Stark Industries: Thursday

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Lindsay was behind her desk trying to concentrate on her work but kept getting distracted. Every once and a while she'd pick up a phone to call her friends back home or start an e-mail that would start with "Dear Dad" but she'd immediately hang up or close the e-mail before she even started.

So for the most part she was just looking out the window as she tried to make sense of this whole week.

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[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

It'd been one of those weeks that he'd wanted to forget but that didn't stop Loki from making a stop on the way back from where he'd been.

He slipped inside the door and leaned against it. "You're looking a mite glum there, Lindsay."

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"Just got a lot to think about," she replied as she leaned back in her chair. "As you might imagine."

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"This week is fucking fired," he said and smiled. "How are you?"

Concern was so...foreign to him.

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"Fine. Better," she admitted. "I guess it was easy for me to pretend this place was just trying to play a joke on me and you and I were the only ones who didn't buy it."

She gave him a grin and chuckled.

"Little did I know you were also part of the joke."

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"I can't help who I am, Lindsay," he said, shrugging. "And really, I haven't changed because you know who I am. You act like I have."

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"I know, that's not what I'm trying to say," Linz said shaking her head. "I know you're the same. It's just that my perception of you has changed. And you know stuff about me that some of my closest friends don't even know. That make any sense?"

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"It makes sense," he said and nodded. "For what it's worth, I'm not going to tell anyone any of that. I thought you might want to hear that even if you knew it. How do you see me now?"

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"Like a foul-mouth sarcastic guy," she smirked. "With wings."

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"That you can't even see," he added. "But, come on, you should feel fucking special. You were the first one to see them."

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"I'm actually kind of weirdly touched by that," she admitted. "Just out curiosity, I don't suppose any of your angels look like Roma Downey or Della Reese, do they?"

She'd be busting out the Michael Landon references next.

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"You watch too much fucking television," he said. "No, you wouldn't be able to tell an angel if they came up to you and kissed you."

He winked at her. Come on, he had to.

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Linz snorted in laughter at that. "So do all the angels have your potty mouth? Because if so then my Mom was completely wrong about me swearing."

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"Not all of them," he said and shook his head. "Most of us adapt to what we do. Bartleby, the guy I traveled with, he had a mouth like mine. Metatron, the Voice of God, sounds like a stuffy British man. He curses sometimes."

[satedan-soldier.livejournal.com]

Everybody seemed off this week and Ronon was no exception. But talking to Lindsay was usually a good kind of frustrating, so there he was, tossing himself into a chair. "You busy?"

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"Yeah. I'm swamped," she said sarcastically though glad for the distraction. "What's up?"

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"You look it," he replied. "Not much, didn't feel like writing a midterm, so I came to bug you." He had such disdain for tests that couldn't hold death as an option.

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"I like that kind of bugging," she smirked. "Why don't you just pawn off your midterms on your TA's?"

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"Yeah, 'cause I wanna listen to them whine and cry about Klingons killing them with laps," Ronon barked a laugh at that idea. "Nah, I think I'm gonna make 'em all be cheerleaders and be done with it. No planning in that."

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"You're evil," she smirked. "If I was in that class I'd be plotting your demise."

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"What's evil in cheerleading?" Ronon teased. "You not much of a happy bouncer?"

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"Like ohmigod!" Linz said sounding ultra perky. "I just want to bounce and bounce and bounce... and then kill myself. God. Do I even look like I'd want to try that crap?"

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Ronon laughed, "No. Do I look like someone who should lead them?"

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"No, you look like the guy who'd be selling them pot," she teased.

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"Too bad the principal didn't think like you," he groused.

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"Hey, if if it wasn't for me you would have missed out on some great dates with a hot neurotic cop," she joked.