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Prompt Post 3

Jul 08, 2011 15:43

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Loki/Thor, Wrong Number anonymous July 8 2011, 07:48:51 UTC

Loki is (somehow) mortally injured by the latest Supernatural Monster of the Day, and (for some reason) decides to call 911 instead of just dealing with it himself.

...Except he has several SHIELD members on speed dial! THOR TO THE RESCUE.

Bonus points if it's Tony Stark he calls on accident.

Re: Loki/Thor, Wrong Number anonymous July 28 2011, 19:01:50 UTC

Yes please! I hope he accidentally calls Tony, that way the billionaire has some blackmail on him, at least until Loki digs up some dirt on him. :P

Telephone 1/17 anonymous August 12 2011, 05:58:53 UTC

(First lj post, so sorry if I screw anything up! Also, Loki does phone the (completely) wrong person, but it isn’t Tony. My apologies in advance for the inexplicable abundance of Cap in this… and the, y’know… oddness… also, it's way longer than I expected...)

TelephoneSteve stares at the small, smooth, deep blue 'phone' which Tony's secretary had given him a month ago. It’s ringing. Steve has no idea who decided that his phone should produce a tinny, constantly repeating version of the chorus to 'Star Spangled Man', but it wasn't him. He listens to the song loop over and then over again as he mentally goes through the instructions to activate the thing. It isn't as simple as the Avengers communicators, which were designed with both himself and Thor in mind ( ... )

Re: Telephone 2/17 anonymous August 12 2011, 06:01:39 UTC

“Uh…” Steve isn’t really sure how to phrase his issue in the form of a message. He clears his throat, and regroups after only a beat of hesitation. “I just got a phone call from Loki.”

“…Huh.“Well, I’m pretty sure it’s Loki, anyway ( ... )

Re: Telephone 2/17 anonymous August 12 2011, 06:02:54 UTC

He can almost hear Tony giving him a skeptical look from the other end. “Okay, Cap. Quick question. If he’s not saying anything, how do you know it’s him?” he asks. “Don’t tell me he’s in your speed dial ( ... )

Re: Telephone 4/17 (above should have been 3, whoops) anonymous August 12 2011, 06:03:57 UTC

“My brother has spoken to you through the telephonic?” Thor booms. “Truly, his aptitude for Midgardian technology is impressive! Though I can only speculate as to how he obtained your specific calling number. What game is he playing now ( ... )

Re: Telephone 5/17 anonymous August 12 2011, 06:04:51 UTC

Steve doesn’t forget about the ‘Loki’s Emergency Distress Call’ incident, exactly, but Thor disappears without comment for three weeks shortly after it happens, and as he and Loki seem to be the only one who knows more than Steve himself does about what went on, the whole thing just gets shelved. A lot can happen in three weeks, Steve has found. Between dealing with the giant ants trying to take over Manhattan, having to fly to Latveria to bodyguard a U.S. ambassador (who was almost assassinated anyway), and attending a press conference where Tony said ‘no comment’ a lot and Steve didn’t say much at all (but did get to watch, afterwards, as a bunch of newscasters debated whether or not he was a clone of himself), the phone call is reduced to a mere blip on the list of oddities that make up his day-to-day life. So he’s put it from his mind by the time Thor makes his reappearance by landing on the roof of the Avengers’ mansion, and thumping on heavy boots down into the informal dining room ( ... )

Re: Telephone 5/17 anonymous August 12 2011, 06:05:30 UTC

Steve’s mouth is operating on autopilot, so he hears himself say “La Rosa?”, because he remembers that fight, and the gigantic etched golden lettering (he’d almost got thrown through it, after all) and the name pops into his head before he can think to say something more relevant. Like ‘why are you phoning me ( ... )

Re: Telephone 7/17 (and above should have been 6... -_-;) anonymous August 12 2011, 06:06:27 UTC

Steve gives serious consideration to throwing his portable (cellular, he reminds himself, it’s called a cell phone, except that he’s always worried he’s going to mix that up with ‘cellophane’ and come out sounding like an idiot) phone into the trash. But he doesn’t. Partly because it does serve an important function, and partly because he’s sure something like that’s expensive, and it was a gift, after all. So instead he just goes back inside to finish watching the movie, and when it’s done he pulls Tony and Clint aside and tells them that he got a phone call, and Loki says that Thor’s birthday is next month.

Clint snorts. “Alright, this whole ‘phone buddies’ thing you’ve got going on with him is weird,” he asserts ( ... )

Re: Telephone 8/17 anonymous August 12 2011, 06:07:26 UTC

Some time after the sixth phone call (“Tell me, has the mortal capacity for musical innovation degraded over time, or has it always been this bad?”), the fourth text message (“l8test prnk on news, turn 2 CNN! :D”), and the second picture (a close-up of Loki’s new boots), Steve almost crashes into Thor when he goes to leave his room in the morning. The god of thunder is standing right outside his doorway. He’s… well, Thor doesn’t fidget. But if he did, then that’s what he would be doing. Somehow he manages to project an air of fidgeting, even with his arms folded and his expression tightened into something difficult to read ( ... )

Re: Telephone 9/17 anonymous August 12 2011, 06:08:06 UTC

After that exceedingly stilted conversation, things go from ‘peculiar’ to ‘tiresome, sometimes entertaining, but most just plain sad’ as Steve finds himself in the middle of a situation he hasn’t been in since grade school, when Michael McConner and Bucky had stopped speaking to one another, and had forced Steve to pass messages between them before and after class instead. Only whereas that had just been a lot of ‘tell Bucky I said he has a fat head’ and ‘tell Michael I’d rather have a fat head than his ugly face’ type comments, this also features a lot more ‘remind Loki that the summer weather always taxes him more than he expects; he shall be forced to curtail his negative impulses’, and ‘tell Thor to mind his own business, and also that if he insists on traipsing about the city, he should at least have the common sense to take his hammer with him - I wouldn’t want him to die before I can kill him’ sentiments. Steve finds himself wondering when he got caught in the middle of… whatever, exactly, is going on ( ... )

Re: Telephone 10/17 anonymous August 12 2011, 06:09:00 UTC

Steve’s day is a busy one, and so when it’s close enough to being finished for him to finally take a break, he flops down onto his bed with little ceremony and almost instantly falls into a light doze.

That’s when he hears the ominous sound of Star Spangled Man emanating from his desk.

Again.

He stares at the phone for one long, bewildered moment, before he lets out a heavy breath. Right. It would be too much to hope that Thor would actually just keep the thing, as Steve had intended, and use it to converse with Loki himself rather than through a proxy. He lets it jangle until he can’t take it anymore, and then the forces himself up, gives in, and answers.

“Why did you leave your phone next to a mechanized motor last night?” Loki asks. “That did nothing for my headache. Actually, I think it may have made it worse. Oh. Wait, no, that’s actually quite diabolical of you. Hmm. I wouldn’t have pegged you as the type - ah, well. Perhaps I’m being a good influence ( ... )

Re: Telephone 11/17 anonymous August 12 2011, 06:09:56 UTC

“Do you have any idea how many times I’ve been pregnant?” Loki asks him one evening, after the Avengers have just finished dealing with a group of formless black shadow monsters which Dr. Strange had informed them were below his skill level and not worth his considerably valuable time, but still probably ought to be dealt with before they disemboweled anyone ( ... )

Re: Telephone 12/17 anonymous August 12 2011, 06:10:42 UTC

Thor stops giving Steve messages to pass along to Loki. At first it takes him a while to notice. He does pick up on Thor’s bad mood, but after a while he assumes it’s something he’s done. Maybe some staple of Asgardian etiquette that he’s unknowingly violated, or some such. He tries to engage Thor in conversations, but Thor always abruptly ends them, and when he does talk to Steve his tone is clipped and to-the-point. It’s only because he takes to stomping dramatically out of the room whenever Steve’s phone makes a sound (whether it’s Loki calling or not) that Steve finally puts two and two together. Mostly. He decides to corner Thor about it while he’s in the training room, demolishing some of Tony’s new targeting bots with extreme prejudice ( ... )

Re: Telephone 13/17 anonymous August 12 2011, 06:11:14 UTC

That seems to hit a note, as Thor blinks, and almost takes a step back, like Steve has hit him again. He wonders why. But he doesn’t see much point in bombarding the other man with too many questions all at once, so instead of asking he just waits, and takes the opportunity to sink onto one of the benches in the corner of the room. It’s a sturdy seat, designed to take the weight of a suit of mechanical armour, three heavy men, and a giant hammer. All at once, if need be. So it barely even wobbles when, a moment later, Thor heavily does the same ( ... )

Re: Telephone 14/17 anonymous August 12 2011, 06:11:50 UTC

Steve pauses. Then he shrugs. “Well. That’s out of your hands, I guess,” he says. “But it’s up to you whether or not you keep trying.”

As promised, Steve hits the showers, and in the end he doesn’t see Thor again until the next day. When he does Thor wordlessly gives him back his phone. Steve decides not to pry, and instead nods, and pockets it, and then waits. And waits. And time passes, his life doesn’t really slow down any, but he doesn’t get anymore phone calls from Loki, either. No more text messages. No more photos. He isn’t sure if that’s a good sign or a bad one. Oddly, he finds, he almost misses the conversation. Sure, it had been weird. But somewhere between the first injured phone call and the photos of Loki’s stylistic choices, it had also become consistent. And maybe in some way it had been kind of nice to have someone to just randomly talk to ( ... )

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