fandomhigh | people suck except when they don't | thursday | period 2

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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"I don't think he'll let you take him apart," he mused. He should probably be more sceptical, but Fandom seemed easier to cope with if he just rolled with it.

"Hey, now, I'm not that kind of scientist." Claudia didn't even do well with biology classes. She was a chemistry and physics girl.

"I feel safer already," he teased her.

"I may have to try for a stealth x-ray, though."

She could totally build a stealth x-ray machine. It might not even horribly irradiate the person being x-rayed.

"Stealth x-ray?" he raised an eyebrow. "Aren't x-rays a bit too big to be stealth?"

"Not if you build them to look like refrigerators?"

Jacob laughed. "Sure sure, and you're going to sneak a fridge in here?"

"I could call it a housewarming gift?"

"Won't it stand out if he can't put his food inside?" Jacob asked. "Or are you going for a fully functional fridge/x-ray machine?

"Don't see why not. As long as I'm building x-ray machines in the first place." You really wouldn't want to eat anything in the fridge, though.

No, you probably didn't.

"You weren't lying about the mad scientist part," he decided.

"Nope," said Claudia cheerfully. She probably wouldn't build an x-ray machine shaped like a fridge, but the point was, if she decided to, she probably could. "Keeps things interesting."

"Of course it does," he eyed her. "Hey, no putting in x-rays in my phone."

Claudia snapped her fingers. "Man, there goes that plan."

"No spy stuff either," he warned, just in case. "I'm not that interesting anyway."

"Hey man, I'm a scientist, not a covert agent."

"Don't covert agents need scientist to invent the cool gadgets they can break?" Jacob asked.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean all scientists work for covert agents."

"I suppose it wouldn't be mad enough for you," Jacob agreed, grinning at her.

"We tend to be more interested in our own agendas."

"And what's on your agenda?" he asked curiously. "Beside providing the world with x-ray fridges."

Claudia pursed her lips and cast him a sidelong glance. "You really wanna know?"

"I wouldn't ask if I didn't," he pointed out. "Don't hold back, I can take it."

Claudia paused, then leaned forward and lowered her voice. "I'm trying to recreate the experiment that killed my brother."

He blinked and studied her, having no idea if she was joking or not. "What kind of experiment?" he asked quietly after an instant.

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