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Castles in the Air by cosmic_medusa
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
19 Mar 2019
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Loki's first act as King is to collect his banished brother to aid his regency, however brief. Thor discovers that the political landscape is far from what it seemed, and that the lies of Odin have resulted in the threat of both his sons' safety and sanity. Drama, angst, double-crosses, butchering of folklore and history, and the epic bromance of Asgard's Princes ensues.
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- Part 2 of Castles in the Air
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“You see? There’s nothing to fear. You’re smart, I’m strong. We can do anything together, brother, I know it. Just trust me, you’ll see.”
Loki couldn’t help but smile again, while Thor beamed at him like it was the greatest day of their lives.
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“Not at all. You must forgive us, today has been so unexpected—”
“For you? I’d thought to have been toasting the start of my brother’s reign right now, celebrating a new era for the Nine. Instead we are facing war and invasion and my brother is gone!” Loki’s eyes welled up, though he loathed them for it. “He is a realm away with no means of returning and I can not go to him! I was to be an advisor, little more, and now I am faced with the prospect of the Crown, on the brink of an invasion, and Thor is not here, and I don’t know the means of his return, or if he will return, and then what? I stood in the observatory and watched him fall and couldn’t stop it…what if that is the last we see of each other? What must he think of me? He’d have thrown himself down that portal in pursuit of me, and I stood there disbelieving! What if I never see him again?”
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“You are in command now, Loki. I fail to understand why you’d surrender all of it, even for Thor.”
“Because, Lady Sif, though it is a dreadful inconvenience, thoroughly humiliating, endlessly frustrating and, quite frankly, often unmerited, the terrible truth that lies in the dark of my heart is this—I love my brother.”
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“Lady Sif, you are the most brave, clever, fierce woman in the cosmos,” Loki proclaimed. “Were it not to end with your spear in my throat, I would lift you off the floor and spin you around this room like a commonplace courtier.”
“I’m happy I’ve pleased you, my King,” she chuckled.
“'Pleased me' is too small a description. I shall build you a statue. I shall decree you a feast day. I shall have portraits and murals painted and hung in every home in Asgard. I’m half in love with you at the moment. When this terrible Regency ends, we shall run away together. We will have an army of daughters, and they will fight as you and think as me. They will conquer the galaxy.”
She couldn’t help but feel a slight flush of pride and embarrassment—they held no romantic intentions toward each other, but seeing the cleverest man she knew excited by the knowledge she’d imparted was terribly thrilling. She could see why Loki had grown to love it.
“All I did was bring you a bit of information on a long-dead land, my King,” she reminded him.
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For a long moment, neither of them spoke: but then, almost fearfully, Loki reached out and touched the back of his brother’s hand. Thor flipped it over and caught his brother’s fingers in his palm with a gentle squeeze.
“Then help me,” Loki murmured. “Please?”
“Always,” Thor vowed. - 11
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“I should have told you sooner. I should have told you a lot of things, a long time ago. I’ve failed you more times than I can count. But I’ve always had more faith in you than anyone, from the Nine to Valhalla. I won’t take the throne without you with me, in Asgard, doing what you were born to do.”
“Serving you,” Loki said quietly. Thor remembered the furious reaction he’d had when Thor had offered him his service on Midgard; he thought he understood it now.
“Helping me. Ruling with me. You can go to Alfheim, to Vanaheim, hell you could go to Midgard and thrive. You’ve proven our whole lives that you can survive on your own; you’ve proved it more these past few weeks. But I can’t. I need you by my side.”
Loki’s face slowly began to lose it’s calm as clear, unmitigated joy broke through. “Chancellor to King Thor of Asgard,” he said slowly. “I suppose that sounds better than Lord of Starfall.”
“You will have to address me as ‘Your Grace,’” Thor reminded him, grinning wickedly.
“I can live with that. But I draw the line at ‘Allfather.’”
“‘Brother’ suits me much better,” Thor felt his own face beaming pride and relief.
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“The youngest, the Lady Magnilde—she is with her first child?”
“She is.”
“I wonder what will happen when I place Mjölnir on her belly and call down the lightning that burnt the body of that Dark Elf. If she’ll feel her baby boiling alive in her womb. If she’ll plead for its life before her own.”
The Chancellor staggered to his feet. “Your Grace—”
“That sweet face, burnt beyond recognition. Her lips peeled back, her eyes staring at nothing.” Thor set his glass down with infinite care, as if he desired the safety of the cup. “I was within arm’s reach of my brother when that scorpion’s bolt destroyed him. I held him, I tried to aid him, I tried to look into his eyes, and he was lost to me. You’d done what you set out to do the day you marched into the training room—you’d taken the world from me, so you could replace it with your own.” - 25!!!
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