Loki was bored. The cell had nothing to do, but he could never show it. So he sat on the floor, against the bench, with his legs stretched out, staring at the guard stationed to watch him. He looked to be about twenty three, with stringy red hair and more freckles than Thor had hair products. The guard was staring, shifting uncomfortably, trying not to be bothered by Loki's gaze. He shifted he arm his gun was on, and looked around the room, whistling.
Loki stared at him, his face unchanging. The guard looked back, but when he saw Loki still staring at him, he looked away quickly. Around one-thirty, the guard looked at his watch and walked away without casting Loki a final glance. He was replaced by the girl that had bandaged him up. Today, she had a large stack of books. The glass door opened, and she walked in and set the books on the bench before looking at him.
"You can read right?" She asked.
"Of course" She tossed a book at him
"Here, have you read these?" He looked at t the title
"Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone . No I haven't read these." He said chuckling. "I haven't had much time for reading lately." Christy smiled.
"Well you have all the time in the world now." She said, lying down with her back on the ground and her feet on the bench next to him. She had a book entitled, Gods Goddesses and Monsters. All You Need to know about being a demigod.
"What are you reading?" He asked
"Its' for an English paper I have to write. I am still fifteen, and would like to make it through high school." She said. Loki gently grabbed the book with an expression that said, 'may I?' And read it.
"Who are these people! Zeus, Poseidon, Hades...those aren't the gods! Odin and Thor and I...we are the gods."
"There is more than one realm of mythology." Christy said, snatching the book back. "Now read." She commanded. Loki sighed and opened the book to the first page The Boy Who Lived.
"The Boy Who Lived? What a ridiculous title! This book sounds stupid." Loki said. Christy raised an eyebrow over her book.
"Really? You think it's stupid? Fine. Your loss. Would you rather play a game or something?"
"Why are you doing this?" he asked abruptly.
"Doing what?"
"Coming into my cell, reading offering to play games. It doesn't seem like something Fury would approve of." Loki said. Christy sighed and lay her open book on her chest. She looked tired and burdened.
"Fury doesn't approve." She said. "But I'm bored here, and you are bored here, so I figured we could be bored together!" Loki stared at her for a long time.
"You are on a magical flying ship where you can probably go wherever you want with the worlds best superheroes and you chose to spend your time in a glass box with the bad guy because you are…bored?" He said bluntly. Christy shrugged.
"Do you want to play a game or not? I have Uno, Chess, Candyland…"
"I want you to tell me why you are doing this." Loki said. She sighed,
"Because I want to! Besides, everyone else is too busy trying to stop you, that they wont play Candy land with me…"
"So this is about Candyland?" He raised an eyebrow, Loki knew virtually nothing about teenage girls, but that couldn't be all of it. "Are you avoiding someone?" Christy didn't look at him, but at the wall on the other side. She was still lying on her back.
"Well…Tony Stark is kind of annoying…" She said. Loki shook his head in disbelief. "Do you want to play a game or not?" She asked, swinging her legs around so she was sitting up next to him. Her long auburn hair was all over the place until she smoothed it back into place. Loki shook his head again.
"Fine. I will play this…candy land." Christy smiled and ran out to get the game. Loki stared after her. What was she doing? There was obviously something she was hiding. What fifteen year old girl would want to hang out with him? She didn't mind bossing him around, wouldn't take any of his bossing, and yet she didn't irritate him. He looked at the book again, Maybe I will have to read it later…He thought.
What human could possibly willingly spend time with him? He looked up as Christy re-entered the cell, with a long pink and blue box under her arm.
"This is Candy land. Have you ever played it before?" She asked.
"Um…no, I have never played any of your human games."
"Ok." Christy said opening the box. She pulled out a slab of cardboard and set it on the floor, then pulled out four small gingerbread figurines, and a small deck of cards. "These are the pieces. I am blue. What color do you want?" She held out her hand with a yellow person, a red person, and a green person.
"Green…" Loki said. Christy put both the Green and Blue pieces on the first space on the board.
"Ok. I will go first. I am going to draw from the deck….two purples." She moved her man past two purple spaces. "Now it's your turn."
Loki pulled a single yellow card. And Christy told him to move his man one yellow space. "This game is easy…" Loki said.
"That's what you think! Just wait until you get stuck in the Licorice trap!"
"How do you know I will get stuck in the trap?" Loki asked.
"Because everyone gets stuck in the trap!" She said mischievously taking her turn.
"Everyone? But how many Norse gods have you played against?" He said, Loki drew a card and it was the Princess Ice Cream Cone that let him move to almost the end of the board.
"Darn it!" Christy exclaimed. "You got that one!"
"Does that mean I will win?" He asked hopefully.
"Never! I will never admit defeat!"
"Oh? Just give me three more turns!" He said laughing. Full on laughing, Loki stopped half way through. Since when did Loki of Asguard laugh? He wasn't mocking anyone, he wasn't being evil, he was actually having fun. Loki shook his head.
"What's wrong?" Christy asked. He drew a card, and let out a groan.
"I'll tell you what's wrong! I have to go to the very beginning!" He said, tossing the card on the board. Christy began to laugh, and soon he was smiling again.
"See, this is what normal people do in their free time" She said.
"I wouldn't know anything about normal."
"Well what did you do when you were growing up?" Christy asked. Loki looked sad for a moment.
"We….we played different games. Thor and the Warrior Sif, before she was the warrior, were always fighting, and we would come up with competitions to see…who was better at a certain thing." He said, nostalgia in his voice. Loki shook his head. Why on earth was he telling a mortal that? She didn't need to know. Christy drew another card.
"Ho! Look at that! I am only five spaces away from Candy land! And being crowned Ruler of all the sweets in the world!" Christy said, holding the card triumphantly.
"Oh ho ho…Loki of Asguard does not give up the thrown of candy easily!" He said drawing. Christy drew another card, and marched her man to the throne.
"What was that? Giving up so easily?" She asked. Loki sighed.
"I suppose the only choice I have is to declare war!" He said, holding his man up. Christy picked hers up and they began to ram them into each other as if they were fighting. Finally Christy dropped her man.
"Fine! I surrender!" She said sadly. Loki looked sad as well, and put his man next to hers.
"Maybe they can co-rule Candy Land." He said. Christy smiled.
"Maybe….or maybe my man will assassinate yours by choking him with Licorice!" She said. Loki pretended his man was choking and tossed the 'dead' man behind him.
"Bwahahaha! Candy Land is mine!" Christy's man did the happy dance. Buzz buzz…buzz buzz.Both of them jumped as there was a vibrating on the floor. Looking around Christy saw that her cell phone had fallen out of her pocket, and was now lying on the floor. She looked at the caller ID, sighed, and answered.
"Hello…..yes…um no…I am on the top deck…..oh….ok…..I'll be right there." She hung up, then turned to Loki. "I have to go, My dad needs me for something." She sighed and together they packed up the game. They stood up and he handed her the box.
"I think…I haven't had that much fun in years." He said quietly. Christy smiled.
"Me either." She said, before walking away.
Loki sighed, watching her leave, the boredom already beginning to sink in. Curiousiyt got the better of him and he picked up the first book.
