A Broken Heart [A Loki Fanfiction] [COMPLETED]

Chapter 5

Loki's face had an ironic expression on it. He moved his head and shrugged. "News spread fast."

"Who was screaming?"

"Will you be pleased if I tell you?"

Odin groaned angrily. "Yes"

"It's so obvious, though... The truth is almost always the simplest answer, yet no one seems to believe it until they cannot doubt it anymore." Loki got out of his bed. "Once you told me that, if you hadn't taken me in, I wouldn't be here to hate you. But, the point –my whole bloody point– is that, if you had really taken care of me, I wouldn't hate you. The scream you heard was mine, father. It was the sound of lonesomeness."

And then he felt it –the strange, alarming warmth on his arm and the itching on his wounds. It must have been some movement he made...

"Is that blood on your sleeve?" Odin asked as if he had found proof that Loki was lying.

The God of Mischief looked down at his arm and let out a bitter burst of laughter. "Oh, that," he said. "Oh, that's just-", he rolled up his sleeve. "That's just some self-inflicted damage made by my desperate self – nothing to worry about. It's not that I'm torturing someone in here or anything –I'm just cutting myself– you can go on with your life pretending that nothing happened."

Odin didn't say anything; he just stared at Loki's wounds.

"But it's almost funny how you claim that I always cause pain to everyone," he continued, hiding the wounds, "but you forget to think that others may have made me hurt too."

"Are you a fool? Your actions brought you to this situation!"

Loki turned to Thor. "I told you he would pin it on me."

Odin opened his mouth, but a guard entered the room in a fuss.

"Damn, nobody in this palace knows how to knock?"

"My king", said the guard, "the Casket of Ancient Winters... it's gone!"

Odin turned his face towards Loki. Oh, come on, seriously?

"Can you please go?" Loki asked the guard.

The man left, closing the door behind him. He stared at Loki, and then he opened his mouth to speak up, but the trickster beat him to it.

"You really think it's me, don't you?" he asked without expecting a response, and he didn't get one. "Look, let's just characterise me," he said then and began pacing around Odin. "I am a desperate, self-destructive, suicidal, weak excuse of a prince who has lost the meaning of life and has no purpose. Why exactly would I steal the Casket or have anything to do with its disappearance?"

"How can I be sure this is not one of your tricks?" Odin asked angrily.

"You can't," Loki replied. "Only I can. But you can trust me."

Odin remained silent.

"I trust you," said Thor.

Loki turned his face towards his stepfather. The latter said nothing. "Let's go to the relic room."

He doesn't believe you, his inner voice said as they walked across the corridors, and he'll never trust you.

Odin opened the door of the room and the three of them –Loki, Thor and Odin– stood in front of the spot where the Casket of Ancient Winters used to be. "The guards?" asked Loki.

"There," said Odin, showing him two bodies placed next to a pillar. Loki approached them and frowned.

He sat on his ankles and observed the bodies. He attempted to find a pulse, but he didn't manage to find one. Their necks were covered with ice burns. Loki's fingertips touched them.

"No way..." Loki stood up and took a step back.

"What is it?" Thor asked

"It is worse than I thought. This is very bad..."

"What is very bad?"

"This is Nesdlithod's job. Consider us officially screwed up."

Confusion was still captured on Odin's and Thor's faces. "Who's Nesdlithod?" asked Thor.

"Oh, that," Loki said with a strange look on his face and his eyes sparkled. "Laufey's son. Or, as you've probably guessed, my long lost brother."

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Hey! Well, this is the 5th chapter as you can see. For the ones who don't remember, the Casket of Ancient Winters is this:

Also, the name "Nesdlithod" is an anagram! You can try to find it –if you are hardcore fans and like this kind of stuff, I don't think you'll need much time.

As always, if you find any errors (grammar/vocabulary), don't hesitate to let me know! Also, tell me your opinion about the chapter in the comments and vote if you wish!

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