stuck in an elevator

[sockagawea]

STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR MEME

You enter the elevator with only one other person on it. Twenty seconds into the ride and it stops. The power is stuck. The doors won't open, you're between floors, and no one is answering your calls. You're stuck with this person for an unknown amount of time.

①Post your character.
②Post to other characters.
③Have fun, anything goes.
④Profit.

Taken from memebells.

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Pepper Potts | MCU

[pottluck]

[hitfromthehill]

SHIELD was a state of the art organization, they were on the cutting edge of technology. They had a flying aircraft carrier in the sky, but did that mean anything when the elevator broke down? Not a whit.

Maria supposed she could have had worse company. She didn't know Pepper particularly well, but that didn't mean that she didn't enjoy the woman's company. The only thing that had ever struck Maria as odd about Pepper was that she was apparently just fine with spending an extended amount of time with Tony Stark, at least enough to spend very intimate time with the man and to keep coming back. She tried not to judge, but it was a concept that Maria had difficulty wrapping her head around.

She cleared her throat, looking over to the redhead. "Well, this is embarrassing. Or, it would be if I'd had any personal hand in building this specific facility," she told her with a sigh. "You didn't have anywhere urgent to be, did you?"

[pottluck]

Pepper has a near infinite amount of patience. Really, she has to just to survive a day with her job. An hour, some days. That's why the elevator shuddering to a halt earns little more than a slightly irritated huff of air through teeth, paired with a touch of her fingers to her forehead. She really doesn't have time for this, but that's okay. She pulls out her phone, already mentally sorting through the delays that can be made in meetings to prevent this from completely ruining her life.

"Urgent?" Yes. "No, nothing that can't be postponed."

At the end of the day everything can be put off a few hours, it's just a matter of the fact that she doesn't want it to. Still, even the most devoted of employees can't help but be a little relieved when given a legitimate excuse to get out of a particularly boring day. It takes a moment, but the irritation passes and she gives the other women a smile. "Who would have thought, even SHIELD has break downs."

[laevisilaufeyson]

"Well." Thin lips curve up in a wryly amused smile as Loki turns his eyes up towards the flickering lights. Today is games, suits and ties and scarves, the charming face, the kind one. Today, it could be argued, is reconnaissance, though the gathering of information implies intent, the sort of intent he doesn't quite carry -- at the moment.

He wonders for a moment if it's him, some sort of security on the building, tailored to alien physiologies, alien metabolisms -- but there are no boots on the floor, no shouts; a simple malfunction, hanging suspended in space between floors. Loki, who has hung suspended in another sort of space entirely, doesn't find it disagreeable. All the more so because of the company. He does hope there's footage. He does. How delicious it would be for someone to notice afterwards. He can imagine Stark analysing the whole of it, watching as the monster stands here, right here, so very close to her.

And walks away. Or will do, amusing though it might be for a moment to break her, this remarkable woman.

They'd not shown his face much, he muses, in their television stories. As always, it was deemed the details of the affair were best left indistinct. A mistake. The devil is in the details. Where he is now only proves it.

Loki steps forward. Reaches out.

Jabs the call button.

No response.

"That is typical." He slumps down the the floor sullenly, sighing heavily, back against one corner, knees bent and wrists resting on them.