So, as promissed, this one's a bit longer ;) Hope you like it...

Chapter 10

"Are you ready kids?"
"Aye Aye Captain!"
"I can't hear you!"
"Aye Aye Captain!"
"Ooooooh… Who lives in a pineapple under the sea!"
"Spongebob Squarepants!"
"Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!"
"Spongebob Squarepants!"

Loki looked at the TV screen in shock. Frigga had been watching the same completely insane show all morning, but the young king still couldn't believe his eyes.

A slightly irritated Thor entered the living room. He groaned and rubbed his head.
"Frigga, please. Don't you think you've watched enough television for one day…"

"Hush, Daddy! I haven't seen this episode yet…" Frigga answered, not letting her eyes leave the screen.

The God of Thunder sighed and closed his eyes. That stupid theme song had been his alarm clock that very morning. Thor mentally reminded himself that if he ever met the idiot who had decided to broadcast Spongbob – marathons on Saturday mornings, he would definitely kill him…

"It's a talking sponge…" a voice suddenly sounded through the room. Loki was still staring at the screen, definitely in shock.

Thor sighed again. "Yes, it's called Spongebob Squarpants…"

"Yes, yes, I noticed, but… it's a talking… sponge!" Loki repeated while turning to his brother. He pointed at screen. "And a squirrel, a talking squirrel! Under water!"

"I know.." Thor answered tiredly.

"He lives in a pineapple!" Loki continued not understanding why Thor didn't share his concern and disbelief.

"Yes…" Thor said.

"A damn pineapple, Thor!" Loki shouted. "And you think that I have a bad influence on your daughter…"

Thor had to admit. He and Loki had seen quite a lot of shocking and terrible things. They had fought in horrible battles, against terrifying monsters. More than once they'd looked death in the eyes only to suffer from horrifying memories and nightmares afterwards, but this…
No, Thor didn't blame Loki…

At that moment Jane walked in. She was rubbing her ears, looking even more annoyed then her husband.
"Am I the only one who keeps hearing "Aye Aye Captain!"? she asked imitating the Captain while making a weird pirate movement with her arms.

"Hush!" Frigga said while throwing angry looks on her parents.

Jane walked over to the television, took the remote control and switched of the screen. It seemed like Frigga woke up from a trance. She blinked with her eyes and look at her mother.

"Mummy!" she started, but one look of her mother made her shut up. Everybody in the room let out a sigh of relief.

"Enough is enough, Frigga!" Jane said sternly while putting the remote on the top of the TV so Frigga couldn't reach it.
"Get your shoes, I think it's a good idea if we go to the park today. Then I can see the castle you build yesterday…"

Frigga almost fell from the sofa and walked to her room, dragging her feet. Just before she left the living room an idea sprang to her mind. She turned around and put on her most innocent look possible.

"Mummy," she asked. "Can't we go to the library…"

Thor looked up in surprise. That wasn't a very bad idea. Maybe he could find something about the Tesseract there. The God of Thunder seriously doubted that, but he could only try. Maybe he could find something that would explain Loki's weird reaction.

Jane was as surprised as her husband.
"But you haven't finished your books from the last time…" she started, but Frigga quickly interrupted.

"I have Mummy!" she said. "All of them…"

Jane though for a moment. She looked at her husband. Thor quickly put an serious expression on his face. He didn't want Jane to think that something was wrong. He cleared his throat and pretended to think the idea over.
"I don't see why not…" he said.

"Library sounds good to me!" Loki suddenly said. Both parents looked at him like they'd forgotten, he was there.

"What?" the young king asked. He liked libraries. When he was younger he used to spend lots of time in the library of the palace to read every book about magic he could get his hands on. Now he came to think of it, Thor probably didn't know that since Loki couldn't remember seeing his brother in the library. Thor possibly didn't even know the palace had a library. He spend all his time fighting and getting his ass kicked by Sif...

"You're not coming with us.." Thor said.

Loki pulled up his eyebrows.
"Why not?" he asked.

"Well.." Jane started, not really knowing what to say, but Loki already understood. He closed his eyes and shook his head in disbelief.

"Seriously, I'm not going to destroy a library. Why would I do that?"

Neither Jane nor Thor knew an answer to that, so Loki continued.
"And I don't think you would leave me behind…alone…" he said.

Thor bid his lip. He hadn't thought about that. He looked at Jane. His wife seemed to be considering the idea. After a few seconds she pulled up her shoulders. What could go wrong? Loki could of course destroy the library, but that wouldn't exactly help him with proving Thor he was a good king.

"All right then.." Thor finally said. "But you…"

"Yes yes! I know the drill!" Loki interrupted. He rolled his eyes and changed his appearance into Tony's.

"Frigga, go and get your books too. We'll leave in ten minutes." Jane said while walking to the hallway to get her coat. Thor threw Loki one more warning look before following her.

Half an hour later Loki found himself at the entrance of New York Public Library. It was huge… There were just no other words to describe it and the young king thought it was amazing!

"Was that really magic?" Frigga asked for the third time. Loki had been ignoring her the last five minutes, but it was starting to annoy him.

"Was what really magic?" he asked harshly.

Frigga ignored the sharp tone.
"That what you did for my sand castle" she explained while trying to catch up with Loki's big steps.

"Yes…" Loki said dryly.

"And those illusions? Is that magic too?"

"Yes…" Loki answered again.

Frigga thought about that for a moment.
"Cooooooool!" she said in wonderment.

Loki rolled his eyes. He still didn't understand why people thought that being cold was any fun…

"Can you teach me?" Frigga suddenly asked.

Loki looked down in surprise. The little girl looked up at him with eyes full expectation.
"I don't think your parents would like that…" he said after a couple of seconds.

Frigga's smile slightly disappeared.
"Why not?" she asked.

Loki didn't really know why, but was quite certain Thor would kill him if he did…
"They probably think it would make you… evil…"

Frigga was shocked. She blinked confusedly and asked: "Evil? Are you evil then?"

Again Loki was surprised about the girl's question. He'd almost forgotten that Frigga didn't know anything about… well… anything…

The young king smiled.
"I suppose that depends on your point of view…" he said just before Thor called Frigga to follow them. The little girl frowned. She didn't understand what Loki meant, but she turned around and followed her parents.

German legends and Fairy Tales Loki read.

He had chosen a section of the library at random and started taking books from the shelves. It seemed he'd chosen the section about Mythology and Legends.

Loki took the book he'd just found and put it on the pile of books next to a chair close to the wall. Afterwards he sat down and picked one of the books and began reading.

The one thing he liked about humans was that they put all their knowledge in these books. On Asgard that happened too of course, but Asgardians seemed to have the weird desire to tell certain things without writing them down. That was probably because Asgardians lived a lot longer and once they heard something they didn't easily forget, but Loki was quite sure that a lot of precious information and legends were lost because of that idiotic habit.

Suddenly the young king saw something in the corner of his eye. Frigga had appeared two rows right of him. She looked around her like she was checking if anyone could see her. Then she took a quick look at the books on the lowest shelve. A deep frown appeared on her pretty face, probably because she couldn't read any of the titles. After a couple of minutes she decided to pick a book at random. Inquisitive as she was, she picked the biggest of them all. With all her might Frigga pulled the heavy, probably five thousand pages book off the shelve. With a loud thud it hit the ground. Frigga looked at the cover for a couple of seconds before opening the enormous book.

Loki frowned. This wasn't the kids section… what was she doing here? The young king quickly casted a look on the sign above the bookcase.

Norse Mythology and Legends it said.

The young king frowned. What was she searching for?

Suddenly an old, but friendly lady appeared behind Frigga, but teh girl was looking at the few pictures in the book, trying to understand what was written next to them and therefore didn't notice her.

The lady spotted the little girl. She recognized her. Frigga Foster. The little girl just loved books, even though she couldn't read yet, but to see her in this section of the library was new.

"Frigga? What are you doing here?" the woman asked friendly. The little girl looked up in shock and closed the book.

The women looked over the girl's shoulder and read the title on the cover of the massive book.

Secrets of Yggdrasil: Everything about the nine worlds and their inhabitants

The old women put on her glasses which were dangling at a rope around her neck so she could read it again.

"Why are you reading this, sweetheart? What is it that you want to know?" the woman asked looking a bit concerned.

Frigga who knew that she'd been caught tried to come up with an excuse.
"I…I… I heard that The Mighty Thor is a N… Norse God… and I was wondering… I wanted to know…a ..bit more about ….eeeeh…my D… I mean him… Thor." The young girl stuttered.

Two rows away Loki couldn't help but smile. He was impressed how quickly the little girl came up with a believable lie… only the presentation could be better…

The old lady smiled. Frigga wasn't the first who came to her to ask about The Avengers.
"Maybe you should visit The Avengers section in the kids section. We got a lot of books about Thor there with lots of pictures and…"

"I know, but I wanted to know where he came from and all that stuff…" Frigga interrupted impatiently. The old lady was surprised, but she didn't mention it. she thought about Frigga's words for a moment before giving in. After all, she was really intrested in the Norse Mythology herself and was always open for a listening ear.

"All right then, would you like me to read it out loud for you?" she asked. Frigga nodded fiercely while she tried to lift the book so she could hand it to the old lady.

The woman smiled. She was in love with that exited, inquisitive look in the girls eyes. She picked up the book and sat down in a chair near the section. She took Frigga on her lap and opened the book. The little girl watched in excitement. Also Loki, who was still sitting on the other side of the room, pretending to read fixed his attention on the woman.

"Now then…" the old lady started like she was going to tell Frigga a fairy tale. "Thor Odinson was born on Asgard! He is the son of Odin and he's really powerful. He is also known as The God Of Thunder. With his Mighty hammer Mjölnir, he can control the weather and make it storm…"

The old lady pointed at the pictures in the book, not noticing the nervous girl on her lap. Frigga had to do her best not to say anything. She already knew all this stuff about her father. That wasn't why she was here.
The old woman turned page after page and Frigga only got more and more impatient until her eye fell on the picture she had been searching for.

"And who is that?" she immediately asked, pointing at the picture. The library lady stopped talking. She had been talking about something on the previous page before Frigga interrupted. Her eyes followed Frigga's pointing finger.

"Oh, well, that's Loki…"

At the other end of the room Loki froze in his chair. So that was it... Frigga had been searching for information on him.

"He's Thor's brother" the old lady continued. "Well, stepbrother, in fact" she immediately corrected herself to the delight of Loki.
"He was born on Jotunheim. That's the world of the frost giants. So Loki is in fact a frost giant, but he was raised alongside Thor by Odin. He is known as The God Of Mischief. He used his magic to pull tricks on everyone. He did very bad things with it, actually he's kind of the bad guy in some stories and…"

"That's not true!" Frigga suddenly called out.

The lady dropped the book in surprise. She looked at Frigga who suddenly looked very angry. Even Loki didn't really follow what just had happened. Was Frigga actually defending him?

"Loki isn't bad and he doesn't use his magic for bad things! He saved my sand castle!" Frigga called out, irritating a couple of the other visitors.

The old lady didn't know what she had said wrong nor did she understand what the girl was talking about. Her sand castle?
"That's only what the book says, sweetheart…" she said softly, trying to calm the girl down.

"Well then the book is wrong!" Frigga answered angrily while she picked up the book, ready to throw it away, but the lady quickly stopped her.

"Of course, sweetheart. Now then, you give the book to me and then we'll go to the kids section. We'll find you a funny book about Spongebod, shall we?"

Frigga shook her head, still angry, and disappeared before the old lady could stop her. The lady watched the little girl in concern before putting the book back on its spot. Then she walked away, mumbling to herself that she should talk to Frigga's parents.

Loki blinked confusedly. Frigga actually believed he was… good. The young king groaned.
Oh damn, how she is gonne hate me when she finds out the truth… he thought. For some reason he was actually concerned about the girl. About his… his … niece…

Loki got to his feet and put the books back on the shelves. He didn't feel like reading anymore… With his hands in his pockets the young king slowly made his way through the endless bookcases. When he passed the section of the Norse Mythology he hesitated and looked at the book Frigga'd just taken. A part of him wanted to pick it up and read the part about Loki, but Loki couldn't do it. Besides, he knew who he was. He didn't need a book to tell him that! The book was probably full of mistakes anyway… So Loki past by the Norse Mythology section and tried to think of something else then the look of trust on Frigga's face.

Thor sighed. He hadn't found anything of interest on the Tessaract. Not that it really surprised him. For people the Tessaract only existed in legend.

Loki/Tony was standing next to him, apparently lost in thoughts. In front of him he saw Frigga and Jane, queuing to lend the books. Frigga had gathered a pile of at least five books and was telling her mother about all the books she'd had to leave behind. At long last it was their turn and after another five minutes they walked towards the exit where Thor was waiting. Frigga went silent when she saw Loki. The God of Mischief noticed, but tried to ignore her. Maybe if he could get her to disliked him, she wouldn't be so surprised when she found out the truth…

Half an hour later, Thor opened the front door. Frigga ran to her room to put away her books and Loki, who changed his appearance, sat down on the couch. Because he was lost in thoughts he didn't notice the worried expressions on Jane and Thor's faces. Both parents disappeared to their room.

Loki closed his eyes for a second. Right now he regretted their little trip to the library. What was happening to him! He was actually concerned about Frigga, about his arrogant brother's daughter…
The young king sighed and opened his eyes again.

Frigga slowly made her way from her bed room to the living room. She tried not to make a sound while she cautiously sneaked through the house, trying to hide a book behind her back. She glanced into the living room. There was nobody there, except for Loki who was looking quite bored. As quiet as a mouse she made her way to the couch.

Loki looked up at the girl and supressed the desire to groan. He really didn't want to see her at the moment.

The little girl seemed really excited about something. She quickly looked around the room to make sure her parents weren't watching before showing Loki the book she had been hiding.

It was a rather old, dog-eared book and it seemed like it had been through several wars. The pages, wrinkled and yellow, were turning soft at the edges because of the many readers, the back had been repaired more than once with Scotch tape and it smelled ... used. The young king glanced at the cover which showed a raven haired boy on a flying broomstick. The boy wore glasses and seemed to be chasing a flying golden ball. On the back ground, Loki could see a castle and some kind of horse…

Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone it said and on the bottom: J. K .ROWLING

"What's this?" Loki asked after a couple of seconds.

"It's a book!" Frigga answered excitedly.

Loki rolled his eyes.
"I can see that…" he said in a bored voice, but Frigga wasn't going to give up that fast.

"It's about magic!" she explained enthusiastically. "I haven't read it yet... 'cuz I can't read yet, but everybody talks about it ... and... and there're movies about it...I thought you might want something to read. I thought you might like it… because of the magic…"

Loki looked at the cover once more. He didn't really see what was magical about a boy flying on a medieval cleaning tool.

"I… I don't think Mummy noticed I brought it…" Frigga continued mysteriously. Loki waited a couple more seconds before taking the book. He had to admit: Frigga kept impressing him.

A door opened. Frigga looked up and ran to the kitchen when she recognised her parent's footsteps. Thor and Jane came in, worried expressions still covering their faces. Loki quickly put aside the book. He had the feeling something was wrong. Very wrong…
Thor threw Loki an accusing look. The young king frowned. What had he done wrong this time, but instead of starting to shout at him, as Loki expected, both parents just ignored him and went to the kitchen.

"Frigga, sweetheart. We need to talk…" the young king heard.

"What's wrong, Mummy?" Frigga asked a little too quickly. She was obviously thinking her parents knew about the book she had brought with her for Loki. Was that so wrong?

"Miss. Collins, the lady from the library told me that you were searching for books in the Norse mythology section. She said you wanted to know more about daddy and that you got really angry with her…" Jane said.

It stayed silent for a couple of seconds. In the living room, Loki was determent to follow the conversation since it was probably about him.

"I… I just wanted to…to know… something…" Frigga stuttered. Loki could hear she was trying hard to cry. She probably thouth that her parents were angry with her...

"What did you want to know, sweetheart?" Jane asked kindly, but it was Thor who answered the question.

"Something about… about… Loki?" The God of Thunder said, knowing his brother could probably hear everything they said.

"Y… Yes…" Frigga answered timidly. Loki could hear Thor sigh.

"But why?" Jane asked cautiously.

Frigga couldn't take it anymore. Were her parents really that naïve?
"Because nobody tells me anything!" she screamed not able to hold back the pain in her voice.

Again, a short silence filled the house, but Frigga wasn't finished yet.

"F.. First there was grandpa and then he.. he was gone. And there we knights … from Asgard and they didn't know any… anything and you n…neither, daddy! And mummy was scared and you were angry… And then you were m… mean! And you hit him! You both hit Loki, but you said that he.. he w… was your brother! So why would you h…hit him? And he said he was king! But.. But grandpa is king! And then the old lady s…said that Loki was a frost giant! But you t…told m...me that they w.. were bad and that The Allfather had … had defeated them… But the lady said that he r.. raised L…Loki and that Loki used m…magic to… do bad stu… stuff.. And she s..said.. that…" Frigga shouted between sobs.

"Frigga, Frigga!" Jane called out in a desperate attempt to stop her daughter. The little girl shut up and broke down in tears.

"Honey…" Thor tried after a couple of seconds. "You should have said something…"

"You w…wouldn't s…say anything! You…you said you w…would, but you di…didn't…" Frigga stuttered.

Loki could almost feel the look the two parents shared to before making a decision.

"All.. all right then, Frigga, we'll tell you the truth…but it's not a funny story…" Thor said not able to hide the pain and desperation in his voice. Frigga was so young, she shouldn't have to go through this already.

Loki suddenly panicked. He quickly got to his feet and tried to sneak out of the living room before the family would enter, but it was in vain.

"Oh no, forget it, you're not going anywhere, Loki!" a heavy voice sounded behind him. Loki froze in his tracks and bit his lip. He knew this would happen but, honestly, he had hoped it would … well… never happen… especially not after the trust Frigga had shown.

The young king turned around. He smiled.
"I'm sorry, but what is this about?" he said innocently.

"Oh, please, Loki. Don't pretend like you didn't hear what we were talking about! You were way to quiet!"

"I'm always quiet!" Loki answered with a grin.

"Exactly!" Thor said bitterly. "Sit!"

Loki sighed and sat down on another chair opposite from the couch. Thor took a stool from the kitchen and put it in front of the TV screen next to Loki. Jane and Frigga sat down on the sofa. Frigga dried her tears and tried to smile.

Loki sighed. He threw a quick look on the girl in front of him and cursed under his breath. Now she was definitely going to hate him! And even worse: she would be damn scared… Frigga had been his only possible chance to convince Thor.

"All right…" Thor started. "We'll tell you everything you want to know, but you won't like everything I say…"

Frigga nodded. She was ready for this, at least, that was what was she had been telling herself the whole time.

So Thor began to talk.
"Like Miss. Collins told you: Loki is my brother."

"Stepbrother!" Loki interrupted.

Thor suppressed the desire to shout at Loki.
"Stepbrother…" he continued. "Miss. Collins was right. Loki wasn't born on Asgard, but on Jotunheim. After Odin had defeated the frost giants he found a baby, Laufey's son, cast out because he was too small. My father took him in and raised him as his own."

Thor waited a moment and looked at Loki. The young king just ignored him. He really hated it when people talked about Odin as if he had done a good thing by lying to him…

"It was our mother, Queen Frigga, who told Loki how to use magic. It made him the God Of Mischief, which means he … pulled tricks on everyone…" Thor continued.

Loki couldn't help to smile. Pull tricks on everyone… he thought Oh please…

Thor took a deep breath. The next part wasn't something he liked to remember…
"A couple of years ago, before you were born, I was going to be crowned King of Asgard. It should have been my day of triumph, but Loki, who was jealous of me, had brought three Jötuns into Asgard without Heimdall noticing. They broke into the weapons vault and tried to steal…"

Thor told Frigga everything about what had happened that day. About his stupid attempt to find out how the Jotuns had entered Asgard. How he'd almost brought war upon the nine realms and how Odin banished him for what he had done. He asked Loki to tell Frigga about what had happened on Asgard during his absence, but the young king refused to talk about it, so Thor told his daughter everything he'd learned when he had returned.

Every time Loki's name was mentioned, Frigga's face turned paler nd paler. Thor didn't leave out any detail of Loki's plan to destroy Jotunheim and kill him and his friends only to impress The Allfather and Loki didn't interrupt one time…

When they reached the part where Loki returned, using the Tesseract, Frigga couldn't control her tears anymore. Slowly the young king could see every last bit of Frigga's trust in him leave her bright blue eyes.

"It was Loki who leaded the Attack of New York. He'd set up an alliance with an alien race, known as the Chitauri. In return for the Tesseract they would give him the Earth. By using a sceptre, powered by the Tesseract, he controlled a lot of people, like our friends Eric Selvig and Shield Agent Clint Barton. After The Avengers had stopped the attack, I took Loki back to Asgard where he was sentenced to spent the rest of his days in a cell."

Frigga looked at her father in disbelief before turning to Loki. The young king couldn't stand the sight of the little girl crying, knowing that everything she believed in had turned to dust in a matter of minutes.
Frigga grabbed her mother's T-shirt, hoping to find some comfort or to prove that she was dreaming.

Jane looked at her husband. Thor swallowed. For a couple of seconds the only sound in the room were the silent sobs of Frigga.

"What's the matter, brother?" Loki suddenly said in his usual, sarcastic voice. "Don't stop now, she deserves to know everything!"

Thor looked at his brother, his eyes filled with cold hatred. "She's heard enough!" The God of Thunder said bitterly.

Loki smiled.
"Oh really? I wonder what she might think of what you did… If you don't tell her, I will!"

"Right, now you want to talk! Go on then! Tell her!" Thor shouted furiously.

Loki didn't move.
"How am I supposed to know what happened? I was rotting in my cell! Remember!" the young king hissed between clenched teeth.

Thor couldn't take it anymore. Furiously he sprang to his feet.
"How dare you! You were there because of a reason! You should be grateful father didn't have you killed! What a pathetic king you should be! You can't even admit your own crimes!" he shouted.

Loki's eyes turned dark. Pain and sorrow filled his heart when he heard Thor use the same words as his mother had done during her last visit. The last time he'd seen her…

"Oh right, because I wanted to bring order to a world in chaos…"

"You've killed and used innocent people!" Thor shouted.

Loki sprang to his feet.
"I did what had to be done! And don't you dare to blame me of killing the innocent. It was only a few compared to the lives you and that imbecile of a father have taken! You've killed hundreds, if not thousands. And every single one of them was only fighting for what he though was right or was forced to fight! Can you blame them for that!"

"The people of Earth were defenceless.." Thor began, but Loki was quick to interrupt.

"Really, is that what you call it…" he said with a evil grin. "The Midgardians were far from defenceless if you ask me…"

A surprised expression covered Thor face.

"Oh, yes, brother, I did my research. Those S.H.I.E.L.D. – fools were ready to blow up New York. To kill another million people! They fired a nuclear weapon and if it weren't for Stark you wouldn't even have a city to protect anymore!"

"They were desperate!" Thor tried, but he knew Loki would have an answer ready.

"Exactly my point! Midgardians are puny, pathetic creatures hiding behind their technology. In the end, the only thing their good at is destroying their own world!"

The room went silent except for Frigga's silent sobs.

A hoarse laugh broke the silence. Loki looked at his brother in disbelief. He really couldn't understand what was so funny…

"Mother was right… You are perceptive about everyone but yourself…" the God of Thunder said a lot more relaxed now.

His words struck Loki like a bomb. The young king could feel the anger raging through his body.

"How dare you to drag her into this! Frigga has nothing to do with this!"

"You just don't want her to! Do you really think she would have wanted any of this?" Thor asked, knowing he'd found Loki's soft spot. He knew that it was unwise to make his brother angry, but he was to angry himself to pay attention to that...

"How would you know what she wants? She not here, is she!"

"That's exactly why we should honour her memory…" Thor tried angrily, but Loki interrupted.

"Honour! How can you even think like that after you got her killed!" Loki exclaimed furiously. His eyes were turning darker every second."You… You put me away, to rot into eternity. You were too late because you were too busy fighting a handful of unimportant prisoners. Were you really that naïve to believe it was only a stupid outbreak! You just enjoy it, don't you! Showing off! Showing how incredibly strong the Mighty Thor is… And where was Odin… No, it's always been me who has to fix your mistakes, who has to get you out, who has to do… your bloody job! Only because you are too damn stupid to see the bigger picture…"

"I know!" Thor suddenly interrupted. Loki, breathing heavily, not able to control his temper, watched his brother in surprise. A sad, yet understanding, expression covered Thor's face.

"What?" Loki asked out of breath.

"I know!" Thor repeated. "I know Frigga death is on me… I know that you would have saved her, that you would have been in time…" The God of Thunder said, failing to hide the pain in his voice.

Loki watched him in astonishment. He never thouth Thor would actually take the blame. But on the other hand.. it wasn't that big of a surprise. If you tried hard enough, you could get Thor to blame himself for global warning…

"But it happened, Loki. And even though I would give everything to turn back time... to make it right and save her, it's just not possible. Fighting over it won't bring her back!" Thor finished.

Loki laughed.
"Great!" he said sarcastically. "So what now… Maybe we should put you in a cell now… Oh but wait… We should banish you! Give you a second chance! Punish you by giving you the opportunity to show off again!" the young king shouted.

Thor frowned. Was that it? Was that why Loki hated him so much? Because Odin gave him a second chance?

"Loki… The Allfather only banished me because…"

"Because you were supposed to be king!" the young king hissed, spitting out every word like it was something disgusting. "I honestly thought, those first days, he would make me king in your place, but that was never going to happen, no matter how hard I tried…"

"You know that is not true…" Thor tried once again, but Loki was too angry to listen.

"Don't give me that crap, Thor! I was never going to be your equal. I am a filthy frost giant and I will always will be! I was nothing to that disgusting piece of a liar! Nothing more than a sop, a backup plan... only good for peacekeeping if necessary!" he shouted furiously. Loki knew he was giving to much away. He never wanted Thor to know all this, it made him look and feel week. But at the moment nothing mattered anymore. The rage filled his body from top to bottom. He could feel the energy crackling on his skin like electricity.

"Loki, father loved you, just as much as mother loved you.. as we all did. Father never wanted to…"

"Odin! Is! Not! My! Father!" Loki finally called out, not able to hide the deception and grief in his words.

The young king clenched his fists, trying to hold back the upcoming energy wave, but it was in vain. The second Loki's words had left his lips a powerful shockwave, departing from Loki's body, flooded the room. Thor was thrown back and landed painfully on the TV screen which was crushed under his weight. Everything else in the room broke or was blasted away. The couch, with Jane and Frigga still on it, tilted backwards and covered them – unintendedly – against the flying books, bowls and glass shards.

Loki closed his eyes and forced himself to calm down. With a lot of effort he managed to breath out.

The young king opened his eyes. To his astonishment he felled how a single tear slowly made its way down his cheek. Slowly he lifted his hand to catch the tear with his fingertips. Loki brought his hand in front of his eyes and stared at the small drop of salty water, dangling at his left index finger. He frowned in disbelief. He was actually crying… He never cried! Well, almost never… Not anymore…

A new wave of pure anger filled his body. Again a simple truth became clear for his eyes: he hated Thor with every fibre of his existence!

The young king clenched his fists, crushing the tear. Without saying a word or even paying any attention to the damage he'd done, Loki turned around and left the apartment, slamming the door behind him.

"Loki! Wait!" Thor called out while he tried to escape from a network of tangled wires, but The God of Mischief was gone.

Thor who was tired of trying to untie the wires, just ripped them apart and hurried to the couch.

"Are you okay?" he asked worriedly seeing Jane's white face.

"What are you doing!" the scared mother exclaimed while she tried to get Frigga to blink again. "Get after him! Who knows where he's going?"

Thor shook his head. "Don't worry, I know where he's going…" he said convincingly while pulling the couch up straight again.

"Now… help me clean up this mess…"

I hope you liked it (I certainly liked writing it :D)

I'm really sorry, but it's possible that the next upload will take some time. The end of Easter holidays in getting near so that means: school = homework :(

Yet, I won't forget you guys, that's a promise ;)

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