Author's Note: I was feeling pretty crappy so I wrote this to cheer myself up, lol. I hope it can do the same for you. x)
He materializes in front of her as she was walking through an alley, a shortcut to the abandoned dealership.
She scans his face momentarily and walks around him, giving the god a back hand wave farewell. "G'bye!"
"Darcy." She turns around to look at him.
"Loki," she says in a sardonic tone, "I'm in a hurry." He raises his nose at her.
Resting his weight on his heels, he sighs, studying those blue eyes from behind those spectacles. It annoyed him how much they hid her face.
"You forget the sort of man I am."
"You're, like, some sideshow magician, am I right?"
He blinks at her attempt at a joke. "Charming."
Loki mused at the young woman, his attention has been baited and hooked.
"I don't understand why you hang around here, don't you have some larger city to terrorize? Go become Godzilla or somethi-," Darcy just realized what she had said and covered her mouth instantly.
"Well, there's an idea," he drones, gleam in his eyes.
And just before Loki could vanish into thin air, she had thrown herself at him, wrapping her arms around his neck, eyes tight shut.
"I-I was just joking! Please don't. Oh my god, if I'm the reason Japan gets visited by another giant dinosaur I'll never forgive myself."
He quickly wraps his arms around her waist, carrying her easily. He tries to ignore her chest so conveniently pressed against him, internally cursing the thickness of his breastplate.
"Why relinquish such an excellent idea?" Smiling widely, he lessens the distance between them, "I wouldn't."
She makes a face and wiggles out of his hold, briefly forgetting how tall he was and almost spoke to his clavicle. "Yes, you would, and you will."
The next day, Darcy opens up her email, and before checking her inbox, large capital lettering caught her attention; JAPAN CLAIMS GIANT LIZARD LIKE CREATURE CAUSED MASSIVE CITY DAMAGE