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[bipolar-uriel.livejournal.com]

Time: September 28, 2000
Place: Loki's Room
Status: Private (Uriel, Loki)
Summary: Confronting and comforting.


Uriel was quite happy as she made her way back from yet another check-up. Everything was going perfectly well, she had been assured. Both she and little Bran were doing well, and things seemed to be developing at a normal pace. Activity, weight gain, everything matched her current stage.

Loki should be happy to hear this, she suspected. At the very least he might be interested in knowing what she was going to call her child.

With this in mind, she headed towards Loki's room. Knocking on the door, she asked, "May I come in?"

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[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

"Courage," Loki added. "Bravery in battle, loyalty ... That last one's a bitch really. Ever been caught between waring family? Your virtues are definitely not for me, though. You could sum them all up in two words: No fun."

He grimaced. It wasn't that he didn't understand how most of the basic ideas behind Christianity were supposed to work. He just didn't think they were good ideas in the first place.

[bipolar-uriel.livejournal.com]

"Loyalty?" echoed Uriel, remembering what little she knew of Norse mythology. "Well, I never could have guessed. And we can too have fun," she continued, a little miffed. "It's just that we actually have to take responsibility of the consequences of our fun." At this, she placed a hand over her stomach. Despite all her fears, that was one consequence she was looking forward to.

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

"Loyalty," Loki confirmed. "It's a complicated thing. Say for example your brother's son stole something from your cousin's lover, so your uncle kills your brother's son in revenge and your brother kills your uncle. Then your father gathers his army to avenge your uncle and your brother gathers his army in response. Which side do you fight on?"

And it was almost impossible to explain to most people that that was a very realistic scenario, if you were a Jotun with an Asgardian for a blood brother.

[bipolar-uriel.livejournal.com]

Unlike most people may have done, Uriel actually seriously considered the scenario. "...On my brother's side, I guess," she finally replied. "Because really, isn't murder a bit too much of a payback for thievery? The other revenges I can understand, but that's just unreasonable. Couldn't he just have stolen the thing back and maybe beat the boy a little?"

(So angelic!)

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

"Well, it would depend on what was stolen," Loki explained. "I mean you wouldn't kill someone over stealing a wooden toy, but a good weapon, or food were things you could get killed for stealing."

(Well, she is an angel!)

[bipolar-uriel.livejournal.com]

Uriel shook her head. "You are impossible," she muttered. "Now, if you could also just create things, maybe you wouldn't go around dying or at least getting injured all the time..."

She trailed off, not comfortable with the topic of death in connection to Loki.

[leucemic-god.livejournal.com]

"We can create things, too," Loki returned with a slight pout. "It's just not my place in our pantheon. Odin's not that bad at it, though and most of the goddesses were great at it."

All he'd ever been good at creating were hand carved toys ... well, and babies. Both in the human style, though. But of course modern children weren't into playing with stylised wooden horses anymore. He'd have had to buy factory produced toys for little Bran, if there'd been any chance he'd live long enough to see him be born.