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[EP] Just chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool

Unlike others at the Inn, Clarice didn't get a ghostly visit and she was very much okay with that. She had enough ghosts in her head without visits from home telling her how much she screwed up or will screw up or whatever. Even though the weather had been mild, the sunsets coming later meant that spring was on its way. The nights were still freaking chilly but it was warm enough out now to enjoy the pool. At least a heated one and if it got too cold there was always teleporting to her room. Alcohol helped to keep you warm, too and since the pool had a bar, it was win/win.

Clarice did a few laps in the pool while she waited for her lunch to be delivered. As she came to the end of one lap, she saw Molly with a plate of food. "Perfect timing." Clarice said as she pushed herself out of the pool to eat the chicken and fries with her Manhattan. "Thanks!"

There was a quirk to her lips when she pulled the cherry out of the drink and popped it in her mouth to make a knot with the stem. It was a fun reminder of Thor and she made a mental note to see what he was up to.

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"They were immediately apologizing to me because they thought I'd been dumped," Thor clarifies. "They knew who I was."

For better or worse. Not that Thor minded indulging the public when he was on Earth.

"You'll need to come up with a superhero name before anything else."

Clarice thought it was cute that Thor was clueless as to the why they wanted to take a selfie with him.

It was on the tip of her tongue to say Calypso but that was hers and Alec's thing and she wasn't sure that she was ready to share that.

"Seems there's mutants here that know another version of me and they say I go by Blink. So I guess, Blink."

"Do you like it, though?" he asks. He knows there's alternate Thors out there and while he hasn't pushed for much information about whatever other Thors lie across the multiverse, he knew from his discussions with Peter Parker that his other iterations could turn out to be very different from him.

Likewise, this version of Clarice might not be as fond of the nickname Blink as her counterpart was.

"Not sure." She said honestly. "It doesn't really feel me but I have no idea what would. Maybe I'll go by Clarice like you are Thor." Clarice shot him a grin.

"I'm the only Avenger who goes by their first name." Like a musician or a movie star. There's just the shortest of hesitation there (he had been away from Earth for awhile and he might be wrong about what was still what), and then he adds:

"Well, I think Vision goes by Vision, but there's always room for a third."

"Vision?" That was a name Clarice hadn't heard of before. "Is he/she from Asgard, too?" She assumed that the person could see the future or maybe see through walls.

"An android of Tony and Bruce's creation that I gave life to with the use of my lightning," he says. "I hadn't seen him for a few years until just before I arrived here."

He smiles, pushes the thought of Vision's condition back on Earth aside, and takes a sip of his beverage.

"Wait. Seriously? You can give life with lightening?! I mean sure Dr. Frankenstein did it in the book, but really?!" Clarice wasn't sure if she thought that was cool or not. Though to be honest, she was leaning toward cool.

"It only happened the once and there was more to it than me lightnining some life into someone," he says, smiling at the memory. "That was the only real part I played in the process. Bruce and Tony -- they did more."

"Still pretty cool." Clarice had to admit. "So it was like a Dr. Frankenstein thing with science and electricity. Pretty nifty that you have a new team member because of it."

"I sadly didn't get the chance to know him very well," he says. "Went off looking for the Infinity Stones after that and didn't really come back down to Earth very often." Mostly for Jane, until Jane and him weren't exactly a thing anymore. "He was very calm and very analytical and very strong."

"There was a friend in the mutant underground that was like that. She was very analytical and was amazing with computation like a computer." Clarice was almost the exact opposite of Sage in her personality but she missed her like the others.

"Sounds like Vision," Thor says, smiling lightly. "It's too bad that the portals to the Other Worlds have not taken us to anyone's home. It would be nice to meet the friends of my friends without them having to come here." Some people, like Clarice, seemed to prefer being here, but far more of them wished they could return home.

Clarice nodded, "yeah, sadly my teleporting abilities can't make that happen but that would be nice. Just a fly by to meet friends of friends."

"I wish there was something we could do," Thor says, looking up at the ceiling as he finishes the rest of his drink. He picks up the paper umbrella and twirls it mindlessly between his fingers. "Tony and I both tried for awhile to get out of here. Stopped shortly after we nearly gave ourselves a concussion."

Clarice bit back a chuckle, she couldn't help it. She was also tempted to make a comment about hard heads, but she didn't.

"I thought I'd be able to portal to one of the Otherworlds that we've been to. As long as I have seen it, I can go there. It was through a door, how hard could it be.... yeah, it didn't work. I didn't try to give myself a concussion, but I expended a lot of energy trying."

"You know, I'd like to go back to Europe," he says, still spinning the umbrella. "Didn't really get to do much of anything there with anyone here because it all happened shortly after I arrived."

He hadn't been especially close to anyone at the time, save perhaps Quill -- and Quill had been less friendly with him back then.

"You know, I thought about staying. I mean I get I couldn't and the inn would have yanked me back, but I thought about it." Clarice admitted to him. It had been nice to be in a world that didn't know about mutants. Of course, that could have changed if they'd discovered she was one.

"Have you ever tried to?" he asks. He's heard that some people have tried to stay behind, but he's never been one of them. Granted, there hadn't been many Other World portals that had opened up during his time here, either.

"No." Clarice admitted. "The European one was the only portal I have been in, but I've heard people say that the Inn takes you back whether you want to leave or not." She hadn't tried it to see if that was true, however.

"I'd try the next time a portal opens up, but I don't think there's any place I'd want to stay but here." If he got stuck somewhere else, there'd be no guarantee he'd get to return home.

Not that there was a guarantee of it here, either, but...

Thor sticks the umbrella back into the glass and grabs a cherry and pops it into his mouth. He doesn't bother tying the stem up; he just places it on the napkin next to his neatly-tied one and just enjoys the flavor of it.

"The next time one opens, we should do something." What, Thor's not sure of. The Other Worlds he's heard tales of have been varied; there's no way to tell what they're going to get.

"We should." Clarice agreed and drained the last of her drink. "If it's a world that has adventures, we should all go on an adventure. Or you know, go on a restaurant crawl, that's good, too."

"An adventure," Thor says, smiling to himself. It had been an extraordinarily long time since he had been on anything he could even remotely call an adventure.

"Is it bad that I'm hoping for the adventure?"

"Nope, not at all. I'm kind of looking forward to one, too." Claire smiled slightly, "just not a flying skull kind of adventure."

"Can't say I really want that, either," he says. It'd actually been a sort of fun fight until -- well, until people started getting seriously injured. "You really held your own in that fight, though."

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