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When; Saturday, 10/27
Rating; Unknown, but Circus-related body horror in many threads
Characters; Bruce Banner, Luke, Serrure, Sif, Asami Sato, open to anyone in City Solutions or with a good reason to be there
Summary; Bruce has ended up treating several of the Circus' victims and now they're cluttering up his lab and apartment. Open post for people to visit Luke, Serrure, and Asami or pester Bruce (and possibly Sif)
Log;

Bruce's lab and apartment hadn't been intended as a makeshift hospital ward, but there they were. He'd set Asami up in his bedroom and Luke and Serrure were still kept in separate rooms to keep their magnetism from dragging their wounded bodies back together.

He's immediately available by network, but at the moment he's in his kitchen brewing up some chamomile tea. More accurately the water's heating and he has his forehead pressed against the stainless steel door of his fridge.

[ooc: Just set up threads for the various temporary residents for easy visitation.]

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[Eventually, Luke gives up. This is all getting tiresome, and he's been practising with the magnetic pull, so he thinks he might manage. Anyway, he's bandaged. It can't reattach when there's bandages, surely. So he redopes himself, and then ambles into Serrure's room.]

I'm tired of shouting.

I heard shouting was cathartic. Primal something or another. [And he's propping himself up on his elbows.] Let us never do this again.

Be sewn together? I am not sure we could have helped it. [He walks over and kneels at the side of the bed.] I'm sorry it was so horrid for you.

Yes. That. That is a thing we ought not do again. If we can help it. [And he's reaching out a hand, carefully trying to in it up to pat Luke's head, pet him more like.] It was better with you there. Is that selfish? Possibly. Probably.

No, it's. There are few other people I would have wanted to end up sewn to. I would have borne it, but. And. I wouldn't want you sewn to a stranger. [He rests his head and arms on the bed, and reaches one arm out around Serrure's back.] I don't know why it's not healing. It ought. Mine ought, I mean, yours should too, right?

Yes. I think in any world Aesir and Jotun are more durable than mortals. Has it made us mortal? But we are not dying of said wounds either... [He's just going to wedge a bit closer to you, Luke. Serrure is quite more tactile than his older self was.]

Perhaps it has frozen our wounds, so that we might more easily, so that if they sew us, they only have to sew again, not dig out more flesh. Move over, I think, back and I shall try not to fall. [He pushes himself up just enough to kind of slide and flop onto the bed beside Serrure.] There must be a key to undo it.

[And he's scooting, going to toss an arm around Luke in a place that won't hurt Luke's shoulders.] Yes, but what? The stitches are out, those did not bind magic and ability. Nor did the cage. Perhaps something else, something at the circus itself holds us in stasis?

I was worried that our magic had been in the stitches, but something at the circus. I believe that's more likely. Why would they stitch us together? We are surely an attraction, each on our own. [Putting his arm back around Serrure is less painful, now. Not as much of a strain on his shoulder.]

Perhaps an OCD circus, Loki goes with Loki. It is the Loki exhibit and there can be only one. So they stitched us together and made us one. [Norse cuddle puddle. All they need is Leah. And now Thorxl.]

Wouldn't two be better than one, though? Perhaps only if one of us was a female Loki... Oh I think. I think they would have made a Loki tower if other male Lokis arrived.

A Loki totem. I fear where they would have stitched my evil Magpie. [You know. If it was real and existed outside Serrure's head.]

Onto the very top of your head! Or perhaps to one shoulder. Or. To your hand.

Hand. I'd think on the shoulder it would be more pirate than totem. [And perhaps they would sew the beak shut, though likely no such luck.]

There is that. I hope they'd not sew more to you. It's enough as this. Do you know, there have been other results. The...we might have had something other. I might have been flame, like Charlie is. Or maybe...something of me. I can't say. Sewing is not their only cruel talent. They're inventive and I might find it fun if they'd not hurt those I care for. There are ways they might have done things without...the caging is not, or the pain.

They could have made it fun instead of terrible. [Serrure agrees with this and snuggles against Luke.] Mischievous rather than cruel.

Yes, yes, we've the right way of it. It ought to always be fun. [He squeezes Serrure to him tighter, not paying attention to his complaining shoulder.] We could teach the circus. If we were not going to destroy it, I mean.

We could sew them together. It would only be fair.

Yes! Sew all of them, a big chain. They would deserve the film.