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Who: Mr. & Mrs. Duderaider
What: A very awkward married date night (yes at a library. nerds.)
When: Shortly after they encounter each other over the network
Where: The great library, Odin district
Rating: oh who the hell knows with these two lmfao TBA

It wasn't an uncommon thing for Nate to say or do something and then immediately regret it after. That was just the kind of person he was. Shoot first, ask questions later. Do what feels good until it chafes. Of course, when he sat down and actually thought about it, he wasn't really sure what part of asking Elena to get together was a good idea, or at what point it actually felt good. There was something weird going on in this place, and he knew it, and he also knew that she wasn't nearly as pissed off at him as she should've been. It was a curious thing, and since the bear didn't seem to be quite ready to maul him just yet, Nate thought he could stand to poke it again.

Now that he was sitting at a table in the library anticipating Elena's arrival, he was removed enough from the conversation and situation in order to see how much of a truly bad idea this was. Her memories might be fucked up and out of order, but his sure weren't. The last time he'd seen or spoken to his wife, it'd been World War 3. Under any other circumstance, he would've never reached out to Elena like this, and in fact would've run in the other direction if he saw her coming. He was sure that she hated him by now, was ready for divorce papers to show up in his mailbox every day, and it just wasn't something that he was ready to deal with yet. Not that he ever would be.

Nate slunk down a little in his seat and tried to focus on the book in his hands. It was just a simple history book on ancient Nordic civilization. Nothing he didn't already know, unfortunately. But for the life of him, he couldn't seem to find anything about this particular version of Asgard itself anywhere in the library. He did, however, find a part of the building that was completely and utterly inaccessible. It didn't take him long to put two and two together, but all things considered, he decided to wait for Elena before solving this puzzle. If they were going to do this together, they were going to do this together. As a team. Just like they always had-- just like they were supposed to. Before everything went to hell.

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Elena knew this was a terrible idea. It had been a terrible idea the first time she'd agreed to see Nate again, and at least that time Sully had been there to keep her from throttling him into the ground. Of course, apparently Nate didn't remember that. She couldn't decide if that was a good thing or not. On the one hand, she was pretty sure that meant he didn't know as much about his stupid plan to find Iram as she did presently. On the other hand, it raised other problems. As in, as far as Nate knew, this would be the first time they had been face-to-face since their separation.

Either way, this was probably going to suck, but he was the only familiar face here. And as much as she hated to admit it, she could feel that tingle in the pit of her stomach she always used to get during particularly exciting assignments. This was certainly undocumented territory, and as weird and vaguely terrifying as that was, it was also exciting.

It wasn't really hard to find Nate once she'd gotten into the library, but she took a couple seconds to mentally collect herself before heading to sit down in the chair across the table from where Nate was studying. She folded her hands on the table, and leaned forward a little, before clearing her throat.

"Find anything interesting, yet?"