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[rebuildyourruins]

Nor does your saying it make it true.

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[ his expression was firm. ]

We both know it's true. You even believed it briefly when he came.

I should have done the right thing. But I chose to stay. That judgement is on me. And no one else.

[rebuildyourruins]

The right thing would have been talking to me about it first so we could decide on something together.

[With a sharp shake of the head, Thor looks away.]

I don't want to argue about this. There is little point - it already happened.

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[ loki's face tightens and his fingers curl into fists. ]

. . . Fine.

[rebuildyourruins]

[Thor especially doesn't want to talk about Loki thinking it would have been better to die alone. He doesn't agree. Can't agree. He hates everything that happened, but imagining it going the same way with Loki isolated...?

He's silent for a long few moments before he speaks again, something defeated in his tone.]

If that had happened, I would never have known. I'd be expecting you to come back again.

[Forever.]

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[ his expression twists at that. it sounds tragic, but — ]

Would you? Or would it be more realistic your lying brother ran off when things got difficult?

[rebuildyourruins]

Even if I thought that - [And he's not saying he would have. That's impossible to know.] - I would still expect to see you again sometime. After all, that has been the way of things for a while now.

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[ loki closes his eyes briefly. he thinks of the black mark in his chest, thick hands around his neck and the absence of sound and light in the void. the way of things indeed. when he opens his eyes, they're clear and calm once more. ]

Fair enough.

[rebuildyourruins]

[If he's honest, Thor isn't certain he wouldn't be waiting for such a thing even when Loki had died right in front of him. Being here immediately after the fact ... it blunts that madness, keeps it at arms' length more than he could manage at home. That doesn't mean it can't linger sometimes.]

There are no truly good options.

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[ loki has to smile at that. only a little, like it hurt, like a lie. he raises his glass. ]

Just the one.