[For all that he hates hearing lies from his brother, hearing the truth from his stings even worse.

The child is gone and this is what has replaced him. He is not the old, evil creature that Loki had once been, but neither is he how Odinson would have him be.]

He just wanted to be loved! He did all he could to make those around him like him! To be accepted!

[Static electricity has his hair rising across his arms, which tremble with rage and the effort to hold himself back. It would be good to kill him, whispers his mind. Even Loki wants it.

Deeper, there's a hazy memory, long-forgotten in the back of his mind. The future king Thor, old and grizzled and looking far too much like Odin for his liking, had said to kill Loki the first chance he got. It seems like good advice now.]

What have you done? Why should I love you as I loved him?