bakerstreet | Insomnia

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It happens to everyone - sometimes, you have nights where you just can't fall asleep, no matter what you do. It could be for a number of reasons, or no reason at all. And this is what's happened now: you've been laying in bed for what feels like hours, just tossing and turning, and nothing seems to help. So what's left to do? Get out of bed and go wake someone else up, of course. If you're not getting any sleep, then why should they?

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01 • FEAR.

Maybe you're hearing strange, indeterminable noises; maybe there's a severe storm happening outside; maybe you watched a scary movie before bed? Whatever the reason, you're terrified and it's keeping you awake. You just want to wake someone else up so they can protect you from the monster in your closet.

02 • HUNGER.

Your stomach is growling and it just won't stop. Or perhaps your throat is so dry you could cough up a tumbleweed? Well, you've gone to the kitchen to remedy this and hey, that was a pan that just dropped on the floor. It was loud enough to wake the dead! Oops.

03 • PAIN.

Your body is completely worn out, be it from exercise, battle, sickness, or what have you. Either way you're in enough pain to keep you from sleeping, so maybe someone else has a home remedy or something, or can at least help you take your mind off of it.

04 • SOLITUDE.

For some reason, your bed just feels so empty at the moment. You're feeling terribly lonely and really just want someone to keep you company for a while. Maybe it'd be easier to fall asleep if you're with them...

05 • DISCOMFORT.

Your room is an oven. Either that or a freezer. Or maybe this bed is just really uncomfortable? Who knows why you can't get to sleep, it feels like it could be anything. Why even bother trying? Maybe someone else can preoccupy you until you feel tired enough to ignore your discomfort.

06 • PENSIVE.

Something's on your mind, and no matter how hard you try to focus elsewhere, it's just not going to work. Your body may be tired, but your mind is incredibly busy and it's virtually impossible to get to sleep. Surely, talking it out with someone else will help?

07 • SADNESS.

Something terrible has happened that day, perhaps; or you could just be severely depressed. Either way you're trying your hardest not to cry yourself to sleep, and it's not working at all. Better find a way to get it out of your system somehow; you need a shoulder to cry on.

08 • ANGER.

You are just... fuming. Who knows why - that annoying dog is barking again, or maybe the people next door are getting busy and keeping you awake. Whatever the reason for your ire is, you'd better put an end to it so you can get some damn rest already! Go wake up a friend so you can complain to them.

09 • RESTLESS.

You're far too energetic to sleep right now. Maybe you're just trying to do so out of necessity - you have to be up early tomorrow! But you just don't think you'll be able to fall asleep for a while now, so why waste the time trying to sleep when you could be doing something else? Namely bothering someone else - you're totally jealous because they're getting more sleep than you.

10 • WILDCARD.

Choose one of the options above, or make up your own scenario.

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"Yeah, go bother some other planet. This one's got a bunch of dysfunctional idiots and myself protecting it."

Guess that was his thing now. He still doesn't really know how he feels about it but it's gonna be a thing.

"Pay's not great but I get my face in the news a lot and I do like showing off."

His ego loves it.

"Well, I know that now. I should have done more research, wouldn't you say?" He shook his head, amused, but it was true and he knew it. His temper tantrum had cost a lot of lives and damage, but it did give Midgard a capable group of heroes.

"Not to point out the obvious, Stark, but I doubt you have ever not shown off." One diva to another.

"Well, sometimes it's needed."

Because Loki's right. He was absolutely a showoff and if the situation called for it, he was going to show off. Pepper was there to temper him sometimes but even she couldn't always control him.

"And at least I can back up my talk. Got the action to make sure that I'm not all bark and no bite."

"I do not disagree."

Loki probably needed someone like Pepper to keep him in line. That may be why he doesn't let anyone get that close.

"Are you saying I can not?"

"I didn't say that," Tony remarks with a little flick of his wrist. He smiles because it seems like he hit a nerve there.

"That's you being presumptuous," he adds, tsking lightly. "I'm sure you can back up your talk but obviously not very well if you're stuck here and about to be dragged back to Asgard."

"It sounded implied."

Staring at Tony a moment, tempted to say something, then he just shook his head and sat back in the chair.

"I had other options. I could have languished in a cell for eternity, gone on the run like the stories of old. Or the choice, I took. Try to do better, as for being dragged back. I asked Thor to return me. Despite how it sounded earlier, it is my choice to return home. I can do no good here in this state, so it is a moot point. I have fought enough losing battles to admit defeat."

"Yeah, sorry we didn't give you that warm a welcome on Earth. But we've got enough issues to deal with. We don't need some Asgardian god wrecking havoc."

You could go anywhere and done anything and you picked a place with very, very stubborn enhanced humans.

"You could still do good, you know. That's what happened to me. I know it'll be hard to believe but I wasn't always the great guy that you see before you now."

"I can not exactly fault you mortals for that." He admitted with a shrug. In all fairness, he would have never have forgiven a mortal if they had invaded Asgard intent on subjugation. Even if he had his reasons, it didn't matter.

And a place with a hulk. Terrible choice.

Arching a brow as he listened. "Tell me, I know very little of you from before my arrival."

"You want to know about me?"

Consider Tony a little suspicious. He arches an eyebrow, tries to find some kind of angle that he might be playing.

"You don't think what you know is enough?"

"You did mention it, and I crave most knowledge, if that is not clear." He motioned to the book and the tablet.

"Knowing about you have little benefit aside from sating my curiosity. You've never feared me, you're intelligent, don't sleep and are wealthy, but I know little more than that." He snapped before adding. "And stubborn. Come now, it can be like our sleep game. Share and share alike."

Loki really needed to make friends of his own instead of borrowing his brothers when bored.

The difference here is that Tony doesn't really like to share a lot about himself. Some people are stubborn enough to get it out of him but sharing with Loki?

He just wonders if there's an angle.

"What do you want to know specifically?"

It was a difference, and one Loki expected not to work in his favor, but curiosity was stronger than logic at the moment.

"How if you were not great before, how did you become the Ironman that Midgard adores. That is what I am asking. Did you think yourself worthy of change?" Sitting back a little more in the chair and crossing one leg other the other. Waving a hand as he added. "That is what I am trying to understand."

"People can change."

Even people like him. He shrugs a shoulder. He still retained a lot of the same qualities that made him kind of a terrible person but he'd grown a lot. He'd had to if he was going to be some superhero saving the world.

"I originally built the suit to try and get myself out of a sticky situation. Held hostage overseas. It wasn't the whole thing, just some parts, but it worked. And then it kind of went from there."

"So I have been told, multiple times. I, however, am not human. I wonder if that even counts for me."

Years of growing up bring told Jotuns are monsters sure did a number on him. But he's trying.

"I see, hard to imagine you being held hostage, or less than you are now." The last bit meant a hero, but maybe Tony had a point.

"Yeah, well..."

Tony shrugs. He doesn't really want to think too much about his time as a hostage. He knows plenty of people have gone through harder things but it had still been rough.

It had led to good things but it's the past.

"I wasn't exactly expecting it to happen so I wasn't prepared. Suit and tie and a pen in my pocket. Can't really do a lot of damage with that."

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