Loki Misses the Asgardian Prison System

Chapter 115

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Knock knock.

Loki knows it's Thor outside of his room when the door begins to open even without an answer, and Loki's magic slams it closed in his face.

"Loki—"

"Stop it," Loki snaps.

"Loki, open the door," Thor says impatiently.

"No."

"Loki—"

"Why?" Loki demands. "Why would you bring them here?"

"Open the door and let us discuss this like adults," Thor says. His lack of patience doesn't feel very adult-like.

Still, Loki obliges, if only because he's ready for a fight. He marches up and swings the door open, jaw clenched with fury.

But Thor doesn't look nearly as upset as he sounds. He's not even angry; not like Loki is. And instead of putting his walls up when he sees Loki's anger, his expression softens. It's even more infuriating.

"Brother, what's wrong?" Thor asks gently.

"Why would you bring them here?" Loki asks again. "You haven't learned your lesson? You don't understand the power that thing holds?"

"I do," Thor says. "And that is why we brought them here. Those kids have nowhere else to go. Here, we can watch over them. We can help them. We can make an ally of them, not an enemy."

"You do not understand," Loki growls. "You cannot 'help' them. They are a part of that Stone, and it is a part of them. After all the havoc it's brought, how can you not see that nothing good can come of this?"

"Vision is not Ultron," Thor says. "These kids are not Ultron."

"This is not about Ultron," Loki snaps. "It is about the Stone. It is about the pure, unbridled power it holds — power that can corrupt even the strongest of minds. You cannot let them into our home."

Thor sighs. "Then what do you want us to do with them?"

"Kill them while you can."

Thor's eyes go wide, and he takes a step away from him instinctively. "Loki!" he practically yells in his incredulity.

"You don't understand what you're dealing with, brother," Loki says.

"If there is something I should know, then by all means, please, enlighten me," Thor says. "But to suggest the only solution is murder—"

"It is," Loki says. "I don't expect you to understand, but you have to trust me."

Thor stares at him in disbelief. He takes a deep breath, then puts on a sympathetic facade — and Loki knows it's no more than a facade because if he truly meant it, he would take some sort of action instead of wasting their time with meaningless words. "I love you dearly," he says, "and I trust that you believe what you are telling me, but your solution to learning of Ultron's existence was also murder, and we still defeated him without killing Stark. I think you might jump to murder a little too quickly."

"Thor, I mean it," Loki says firmly. "You have to trust me."

"I wish I could," Thor says sympathetically. "But your judgement is clouded."

"It is not—"

"Yes, it is," Thor says, firm but gentle in his tone. "I do not know why; if it has to do with what Wanda—"

"Stop it," Loki snaps.

"Was she right?" Thor asks. "Is there something you are not telling us?"

"I've told you what you need to know," Loki says. "That Stone is dangerous. To leave it in a robot, a being powered entirely by the Stone... It is suicide, brother."