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So I'm new here and I figured this might be the best place to ask around for suggestions. What are some of your favorite distractions here? Places, things to do... I'm open to anything.

[He just kind of needs any sort of distraction really bad at the moment. While there's work to do and getting to know his surroundings... he could use something more involved than any of that, something that ca help him stop thinking for five minutes. Keeping busy seems like the best use of his time than any of the other options... which basically consists of moping by himself somewhere. Not all that productive.]

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And just one more thing. Has anyone arrived here later than other people they knew back home? Friends, significant others, family... Not in the 'I came here from the future' sense, but in the 'I arrived late to the city and they seem to have made a new life without me' one. Was it hard to find your place with them again or did you even try? I know it's natural that people would change over time, that maybe they'd have a life that doesn't even include you, but... I have no idea how to deal with it. It feels kind of like a bad dream I'm managing to make worse.

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Between me and you or you and him?

[ Too many feelings at all, in his opinion. ]

Between you and me, Loki. On my end, at least.

[He shrugs.]

I wouldn't throw whatever hard feelings Billy and I might have at you, that's for us to work on. But-- I just learned not even that long ago that you lied to me, that you helped bring over a parasite that wore my dead mom's face.

Ah, yes ... I know, I didn't expect your forgiveness to ever come around on that or anything else. This is all wildly fresh for you ... [ Cocking his head with actual thoughtfulness. ] Can I ... do something to help you? Settle in, I mean?

You know, you could say sorry and mean it. I'm an easy guy. [It's not like he'll hold on to grudges -- he didn't even hold one on the Skrull responsible for his mom's death.

He's a little surprised by the offer but shakes his head after a moment.] I don't think so... I mean, I'm settling in okay, I think. I guess if there are any sights that I need to see.

I do regret those years.

[ Which is as much of an apology as he can eke out. Black nails rap the table as he glances away to the Quarantine through the window. ]

It's strange to think of a wider berth of people from home coming here. I thought I'd escaped you all, but I suppose I'm just too trendy for the masses to leave alone.

See? Now your face is already a little less punchable.

[Well, Teddy supposes that's something at least. If he regrets it, at least maybe he won't try it again.]

Or we're all just a group of people who have a tendency to feel really displaced sometimes.

[He gives a wry smile.]

Look-- I'm not sure how any of this is going to work, or what Billy is going to do or how he's going to act about all of this. But whatever happens, I just want to try to make him happy, you know? And you were-- part of the team too. It's not like I want to make you miserable either.

[ The look that slides sideways is unreadable, a level playing field under eyes filled with too many thoughts. ]

I've been with Billy for six months, this is the longest romantic relationship I've ever wanted to keep. Keep here, on this moon, because I can never return to our universe and it has nothing to do with being displaced, I simply can't. Do you understand the way this is going to "work" for me? I've been endeavouring to make him happy permanently, and he hasn't been averse to the notion.

He told me.

[And honestly, Teddy still has issues with it, but that's something for them to all talk about and figure out later when things are less like an open wound.]

Do you understand that Billy is all I have left? I don't have my mom, I don't have family. Billy is everything for me, and has been for two years. There's no one I could love more or want to spend the rest of my life with. I'm not giving that up.

So? I don't have my mom. I don't have my family. I don't have Asgard or anything like it, I was exiled into nothing by the end of my days. I sympathise with where you're coming from, I truly do and can, but it doesn't hobble my intentions toward Billy one bit.

I won't give him up for the sake of his past when he agrees to be my future.

[ Everyone at the table is stubborn. ]

I'm not trying to compete with you on who has it worse, Loki. I'm sorry you've lost everything, I am... but that doesn't mean I'm just going to give up my everything either. I'm not his past.

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I'm not trying to compete with you on who has it worse, Loki. I'm sorry you've lost everything, I am... but that doesn't mean I'm just going to give up my everything either. I'm not his past.

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And what the hell, Loki? I'm trying to be civil here... I never said to back off him, did I? You're the one who approached <i>me</i> this stuff.

You've been part of my past for years.

[ There's the slightest trace of ire in his sigh as he rises, sliding out from his seat. ]

I'd like for the playing field, as it were, to be even. Now that it is, I'm heading off to check he's alright on his Altman-inspired jungle-jaunt.

Too bad for you Billy doesn't seem to feel I'm part of his past then, huh?

[He's not taking disrespect, not here, not when it comes to Billy Kaplan. Loki can hate him, as long as he understands that he's not going to just stop loving Billy.]

Whatever. I'll text him in a little bit to talk... And you know, Loki, you're the only one who can make us enemies if you're going to treat this like some competition to be won. But if you do-- you're not really trying to make Billy happy, only yourself.

[Because Billy swears he loves them both, that he doesn't want to choose, right? Putting him in the middle of a fight or giving him unnecessary tension isn't going to make him happy.]

[ That rankles. The suggestion he hasn't put billy first always, that he wouldn't forever. A curt laugh leaves over a shoulder, a reflexive response to the patronising advice. ]

I'm not a child to be scolded but, please, if it makes you feel wiser then school me on how to be worthy of my own boyfriend.

[ More venom in that than intended when he first insisted they meet, he heads out on a long stride with a frown in tow. ]

Don't pull that with me. He's my boyfriend too!

[Taking a break isn't breaking up, it was never supposed to be... and he only wanted a break because Loki manipulated him into it. Loki, the master manipulator. The god of mischief. He's not going to feel like an idiot or a jerk for falling for that one.

And like hell he hasn't always put Billy first. He has impersonated him so he could go find the Scarlet Witch, he's stood up to the Avengers and X-Men alike, he's threatened to maim for him-- would probably go as far as to even kill or die for him if it came down to it. He has gotten him up off the windowsill, kept him going, promised him his entire life. He's not having that downplayed.

He pushes himself up from the table, intent on leaving just a soon as Loki is gone.]

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