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Who| Loki, Steve Rogers, & OPEN
What| Loki just spending his free time about.
Where| District 9 Commons
When| Pre-crowning
Warnings/Notes| As always, let me know if you'd like an independent prompt! :)

Loki had every good reason to be spending time in District 9. Today, he wasn't necessarily looking for Dave - just wondering about the different districts. Although if anyone asked, he could certainly cover up his situation and say that he was looking for him. He had put together an outfit that was not too unlike the things he would wear back home. A long green coat, a green tee, black pants, and boots. He spent a few moments walking about the halls with his hands in his pockets, but decided on the Commons area. People often moved in and out of there from the district (and sometimes people who weren't from it did).

It was a good place to people watch and see who was moving about the District. He took a seat there, propping his feet up on a small table. He opened the book, but it wasn't really something he was paying attention to or reading. Every few moments, he would glance up to see who was walking by.

He wasn't particularly subtle about the fact that he was watching, either. No need to be.

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Rose wanders herself this day, a lot on her mind. Clara's won, which perhaps means a reconsideration of plans. The woman may no longer be interested in this faked relationship, now that she probably won't be forced back into the arena. She may wish to try and salvage the relationship she has with her husband or her reputation here. There's a lot of questions really, but there's no chance to ask for answers, Not yet, at least,

She hadn't meant to wander up to district 9, but she ends up there all the same, all dressed up in her black dress with the switchblades in her ears and Rose comes to a stop. She knows her presence won't be that questioned, not with both Dave and Clara in this district. She could go see Dave in fact but she reconsiders that, knows he may still be getting ready. She's just about to leave in fact and when she catches the glimpse of green and Rose looks more closely, recognise a face that goes with a name. A face she's been meaning to check up on, for the reasons that sisters always check up on their brother's boyfriends.

She's quiet when she comes over, but in no way attempting to sneak up on him and Rose doesn't ask to take a seat, instead crossing her legs casually. "Loki, correct?" There's a little of Dave in her features, more feminine and older, but the relationship should be easy enough to guess if someone listens to gossip at all.

Loki saw her coming, and closed the book when she seems to make herself comfortable. He recognizes her from watching videos the arena, although he hadn't personally met her. And the videos from the arena aren't always reliable, either. People have figured out that it is a show, and the point of the show is to - well, act. He shoves the book off to the side and sits up a little more properly in his seat.

No more time for spying on people he supposed. At least for now. He takes in her face, and he definitely can see the resemblance. "Dave's sister, right?" he asks. He doesn't want to assume too much, and doesn't want to make this awkward. He has to play it cool, after all. Be a nice guy.

He can't imagine what she wants to talk to him about. "Nice to meet you." A smile. Unfortunately, Loki's grin always seemed a bit ornery.

Honestly, it's the people who don't play to the cameras that concern Rose. Some of them are doing it for noble reasons, sure, to reject the games in what way they can. But others do it merely because they don't need to act. Who they are already suits the concept perfectly, and it's those she needs to watch out for.

She's watched a little of him in the arena, from highlight reels here and there. After all, he and Dave seem to be a popular little couple, they're featured a few times even if it' in short bursts. But that doesn't tell her as much as she might like to know, and in truth she doesn't expect to learn all that much. A smart player keeps the game going all the time, to make sure there's no doubt to cast.

"Correct," she says, a little hum in her voice as she inclines her head slightly at his greeting. "A pleasure. I only pity I haven't had a chance to meet you sooner, it has been rather remiss of me."

Loki watches her and chuckles. He's careful about how he plays the game. The things that he says to other people are always a bit limited. There is sometime truths, but they're usually buried in careful webs spun by himself. Only he really knew everything about himself.

"It's alright, I don't blame you. This place can really get to be quite busy. And Dave and I are still..." He shrugged, "Well, it's still a bit new, I guess." He figured that they would have to talk at some point.

"I can only guess you're not here to give me the whole 'break his heart' talk," he answered. "Unless you are."

Honestly, Steve doesn't know how he went so long without running into Loki. Maybe the younger looking trickster was avoiding him or maybe they were ships passing in the night, but with so many people they know in common, it's just curious to him. So, when he returns from a meeting with Stark, a bag of art supplies over his shoulder, he's a little surprised to see the inevitable finally come to happen.

He makes sure to make eye contact when he looks up, a small nod of acknowledgement. "Loki," he says it in greeting, his voice pleasantly neutral.

By no means is he fond of the Loki of his universe or trusting of this one in the slightest, but he is a different one and Thor told him of his Loki's death. And as much as he can't help the foul taste in his mouth for seeing Bucky and Loki teaming up in the arena, he knows it's unfair. So, for Thor and for the fairness of giving this Loki a shot, he's willing to be civil.

"Take it you're waiting for Dave? Or decided it's time we meet?"

"Dave, yes," Loki said, closing his book and looking straight at Steve. Of course, the other man should have expected the first thing that Loki said to him to be a lie. The things he said were almost always lies. It was just the nature of his being. "He's not here, though," he said.

Loki was far from some loyal puppy who would just sit there and wait for his boyfriend to come to his room. Steve would know better than that.

"I hadn't even realized you were in the same district." Of course he did. This Steve, most definitely, was not the Steve he knew. He was weathered, for sure, but not through the same things his own Steve had gone through.

"Regardless, fancy seeing you here. I didn't really plan on it, but I suppose it would have been inevitable eventually." While definitely not his favorite person, he certainly liked Steve far more than the others on his team.

Yeah, Steve has no intention to believe even half the things Loki says to him, especially since he doubts Dave would have failed to mention they're in the same district. Even if the boy had, it's not like it's unspoken information. But it's not worth mentioning, he just has to keep to being cautious of what he believes.

"Seeing how I'm friends with Thor and you're dating Dave, it was definitely an eventuality," Steve moves to place his bag by a vacant chair, taking seat in it after. "I won't say much about the dating, I hear Stark's dealing with that front, but I'll take issue if you hurt him, got it?" But really, Steve does plan to let Dave make his own mistakes, if this turns out to be one. He knows enough to know telling a kid Dave's age 'no' only makes it happen.

Edited 2014-11-19 06:25 (UTC)

"If by 'Stark is dealing with it'- you mean that Tony Stark, the man with no suit - is slinging insults, then yes. He's dealing with it. One could say he is an expert at dealing with it." Loki folded one leg over the other. The position was strong, but closed off. He clearly had no intention of letting anything anyone said get to him.

"I know what you're getting at, Steve. Captain. You're saying -- that as soon as the instance happens where you assume that I find Dave to be no use to me, I'll cruelly ensure that he both knows he is useless to me and hurt him further."

A single eyebrow raised. This would be the moment where he sells everything with truth buried in lies. "Perhaps, and maybe it should occur to you and Stark, it is possible for even a heartless god of evil to care about things on occasion, and that thing happens to be Dave. Perhaps, maybe it's him keeping me together."

Now, it was Steve's turn to figure out and attempt to distinguish the lies from truth before he made a decision on what he would say.

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