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(closed) tell me you've never loved me, tell me it was just a lie
who: loki and billy
what: escapades
when: llllate because NERDING OUT HAS NO CURFEW and neither does thievery
where: sanctum sanctorum
warnings: tba
[ With the sleeves of his shirt smoking and hair singed, a burn stripes down one side of Loki's face from temple to jaw as he barges into the Sanctum at ass o'clock, stripping off his coat to stamp on the blackened parts. Shit. The shadowthread will need reworking. That's going to be time-consuming. His hot vest makes a loud clatter when he dumps the too-warm scalemaille in haste, climbing the stairs as he makes his way toward a working bathroom (not the acid one). By the time he passes multiple doors and makes it to his destination, his eye is stinging and Loki drops to his knees by the sink, elbows hooked over the edge.
When he isn't so dazed he stands and peers into the mirror at the mess several would-be Hel Hounds have made of him, their breath particularly nostalgic from a bird's-eye perspective but never so close up. They weren't purebreds, of course, some moon-twisted Silent Hill remake of Thori, more like split-mouthed hyenas than anything ...
He's glad those jaws never took purchase. He would have totally shredded his coat, never mind his arm.
Making more noise than usual as he goes about washing his wound, disorientated, the godling yelps and curses without any volume control because either Sam is around visiting Stephen and will come by to help or Loki is home alone while the sorcerer is off with his squeeze on a horrendously normal date. Blood drips red onto ceramic, a sheen of blue caught in it when the electric lights shine a certain way.
Above all, Loki sincerely hopes there is some ice cream left in the unchained fridge. ]
what: escapades
when: llllate because NERDING OUT HAS NO CURFEW and neither does thievery
where: sanctum sanctorum
warnings: tba
[ With the sleeves of his shirt smoking and hair singed, a burn stripes down one side of Loki's face from temple to jaw as he barges into the Sanctum at ass o'clock, stripping off his coat to stamp on the blackened parts. Shit. The shadowthread will need reworking. That's going to be time-consuming. His hot vest makes a loud clatter when he dumps the too-warm scalemaille in haste, climbing the stairs as he makes his way toward a working bathroom (not the acid one). By the time he passes multiple doors and makes it to his destination, his eye is stinging and Loki drops to his knees by the sink, elbows hooked over the edge.
When he isn't so dazed he stands and peers into the mirror at the mess several would-be Hel Hounds have made of him, their breath particularly nostalgic from a bird's-eye perspective but never so close up. They weren't purebreds, of course, some moon-twisted Silent Hill remake of Thori, more like split-mouthed hyenas than anything ...
He's glad those jaws never took purchase. He would have totally shredded his coat, never mind his arm.
Making more noise than usual as he goes about washing his wound, disorientated, the godling yelps and curses without any volume control because either Sam is around visiting Stephen and will come by to help or Loki is home alone while the sorcerer is off with his squeeze on a horrendously normal date. Blood drips red onto ceramic, a sheen of blue caught in it when the electric lights shine a certain way.
Above all, Loki sincerely hopes there is some ice cream left in the unchained fridge. ]
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( so rude, loki. he almost looks offended. )
It's just not something we--have needed to do, for a while! But I can be. And we're way less likely to get torn up or eaten with the both of us.
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I'll think about it. [ #THOUGHTABOUTIT #NOPE ] Right now I need a shower and clean clothes. If you want company I can swing by the library in a bit.
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but loki's not voicing it, so. whatever, he'll let it drop for now. he gives a low displeased huff, but presses his hands against his thighs and gets up onto his feet. )
Okay. I'll wait for you there. ( don't do anything stupid. )
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Freyja is distressed by the news of the wild canine monsters and wriggles around the room hissing threats to books and table-legs until Loki compromises with her. As the viper is magically engorged in size to that of an adult python, she stops being so vocal and simply leers in contemplation, pleased to be big enough to eat a dog. Honestly, snakes are such divas. That is why Loki arrives in the library not with Freyja on his shoulders like usual but slithering around like a giant, flashy lime-green anaconda on his heels. ]
I made chocolate.
[ Loki, freshened up in slacks a tee, comes bearing two homemade drinks heaped with marshmallows. ]
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but reading's hard when he's busy trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with loki. why he would respond that way. why he's acting like this. the book he had been reading before gets picked up, billy raises it in his hands to start trying to read the paragraph he had been on, but he finds himself consistently trying to reread the same words, over and over again.
the god's arrival is a relief; gives him excuse to lower the book, to stop trying. billy offers a small, hesitant smile, attention immediately moving to the much larger than before snake. )
Thanks. ( and he slides over easily enough, makes room for loki beside him. it disturbs the fox on his lap; a few unhappy grumbles can be heard, but he settles back down fast enough. ) Looks like someone had a growth spurt.
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[ 'You're not actually my mom' may be mumbled to Freyja as the snake winds her way onto an armchair to fill the seat, far classier than Loki as he draws a cushion under his butt and plops down beside Billy. To Freyja's credit, she merely eyeballs Elliot. ]
He seems to have really taken to you.
[ Setting the mugs safely on the floor, he crooks his fingers toward the fox. ]
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billy, for his part, leans down to pick up a mug of hot chocolate and takes a few sips of it. )
Are you feeling better?
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Mhm. [ It feels like his bones are vibrating in ways that only Tony's embrace used to stop, now forced to calm that sensation with some intense ignoring without a steadfast lover to keep him tethered to reality. ] What are you reading? You've a great many books assembled.
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There are a few books on you in the stacks, too. ( which he's leaning over loki to grab for, mug set aside for the moment. ) I found Poetic Edda earlier. And Loki by Mike Vasich. There're a lot of magic books in here--a lot of them don't have titles on the cover, or titles at all. I'm a little hesitant to open them, honestly. Who knows what kind of gremlins Doctor Strange has trapped in here.
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Ah, those vague and inaccurate accounts. So preferable to a chat on a library floor with the real thing! Billy, if Stephen allows you in here, and especially me, you can bet there's nothing grandiose in terms of evil waiting to pop out of any of these stacks.
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( fine then. he moves those specific books into--another pile of books, mildly out of the way and just barely within arm's reach. his fingers instead grab onto an old leather bound, titleless book, and sets it just a bit away from his own mug. )
No one wants to deal with an army of tribbles. --are you sure you're okay?
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[ Jim would push him out of the shuttle if Loki invaded it with fuzzy space-bunnies. ]
I'm good. [ At lying. Yet he's here, not holed up in bed alone and moping, so that says something about how Billy can provoke Loki's social side better than most. ] Pass me one of those horrendously large tomes, maybe I can use one of the spells in them for something handy.
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( no, he won't. but billy does grab onto one of the larger, dustier books and sits back in his place, holds that one out to loki before shifting his weight to lean up against his side. his own books can wait, and he's fairly certain he's not going to get any reading done right now, anyway. may as well look over loki's shoulder as he reads instead. )
Maybe later we can sit down and pick apart how inaccurate all the Norse mythology books are.
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Wait until someone writes a million books on you, we'll sit down and pore over every single one. All of these books' truths are dependant on the worlds they were taken from.
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But I'd so sit down and pick them apart, if I was bored enough. Kate and I go through news articles on our down time. Er, did. ( when they were young and stupid and though it was amusing. not nearly comparable to loki's situation, but. ) Does this place have Netflix? We can do that instead.
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[ He flips through the vellum pages as one would browse magazine articles. ]
And chill?
[ BA-DUM-PSHHH. ]
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Add that onto your life goals of things that will probably never happen. Just Netflix.
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[ Tearing out a spell page, he snaps his fingers and vanishes it back to his bedroom, an illusion brushed over the torn edge with his hand. No one but Billy need ever know! ]
Yeah, I've watched movies with Nico in the lounge, it's in the less strange area of the house. [ Mundane sounds good after the night he's had. ] What do you want to watch?
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I haven't decided yet. I figured we could browse until we found something but why are you tearing out pages.
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[ Isn't being Loki's friend fun, this is why he sticks to the antihero types like Jason Todd. ]
I thought we were going to spend the whole night browsing for cool spells, [ and stealing them, ] now you want to watch TV?
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( look being friends with jason todd is a whole other mess of mistakes but also this is now billy's book and he's not letting loki tear out any more pages. )
We're not looking for cool spells if you're going to desecrate the library like this.
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( and also that other thing. trust. after everything, it's nice to hear loki laugh. )
I'd rather be an old librarian than a book destroyer.
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That's it, you're fired. No more avenging for you.
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