Check-In: Not-Mother Hen

[st_alksthroughwalls]

Kitty sat at the bar with a cup of coffee and her notebook, watching the 'welcoming committee' make themselves busy. Liz was here, as she'd promised Kitty she would be and Kitty gave her a quick smile of encouragement.

One of the worst things about Check-In Days was that you never knew whether it'd be a whole long day of no one arriving, one spectacular fall from the ceiling and dropping dead after another, or anything in between. It made it hard to know what to do with yourself. After awhile, you got used to it and just kept on with whatever you'd do otherwise, and know that if you didn't step up for a new arrival, someone else would. But for someone not used to treating it like a responsibility to be here, especially someone with Liz's anxious need to be perfect at it, Check-In Day could be emotionally exhausting.

So Kitty made sure to have milk warmed for hot cocoa and her plans for the obstacle course handy in case Liz needed something to do with herself. Otherwise, she was working on a modification of Cerebro to see if she could start detecting new arrivals.


[ooc: Regular check-in day gathering post. If you want Kitty, ping me.]

Comments

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

"I guess you guys get into some sort of fight amongst yourselves and Stark picks him up and basically dangles the Avengers infront of him." This might be a little skewed from Alec's interpretation. "Basically encourages a fourteen year-old to play hero without any training."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"I don't know anything about a fight amongst ourselves, but I've also been gone from Earth for quite awhile," he says. Looking for Infinity Stones. Fighting his sister. Having a weapon forged capable of killing Thanos.

"Stark is a well-meaning idiot. He has made poor decisions in the past, but he's always done them for good reasons," he says. Thor thinks back to Ultron, frowning. Stark had been right about so many things then, even though his fear for the planet had led him down the wrong path that day. "The last I saw him, he wanted to protect the earth from outside forces without the use of human or Asgardian lives. I don't think he'd intentionally put a child in harm's way."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

"Intentionally or not," He shook his head and shrugged. "Just try not to give the kid a sense like what you guys do is all high fives and witty comebacks, is all I'm asking" Especially since Alec knew from having asked about Thanos, shit was hitting the fan back home.

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

Thor plucks his eye out of the cup and wipes it down with one of the napkins that Alec had given them earlier.

"Regardless of what Stark did or didn't do, I wouldn't recruit a 14-year old human to do what we're doing," he says. He's specific with the human part because there's plenty of species where fourteen would land them soundly in adulthood. "I don't think anyone would have the sufficient maturity to do what we do at that age. I didn't, until about 10 years ago."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

Alec was happy to see they were on the same page with that. He nodded. "Agreed." Of course it didn't matter if they agreed, 'I'm-mature-Peter' had to be the one to see that and he wouldn't probably ever.

"You know this is the first time, in a long time, where I've drank enough to feel a buzz."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"Me too," he says, popping his eye back into its socket. It rolls inside of his head for a moment before manually adjusting itself so it's facing pupil-out. "Something like, 6, 8 years now."

After awhile, you start to lose track.

"The only people who've been able to hold their own with me have been Asgardian."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

"Glad to know I was made to compete with an alien race in drinking." He smirked and finished off the tequila bottle.

"But I should stop before I have the wrath of Kitty for taking all the booze away from everyone else on arrival day."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"I think I'll stick around a little longer," he says, because ideally he'll be more than a little buzzed by the time he heads back to his room. "Promise I'll clean up before I leave."

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_x5_494]

"oh, I'm sure they'll let you get away with more things than they will me" He winked with a wry expression as he pushed off the bar.

"Thanks again" he held up the coaster as he started to walk away.

Re: Comparing Sizes - Tag Thor

[st_ormbreaker]

"Any time," Thor says with a wave. "We should drink again sometime."

Thor watches as Alec turns and leaves, then finishes off the bottle.