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Summer couldn’t help but laugh at that. “And there’s a thing I can’t argue with.” She toyed with her glass for a moment, spinning it in circles. “Not that I actually have a whole lot to do today, but I don’t want to just take up your time for no reason. Err, maybe some day you could introduce me to some of your friends here?”
Jane smiled. “Sure I could. I don’t have a lot of friends, but…” She shrugged, and chuckled. “You could meet Pepper, definitely. And Thor, obviously. And Darcy, too. She was my intern back in New Mexico, and I know she was living here for a little while, at least.” Darcy and Summer would get along really well. “And Charles, too, if I can track him down again at some point.” Something occurred to her. “Actually, you and Charles would get along really well. He’s a telepath.” She grinned. “And he’s incredibly friendly.”
“A telepath,” Summer mused. “Interesti—Charles. A telepath named Charles. /You/ know Professor X?!” She laid her head down on the table. “I must have done something wrong in my life, all the good stuff fell to you.”
Jane laughed and shook her head. “You didn’t do anything wrong! I just… it happens to be a lot of strange coincidences,” she said, shrugging. “But honestly, I’ll introduce the two of you. He’s amazing, he really is, and he’s always eager to learn more about anyone and anything.” She smiled. “He’d probably say that you’re fascinating.”
“No, just insane,” Summer replied, grinning back. “I should just make you list all the famous people you know and be done with it, then tag along on one of your days just so I can say I laid eyes on them all.”
She looked out at the street, a little amazed. One random e-mail, and somehow things turned right around. Okay, so maybe Loki wasn’t the safest friend to have, all touch-me-not and distant, and Jane was often busy with her research, but it was a far cry better than when she’d first come here, alone and empty and hurting.
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Summer rolled her eyes right back. “I didn’t say jump right into bed. I said be honest. If you talk about everything, then let everything include why you think he might be offended. Or ask him why he thinks you might be offended.”
“Jane, I’m really serious about this. I — you’re my friend, and I don’t want to see you hurt because the two of you fumbled around trying /not/ to hurt each other.” Summer looked away, at the city skyline, her mouth crimping. “I tried that. I won’t let what happened to me, happen to you. I just won’t.”
Jane smiled, her expression sort. “Summer. Trust me, that’s not going to happen,” she said. “I know I probably made it sound like the two of us never talk, but… like I said, it’s just.. it’s complicated.” She shrugged. They talked, but they also just sort of had a lot of silent understandings of each other. They’d been that way since the beginning. It was why they worked together.
“What happened to you, though?” She raised an eyebrow, suddenly curious. She didn’t know much of anything about Summer’s personal life outside of what she’d known in high school.
“I fell in love,” Summer said lightly, blinking a few times before looking back at Jane. “I fell in love, and they never loved me back. And I always knew. No matter how much we tried not to hurt each other with that knowledge … ” She shook her head. “You don’t know how lucky you are, Jane, being ordinary.”
Jane sighed, frowning just a bit. “I’m sorry,” she said. “Just… that it happened to you, I mean. You’ll find someone. Someone who loves you.” And sometimes that was hard to believe – hell, Jane had given up on it after Donald – but then she’d met Thor. Sometimes… things just fell into place.
“Y’know… I used to think I was ordinary. And I guess, compared to you, maybe I am, but…” She shook her head. “Sometimes I wish Thor was just a normal person. You stop being ordinary when you start seeing a god.”
Summer couldn’t help but laugh at that. “And there’s a thing I can’t argue with.” She toyed with her glass for a moment, spinning it in circles. “Not that I actually have a whole lot to do today, but I don’t want to just take up your time for no reason. Err, maybe some day you could introduce me to some of your friends here?”
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