So I've been planning everything out, and stuff is about to go down and sure enough I know when and how.
I have a lot of feelings about Thor and Loki, can you tell
Loki watched Moriarty approach.
That idiot mortal. Like he was about to share the power they would gain together. He deserved this, he would rule the world and everyone would kneel.
And Moriarty? If Loki was feeling merciful, and Moriarty had been kind, than maybe he'd get a lower position in his kingdom. But no, Loki didn't feel like mercy at all.
Actually, that kind of a man was very dangerous to keep around.
Yes, he would allow him to help, but once this was all done, he would dispose of him.
Moriarty walked up to Loki.
Oh just look at him. So innocent. Such a fool. He wasn't the villain of the story at all, however much he wanted to be.
He wouldn't kill without a second thought. He would lie awake for nights after he was directly responsible for a murder.
No, not a villain, the evil helper maybe, but nothing more than that.
He was the villain. Sherlock was the boring, good guy and those people he had been recruited for were nothing more than ants. He would crush them.
Besides, an evil helper turned against you very easily and he couldn't use that. He needed a poisoned apple to get Snow White to back down, and then Sebastian could kill him.
Such a shame. The guy had spirit and a good amount of hatred. He appreciated that in a person.
'You're late.'
Moriarty sighed. Yes, a shame, but the only way.
'Fashionably late. Is everything ready?'
'Everything has been set in motion, if that is what you mean.'
'Then now we just have to wait.'
'So this Loki, eh?'
'What about him?'
John shrugged. 'I've seen a lot of bad guys in my time, but I've never heard of him.'
'Perhaps because he is not a mortal like yourself.' Thor sighed. 'It does not do him good to be dwelling in this realm. So much fighting, so much disaster.
He gets worse. He was not always like this, you know.'
John took a sip of the tea SHIELD had found for him somewhere . 'I don't suppose anyone is. Experiences make a person. Surroundings. Everyone changes all the time.'
He grimaced. Tea was apparently not an Americans strongest point, or at least not that of SHIELD. 'You sound like you've known him for a long time.'
'He was my brother. He isn't anymore, not really. He is not himself. He was adopted, and when he found out, he just snapped. I have never understood why.'
'So what made him who he is now? What happened?'
Thor shut his eyes. 'By the gods, I wish I knew. It is horrible to see him in such a state. I wish I could help him. He told me, when he was in Asgard for the last time,'
He paused, struggeling with the memory. 'He told me that all he remembered was a shadow. That I never cared for him.
And I will never be able to forget the pain in his eyes. Betrayed and hurt. He was crying while he was fighting me. I feel so guilty, because I know what he meant.
I ignored him when he needed my help. I was young and arrogant. I did not see how he crawled back into the darkness, slowly rejecting more and more of my love for him.'
Now tears shined in Thors eyes.
John wanted to comfort him, but words didn't seem to come to him. How do you comfort a god? Who does a god pray to and who does he get his hope from?
But before he could say anything, Thor continued.
'You know, for every person my brother kills, I feel responsible. Because it is my fault, he said so. The guilt is becoming unbearable.'
John put a hand on his arm. 'It's not your fault. You didn't see it, and others were probably just as bad for him. The acts of one person don't make a man.'
'It was your fault-' Sherlock interrupted.
'Sherlock! Can't you see he's upset?'
Thor sighed. 'No, he is right. It is I who should have been banished, not Loki. All these crimes are my fault, and I have to live with that.'
Sherlock rose an annoyed eyebrow. 'No, that isn't what I said, let me finish. You are not the only one to blame.
I studied the myths- that are, apparently, not actually myths. Your father was just as bad, always pressuring you into becoming the best king Asgard could have, even though he knew Loki could never be the king, because he was a Frostgiant. Your friends were bad too, excluding it.
And a lot of it he told himself. A shadow talked him into believing everything around him was hostile, and eventually he started to become that shadow.
Of course, everyone has that in them, everyone can become bad with enough pressure.
Anyway, that's not why I came to you. If you want, we can go see him, because we've found him. Actually, we probably should, because New York is being invaded by some kind of monsters- again.'
'Monsters?'
'Really John, monsters surprise you? We're dealing with gods, myths are true, Stark is acting like he knows us from myths too -no offense if you were trying to keep this some kind of strange secret, Stark, but it was really quite obvious- and still monsters surprise you?'
John shrugged. 'If it's not too much trouble. Now let's call the rest in, and save the world. I'll be your soldier.'
'Actually,' Tony interrupted him, 'We already have one of those.'
'Then I'll be second in command.'