Written to: Time to Pretend - MGMT, crosspost from AO3
Desenrascanço: The improvisation of haphazard but completely sound solutions or plans at the last minute.
Thor bounces Modi up and down in his lap as he sits in an armchair by the library fire, waiting patiently for Loki to finish up a book so that they can go on a picnic. Loki had assured him thirty minutes ago that he would be finished quickly, but Thor is beginning to question what Loki's definition of quickly is.
Loki sighs, stretches with a groan, and stands up, tells Thor that he will just use the bathroom and then they can set off. Thor smiles, and Modi claps his little hands in delight, spilling droplets of milk from his bottle everywhere, at the prospect of finally getting to go outside. Thor picks Modi up and goes over to look at the book Loki was reading as Loki exits the library.
He can barely make heads or tails of it, and he assumes it must be one of those fantastically difficult spell tomes Loki is prone to reading. Modi, for his part, is not interested at all in the strange runes and characters inscribed upon the pages, and babbles something that Thor cannot understand before promptly tossing his bottle onto the book.
Thor watches, aghast, as the milk seeps into the pages, and Modi laughs, a laugh that sounds completely like Loki, and Thor racks his brains desperately while he swipes at the pages with his sleeve and tries to dry it a bit. His efforts are futile, and he can hear Loki washing up in their bathroom.
"You little imp," Thor hisses to Modi, who just sticks his thumb in his mouth and gives Thor a look, like he is daring Thor to punish him. "Exactly like your mother, you are."
As Loki calls out from the hallway that he is ready, Thor hurriedly slips the book jacket off, slams the spellbook closed, and shoves the naked volume back into a shelf. He selects another equally thick book at random from a shelf and quickly slides the jacket on it just as Loki steps through the door.
Loki, for his part, is incredibly perplexed two days later, when he opens the book again and finds instead a very detailed account of oral intercourse.