"Oh, Christ," is the first thing Stephen grumbles when he spots Loki.
Really? Is he that unlucky? Whatever this is -- alternate reality, different world, nightmare, whatever -- he has to run into the chaotic, uncontrollable gremlin he'd once dropped into a portal loop? The last he'd heard, Loki had been having dealings with the TVA (a group Stephen stays very far away from because he's doubtless pissed them off countless times now), but this Loki could be a different version entirely. There's quite of a few of him throughout the multiverse.
"Yes, the giant lump on your head definitely agrees with your assessment," he says dryly, because Loki might be Loki, but Stephen is still a doctor, and he's not even the kind that denies service because he finds the case boring anymore! (Mostly.) "Get over here so I can assess your injury, I need to be able to look at your pupils."
His hands are shaking more than usual, adrenaline and lack of magic and pain getting to him. Maybe if Loki plays nice and isn't a bedraggled hobgoblin, he might even rope him in to help with other injured passengers.
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Really? Is he that unlucky? Whatever this is -- alternate reality, different world, nightmare, whatever -- he has to run into the chaotic, uncontrollable gremlin he'd once dropped into a portal loop? The last he'd heard, Loki had been having dealings with the TVA (a group Stephen stays very far away from because he's doubtless pissed them off countless times now), but this Loki could be a different version entirely. There's quite of a few of him throughout the multiverse.
"Yes, the giant lump on your head definitely agrees with your assessment," he says dryly, because Loki might be Loki, but Stephen is still a doctor, and he's not even the kind that denies service because he finds the case boring anymore! (Mostly.) "Get over here so I can assess your injury, I need to be able to look at your pupils."
His hands are shaking more than usual, adrenaline and lack of magic and pain getting to him. Maybe if Loki plays nice and isn't a bedraggled hobgoblin, he might even rope him in to help with other injured passengers.