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[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

Date: April 5, 2003
Status: Public (Loki, Loki II, Gabriel - Complete)
Setting: Loki's Room, Bar
Summary: Oh, no! Loki's medicine is gone!


Loki was pleased to notice that he had felt much better all day. It seemed that he was finally recovering. Hopefully if he continued to obey the doctor's orders exactly and always took his medicine, he'd soon be well enough to permanently return to America. Interesting as England was, he still missed his friends and family in America. This was another Loki's land.

He slipped one hand into his backpack feeling blindly for his pills. Ah, there the box was. He pulled it out, slightly surprised to find it much lighter than it was supposed to be.

His first reaction was to assume that the bottle had slipped out, but both ends of the box were closed.

Right, so he must have forgotten it in the bathroom. But no, it wasn't there either. Wherever else could he have left it?

Loki rushed back into his room, checked the bedside table, tore open all the drawers and turned over his backpack. Nothing. In a last desperate hope he tore open the cupboard doors, but of course it was completely empty.

His medicine was gone and he needed it!

Unfortunately he couldn't just go and buy another bottle. It was a prescription drug. His only option if he didn't find his pills tonight was to go to London tomorrow and get a new prescription from his doctor - who would not be pleased to find out that he'd lost a bottle he'd been meant to keep safely locked up.

And what effect would this have on his recovery? Would it slow it down? Cause a relapse?

Unwilling to sit around and worry Loki rushed out of his room, slammed the door closed behind him and went downstairs into the bar sorely tempted to bury his worries in alcohol.

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[norseloki.livejournal.com]

"What?" Loki asked, "Are you going to throw that chair at me?"

He stood poised, waiting for the attack.

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

"Throw?" Loki said with a nasty smile. "Oh no, I don't think so. You see," He lifted the chair. "If I threw it," He took a step closer to his opponent. "I'd be weaponless again."

He swung the chair.

[norseloki.livejournal.com]

This was just what he had needed. No one could fault him for defending himself, after all! Chairs were wood and wood burned. The chair was old, dry. It wanted to burn. All it needed was an excuse.

He gave it one, starting the flames right around the other Loki's hands, as at the same time he backed away from the angry god, placing himself farther away from the bar and thus better able to maneuver any subsequent attack. He would have started it under them, but then he'd have had to work to keep it going, what with there being not much oxygen between hand and wood...

Fool! he chided himself as soon as he had done it. If that was another Loki, he would be able to control that fire. And he'd certainly not be hurt by it.

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

Loki yelped in surprise and threw the burning chair away without attempting to control the fire. Instead he shifted almost on instinct. He didn't need to make a conscious choice of shape, didn't need to remember that the bear was too big to move freely in the bar, the eagle wasn't suitable for indoors use ... He simply shifted and the next moment a wolf darted forward sharp fangs aiming for the other Loki's right arm.

[norseloki.livejournal.com]

Things went fast. Loki spared half a thought to put out the fire before anything else caught. He hated to deny it food and freedom, but it couldn't be helped and there was no time to be gentle about it either.

He had experience with wolves. His son was a wolf. Fenrir would have dwarved the wolf not jumping at him. He wondered why the other one had not made his shape larger, if he could shift into any animal he liked. Or did he have to stick to their natural characteristics? If so, good to know.

He avoided the snapping teeth and buried his hand in the soft fur at the wolf's throat to keep it at a distance. With his free hand, he sharply smacked the animal's sensitive nose.

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

Loki yelped, but now was not the time to give in to pain. She snapped upward at her enemy's fingers, then pulled back and dove under his arms at his legs.

[norseloki.livejournal.com]

The teeth grazed his hand, and he thought they might have drawn blood, but he didn't take the time to look.

He jumped out of the way to evading the renewed attack, then aimed the tip of his boot at the wolf's side. Not exactly a very noble move, but well...

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

The kick was expected. Loki evaded it with a sudden jump at the other leg which had to hold still while its partner was raised. Her fangs caught hold and closed down.