Thor, the date-whisperer

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Maria was feeling under the weather and so could not help with Liz's current dilemma. When she had left her room to go to the boutique for a new dress, she was thankful to have run into Thor. When she explained she had a date - a more romantic one than usual - and she felt like she had literally nothing to wear, Thor had said he would help her be date-ready in no time.

Liz's big problem was that she felt like Peter had seen all of her wardrobe at least five times and she wanted to 'wow' him. It might have been silly - they had been dating for almost a year now - but she still did.

She dumped the various new dresses from the boutique than had been in her size onto the bed. "Okay... one of these has to look nice, right?"

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"All of them nice," Thor agrees, a hand raised to his mouth in thought. "I think you should try the blue one, though. You always look very nice in blue."

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She shifted through a few that were various shades of pink until she found a blue dress. Somehow she felt a little guilty for taking it away from someone else who would probably like it just as much. Still, she did think it looked pretty on the hanger.

"Thank you, by the way... I know this is, um. Well, probably not what you want to do on a Saturday..." She headed toward the bathroom.

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"I'm thankful for the distraction. And besides that, I owe you for all the cooking lessons you've given me."

Which had been considerable.

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She didn't close the door the entire way since she trusted Thor not to peek. She spoke from the other side of the door.

"Is it about Loki?" Since his journal entry had obviously not gone unnoticed.

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"Is what about Loki?" Thor asks, confused. He hadn't quite made the entire connection, until a second later, things snapped into place.

"Oh, no," he says. "Nothing to do with Loki. Not now, anyway. This place gets very dull after awhile."

And once it got dull, that's when Thor's mind started wandering, which really was rarely a good thing these days.

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"I guess being a superhero means you're sort of used to, um... more interesting things, huh?" She knew Peter was bored here, which is why she made a lot of effort to do different things.

She somehow managed to zip up the dress, though she wasn't sure she could unzip the dress on her own after. Straightening it, she opened the door to reveal herself to Thor.

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"You look good!" Thor exclaims with delight. "Turn around. Do you have shoes? How about a coverup?" It was starting to get pretty chilly at night.

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She flushed a little. "Thanks." Somehow a compliment from Thor seemed to feel more weighty - maybe because he seemed honest enough to tell you if you didn't look good.

"Oh, um... I have these black sandals." Liz moved to the closet and produced the black sandals she owned.

"As for a cover up.... I have.... Peter's hoodie?" She offered an awkward expression, questioning whether that was good or not - she didn't think so.

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"Peter's hoodie isn't going to look very good over that," he says. "No one will be able to see your dress."

Thor frowns, brows furrowed in thought. "If you have a length of fabric, we can probably make a shawl out of it. There's this other thing this Xandarian woman I was seeing did with a curtain when she spilled drink all over her person, if you don't mind putting holes in things."

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Liz thought. She didn't have fabric lying around. She supposed she could ask Corbie, but that wasn't a gaurantee. Then a lightbulb went on and she went to the closet and pulled out a long white skirt. "Could we use this? It's not really a favourite of mine so I wouldn't mind cutting it up."

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"That will probably work," he says, taking it into hand. The pre-existing hole might made it difficult. The asymmetry might make it work. If it didn't, he had no other backup; he wasn't even entirely sure he could remember what else his Krylorian girlfriend had done to make it look like something more than a piece of fabric, though he could remember how it looked on her perfectly.

He carefully rips a second hole on the longer length of fabric behind the first hole. "Put this on," he says. "We're going to do something with it.

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"How did you get so good at this?" Thor had to be more observant than he let on, really. And he was resourceful, though Liz figured that was probably a superhero necessity.

She put on the white fabric that was one a skirt and held out her arms so she was making a T. "Now what?"

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Thor leans over and attempts to adjust their impromptu fabric into a little vest, just as his ex had all those years ago.

"I'm over 1500 years old and traveled across the entire universe," he says, trying to remember which way it went. He just needs to fool around a little, that's all. "It'd be a little concerning if I didn't pick up a few tricks along the way."

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"I guess that's true." She smiled at him, letting him fiddle. "It's funny, you know... I haven't really met a lot of aliens who don't look human." She knew Xavin didn't in their original form, but that was it. "I'm sure there has to be a lot of different sort of aliens out there, though."

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"Many do," he says. "And many appear to be human-like, but have different internal composition or genitalia. My physiology makes me stronger and faster and more resilient than humans. It's very difficult to knock an Asgardian down."

Thor pulls a flap over her shoulder, and then the other and there -- he has it! He steps away and surveys Liz with a light smile.

"It looks good."

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For a moment, Liz tried to picture various different types of aliens and then stopped because it was getting too weird. She flushed a little.

The flush remained when Thor stepped back and complimented her. Liz looked down at what Thor managed to make with the once-skirt and was surprised. It definitely didn't look like a skirt anymore.

"This looks... it's really pretty. I would never have thought of doing this. Thank you." She looked fondly at him.

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"Happy to help. Uh..."

He gestures to her hair.

"Did you require assistance with your hair?" he asks hopefully.

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She couldn't help but smile at Thor. It hadn't gone unnoticed that he liked hair and while she often avoided Annie for the little girl's sake, she knew Thor enjoyed braiding his hair.

"Actually, um." She clasped her hands together in front of her. "I was hoping you might like to do something? I was kind of hoping for something different than I usually do." Which was either hair up or hair down except for rare occasions.

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"I'd like to," Thor says. "My hair used to be considerably longer than this until some creepy man cut it off."

He takes a seat in one of Liz's chairs, and gestures her to join him.

"When we were much younger, Loki and I used to braid each other's hair."

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"You braided Lokis?" She knew, of course, that Loki had long hair. "Why doesn't Loki braid it now?"

Liz followed Thor's directions and joined him at the chair. She trusted Thor with her hair - there were only a few men she would do that with, actually.

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"I don't know," he says, combing his fingers through Liz's hair. "Once we got older he stopped doing it, but you stop doing plenty of things when you get older."

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"I think he'd look nice with one." Though she was aware of then tension between the brothers so she wasn't about to suggest that Thor try to do now.

"For a while when I was younger, I always wanted a sibling. But Maria was there since kindergarten, so she's sort of like a sister to me."

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"Friends are often as good as siblings," Thor says, as he begins to braid her hair. "I have seen your friend around, but I haven't yet met her. It is good she is here with you."

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"Sometimes I feel a little guilty because I'm glad she's here, but her being here means she can't go home." Thus, the guilt. "She thinks Mr. Rodgers is really cute."

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"I think we can all agree that he's handsome," Thor says, continuing to work on her hair. "I think all of the Avengers are, in their own way."

Some might not think some the older or ordinary Avengers to be handsome, but Thor certainly thought so. Especially the one he was dating.