They met her father at his townhouse, and after a late lunch, they settled in the living room, Anna in a chair, and her Dad and his sister on the couc...h."Anna, honey," her dad stammered out, "after I got your call Friday night, I called Jaye. We talked it over and decided it's time to lay all the cards on the table, so to speak. I ... ah..." Her dad couldn't seem to find the words."It was the summer of 1938," Jaye said softly. "Your dad had just graduated from West Point. He was twenty-two. I. Loki sighed, and said, "I should have expected that. But I had soassumed he and his friends would take advantage of the situation andcreate even more chaos. When he wouldn't ... well, I lost my temper."'Be that as it may, Loki, the point is the gag's over. How about youhang it up, and go bug Asgard, or whatever it is you do when you're nottrying to make mortal lives miserable," I replied."Well, things have calmed down a bit ... but how about I just takeCoyote's power from you and see how much. ." I said teasingly, stubbing my cigarette out under the heel of my boot and playing into the situation. "Sometimes a girl like me finds herself wanting an 'old smelly dirty man' like you. Some of us get a kick from turning on a man so much older than them." Hah! Well I have yet to find a girl like that!" He chortled, and then looked closer at me."One day you might." I said and winked, and went to walk off past him."Too right." He said, and stepped closer invading my personal space. "One day I. She won’t see it that way, at least not at first, but we can work on that.”“That’s the easy part.”“The easy part?”“She blames herself for hurting me and Andy. She spent yesterday back on the ventilator and she was on it when Andy visited. When he got home, he was in pieces. I know he tried really hard to keep it together while he was here but I think Candy picked up some of how much he’s worried about her. What started out as a fun way to spice up their marriage has turned out... well... not.
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