It's Pancake Day!

[abjurer]

Who: Anyone and everyone!
What: A feast of pancakes in honour of Shrove Tuesday.
When: Tuesday February 5th
Where: CH7, ground floor
Summary: Truly a feast day second only to Christmas!
Rating: PG/PG-13 for language if someone gets burned on the stove or hit by exploding magical pancake batter.

All of the ingredients have been gathered and are laid out when Max finally gets up that morning. More eggs and milk and flour than he's ever seen in one place and maybe he'd gone a bit overboard with it, but he didn't know how many people would be showing up. It wasn't as though they could use the rest of it some other time.


[OOC: Max's invitation can be found here. Essentially an open mingle post.]

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Loki

[complicatedliar]

[As is his habit, he just picks at food, far more interested in what's going on elsewhere. But even he'll stop and nibble occasionally.]

Re: Loki

[abjurer]

[As promised, a short while after Loki arrives, Max approaches him.]

So, would you like to examine the ingredients for the toad in the hole? I held off baking it.

Re: Loki

[complicatedliar]

Yes, let's have a look.

Re: Loki

[abjurer]

Right. Come with me.

[He leads Loki over to the counter where there's a a baking tin set out, filled with batter and sausages. Not a frog in sight.]

There. Flour, eggs, milk, sausage.

Re: Loki

[complicatedliar]

[Loki leans casually against the counter and inspects the baking sheet, arms crossed over his chest.]

What are the contents of the sausages?

Re: Loki

[abjurer]

Uh, dead pig I'd hope. That's what the package said.

Re: Loki

[complicatedliar]

Hmm.

[Pork. Bleh. Oh well, he has to eat meat some time, he's sure.]

All right.

Re: Loki

[abjurer]

[Sorry Loki, they were all out of Bandersnatch or whatever you Asgardian types eat.]

If you don't want it, you don't have to eat it. Just means more for me.

Re: Loki

[complicatedliar]

I said that I would try it. But there probably will be more for you. I don't really eat much meat.

Re: Loki

[abjurer]

Fair enough. Happy there are no actual toads involved?

Re: Loki

[complicatedliar]

Though now no less mystified why you would call it that.

Re: Loki

[abjurer]

...I dunno. It's just what it's called. I probably shouldn't mention devils on horseback or bubble and squeak as possible foods for the future then?

Re: Loki

[complicatedliar]

Sometimes I really do think you mortals are making this nonsense up.

[touchofrogue]

It wasn't all that long a walk from the Item Shop to C7. And. Free pancakes. Rogue hadn't responded to the invitation, but she was more than willing to just pop her head in. Imagine her surprise at seeing Loki there.

"You came to a pancake party?"

[complicatedliar]

Loki gave Rogue a nice but not overly warm smile, very conscious of the fact that they were in public, and not everyone else was necessarily concentrating on their pancakes. "I wasn't all that interested in eating the things. More in just... being out of the house, I suppose." He rubbed his eyes, feeling tired. Three days since Jane had finally given him the notes on the project, and he'd been doing nothing but working since.

[touchofrogue]

It was somewhat strange to be talking with him like this so publicly. She'd never gone out of her way to avoid him before, but it's still a very different situation to viewing him as an adversary-in-waiting. In the beginning, before... December, she probably would have only nodded to him.

"You look tired," she said, quiet in her concern.

[complicatedliar]

"I've been working," he said, one shoulder moving slightly in a shrug. "Time is limited. I probably ought not be here, either."

[touchofrogue]

"Time ain't as limited as all that," she said, smiling a little. "They haven't had me cash in my points yet. So there's still stuff ta buy and build."

[complicatedliar]

"Ah, but there's much I must to do. They've made a good start, but it could be far better." He smiled tiredly, the expression then going rather crooked. "Should... we be talking at all, with so many around?"

[touchofrogue]

Rogue blinked a little, her brows coming together. "Shouldn't we?"

[complicatedliar]

[Stark was here, as was Thor, as was his younger self. Their presence made the back of his neck itch. How could she not notice.

He pitched his voice low for just her ears.]

I shouldn't want to cause you trouble.

[touchofrogue]

Rogue tilted her head and glanced around, an uncomfortable feeling creeping over her. "I appreciate it, but... I'm not just gonna ignore you."

[complicatedliar]

"It is all right if you do when other are around," he said, giving her a crooked smile. "This isn't the time that matters anyway."

And it would be better if they did simply ignore each other when in public. It was a game he played adeptly.

[touchofrogue]

No. All the time matters.

She searched his gaze, "Is that what you want?"

[complicatedliar]

He rubbed his eyes. "I don't know. I am secretive by nature." But I am also tired. And...

The image of sitting down with Rogue and eating pancakes (or rather her eating them while he picked at his) was a tempting one, as was the thought of simply putting his head on her shoulder and falling asleep.

But people would see. And... what?

And maybe in two weeks it wouldn't matter anyway, because he'd be back on his way to the dungeons Asgard and would never see her again.

Loki sighed. The very thought of it made him feel somehow more tired. Where was his glorious purpose now?

They really ought to have discussed this before. "What do you wish?"