The Dark Assassin | Thor: The Dark World [2]

Chapter 10

"Odin continues to bring me new friends. How thoughful," I watched as the guards walked in with a legion of new prisoners.

Cuts, bruises, and dust coated them, signalling a recent battle where Asgard came out on top. They seemed to be from a conglomeration of different places, making them Mauraders. Judging that Vanahiem was the only realm that remained unsecured, according to the guards, they hailed from Vanahiem and the realm was now secure.

"The books I sent, do they not interest you?" Frigga asked. She had appeared a few minutes earlier, right after they started bringing in the new prisoners.

"Is that how I am to while away eternity? Reading?"

"I've done everything in my power to make you comfortable, Loki," she chided.

"Have you? Does Odin share your concern? Does Thor? It must be so inconvient, them asking after me day and night," he sneered.

"You know full well that it was your actions that brought you here,"

"My actions?" Oh, here we go again. "I was merely giving truth to the lie I've been fed my entire life. That I was born to be a king,"

"A king. A true king admits his faults. What of the lives you took on Earth?"

"A mere handful compared to number that Odin has taken himself,"

"Your father--" she started.

"He's not my father!" I flinched, startled by the sudden words and hurt by his lack of sensitivity.

"Then am I not your mother?" I tensed, hoping he wouldn't say something he would regret.

There was a very pregnant pause as his mother waited for his answer.

"You're not," that fucking idiot.

"Hm. Always so perceptive about everyone but yourself,"

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"You're an idiot," I said to him a few hours later.

"I don't need your lectures," he scoffed.

"Don't care. You are a complete idiot," I repeated.

"Do enlighten me on how I've earned that status,"

"You don't know that value of family,"

"And how would you? You don't even know who your parents are," I rolled my eyes. I was starting to doubt his perceptiveness.

"No, I don't. So when I find them, I'm never going to let them go,"

"What makes you think you can complete that impossible and fruitless task?" He sneered.

"What makes you think I can't?" I shot back.

"You're stuck down here. For eternity,"

"You're not a witch, even if you do dress like one,"

"You're insufferable," he sneered, and I smirked.

"Call me all the names you want. I've heard worse,"

a/n Ah, Tanya. The only person who's ballsy enough to call a god an idiot to their face.