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[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

Date: June 14th
Location: Lobby then bar
Status: Public
Summary: An unexpected return


Loki strolled into the manor and up to the front desk with a wide smile on his face and his old backpack slung over his shoulder. It felt so familiar he almost wanted to go straight on to his old room, but he'd been gone too long. They'd probably given it to somebody else.

But it didn't really matter where he slept anyway. So he leaned against the desk and rang the bell to get a room."

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[beachbunnykirby.livejournal.com]

Kirby was just coming from the restaurant and about to cross the lobby to go for a quick run in the park.

She stopped short as she saw a stranger lean at the counter, alone.

A dazzling smile stole over her face.

"Hey there, handsome," she told the man. "You waiting for someone specific?"

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

Ah, a beautiful blonde! Loki smiled right back.

"Well, I was hoping for Sister Mary to sign me in," he said. "But for a beautiful woman like you that can wait."

[beachbunnykirby.livejournal.com]

"So you've come to stay a while?"

Kirby tossed back her sun-streaked blonde hair as she ambled over to where the man was standing. She held out her hand in greeting.

"I'm Kirby," she said. "Kirby Mitchell."

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

“LowKey Lyesmith” Loki introduced himself accepting her hand. He bowed and with a mischievous smile pulled it to his lips. "I have business in London." No way was he going to mention doctors' appointments to an attractive woman he'd just met. "And I have good memories of this place from my last stay in England - even if it is a bit of a commute."

[beachbunnykirby.livejournal.com]

"It's a good place to stay," Kirby agreed. "Does business take you to England often?"

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

"I expect it probably will. And there's no reason I can't visit even when it doesn't."

Odin would expect him to return to America as soon as he could, but Odin could wait, if England proved to be more fun right now. Loki could find him again whenever he wanted to.

[beachbunnykirby.livejournal.com]

"Well, great!" Kirby said, smiling brightly. "Maybe we can go to London for a night or two at some point? I gear it's got good places to party away the night. I'm from the States originally, you see, just taking an extended holiday here. It's a nice place as such, but awfully quiet at times."

Actually, for most of the time she'd been here that was a lie.

"But the place does have a pretty good bar." She grinned at him in a way that made the statement an invitiation, if he chose to take it as one.

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like a plan," Loki agreed happily. "What part of the states? I travel a lot, but mostly stay in the northern states."

"Ah yes, I remember the bar. Is my old friend Belial still running it?"

[beachbunnykirby.livejournal.com]

"I don't think so," Kirby said. "Unless your old friend Belial goes by Joe Dawson in his free time. He's a good one, though, quite the wizard behind the bar. Plays a great Blues, too."

She cocked her head at him. "California, preferably, though I've been travelling a lot. I love beaches, you know."

just making sure Loki doesn't think the service lessened...

[roseheerkens.livejournal.com]

Rose's fine hearing meant that she had heard the bell from the third floor but getting down the stairs without looking like an unruly cub took her a moment. In the lobby Mrs. Mitchell was talking to a man she didn't know.

She stepped towards those two and smiled.

"Hello, sir? Did you ring the bell?"

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

"Ah no, though he did perform feats of magic as well," Loki said wondering whether this Joe could conjure up fresh carrot juice as well. "And here I see another new face. Hello, young lady, I'm LowKey Lyesmith. I don't suppose my old room's still available?"

[roseheerkens.livejournal.com]

"Well, good day, Mr. Lyesmith. My name is Rose Heerkens, I take some shifts at the reception desk and clean the rooms here."

She smiled at the new guest, then at the woman.

"Ms. Mitchell."

Wouldn't do to ignore guests. She then turned back to the man.

"Do you remember which room you had during your last stay or should I check in the books?"

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

"It was 109," Loki told her hoping to finish this quickly before Kirby got impatient and went off without him.

[american_loki]

"Ah yes, I remember the forest," Loki said with a slight wince. He hadn't meant to lose War's tank like that, but he'd probably find a way to talk himself out of it, if she minded.

"Is ... Scarlet still here?" He thought that might have been the name she'd used anyway. "Beautiful woman with long red hair?"

[beachbunnykirby]

Kirby tossed back her own long, peroxyde-blonde hair as if to say 'What? Don't you find me beautiful enough?'

"Never seen nor heard of her," she said. "Does she keep to herself a lot? I'm more into men myself, but I think I'd've noticed..."

[josephdawson]

"Haven't seen a woman with red hair in the bar yet either," Joe said. "Only s a red-haired young man."

[american_loki]

"Ah no," Loki said with a laugh. "You certainly couldn't mistake Scarlet for a man. She is frequently called away on business unexpectedly, though. I guess that's what must have happened."

[beachbunnykirby]

"What kind of business does she engage in?" Kirby asked, trying to gauge whether 'Scarlet' was the man's lover.

[american_loki]

Loki thought for a moment. "I suppose you could call it a branch of diplomacy, or international troubleshooting. Some people have taken to calling it peacemaking these days, but ... well, I went along on a few jobs she and my brother did together and though there was usually peace in the end, I'm not sure the name quite fits."

He smiled at the fond memories.

[beachbunnykirby]

"Sabotage?" Kirby suggested bluntly. "Family business?"

It seemed this hotel drew people roughly aligned with her line of work.

[american_loki]

"Now that'd be a more apt term for my own line of work," Loki said with a laugh. "Or at least so the rest of he family keep telling me. They usually prefer more direct means though, as for my brother, ... well, he does dabble there as well sometimes, you could say. Him and me, we're the versatile ones."

[beachbunnykirby]

"Versatile is good," Kirby said. "We've got a number of versatile people here. Me, my old colleague, some other people I've met.. It must be a versatile-people-hotel."

She gestured to Joe for a new drink.

[american_loki]

"Oh?" made Loki wondering exactly how Kirby interpreted versatile. "I really must meet your old colleague then. Is she as beautiful as you as well."

He'd finished filling in the form and started to fold it into an aeroplane.

[beachbunnykirby]

Kirby grinned at him. "He was handsome enough when we met and his looks have improved since," she said.

"Can you make that fly to Ms Heerkens' desk now?" she asked, pointing at the plane.

[american_loki]

"He? Ah, that is disappointing," Loki lied while wondering vaguely whether it might be worth turning female. In either case, he'd seduced enough women with husbands not to worry about old colleagues. He wasn't looking for a long-term relationship after all.

He glanced at his plane and then the door.

"Not from this angle, unless you could conjure up a convenient gust of wind." Too bad there wasn't a weather god handy.