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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 24, 2014 23:32:28 GMT -5
He couldn't help but look a little pleased by this. Although Asgard prided itself on its healers, infection was regarded as a bit of a badge of honor, at least unless it went systemic and had to be dealt with lest the patient linger in misery. When the stitches sealing his mouth had been cut and carefully extracted, there had always been the lingering horror in the back of his mind that his lips wouldn't heal properly, and he'd be left with some kind of twisted, puffy maw forever. Fortunately, by the time he'd reached manhood, they had resolved themselves into light, scarcely noticeable notches. That had always been his one stroke of luck, Loki considered. He didn't scar much, and he could instantly heal nearly everything that could happen to his body. He absently pressed his tongue to the sore smooth inside of his cheek. There was a faint inner line, like a crease, where the repo man had slashed his face open, but that was all. Nothing had shown on the outside at all when he was rinsing the blood from his face. He had healed it in time, and soon enough the inner crease would heal too.
"Excellent," said Loki. He shut his eyes, as though she were merely massaging him or something like that.
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Post by Teja on Apr 24, 2014 23:35:27 GMT -5
She patted away excess and smoothed his hair back without meaning to.
"There," she said, turning away to wash her hands and apply lotion to them.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 24, 2014 23:47:41 GMT -5
It felt better than he wanted to admit, having her worrying about him again. Even if he no longer felt like he needed her constant fussing to keep a grip on himself and his... well, everything. If he were honest with himself, that made it all the sweeter.
Loki stood and crossed his arms over her front as she was finishing applying her lotion, leaning down to give the tip of her ear a tender little kiss.
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Post by Teja on Apr 24, 2014 23:54:26 GMT -5
Oh, well.
She leaned back against his form contentedly.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 25, 2014 0:03:29 GMT -5
He nearly told her that he'd wanted to die only a few hours earlier, but everything felt perfect now. He knew exactly where he was, and who he was, and if the future was uncertain- well, so was everyone else's, wasn't it?
"It... it felt good," he murmured. "Saving her..."
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Post by Teja on Apr 25, 2014 0:08:21 GMT -5
She turned in his arms to hold and kiss him.
"Tonight you are truly the god I worshiped," she said in a murmur against his cheek.
Way to make everything about her.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 25, 2014 0:23:23 GMT -5
"Everything that has happened-"
He kissed her.
"All of it, today- I feel as though everything finally makes sense-"
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Post by Teja on Apr 25, 2014 0:41:54 GMT -5
She stiffened in his arms.
"How so?" she allowed.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 25, 2014 0:45:53 GMT -5
"...I'm sorry that I lied to you about our previous association," he said softly. "I scarcely wanted to admit it to myself."
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Post by Teja on Apr 25, 2014 0:48:17 GMT -5
"So now you're out of the closet and you feel better?" she asked warily.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 25, 2014 0:49:48 GMT -5
"To be fair, that implies earlier recognition," he said delicately.
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Post by Teja on Apr 25, 2014 0:54:00 GMT -5
"Okay, so you're bisexual now and is that it? What can I expect now?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 25, 2014 0:58:01 GMT -5
He frowned a little and looked around as though expecting something to materialize and diffuse the tension.
"...I also killed a repo man, darling."
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Post by Teja on Apr 25, 2014 0:59:43 GMT -5
"That one has no impact on us," she explained patiently, as though waiting for him to catch up.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Apr 25, 2014 1:03:35 GMT -5
"No- no, you see, but it does-"
He brought himself around to face her, hands on her shoulders.
"I felt like- like we could have done it, you and I."
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