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Post by Loki Odinsson on Mar 15, 2018 8:18:37 GMT -5
"Don't stress it," he said drily. "I had a good time. But you won't get it in writing."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Mar 15, 2018 8:20:34 GMT -5
“Ah,” said Adrian. “Well, that’s better, then. I also found it more or less adequate for the time being.”
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Mar 15, 2018 8:21:36 GMT -5
"Yeah, I have a vivid memory," he said in a flat tone of voice, staring him down intently.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Mar 15, 2018 8:24:41 GMT -5
“Loki,” said Adrian, with a truly appalling degree of regained poise and energy, “I understand you’re disappointed, but I’m something of a public figure. I can’t exactly go back there physically devastated to the extent either of us want without raising unwanted questions.”
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Mar 15, 2018 8:25:37 GMT -5
Loki tilted his head to the side. "You want it."
He thought he was as composed as Adrian was, responding in kind. He was wrong.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Mar 15, 2018 8:27:53 GMT -5
“Well,” said Adrian, “yes. But we don’t often get what we want, for whatever reason.”
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Mar 15, 2018 8:29:26 GMT -5
Loki hopped to his feet.
"I've tried to tell myself that before, but then I tend to get what I want anyway and regret it."
He ruffled Adrian's hair fondly enough as he went past him, seemingly renewed. He was a regular Energizer bunny.
"What a pity I've got to ditch you, don't you think?"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Mar 15, 2018 8:37:13 GMT -5
Adrian watched him pass and then instinctively went to the mirror to both check his hair for further surprises and replace the hat.
“Well, at this rate I can’t see us trying this again.”
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Mar 15, 2018 8:38:19 GMT -5
"Well, before tonight I couldn't see us trying this," said Loki, peering behind him in the mirror and checking his own reflection. Teja would have called it preening.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Mar 15, 2018 8:41:01 GMT -5
“And I’m getting the haircut, Loki,” Adrian added. He began by looking at him in the mirror, but as he spoke he turned to look at him in real life, too.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Mar 15, 2018 8:41:45 GMT -5
"I'll break the news to my wife," he said with a wide grin.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Mar 15, 2018 8:43:33 GMT -5
“We could always ask her, after the wash this was,” Adrian said as he went to go straighten the bedsheets. “I don’t think this gave her anything to be jealous of.”
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Mar 15, 2018 8:44:57 GMT -5
"Didn't like it?" Loki asked, following him a little too closely to seem casual, but not coming close enough to be intimate.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Mar 15, 2018 8:47:21 GMT -5
“I don’t think it’s necessarily proper to frame this in terms of whether or not I liked anything. Did you, though? That’s rather more important.”
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Mar 15, 2018 8:47:49 GMT -5
"Oh yeah."
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