foster_jane (foster_jane) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2013-04-29 22:45:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, darcy lewis, jane foster |
Pancake Date
Who: Jane and Darcy
What: Catching up over pancakes.
Where: Starting at Darcy's then an IHOP
When: After this
Rating: R for a bit of swearing
Status: Complete!
Today was pancake day. Not that it was named that, Darcy was pretty sure that official pancake day was a couple of months ago. Either way she was all for having pancakes with Jane before work. She hadn’t really talked to Jane all that much lately, so she figured that hanging out with her bestie for some friend time was definitely needed. She asked her to pick Darcy up early in the morning and so she was waiting for Jane to pick her up. Last night she had hung out with Loki, though she wasn’t quite sure what to think about that.
Her relationship with Loki was pretty complicated and confusing. Boys were always that way. Sometimes she thought he liked her and other times decidedly not. Darcy tugged on her shoes and went to answer the door once she heard the knock. “It’s for me, Hank!” she called into the house and then opened the door.
“Hello love of my life.”
“Hello forgettor of that fact,” Jane winked and hugged Darcy with a grin. As she stepped back from her, she couldn’t help but have a little spy over her shoulder to investigate Darcy’s new place. Hey, I’m a scientist, she mentally shrugged to herself. “Nice digs...You about ready?”
She laughed and hugged Jane back tightly. “I didn’t forget! How could you say that I’ve forgotten.” Ah yes, the new place. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to live with Jane, but Hank was in desperate need of companionship. Darcy just felt bad. And it was a decent place. “Yep, I’m ready. Let’s blow this popsicle stand.” Grabbing her stuff, she headed out with her friend.
Jane led the way back to her car, slid into the drivers seat and struck it up. Once Darcy was settled, she pulled away and started the drive to the IHOP. “So how’s it been? Living with a random guy?” Jane teased her friend lightly with a grin. She knew Darcy didn’t mean anything by not moving in with her, she actually thought it was quite sweet that she wanted to live with this guy, but that didn’t stop her teasing her about it.
“He’s not totally random. He works at Stark. And he’s a lovable nerd. But things are okay.” Darcy shrugged a little bit. “Loki is home. He and Thor might be starting some kind of .. company. They want me to run PR on it. Once they start it. That’s about it though.” Nothing too exciting.
“Oh, well, that’ll be cool I guess,” Jane replied, moving swiftly past the mention of Thor. “Tell me more about him then, this...Hank, is it?” she asked, stopping at a stop sign to look both ways before continuing on.
“Might not pay as much as Tony will, but eh. I mean I want to help y’know?” She shrugged a little. “Uh Hank is sweet, but he’s a super nerd. Like he has a lab in the house. Like you! But with more beakers and things like that and less like uh.. radio equipment stuff. Or whatever it is that you use. He’s a total sweetie though.”
“Ahh...he’s a chem-monkey then,” Jane joked. “Cool, you just love the science types don’t ya?” Jane winked as she pulled into the IHOP car park.
“Yeah I think so. Something like that.” Like Darcy understood that at all. “Apparently I can’t get away from you nerds,” she teased with a smirk. “God.. nerds and magicians. What is my life?”
“Woah, woah, hold up there!” Jane stopped them as they came around the front of her kind. “Magicians?” she asked skeptically.
“Yeah. I mean.. Loki. I dunno how nerdy he is. But he’s a magician. Which is worse, I think.” Darcy shook her head in amusement as they got a table at IHOP and then got menus. Not that she didn’t know what she wanted. Cause she wanted pancakes.
Jane settled into the seat opposite Darcy. “Oh I see,” Jane nodded, opening up her menu. “So...uh...tell me more about this project you might be doing with Loki, then. I’m not sure I’ve met him yet,” Jane asked, hoping there wouldn’t be too much talk about Thor. She was, after all, just starting to feel like she was getting over him.
“Well he’s been doing his show in different countries. Now that he’s back, they were thinking of starting some kind of production company. Well because of him and because Thor’s an actor.” She shrugged, cause she didn’t know what they were planning. “But Loki is um.. the opposite of his brother. He and I have a weird.. relationship, I guess.”
“Weird? How so?” Jane asked curiously, putting her menu to one-side having decided on banana caramel pancakes.
“In a way I’m like his little sister I think? I mean I think he thinks of me that way, I dunno. But at the same time. He’s very uh.. charming. Everyone thinks we have some .. thing between us. But we don’t. He drives me crazy, but in a good way?” Darcy shrugged a little.
“Are you sure that’s all it is?” Jane asked, quickly giving her order to the waitress.
For a moment she was silent, trying to figure out a way to put it. “Even if it is, it doesn’t really matter. I’m jaded in the ways of love. We’d just end up hurting each other,” Darcy finally said.
“Oh god Darcy, don’t say things like that!” Jane told her, slouching back in her seat like a teenager. “If you give up what chance do the rest of us have?”
For some reason that made her laugh. “Just because I’ve given up doesn’t mean you have to. You’re so fantastic. And smart. You’re going to find the best guy.”
"But you're fantastic too!" Jane tried to make her see, reaching across to put her hand on Darcy's arm. "It bothers me when you put yourself down! You're so much better than that!"
“Everyone always says that. I just don’t.. I might be great, but that doesn’t mean I should go ruin a friendship or that he can’t find someone way better than me, Jane.” Darcy explained with a sigh. Not to mention that she was just scared and she didn’t know how not to be.
“Don’t make me reach over there and slap you, Darcy,” Jane grinned, pointing a finger at her friend. “None of this ‘he can find someone better than me’ crap! You may both end up unsuited to each other, but please don’t mistake that for not being good enough,” Jane tried to get her friend to understand. Shaking her head slightly, she tried a different tack, “What do you want?”
Eep. Darcy didn’t want to be slapped. Definitely not. “Well he can! Have you even had those dreams yet? I mean.. the things he does in them. It’s not that I think he’s going to turn into a psychopath or anything but..” she sighed a bit and couldn’t shake the feeling that it might end in tragedy. “I don’t want to lose my friend. I want to be with him, but doesn’t it always end in misery?”
“What dreams?” Jane asked quietly, sitting forward over the table. “My god, what does he do?!” Jane was concerned, what other joys could this merry dream world bring her in her sleep and manifest in reality?
Oh boy. “So you know how people are having the real dreams? And how they change people? Like making Thor all .. buff?” Geeze she was telling everyone about these things. “So in my dreams.. Loki wants to be king and that means killing Thor and.. well he tried to kill you and me in the process by sending this giant firey robot thing to Earth. It was awful.”
“He tried to kill us?! You’re sure he’s safe now? I’ve seen people talking about their dreams on the Net, I didn’t realise they changed people though,” Jane replied, sitting back as their pancakes arrived. “I mean...I’ve had some dreams, like, I dreamt I knocked Thor over with my van...twice,” she conceded reluctantly. “But nothing like the...doom you’re describing, guess that means I’ve got that to look forward to,” she commented grimly.
“I’m pretty sure. Mostly sure. 90 percent sure. 95 even. He’s never had a dream. He doesn’t know a damn thing about them. Maybe they don’t change him.” Darcy shrugged a little. “Maybe he won’t even have the dreams. It’s just weird. Yeah see, I remember that dream. You ran him over and I tazed him. I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I just .. wish I had balls not to get hurt.”
“You tazed him as well?!” Jane exclaimed, covering her mouth with her hand when she realised how loud she’d said it. She tried to suppress the giggle at the thought, a shockingly bad day by any standards. “Sorry, sorry,” she apologised, holding her hand up as she sipped her water to collect herself. “So, you do like him, you’re just worried about getting hurt?” she asked, understanding the fear all too well. It had stopped her from going after a few dating opportunities herself, worried that the change from friends to lovers would adversely affect them irrevocably.
Darcy laughed because she laughed. “Yeah I tazed him. When he first showed up. He was talking to the sky and freaking me out. Apparently I taze a lot of people in my dreams. And in reality.” Clearly she was just like her counterpart. She sighed a bit. “I might have been in love with him for a very long time. I’ve known them forever. It’s just.. that whole thing with Steve freaked me out. And I told myself I wouldn’t do that again.”
“Sweetie, this isn’t like you,” Jane said quietly, a little worried by her friend’s demeanour. “Where’s the gung-ho Darcy who’d taze someone if they even thought of shooting her down? Has he, y’know, dropped any hints or anything? Any signs?”
Yeah she knew it wasn’t like her. “Well that’s other guys. Any other guy isn’t Loki. I couldn’t taze him. Okay well I could taze him, but not about shooting me down. And he would. He would so shoot me down.” Darcy shrugged a little. “When it comes to him, I honestly can’t tell. He’s so.. y’know.. mysterious. You never know what he’s thinking.”
Jane glowered at Darcy mildly when she sounded so sure that Loki would shoot her down. “Sooo....” Jane grinned to herself as an idea formed in her head, eyes fixed on the fork she was playing with in her right hand. “Do you want me to do the nosey, curious scientist thing and see what I can find out from him?”
It wasn’t just that she thought Loki didn’t like her, it was a lot of other things. “Uh.. nosy around? Well.. I.. guess I wouldn’t mind. If you really want to anyway. But if he’s like oh god not her or something, just.. don’t tell me, okay? Don’t bring it up again.”
Jane hesitated as she watched Darcy talk. “I can..not talk to him if you’d like? I don’t mean to be pushy, it just kind of...freaks me out when you’re not your usual...you,” she shrugged, gesturing vaguely towards her with one hand.
“No, I mean .. it’s not that I don’t want you to talk to him. You can talk to him. I just don’t know what to do with myself. I mean the thought that we could have this good thing scares me. Not to mention if it doesn’t work? What then? I don’t want to not be his friend.” The whole thing was confusing. Darcy shrugged. “I’ll be back to shagging random guys in no time.”
“Darcy!” Jane grinned, a blush rising in her cheeks as she covered her mouth. Jane could be a bit of a prude at times, it was one of the main reasons she liked hanging out with Darcy, she was just so...real. “Y’know, I haven’t actually met this guy, for real or in a dream. Tell me about him, what does he look like? How did you guys meet?” she asked, then shoved some delicious pancake goodness into her mouth.
“What? It’s just the truth.” She half smirked and half shrugged. Darcy was amused by how Jane could be sometimes about sex, but she didn’t make fun of her for it. She just wanted her friend to be happy just like Jane wanted that for her. “Ah well he’s tall and really lanky. Like I could break him in half. A stick. He’s got black hair. It’s kind of slicked back most of the time. But he is.. completely gorgeous. Awfully so. Like it’s unfair to have his stupid face and his stupid cheekbones. And the way he smiles? Christ..” she sighed a bit. “We met a couple of years ago. He was a crappy magician in a club.”
“He sounds kind of emo,” Jane commented as she tried to picture him in her head from Darcy’s description. “But he’s a magician? That’s cool, like kid’s parties or full-on David Blaine kind of stuff?”
Darcy laughed a little. “He’s not emo. He’s mischievous and silly. He’s like the male me. Except with magic.” Cause she was not interested in magic. Ever. But she’d like it for his sake. “David Blaine kind. He has shows and stuff. You should go to one with me sometime. You’ll see.”
“I’ve never been to a magic show before, I’d like that,” Jane smiled. She always liked to try new things and from the sparse amount of magic she had ever watched on tv, she knew she could entertain her mind trying to figure out how they actually performed their tricks. “Has he got any shows coming up?”
“Cool. It’ll be fun. Hopefully you’ll like it and won’t think it’s cheesy. And if you do.. don’t tell him.” Darcy laughed a little. The last thing she wanted was a cranky Loki. “I think so. I’ll ask him and then let you know. I should know his schedule better, I guess.”
“Darcy, at this point, I think if you knew his schedule any better you’d be classified as a groupie,” Jane joked, chomping on another bite of delicious pancake. “Mmm...this,” she raised another forkful of pancake between them. “This was an amazing idea! Thank you!”
Her cheeks might have blushed just slightly at that. “Okay okay, I’m sort of a groupie.” Though she didn’t follow him around! Not yet anyway. “You’re very welcome. Pancakes are always the best way to start the day.” Darcy shoveled some into her face.
Jane grinned at her friend’s response, she knew Darcy wasn’t the crazy stalking kind of groupie, she was actually friends with the guy, but still, it felt good to bring a bit of levity to the conversation. She shook her head to clear her thoughts a bit. “We should do this more often. I was thinking of going to Stark and asking what he would want me to do as an intern for him. There’s no reason to inflict a bored Jane Foster on the world,” she joked. “And that’s what they’ll get if I don’t have something to do over summer,” she grinned, mopping up some caramel sauce with some pancake.
“Yeah we should. And you should totally join me at work so we can hang out at lunch together and get breakfast before. It’ll be fun,” Darcy agreed. “No we can’t have you being bored. The horror. People would have to run far away. You should definitely join us. I’ll keep you plenty busy. I’m sure that Stark will too. There will be all sorts of fun stuff.”
“Cool, I’ll send him an email and see what he wants me to do,” Jane told her. “Then we can have regular pancake dates,” she grinned happily at Darcy over the table.