♉ of course you'll be distracted when I spike the punch

[liesmith]

After sending Darcy along home with her exsanguinating friend, he returns to his own apartment (bought and paid for with false papers and rerouted funds and cloaked to the gills from any and all prying eyes, S.H.I.E.L.D.-employed or otherwise) to watch over the bustle of activity surrounding the Lewis residence. He doesn't peer into the apartment proper - Darcy's made that line very evident after a prior misunderstanding - but he does see the good captain carted off to medical facilities unknown. There's a momentary debate about whether or not to send a shadow clone after Rogers, to further plant the seeds of curiosity and doubt, but... Loki decides against it. If he's done his work properly then it will only be a matter of time until the captain comes looking for him.

This entire endeavor was meant to be so much simpler before Darcy had swept in in a poor imitation of her heroically inclined colleagues. Oh, well. Still, one must follow through on things.

So it is that Loki Silvertongue sits in the outdoor dining area of a local restaurant with a steaming cup of black tea. Clearing his throat, he raises his eyebrows at his guest and waits for acknowledgment.

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[liesmith]

Loki tuts. "Please, Darcy - I'm more than content with just the singular 'gard'." This is honestly as close as he and Darcy get to discussing his villainous life. Gotta love the not-talking they have going on.

"It's comforting to know you've a thoroughly thought out contingency plan. You'll never go hungry again." Yeah, no.

[tasering.livejournal.com]

"Comforting. Real comforting." Not. And she'd be lying if she said she hadn't thought about what his success might mean for her, though she normally stops when she gets to her friends all being dead or locked up somewhere as they're all the Avengers. Darcy really, really needs to get out and make some normal friends. Maybe like that Cho kid she knew back at college.

"Got a better option?" Spoken around her sandwich like a boss.

[liesmith]

"I do try." He says it with a careless shrug and a not so careless smile. Neither death nor incarceration would be an option if her friends would simply let him do his work - they bring it upon themselves every time they interfere.

Giving Darcy a withering look over his forkful of crostini - manners, child, you could do well to mind them - Loki replies, "I could always do with an extra hand. Good help is so very hard to find."

[tasering.livejournal.com]

Darcy wasn't raised as royalty in a palace a good fourth the size of a planet, he's going to have to excuse her manners. So she just rolls her eyes at the look she's getting from him before--

"Are you offering me a job as your henchman? Henchwoman?" She can't decide if that'd look horrible or awesome on her resumes. Not that she's considering it because Loki might be her father but he's still hellbent on taking over the world. And she likes living in a democracy as compared to a monarchy.

[liesmith]

It's not just royalty, it's simple, common-- Never mind, young lady. They'll speak of this another time.

"Nothing so trivial as that. It would be more along the lines of..." Loki pauses, chewing thoughtfully while trying to think of something appropriately professional sounding. "Executive administrator of logistics."

[tasering.livejournal.com]

"How very political of you. But no." And again, he might be her father but still evil villain wannabe overlord. Her resume might not be that impressive without it but she kind of likes her friends. It's a minor hangup.

Sort of.

"Maybe if they fire me, or if my friends don't work there anymore. And I'd only think about it." Darcy couldn't deny that it sounded cool at any rate.

[liesmith]

"Just informing you of your options, Darcy," is the neutral reply, before he places his silverware ever so precisely on his empty plate. It's a wonder that he manages to eat so much, so quickly, and still not have a crumb out of place. He's just that good.

Leaning back in his seat, he steeples his fingers, surveying his daughter over them. "Nepotism aside, I do hope you know that should you ever actively wish to change fields - not necessarily shift into mine, mind - but into a different area of any sort, you've only need say the word. I'll do whatever necessary to aid the transition."

Because while they've never really talked about how his goals and her (very up to rescheduling) nine to give contradict each other, Loki does realize that at the very least it could put the two of them at odds. At the worst, it could put one of them in a serious amount of danger.

[tasering.livejournal.com]

She'd be lying if she said she hadn't thought about it. A quick nudge here and there to get her into the right spot at the right time and an extra flourish in the interview. But Darcy likes to think she deserves her promotions and her jobs, even things like internships.

Not that she was against a nudge in the right direction, but overtly stacking the odds for instant acceptance into anywhere and anyplace she chose? She couldn't really get behind that - Jane had set too good of an example.

"If I need it, I'll let you know." Darcy meets his gaze for a moment or so before returning to her sandwich because seriously, Loki eats far too quick for his own good. "But I'm pretty happy where I am, least for the moment."

It's true - though the for the moment was the key part. When her entire job/life/whatever SHIELD was hinged on her not doing exactly what she was doing, well... for the moment was the best phrasing she could come up with.