Zoticus
"D-dad no, dad please-AHHHHH!! Agh! Dad stop-Nnnn! Please stop-ah! Father..." Tossing. Turning.
"AGHHHHHHHHHHH!!! AHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHhh! AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Endless screams... Thor rushed in Loki's room to see his brother.
He lay screaming, muscles flaring from how intensely tense every single part of him was. Curled up into the smallest ball he could get, the blankets were thrown off the bed already and the pillows out of place. Loki wouldn't stop screaming, he wouldn't stop screaming!!!
"Loki! Loki! Wake up!" Thor ran to his brother without a second thought, taking the smaller God into his arms and cradling him soothingly like their mother use to do for them when they had nightmares.
When Loki's eyes finally shot open, full of terror, full of more fear than Thor had ever seen them before, he tried getting away from his brother, the nightmare still torturing his mind.
"No! No! NO! Don't! Please!" Loki's hands pressed against Thor's chest as he tried pushing away, but he had not the strength and he just woke up from such an awful night-terror that he couldn't get away out of his own will.
"Loki..." Thor said softly, with that gentle but deep and wonderful voice... "I'm not going to hurt you my brother... I simply wish to help..."
As Loki's wide eyes, filled with tears that kept staining his cheeks, looked into Thor's he realized he was momentarily safe... But Loki didn't feel safe... He never felt fully safe, the safest it got was Thor's arms... And Loki was so very grateful for those strong warm arms...
Sobs came, one after another, preaching from the Ice-Giant's mouth as if they were a river flowing from a water fall and Loki was the source. Thor rocked him. gently back and forth, rubbing tiny circles on Loki's back, holding Loki's hand and tracing little designs on it, lightly singing to him a smooth melody that their mother had once done for them, running his fingers through Loki's hair... Anything to get him to calm.
"Thor...?"
"Yes Loki?"
"Kill me."