Odin and Frigga were sleeping soundly when their boys entered. Loki and Thor looked at each other and walked to their bed. They crawled in, Thor by Odin and Loki by Frigga. It was warm and they both felt safe. Loki looked at Thor, "I wish we could always feel this safe, "he whispered to Thor. Thor nodded, "We can be if we always stay together." Loki rolled his eyes at how cheesy that sounded.
Loki noticed Frigga waking up and smiling at him, "Loki dear, this is a surprise." Loki smiled and snuggled closer to her. "Odin my dear, there's a surprise for you." Odin opened his eyes to see Thor smiling at him. Loki was looking at him timidly. "Well, good morning you two, Loki come here." Loki looked at Frigga who smiled him forward, Thor moved to the other side of Odin and Loki took his spot. "I'm sorry my son, I did not mean to shout at you last evening." Loki nodded, "It's alright father I'm sorry for snapping at you…" Odin smiled and hugged Loki. "We wanted to talk to you though, right Loki?" Thor asked, looking over at Loki. Loki looked away from Odin and nodded, "Yeah, we did." Odin looked curiously at his boys.
Odin was dressed now as were Loki and Thor. They were sitting in the garden by the pond; Thor figured this place would keep the tension down to a minimum. Loki was surprised at Thor's idea, mainly because it was a smart one.
Loki was extremely nervous, but Thor was looking rather pleased. Of course he was, he wasn't the one this talk about it. Loki wanted to understand why father seemed to hide him, in more than one way. It was bothering him, and he had to let father know this or it was going to drive him insane.
"What did you boys want to talk to me about?" Odin asked, he was genuinely curious as to what his boys wanted.
Thor decided he would start, "This was my idea originally, but I think Loki needs to start." Loki took a deep breath, "Father, I want to know why you treat me different than Thor."
Loki was proud of his choice of words; it seemed he hit a nerve. "I assumed you would start to feel different from Thor. I had hoped it wasn't this soon however…." Loki nodded, "Is there something you're hiding from us, from me?" Odin sighed and nodded, "Let's go to the library where we can be in private."
Thor sat next to Loki, providing the support he needed. Which Loki was truly grateful for, he needed all the support he could get, and this was once of the times he didn't want to throw Thor off a bridge.
"You boys remember the battle between Asgard and those of Jötun?" Odin asked carefully, knowing they were both only infants when it occurred, sadly he remembered it as if it was yesterday.
They nodded, they were told stories of the terrible Frost Giants and their evil ways. They were used in stories made to tell children at night, and also used to frighten them into doing the right thing. Loki and Thor both hoped to never meet one, for the sounded truly terrifying.
"During that war, just as many Asgardians as Frost Giants lost lives. It's not a war I like to remember, though it haunts me till this day." Odin was beginning to look really distraught so Loki came to sit on his lap; Odin smiled at his son and kissed his head. "I wanted to wait until you were older before I told you this, but to prevent these issues between you and Thor I will tell you now."
"In the end, Asgard won, but with great cost. No one likes to destroy a homeland to someone, and Jötun was gone. It had its charm as Asgard does, and the war ended it. I was standing in the rubble of the rocks that had been smashed. It was quiet and I was unaware if anyone had survived. I was stuck in a dreamlike state, I couldn't believe the war that had occurred, and it seemed like a dream."
Odin looked painfully and lovingly at Loki, Loki had never seen Odin look at anyone that way before. He felt something bad coming on.
"What brought me out of my trance was the sound of crying. I instantly assumed it to be an injured being but quickly recognized it as an infant's crying. I began to search and search for it, and I thought of Thor as I did so. That made me search harder. I finally discovered the source of the wails."
Loki's mind was running miles a minute, and he was slowly putting the story together. And why Odin had wanted them to speak of this in private. He suddenly made a pained face.
"An infant was lying in the rubble; thankfully for its tough genes it wasn't harmed. I picked it up and it looked at me. It was blue as Frost Giants are with piercing red eyes. Its cries stopped once it looked at me and then it clicked. I had heard Laufey has been given a son; I was unaware if Laufey was alive as I am now. I instantly cloaked him as an Asgardian and brought him here. Frigga agreed to raise him as our own. When it came time to name him I chose the name I was told his father named him, and that name was; Loki."