"You know me...I can't resist a good prank"
There was one thing in her entire existence that Robin liked just as much as playing pranks, if not more and it was food. Robin was a self proclaimed foodie as she very much enjoyed food, as a Trickster she was naturally predisposed to sweet things, Robin had a very sweet tooth like most tricksters and gorged on sweets more than any person should be allowed to. It was all part of being who she was but despite her innate sweet tooth, she enjoyed regular food especially a good steak. Humans as silly and naïve as they could be, someone them were very good with food such as braised short ribs along with honey glazed duck. Robin loved mischief and mayhem but lord did she love some good cooked food, despite loving her life, if she were to ever be human Robin would want to be a chef and she wouldn't be a mediocre one, she would be a brilliant one who cooked fine cuisine. Not that Robin had given it much thought to it. Sitting in a practically dead end diner in the middle of nowhere, Robin was in the furthest booth away from the door eating what was perhaps her six bowl of ice-cream, Robin couldn't exactly recall as she didn't to keep track of how much she ate everyday. Picking up the maple syrup to her right, Robin practically smothered her ice-cream with enough syrup to rot a grown man's teeth before placing the syrup down and picking up some sugar and sprinkling it on to the ice cream. Once she was satisfied Robin stuck her spoon in and began eating and the ice-cream was perfection, it tasted like heaven and Robin couldn't help but let out a content sigh, As Robin happily ate, she didn't notice the man with dark brown hair and light brown eyes approach her until it was too late.
"You know all that sugar is going to kill you."
"Honey, it's going to take a lot more to kill someone like me and I think you know that." Robin replied with a bright eyed grin as she looked up at her old and only friend, happy to see a friendly and welcoming face. A thousand years they had been acquainted with each other and they hadn't managed to kill each other yet. Although Robin had come pretty close to strangling him after the whole Puck incident started. "Hello Loki."
"Well if it isn't the self proclaimed Trickster Queen, it's good to see you again too Robin." Loki replied with a small smirk as he slid into the booth on the bench opposite Robin, who just rolled her eyes in amusement. The two of them tended to get into a pissing match each time they met over who was the better trickster, it was a argument that never seemed to end, Robin wasn't sure how long exactly the argument had been going on for. She reckoned it had been going on and off for the last 200 years.
"Self proclaimed for a reason or do you not remember the whole Helen of Troy thing that resulted in the Trojan war? Or if you want something more recent, like that little thing I did not too long ago… That financial crisis thing. What are they calling it? The Great Recession. Let's not forget the Bill Clinton thing Trickster." Robin quipped with a cat that ate the canary kind of grin because she knew Loki could not dispute some of the tricks that she had pulled off. Everyone knew about the Clinton thing, humans were still talking about it, little did they that a Trickster was behind it. Robin wasn't sure whether or not anyone of her kind had attempted to pull a trick on a sitting president. Regardless it had been some of Robin's finest work.
"Nice hair, kind of makes you look like a smurf…" Loki stated as he picked up a spoon and attempted to take a spoonful of Robin's ice-cream, but seeing this coming Robin smacked Loki's hand away from her ice-cream. Bloody trickster thought he could help himself to her food!
"Get your own!"
"Sorry! I forgot how ornery you are about sharing your food." Loki stated and Robin just grunted in response as Loki was one to talk, he was just as uptight about food as she was. It was a pot calling the kettle black kind of situation. Funny nonetheless. "So how's it going with those brothers? They still want me dead?"
"Damn right they still want you dead Loki, you've really pissed them off royally and then some. You were right, I left enough clues to put the Winchester's right on my trail and they found me and they asked for my flute just like you predicted Loki. I still can't believe that they had the balls to ask me for it… Which brings me to ask you, just where the hell did you get the flute?" Robin questioned after giving Loki the answers he wanted. Not long after his misadventures with the Winchester's he had come to Robin and asked for a favor from her. Loki told Robin that the Winchester's would likely be trying to find him and she need to get their attention and keep a close eye on her, by whatever means necessary.
"You didn't give it to them, did you…" Loki asked and Robin rolled her eyes as she took a huge spoonful on ice-cream.
"Do I look that stupid? Wait don't answer that… Of course I didn't give it to them. But seriously Lo are you ever going to tell me where the flute came from? Not that I'm not grateful for it but I would like to know where this thing came from and how the hell you got your hands on it." Robin questioned as a millennium ago, not too long after Robin had met Loki, he had gifted her with the flute. There was no real reason for it, he just gave it to her and it had been in Robin's possession ever since and she was real curious about it. She wanted to know how someone like Loki, managed to get his hand on a magical item such as this one and why he would give it to her.
"Would ya stop calling me Lo? Jeez Robin your making me sound like of your girlfriend's. If anyone heard you calling me that my reputation would certainly go down the drain."
"Oh I will Lo, I'll stop calling you that once you go back in time and remedy the whole Puck situation, so until people stop calling me Puck and think I'm a man, I guess your stuck with Lo." Robin sarcastic replied noting that Loki had yet again avoided the question about the flute and Robin decided not to bother pushing the subject. Loki never gave into her questions and Robin doubted her ever would so the flute would forever remain a mystery.
"It was a simple prank Robin! Never did I think that it would escalate that far and people would mistake you for a dude and refer to you as Puck for the next thousand years and so on. If I could fix it I would…" Loki began and Robin couldn't help but scoff in amusement as that was an absolute lie.
"Don't try and kid a kidder Loki, I am not some idiot who you can fool. I'm a fellow trickster and I'm also your friend. If you had the chance you wouldn't go back and change anything because the Puck thing has done wonders for your reputation. I mean c'mon, you're the Trickster, you played a trick on me which has made me a complete mockery and if I was normal I would be mad. But I can't be too much as I'm the Trickster Queen and I would have done the exact same thing. A trickster playing a trick on a fellow trickster? Very impressive. Although Dean Winchester won't stop calling me Puck and it's starting to get on my last nerves. Each time he calls me it I have to shove candy bars down my throat to stop me from strangling the boy…" Robin noted in a disgruntled manner.
"I get it Robin, your rather touchy about the Puck thing but let's get back on track shall we? So how is it going with the Winchester's?" Loki questioned moving things along and Robin couldn't help but stick out her tongue at her friend.
"Now you are definitely not have any of my ice-cream but whatever, things are going okay. After they asked me about the flute we talked for a little while longer before I took off, I told them I would find them in good time. Figured that would buy you sometime before the Winchester's stepped up hunting your ass down Lo. But they caught up with me in Salem and I thought it was about you, however I was wrong. They wanted my help in trying to find a way to break the deal Dean made with that crossroad demon to bring Sam back from the dead. Well Sam wants my help whereas Grumpy Dean doesn't want my help. But he hasn't kicked up a real big tantrum so they must really be desperate and Dean he did seem pretty interested in the information I brought them about Lillith–" Robin began in a weary manner as she ate with her mouth full, not caring for manners in the slightest given her present company.
"I hear she's a real bitch." Loki interrupted and Robin nodded her head in agreement as she swallowed a mouthful.
"Ditto."
"So… How'd you managed to dig up anything on Lillith?" Loki questioned and Robin cheerfully smiled. It had taken a lot of asking around to get even a tidbit of information on Lillith, people seemed to be scared the hell out of her and it seemed like for good reason given what Robin had heard about the apparently infamously feared demon. A small part of Robin felt a bit weird getting involved in this as demons were really not her thing, sure she had dealings with other supernatural creatures but not too much as they weren't really her thing so going around digging for information about some feared demon made Robin feel a little uneasy. She was a trickster, not a hunter. This stuff wasn't in her job description.
"I know people, as hard as this may be for you to believe your not the person I know or interact with Lo. I have acquaintances with other things, creatures, people. Take your pick. But I gave the information to the Winchester's and it seemed to do a bit of good. Sam trusts me, but Dean on the other hand? He's tricky and he doesn't trust me at all. Keeps me at arms length which I get…" Robin replied in a light hearted manner as she continued to eat, feeling at ease in the company of her long time and only friend. Robin didn't get to see Loki a lot as the two of them were always in different places causing trouble and mischief for the world. "You know as crazy as the Winchester brother's are, they are quite interesting people and that's without all that stuff about Sam and that demon with the yellow eyes, whatever his silly name was. The lengths they go to for each other is certainly something…"
"Are you going soft on me Robin Goodfellow? Do you care about the Winchester's?" Loki questioned and immediately Robin felt her jaw harden, she didn't appreciate that line of questioning and that kind of insinuation from Loki.
"No… Of course not. I don't do feelings, all I care about is mischief, fun and getting into trouble. Caring is not something I care for and it is certainly not an advantage. You and I both know that Lo…" Robin defiantly said as she knew she couldn't get attached to the Winchesters, she was just around to keep an eye on them for Loki. She couldn't become fond of them, she couldn't become their friend and Robin understood this. None of it was personal, it was all business.
"If you say so RG." Loki quipped.
"Why? Why do you want me to keep an eye on them? Why do I have to integrate myself into their lives to do so Loki? Can I least ask that? Is this some big kind of prank of yours that your attempting and we're doing some kind of long con prank? Or you really that worried that they will eventually end up killing you?" Robin asked because at this point she had more questions that she did answers because Loki was being pretty evasive, even more so than usual and normally that wouldn't bother Robin much. Normally she would just think of it as Loki trying to keep some elaborate prank of his quiet so it wouldn't be revealed until he was ready. But Robin got the feeling that this was something else and Loki's 'I know something that you don't know' smirk was starting to get to Robin.
"Not really."
"Then what? The least you could do is tell me something Loki as I am doing most of the handwork here as your off doing god knows what, whilst I'm trying to get in with two hunters who could kill me if they got the chance." Robin pressed as she wanted at least something for all her efforts so far.
"Call it… A need to satisfy my own curiously." Loki cryptically said as he slid up out of the booth and pulled a fifty dollar bill out of his wallet and tossed it on the table. Robin couldn't help but roll her eyes at Loki's vagueness but at least he was doing the decent thing of paying for her food since he was the one who wanted to meet today. "Stay close to them, let me know what happens."
"You owe me for this, you know that Lo?" Robin stated as she wanted to make things clear to Loki before he took off and was not to be seen for another few months at least.
"Naturally, there's always a price with you Puck…" Loki replied in a warm manner doing his typical eyebrow wiggle before taking off and making his way towards the door of the diner.
"Asshole." Robin quietly murmured at Loki's use of the dreaded Puck name. Of course he wouldn't be able to leave without tossing that out, Loki always had to have the last word.
"I heard that!"