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"...and I really don't know where the whole rumor about Asgardians needing to eat golden apples to retain their youth thing came from," he says. "We age and die, just like anything or anyone else. It's like the whole God thing. Who came up with that?" A beat. "I mean, humans, I guess, but why gods? Why not aliens? Aliens -- that's at least accurate. "

Thor smiles over at Quill and leans contentedly over the bar. Chin set in one hand, he idly pours himself another glass with the other, then sets the bottle back down on the counter with an audible, dull glassy sound. He pushes it towards Quill.

"Had you met any Asgardians before you met me?"

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"Use that to your advantage," he replied. "If he's underestimating you, let him. That's how you win. Trust me. People underestimate the Guardians pretty much all the time and we kick they ass."

"I will." Even with Stormbreaker lodged in his chest, Thanos didn't see him as a credible threat. Somehow, he doubts he ever will. But he agrees with Quill regardless.

"You don't talk much about them," Thor says. At least not lately. "Your guardians."

"Rocket doesn't remember half the stuff we did, so I try not to around him." He said. "The dude comes off as a hard-ass, but he really has a heart of gold, you know?"

Quill thought about it some more as he finished his drink.

"Plus, I guess.. knowing we all die..." he trailed off, looked to Thor, then shrugged.

"I know," he says. "I wish that he remembers me. And Nidavellir." Not anything after that, though.

"I miss Tree too, sometimes." He's positive that if Thor feels this way about two people he had only known for a handful of days, that Quill probably misses them all the more.

"Yeah... Groot is a good kid," he said. "I mean, he was once a full grown dude, but things happened - teenagers, man."

He thought of Rocket for a moment.

"He survived a lot for what happens to him in the end," Quill said quietly.

"Groot?" Thor asks quietly.

"That's his name," Quill explained. "But I'm sure tree isn't a bad nickname."

"He didn't object to it," Thor says, smiling lightly, "and he did not hesitate to voice his discontent at the earliest opportunity."

That he did.

"I've only met two other Flora colossi before him. They were both far more zen than he was."

"Yeaaahh," Quill said, drawing out the syllable. "Groot's not like anyone else, even his kind."

Probably has something to do with Rocket being a big influence, but...

"Kind of wish he was here," Quill said. "He'd like all the video games we had here to play."

"I'm sure he'd beat you in that fighting game," Thor says. "The Mortal Kombat." Thor's not sure what kind of game Groot was playing while they were traveling together, but he seemed obsessed. Obsessed people got things done.

He laughed.

"Oh, he'd love Mortal Kombat!" Quill agreed. "Probably be pretty competitive in Mario Kart too."

Thor lets out a hum.

"He'd definitely beat you in Mario Kart," he says. "You're terrible at it."

"Hey! I'm not bad at Mario Kart," Quill protested. "You have no idea what you're talking about. You're not even from Earth."

"But I've been on Earth more recently than you have." Thor does have that advantage over Quill.

Quill stared at him in silence for a moment.

"Okay, sure, but it's not like you spent that time playing video games, right?" He countered, as if it made total sense.

"No, but do you know what a Pee Ess Four is? Or an Ex Box One?" Thor had gleaned just enough video game knowledge from Jane's nieces and nephews to know those two consoles by name.

And a third. What was it again?

His eyes narrowed challengingly.

"Yes." He lied. "Everyone does. Duh."

What was the third?

"The Swatch? Have you played that?"

"The Swatch?" He repeated, even though he wanted to pretend otherwise. "You're definitely making that up."

"I'm not making it up," he insists. "It's the Nintendo console, the one that came out after the Wee You."

Quill felt as if Thor was double-down on a fib.

"There is no way Nintendo goes from sensible names for consoles like Nintendo and Super Nintendo, to Wee You and The Swatch." He replied.

"They had the Wee before the Wee You. Ask any of the children if you don't believe me."

"I will," He said. "And I bet you they'll think you're loco."

Quill twirled a finger at his temple to show Thor how crazy he was.

Thor pushes himself off the barstool; it's time to call it quits. "You'll owe me when they tell you I'm right," he says.

Owe Thor what, though? Thor hasn't decided.

"I won't have to owe you anything, because you're wrong" Quill retorted as he finished his own drink off.