there's a chance that I won't update till Sunday since I have a very busy weekend. If that is the case I'm very very sorry.