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Perpetual lazy ass or not, Loki made damn sure not to be late for his first day of class. Wouldn't want the students they could push him around now even if it was the first class and destined to be a little easier than most other classes.

When the students piled in, Loki was leaning against the desk at the front of room, looking as smug as ever. Once they'd settled, he pushed away from the desk and started talking.

"Welcome to class." See, he was polite? Fuck you, Metatron, he was plenty polite. "I'm Loki and I think some of you have had me before. If you haven't, well, all the better for you, right? If you don't already know, this is People Suck Except When They Don't and if you don't already fucking know that, it's a damn good thing you're here, isn't it?"

It was meant to be a pep talk but with the way Loki tended to talk, it sounded more like an order peppered with curse words. "Now, this first week is always fucking easy, right? We all get to know each other and shit like that. I'm not going to deviate from that template because I wouldn't want to fuck with your heads too much. Brief overview of the class, though. Here, we're going to learn how to deal with all types of people. Your boyfriend or girlfriend, your lover, your other teachers, your parents, authority figures, the annoying fucker on the bus who smells, the person who won't stop staring at you and everything in between. If you don't think I'm qualified for that well, then you're fucking wrong. I've been around for a fucking long time. Ask anyone in here that knows.

He was pretty sure there were a few people in here who knew what he actually was. If he got motivated, maybe he'd even tell people. "But, we'll get to that. For now, introductions. Tell me your name, age, and then label yourself. Yes, label yourself. For instance, I'd be Loki, I'm a lot fucking older than all of you and I'm a smug motherfucker. Easy, right? Oh, and I'll be randomly choosing two of you during this to be my TA's. Better make 'em good. Now, it's your turn. Go."

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"Oh yes," Karla said, all wide-eyes and innocence. "Absolutely."

"What a fucking liar." That was easy enough to tell. "Isn't there some rule about not lying to your professors?"

Like Loki cared.

"Almost certainly." Karla's expression was very earnest now. "But I'm willful and troublesome. So I didn't think it applied to me."

"And why think that?" Loki asked, fixing her with a look. "You're making assumptions already? And we've only been here a little while. That's liable to get your ass killed some day."

"I'm making assumptions based on what I know I can do," Karla said immediately. "And under very specific circumstances."

"You don't think the rule about lying to a professor, who is me right now, doesn't apply to you because of what you can do?" Loki asked, trying to get it straight.

"I think the rule about lying to a professor, who is you right now, doesn't apply to me when it's clear I'm not trying to make you believe the lie," Karla replied. "I felt confident in my ability to say yes in such a way that you would immediately understand that I meant no. And you did."

"I bet you drive people fucking crazy," he said, grinning. "Tying them up in knots with your way of talking in circles. Not bad."

Karla beamed at him. "It drives the boyos back home crazy. Which is only fair."

"I'm sure the boyos here think about the same," he laughed. "We'll see how often you manage to do it to me."

"If I promise not to try, will I get in trouble for lying again?" Karla asked with a laugh.

"You can promise, I just don't know if I'll believe you," Loki said, snickering. "Besides, what would be the fun of making promise not to do that? Leaves no challenge for me to try and do it right back to you."

"It's less fun if I have to work to break your brain," Karla said after a moment's thought. "Not saying I won't, but there's just that added level of satisfaction if I'm crazy-inducing all by my adorable self."

"I've dealt with a lot of craziness," he said, looking amused. "You're welcome to try but it's going to take a fucking lot."

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