Park, Wednesday Morning

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It was way too fucking early to be awake but he was awake anyway. And he sure as hell wasn't going to spend all this unfortunate wakefulness staring up at the ceiling in his apartment.

He was getting out of that box even if it meant people stopped, waved and chatted with him about today's weather. Whatever, he could always try and piss them off. He had a knack for that and he hadn't met anyone here yet that made it not fun.

So, on the week anniversary of his arrival, he was back in the park, sprawled on one of the benches and staring idly at the sky.

"You're laughing your fucking head off, aren't you?" he asked skyward. "Yeah, laugh it up. You might be the Voice of God but you're still a fucking prick."

Metatron didn't answer. Of course.

"Fuck you," Loki muttered before turning his attention back to the park at large.

[Open, of course! I didn't forget to mention that, shhh]

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After handwavily getting coffee from the Perk, Tony had decided maybe some fresh air would do him some good. He'd been cooped up in the lab since getting back from New Zealand, after all.

...it was chilly and he missed California already.

But there was an odd man swearing at things that weren't there. So, it was like being in New York. He nicely put a dollar on the bench.

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Loki looked down at the dollar and then back up at the giver of the dollar.

"If you're expecting a song and a dance, you've come to the wrong fucking place," he said dryly.

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"Well, mostly I'm just hoping you don't start ranting about the end of the world and aglets," Tony replied dryly.

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Loki waved a hand dismissively. "That rant's better over liquor with a stripper on the stage, shoving her rack in my face. But I'm taking your money anyway. Your fault for giving it to me."

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"Why would you rant about the end of the world around strippers?"

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"Scares them," he said and grinned. "Getting scared means the shakes, shaking means jiggling and if you don't love jiggling breasts, then you've got more problems than I can solve."

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"Weird, I know. I don't get my jollies from scaring strippers," Tony replied. "Whatever could be wrong with me."

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"They'll get over it," Loki said and rolled his eyes. "Oh dear me, I scared a fucking stripper, I'm sure I'm going to Hell. Be still my pure and angelic heart. Oh dear!"

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"...riiight." Tony shook his head and starting moving away from the crazy guy.

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"What do you get your jollies from?" Loki called after him, unable to resist. He was curious now. If not stripper with jiggling breasts, then what?

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"Strippers work just fine," Tony said, looking back at him. "But I've never had to scare them to get any jiggling."

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"Mmm." Well, yeah, that sort of made sense but he liked his rants. "What, you ask them nicely?"

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"I prefer to think of it as my charm that gets them to, but having lots of money certainly doesn't hurt either," Tony replied.

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"I didn't know the Voice of the-- God," he said, correcting from his own world's particular spin on monotheism, "had a particular personality.

"Or are you insulting the whole thing?"

He'd decided to walk to work this morning and to do it through the park. And he listened to most things, even when he probably shouldn't. Thankfully, he didn't judge; he just sounded curious.

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"The Voice of God's a fucking prick," he said, turning his attention to the new arrival. "I make it a point to tell him everyday or so. And yeah, he's got a personality. He's a smug sonofabitch."

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"I suppose it's easy to be smug, in such a position," he said, thinking of some of the Unionist priests. He didn't have it in him to be religious, had enough trouble believing in what was around him let alone what might be, but he knew a kick to the rump or two as well as anyone else did and he'd been chased out of more than one church just trying to listen.

After that, he hadn't had much love for such places.

"Do you think he's listening?"

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"Metatron?" Loki sent a look back up to the sky. "Probably. I think he gets off at looking down and laughing his ass off at me. Bastard never did like me."

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Liir looked up for a moment before glancing at Loki again.

"And why would he laugh at you?"

No, he really had no idea.

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"Because he's a prick," Loki said again, offering no real explanation. "And pricks laugh at people for their own benefit."

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That's fine. He doesn't want to talk about it. Probably for the best, really. He didn't want to pry.

"I've noticed that much at least.

"I don't suppose someone like that would have much chance of getting a comeuppance. Which might be why he's, er,"

It took a moment.

"Well, a 'dick'."

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"A big fucking dick," Loki agreed easily. "Where'd you come from, anyway? I can never tell who's a what in this place. It's crawling with kids but then an adult pops up to confuse me."

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"The school," he said as he pointed in the right direction.

"Flew here and then started walking. It's a bit cold for the broom today."

Beat.

"Unless you mean in the more, er, meaningful sense to which I'd say Oz, which isn't here. Though I am a student."

Liir: master of awkwardness. He could sell motivational videos on this stuff.

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"Yeah, I wasn't asking about your life story," Loki said, frowning. "But, thanks for the info. Should I ever need to go to...Oz, I'll know who to come find if I'm feeling fatalistic enough to seek out kids. And did you say a fucking broom? You ride on a broom?"

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That got a very flat look. That said, he knew there were enough oddities that he might be one more to a new person and so instead of getting annoyed, he merely raised an eyebrow and tilted his head.

"Yes, I do. Is that some sort of problem?"

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"Did I say that?" Loki asked, tilting his head at the kid. "Did you hear the words 'that's a problem' come from my mouth? Implications and assumptions will get you killed, Junior."