Wow this took forever, mostly bc I lost my vision for where this was going so, meh, here you go!

Skipping school is wrong, she says. It's truancy. If they get caught-

"We won't get caught."

Loki takes them to central park. They sit alone in Strawberry Fields in Central Park and Darcy feels very disconnected from the day she had been having up until then. It doesn't feel like she was ever at school. She feels like sitting in Strawberry Fields with Loki and watching people walk past has been their thing for an age now.

Loki looks peaceful, unconcerned by the act of magic he has just committed.

"This isn't going to be a thing," he says finally. She isn't sure if she believes him, she isn't sure if she likes the idea of it being a thing though. Darcy is quiet, quiet, quiet and Loki doesn't seem to care. He continues to watche people drift past without much concern for her but when a sketchy looking man settles on a bench near them she feels his hand lowering on to her shoulder.

"Come on."

They walk aimlessly around the park. Eventually the silence gets to her and she pulls her ipod from her jacket, offering him an earbud. It seems fitting to listen to Andrew Bird. If Loki likes the music he doesn't say so, but he doesn't recline her offer and does fit the earbud in. They walk close to keep from pulling the headphones out of each other's ears.

Eventually his arm slides around her waist.

Eventually, he takes her home.

"Is this true?"

Vice Principal Coulson looks between the two but directs the question to Darcy. They weren't caught because there was nothing to catch. Everyone saw it happen. Vice Principal Coulson has them pulled out of homeroom the very next day to dole out proper punishments but Loki speaks plainly of his reasons for doing what he did.

"Yes, sir."

He throws Amora under the bus.

Amora doesn't take this lightly.

Things get tricky. Things get tough. Real tough. Darcy can't prove it's Amora just like she couldn't really prove it had been Loki that made her lunch fly that first time, but she's sure it's the Asgardian's work. Who else would even bother? But she takes it like a fucking champ, with a shit eating grin and sharp glances given to the blonde when she passes.

Eat me, blondie.

First it's her locker. Her books are covered in shaving cream. Then her gym clothes go missing from her locker. Then it's not just then they go missing but right after she takes a shower after P.E. and her towel is gone and so are all the ones that should be on the sheves in the girl's locker room.

Darcy gets detention for walking butt naked out of the girl's locker room to get towels from the boy's. Poor Coach Rand dropped the net bag of footballs he has been holding and Mr. Murdock, who was walking with him, is told it's a damned good thing he couldn't see.

Things get tricky and she can't just call her out on her shit and it feels like it'll end soon enough anyway because Loki is back to sitting beside Amora at lunch and back to ignoring Darcy where everyone can see.

But no one knows that when they walk home early from cafe studying sessions he pulls her through space and time and god knows what until they're spending the afternoon in Central Park.

It's not a thing, he says. Not a thing at all.

It's so a thing. It's such a thing that Darcy expects it every time and poor Steve is left wondering why she won't let him drive her home anymore and Jane finds it curious that Darcy and Loki both decide to skip the cafe sessions all together, without much explanation given as to why and where they do their studying now.

It's such a thing and when he kisses her under the golden trees that shed their leaves with slightest breeze he says, not a thing, not a thing, but she can feel his heart's bray under her fingertips and it says differently.

She kisses him back and his tongue is so very cold against her warm lips.

She's seventeen and her first love is a god with a bad reputation and a vengeful ex girlfriend that will stop at nothing to make Darcy feel her pain. She's seventeen and her first love won't kiss her in front of people they know but he'll hold her hand in front of complete strangers in a park.