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Gen - Steve, Thor - "There's only one God"

[anonymous]

Steve goes to church. Out of curiosity, Thor tags along. Friendship with a side of theology.

Fill: A God in the Pew (3b/4)

[hermione_vader]

"If you look around our beautiful sanctuary here today," the Cardinal began, "you can see we are rebuilding. The pipes need work, the windows need restoration, and the mortar needs a bit of cleaning up. And I happen to know that one member of the congregation has a fantastic hammer, and if he'd like to let us borrow it, he should speak to me after Mass today

Fill: A God in the Pew (3c/4)

[hermione_vader]

The congregation applauded again, and this time, Thor felt those inklings of pride well up bit by bit. He managed a grin and a wave

Re: Fill: A God in the Pew (3c/4)

[bookwrm17]

OP de-anonning to say that this is brilliant and I love you forever for including Cardinal Dolan.

Re: Fill: A God in the Pew (3c/4)

[hermione_vader]

Awesome! I'm glad your enjoying this. It's been an absolute blast to fill this (I finally get to put my Catholic upbringing to good use).

I love you forever for including Cardinal Dolan.

Haha! Cool! I looked up a couple of his homilies to get his speech patterns down and he just seemed so darn awesome, as far as Cardinals go.

Fill: A God in the Pew (4a/4)

[hermione_vader]

Once the lower-ranked priests completed the petitions, music emanated from the pipe organ again and the congregation's voices swelled over the organ's odd tones in a rather pleasing manner. Thor supposed that the good voices drowned out the bad: the elderly woman sitting behind him was impossibly tone deaf, but Mary Claire and her mother sang very sweetly, and even the twins' small voices were rather pleasant. The other people around carried the tune fairly well, too.

While Thor listened to the music, a small group of middle-aged and elderly men and one elderly woman walked up the aisle from the front holding out baskets attached to poles into the pews. People dropped dollar bills and envelopes into the baskets.

Such an act in this place confused Thor. "They allow begging in here

Fill: A God in the Pew (4b/4)

[hermione_vader]

"Do you engage in cannibalism at these ceremonies?" Thor blurted out. The old lady told him to "sssshhh" again

Fill: A God in the Pew (4c/4)

[hermione_vader]

Then they had to sing about the Lamb of God (Thor guessed this meant Jesus, an innocent man) and the Cardinal and the priests prepared the wine and hosts (Thor refused to think "body and blood"---why did this Catholic Church insist on being morbid?). They had to kneel yet again, recite a very short prayer, and then wait for the Communion line to get as far back as their pew. After several minutes, it did, and Thor filed into the line

Fill: A God in the Pew (4d/4)

[hermione_vader]

Just when Thor completed his request, everyone sat back on the benches and put the kneelers up with a thunderous THWUMP. Then they stood up (for the last time, Thor supposed), and the Cardinal said the closing prayer, followed by a few announcements (something about a 'concert series', among other things). The pipe organ played a most rousing hymn as the Cardinal and the priests and altar-boys processed back out. Thor read and sang along with this one, but he was slightly disappointed that they did not sing all of the verses, just the first two.

As the congregation flooded towards the main aisle, people crowded around Thor and Steve.

"Captain America! I LOVE YOU!" "Captain! Over here, Captain!" "What happened to you, Captain America? Is that iceberg story true

Fill: A God in the Pew (4e/4)

[hermione_vader]

Thor then wandered over towards the Cardinal and waited until he had finished speaking to an elderly couple before approaching him

Re: Fill: A God in the Pew (4e/4)

[queenofspades89]

So this is the most amazing thing ever! Thank you for writing it!!!

Re: Fill: A God in the Pew (4e/4)

[hermione_vader]

Thank you! And you're welcome---it was so much fun to write.

Re: Fill: A God in the Pew (4e/4)

[downbythebay_4]

Pretty awesome!

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[hermione_vader]

Thank you!

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[bookwrm17]

Excellent all the way through. You captured Cardinal Dolan perfectly, and Thor's prayer for Loki was beautiful.

Re: Fill: A God in the Pew (4e/4)

[hermione_vader]

You're welcome again. This was so much fun. I'm glad it was all IC for you.