[ Questions are lately all Steve seems to have control over. Everyone else is changing and leaving and telling him he can't understand. All the blond can do is push for information, because no one is going to give him the benefit of the doubt either. It's a different kind of assumption, but one that still locks him in.

Maybe that's why he listened to the other Loki at all. He heard something of himself in him. ]

He has something to prove. Even the old Loki wanted that. And if he's younger, then maybe he doesn't have to become what you were.

[ He sighs heavily. ]

And the same goes for you.