Balancing by astolat (explicit)

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Fandom: THOR (Marvel movieverse)
Pairing: Loki/Thor
Length: 6,289 words
Author on LJ: astolat
Author Website: astolat on AO3
Why this must be read:
Loki is the Lie-Smith for a reason, and what he forges is exquisitely crafted. This story goes AU from the moment that Loki finds out about his true heritage in the movie and does it in a way that leaves the reader breathless with all that is unsaid. This is a deliciously twisted story written by a master writer that I HIGHLY recommend.


Loki stood on the dais with power seething beneath his skin, power and a wrath not meant for him to carry, and understood everything, saw everything, with sudden perfect clarity. Of course Odin had not contented himself with stealing a child, nor with binding it to him in hopeless stupid love, nor even with some half-thought plot to somehow seize control of Jotunheim. Odin had made of that child a tool to serve his own son, in whatever way it could. A supposed rival, to push him to ambition; a mage, to be his right arm in battle; a learned man, to be his councillor; and now, a vessel: to hold the throne, and hold Odin's own power like wine in a cup, until—until Thor came back to drink.

"But you are dead," Loki said softly to his father's ghost, "and I will no longer be a slave to you and yours."

Balancing by astolat