Zompania Draft - Draftees only, days 1-3.5

[lucetimods]

Who: All Draftees
What: This is your death. Followed by your time-traveling life and desperate bomb hunting.
When: From May 22 to May 20 to early May 23 (days 1-4)
Where: Zompania
Summary: Information post here
Rating: Varies on thread, please mark explicit material.

This post is for the draftee-only portion of the Zompania draft--the day 3 death, time travel to day 1, and then the events until the arrival of the reinforcements. Be sure to use the above info post for any plotting needs you might have. Enjoy!

Please note that there is a specific top-level comment thread for:

• The day 3 arrival of the draftees and the 6 hours that follow until the bomb is dropped
  
• Death--This thread can be treated as REFERENCE ONLY. Responding to it isn't necessary.
  
• Threads prior to departing for Zompania--post resurrection freak outs, arguments over how to proceed, etc.

All other threading, from day 1 until the reinforcements arrive, should be conducted as normal.

Be sure to tag this post appropriately: [canon] character name

Comments

[complicatedliar]

[Loki curls his fingers into the front of Steve's ridiculous suit, to try to shake him again, shove him, or maybe just to hang on because he's so dizzy now. And he can't even tell if it's physical weakness or just the fact that the most fundamental part of his already tenuous foundation has been knocked out from under him.

For what was Loki, without Thor?]

You never knew it in the first place. Not really.[He tries to shake Steve, and fails.]But they did, and it doesn't even matter any more, does it.

[He starts laughing again, because the emotion has to escape somehow before he starts screaming, and he's lost the knack for tears centuries ago.]

I've had enough of this nonsense. Everyone always waits until I'm in a bloody fishbowl to get themselves horribly mangled.

[How can he stop things if he doesn't even know they're happening? It isn't his fault, is it? Only it is, because he shouldn't have been captured, in Asgard. He should have found another way. He should have known it was a dream shifter. He was supposed to be better than this.]

[neversurrender]

[He's not sure what strikes him first: when Loki mentions a 'they' or the fact that he's speaking as if someone other than Thor has died. He'd thought that Loki had just gotten this worked up over hearing of Thor's death and seeing Steve with Mjolnir. But if someone else he cares for has died...it would make even more sense.]

Loki...who else are you talking about? [For a brief moment he wonders if something has happened to Rogue, but it pushes it aside and waits for Loki's answer.]

[complicatedliar]

[He stops, breath hitching slightly. Because that is the question, isn't it. Who died? Thor did. And Frigga, only that wasn't Frigga, was it? It was a dream shifter he killed and not her, wasn't it? Wasn't it? It had to be.

It's too real, and too close.

He gives his head a little shake, laughter gone again.]

No one. It wasn't anyone. [He licks his lips and then once more begins to disengage his fingers.] Billy said it wasn't anyone at all.

[neversurrender]

[Steve doesn't believe him. He's too worked up for it to have been no one. And the mention of Billy isn't lost on him either. The last thing that boy needs is to be involved with more death.]

I don't believe that.

[complicatedliar]

[Loki laughs.]

Neither do I. Look, we agree upon something. The world shall end.

[He steps back.]

[neversurrender]

[He sighs, knowing that trying to push Loki on the topic would cause more harm than good.]

Maybe you should try to get some rest. [Which is the kindest way he can think of saying that Loki seems close to the edge. Which is the last thing they need.]

[complicatedliar]

[Rest, so he can contemplate what he's lost already, while his enemy is out there, conspiring to steal what little he has left. That doesn't sound like something he wants to do at all.]

There will be time for that later. For now, better to act while I still have something left.

[He turns to go.]

Take care of my idiot brother's hammer. He'll be quite petulant if you manage to scratch the thing.

[neversurrender]

[He debates whether he should or shouldn't try to stop him, but decides against it. He's not Loki's keeper. Besides, it's not like he should be giving anyone a lecture about resting while they can when he hasn't slept in days. And that's not about to change.]

You don't have to worry about that. I won't let anything happen to it. [It's the least he can do.]