Note: Tuesday update as promised (◕‿◕✿)
"Darcy, why hasn't my lunch arrived yet?" Loki spoke into the intercom, glancing at the table clock. It was well past noon, meaning his scheduled lunch time.
"Uhh...I..." Loki rolled his eyes at his secretary's stuttering. His secretary, Darcy wasn't the most efficient being but she was one of the few people who he could stand. That and the fact that the previous 3 secretaries that he had had only flirted with him, annoying him to a point of exhaustion. He had even had an elderly secretary who reminded him of a strict matron and she had clearly told him, she was above ordering takeaway for him.
"Ms. Lewis, how many times-"
"I am so sorry, sir!" His secretary almost shouted. "But I have a completely valid excuse. You see, I had to attend my gay gypsy cousin's bar mitzvah for the disabled but the problem is he is not really gay nor a gypsy and I think he's been baptised already but he does have ulcers so things got out of hand and I sort of forgot to call them to place your order…" She finished lamely, each word fizzling out.
Loki sighed heavily, pinching the bridge of his nose. He glanced at the clock again. The place he had initially wanted his secretary to order from would have closed their lunch menu by now.
"Well, it's too late now." Loki told her irritated. "They do not take order post 11 am for lunch."
"Don't worry sir! I know this place across the street where they make the best fish and chips! I can just go down there now and get some for you." Loki heard the squeak of a chair and he knew Darcy was up from her seat. "Sir, give me fifteen minutes tops and I will have your lunch! Please don't fire me!"
Loki sighed.
"That's alright, Ms. Lewis. Call 'Deletchu' and just order their spinach gnocchi and for dessert their red berry charlotte. They don't deliver so I expect you to do pick it up. And since it happens to be on the way, get me oat-cranberry bars from Hessed." He said but since he got no response, he asked again in the intercom "Ms. Lewis? Did you hear me? Darcy? Are you there?"
No response.
"That girl!" He muttered to himself and stormed out of his office to find his secretary. The small table where she was expected to be was empty, chair pushed back as if someone had left in a hurry.
He pinched the bridge of his nose again in annoyance but also mild amusement.
Loki turned to return to his office since his secretary had obviously left in a hurry and wouldn't be back for a while. He needed to have a talk with her when she did though.
"Ah! Look who it is!" Suddenly a voice called out. Loki turned around to see one of Thor's useless friends.
"Volstagg." Loki greeted with a mock nod and a genuine sneer.
"Loki." Volstagg greeted back with the same amount of faux politeness but instead of a sneer he was sporting a smug smile. "I hear interesting things about you."
"Well, I am an interesting person." Loki said dully. He really wasn't in the mood for a conversation, especially not with one of his brother's friends. "Now, if you will excuse me, I have important matters to attend to unlike some people"
And, after providing a condescending glance to the man, he pushed down the door handle to his office but what Volstagg said next stopped him in his tracks.
"Tony Stark, huh?"
"What?" Loki asked dumbly.
"Oh don't act dumb." Volstagg said.
"I have no idea what you are talking about." Loki said, innocently, masking the confusion.
"So, you are telling me you are not the flavour of the week of Tony Stark?" Volstagg said with a lecherous grin. "With the amount of women he has slept with, I am surprised he even swings that way but then he does seem the type that sleeps with anything with legs. But seriously, you?! Really, I am surprised he doesn't have better taste than you."
"What rubbish are you sprouting?" Loki growled, face scrunched into a distasteful sneer.
"Word travels, you know."He replied simply.
"Excuse me?" Loki was seriously reprimanding himself for his choice of vocabulary but he was so stumped, he really had no proper response.
"Oh! You and Stark, clearly. When were you going to tell us?" Volsatgg said but since Loki offered no reply, he continued. "Oh c'mon! You don't let strippers near you and it happens to be a coincidence that you and Stark come out of the locked men's room. People have eyes and brains contrary to what you believe; they can put a few things together." Volstagg said innocently but his eyes were devious. And from what I hear, you had a lover's tiff. Were you tired being the cunt? Too sore?"
Volstagg kept talking, not taking note of Loki's clenched fist and heavy breathing. "We always assumed you liked to take it up the ass but now we know and doesn't that make life sweeter…or sore in your case."
"I do not have to listen to you" Loki simply said, trying to calm himself. "And, it would be wise to keep your waggling tongue still."
"Hey! I am just telling you what I heard." Volstagg shrugged innocently, straight faced. "And thought Thor would be interested to know as well." And then a grin split on his face.
Loki wanted to punch the smug bastard but he was above such insolent measures, he told himself
"Interested to know what, my friend?" Thor's booming voice alerted Loki of his oaf of a brother's presence. "And I didn't know you were going to come here, Volstagg." Thor clapped his friend on the back. "I was just on my way to join you for lunch at Lobsters."
"Yes, I was on the way myself but I thought it would be better if we went there together and maybe have Loki join us as well. I hear remarkable things about him." Volstagg said and the way he said Loki's name was with sinister mirth. It was a surprise how Thor couldn't pick up on it. Loki wanted to scoff and the obliviousness of his brother.
"Oh! How thoughtful of you, my friend." Thor said and then turned to Loki with a wide grin. "Join us for lunch, dear brother! And then we can talk to our hearts' content!"
"No. Darcy is getting my lunch." Loki said, using the flimsy excuse of his secretary. "Plus I don't want to talk about matters that aren't my concern."
And with that he entered his office and slammed the door behind his back on Thor and his friend. Loki sat on his chair and rubbed his face in frustration.
"Stark!" He growled inwardly, thinking of every other way to rip the man apart. He was left mussing his murderous plans for only a short moment before the door burst open, Thor barging in.
"Brother! What is this I hear? Tell me it's only a lie!" Thor bellowed, Volstagg smugly behind him.
"Whatever your dear friends have been filling your ears with, let me tell you they have no resemblance to the truth." Loki said with a scathing glare to the men in front of him.
"Hey! I am just telling what I heard." Volstagg said, arms raised in a gesture of surrender. "It was not me who caught you guys doing it in the men's room!"
It may have been relief that surged through to find out Stark was not the one spreading the rumours but that would be stupid. He was still going to have those balls torn apart though.
Thor momentarily glanced at his friend then back at his friend.
"You left early last night, brother. I looked for you but you had left." Thor said trying gauge Loki's reaction. Loki wanted the rip the other's face as well. He had lots of ripping to do.
"I went home because I was tired." Loki said.
"I would be too if someone was banging me up the ass." He heard Volstagg's snide comment and he jumped from his seat and angrily crossed across the desk.
"I dare you say that to my face again." Loki narrowed his eyes, gritting his words out.
"Volstagg is just jesting, Loki." Thor interrupted, hand to either of their chests. He then turned to Volstagg. "No brother of mine would be gay after all." And the way Thor said it was like it was some disease or a derogatory term.
Probably it wasn't Loki's smartest move but he just couldn't stand there witnessing the bigotry of his so called brother.
"And what if I was?" Loki asked calmly, staring Thor right in the eye.
Thor spluttered for a moment but caught himself then let out a bark of laughter.
"Oh! Brother! I know you aren't." Thor said as if it was the funniest thing he had heard. "I mean father would be most displeased and disappointed if you were."
And that was it. The final straw, the straw that broke the camel's back. After living his entire life, trying please someone who had the ideal son and wouldn't look at him as nothing but penny wasted, after living through only the disappointed and displeased looks he managed to get, this was nothing more than another thing for Odin to be disappointed about his worthless 'son', Loki. Something inside Loki snapped. The blank mask of calm was back on and a hysterical laughter excaped him.
"Well, then you can go tell father that his son as, your friend would elegantly put it 'likes to take it up the ass'. Good day to you Thor and Volstagg."
Loki stormed passed them exited his own office, his mind seething with anger but also mild satisfaction at the look on Thor's face. He gritted his teeth as he pressed the elevator button violently.
The seconds of wait felt like hours in the heat of anger. He really didn't know what came over him. One minute he was denying any accusation, all false but the next he had taken them all on. All because Thor was an annoying bitch, bringing their father into the conversation. Oh! He could imagine Odin's face when Thor would tell him. He could imagine the disgust and disappointment, but mostly rage. He hated to ponder over it.
The lift was still coming up but he impatiently pressed the key again and again as if pressing the keys would proportionally speed the lift.
Finally it opened, with a nervous and impatient looking Darcy inside it.
She gave him a huge smile and handed him what he assumed to be fish and chips, in a paper bag, edges stained with oil..
"Sir, your lunch." She said enthusiastically steeping out. He resisted the rage to shake his head at his secretary and without a word he snatched the bag from her hands and stepped inside the elevator.
"An early leave for you today, Ms Lewis." He told her as the elevator door shut.
Now, he had an important call to make.
End Notes: Well, here we go! Stay tuned on Friday for an update. (◡‿◡✿)
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