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This Deer Was On Fire - OTA

Bo should really keep cooking to the professionals. The thing was, she had been getting so tired of chicken that she was desperate for a steak or something. Dyson had brought in deer meat and she decided she was going to make a steak with some of it - she really was good at burning things.

She walked out of the kitchen that was slightly smokey with a very black and crispy steak. She had hoped the new lighting of the restaurant itself would have give new life to the deer meat, but it didn't. She sunk into a nearby chair and sighed. Maybe there was some meat salvageable on the inside?

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"You are not a good cook," Loki informed her, dropping into a seat across from her. As usual, he'd seemed to come out of nowhere. This time, it wasn't because he'd planned to but because he'd been practicing invisibility. (You didn't maintain his level of skill without practice.) "Even I might have trouble choking that down, and I've eaten old, rotten shark on multiple occasions."

Bo sighed. She was surprised to see Loki, but you didn't hang around the Fae without some people popping up here and there. "I know. I'm terrible." She put the plate on the table and glanced at the disaster. "There's a reason I used to order out a lot back home."

"Did you get distracted, or...?" Cooking meat seemed like the easiest thing. Put it over heat, cook until appropriately colored for your taste. "I'm not mocking, I'm honestly curious."

She looked at the charred meat as if trying to figure it out. "Maybe a little? I kept putting it back in because I wasn't sure it was done." Bo sighed. "I just couldn't deal with chicken again."

Bo looked at Loki for a moment and then made a vague gesture in front of her. "Can't you just... Make a delicious meal appear?" Okay, so she sort of knew that wasn't how it worked for him, but she could still ask.

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"I could, but it wouldn't be real." Loki tilted his head. "I could conceivably make you believe your charcoal is a delicious meal."

Bo looked at the steak as if considering the option, then exhaled and slumped back against the chair. "No, it's fine. I'll just make a peanut butter sandwich or something." She couldn't mess that up, right?

"Speaking of food, have you met the woman who showed up calling herself Aphrodite?"

“I’m sure there are cookbooks in the library or the kitchen. Instructions might make things easier for you.” Recipes were what made cooking easy, after all. “And yes. She showed up in my bathtub briefly. I’d never before met someone worse at respecting privacy than my brother.”

"I've tried recipes. They don't like me." Like in life, Bo seemed to have a hard time following the rules. Maybe it was just engrained in her.

"I wouldn't say that to Thor or it might become a competition." The thought sort of amused her. "Anyways... I don't know if she's the real deal or not, but let me tell you, she'd have been nice to have around months ago."

“I imagine so!” An immortal food source that wouldn’t have required her to negotiate a deal with her Sam? Clearly that would have made her life easier. Not that Loki could exactly regret the lack, given that he’d very much enjoyed his time with Bo. “It’s still nice to have the option now, though, yes?”

Oh, she didn't regret what happened. There were times she still definitely craved Loki and she was sure he knew it too, but it was easier to control herself now after the Dawning.

"Especially when so far all she's had to do was kiss me once." Seriously, she had never felt full after a kiss before. It was very strange. "What's you're take on her?" Bo wondered if she was legitimate or not.

"On the whole, she probably is who she says she is, but I don't trust her." He shrugged. 'Loki doesn't trust someone' would hardly be news to Bo. "She seems very... specifically focused for someone whose god portfolio is as broad as 'love'."

It was not a surprise for Bo, though her eyes for focused on him. "Specifically focused?"

"All the pink and frills and so on. If her portfolio is love, why focus so strongly on 'the visual trappings of sappy romantic love'? Even I know that 'love' as a concept is much broader than that, but all she presents is what's easy to dismiss." Loki's private bet was that the alleged goddess of love knew exactly what she was doing. Aphrodite didn't have any of the brittle edge of someone trying to do a lot with a little, and she did have the confidence of someone who did precisely as she pleased, when she pleased. She didn't lack power. "Either she actually is that small, or she wants people to underestimate her. My bet is the latter."

"So you think she should be underestimated." Bo could respect that. Kenzi was often underestimated just because she was human and she kicked ass a lot. "Do you think she's dangerous?"

He spread his hands. “Do you think love is dangerous?”

She let out a soft laugh. "Yes. No question about that."

It was, quite possibly, one of the most dangerous forces in existence. Yes. “There’s your answer, then.”

"Okay, I'll keep her on my radar and be careful around her." She thought about Dyson, but dismissed the thought. He was happy with Regina, wasn't he? She was happy with Sam and Molly.

Bo refocused on Loki. "So, when's the big day?"

It wasn’t hard to make the leap from discussing the possible danger of the goddess of love to where Bo’s thoughts had landed. “We haven’t discussed a date yet. Some Friday, certainly.”

"An obviously I'll be your bridesmaid." She was mostly joking - the idea she'd ever be in a wedding party was pretty hard to imagine and she didn't think Loki was going to have that kind of wedding.

"Fun fact though, I almost got married once. White dress and all."

“Oh, you’re definitely on my side. I’d love to see you tripping up the opposition.” The idea of Bo getting married was strange, not only because of hr nature, but because Bo tended to reflexively fight cages of any kind. It was something he appreciated about her. “But how did that happen?”

That he said she would be on his side actually made her beam. That meant a lot to her, in fact.

"Oh. Well, I lost my memory. Completely forgot who and what I was. The guy I had been dating - a Loki, actually - was infatuated and convinced me we were to get married, so I went along with it. Thankfully Trick stopped it before it was complete or I'd have been stuck with him for one thousand years." She made a face - no thanks.

She’d mentioned that ‘Loki’ was just a type of fae where she came from, so that wasn’t the part that made Loki frown slightly. “You couldn’t have killed him and widowed yourself before then?”

Bo suddenly laughed. Maybe she should have been appalled or something, but she wasn't and she couldn't really help the fact that Loki's suggestion really rather just endeared him more to her. "Maybe, but Ryan wasn't so bad. I mean, he wasn't good for me, either, but he wasn't terrible. Plus murder was probably in the fine print. I'd have probably be hit by lightning or something."

“Eat him, then kill him. You’d survive a lightning strike if you could heal
yourself after.” Loki shrugged. “For the future, just in case. Murder is always an option.” It wasn’t always the best option, but it never left the table.

"I'll keep that in mind as a plan Zed, how about that?" Others might have been upset with the notion, but Bo wasn't really surprised by Loki anymore. "Anyways, you're not allowed to consider it got Valkyrie. I like her." And it wasn't just because she was beautiful and a female Asgardian either.

"Never fear, I genuinely want to be married to her. Killing her would be intolerably painful for me." Technically murder was never entirely off the table with anyone, but the level of... something... that would require it to be moved out of a thoroughly dusty and neglected corner of the table was almost impossible to imagine.

As close to being off the table as it was possible to get, really.

It was actually kind of cute and her smile probably said as much. "Plus, I bet if you tried she'd kill you first." It was a tease as much as it was also telling the truth.

"She'd absolutely try." And almost certainly succeed, eventually. Brunnhilde was stronger than he was, a cunning survivor, and she had a ruthless sadistic streak - she wouldn't be turned aside if she decided he needed to die. "And after that, she'd tell our fish a heavily embroidered tale of her heroism."

Bo could tell by the way he spoke about Valkyrie that he was smitten. It was nice to see. It felt like maybe everyone had a chance here. Maybe, she thought, that was why they were here.

"I like that you two have a fish. Start small. I tried a plant once, but it died."

“We have almost three dozen fish, actually.” Loki tilted his head slightly. “Have you tried cacti? I hear they’re essentially immortal.”

"I think I might go with pet rock. It seems more my speed. I could name it and everything and if I forget it, it'll just end up holding down some of my papers." It seemed like a win-win to her. "I could even name it after you."

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