Melissa Frost (lady_hood) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-09-25 13:04:00

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anya stark, inactive - beetle, inactive - melissa frost, inactive - molly hayes, inactive - victor mancha, plot-"reciprocity", team - thunderbolts

Resident...Evil?
Despite the garbage that went down earlier in the week, Melissa found herself a happier camper today. The Boss Man's check cleared; she and Kelly were now much more financially solvent. After a call to her lawyer, Diane, to get bills and things paid, Mel goes downstairs to have herself a victory dance, or as they're called, a beer. Never mind that it's early in the morning and that she hasn't hand breakfast, which also sounds like a good idea, Mel just wants to enjoy having her money, her girl, her magic and her guns.

Kelly was right about this whole mercenary gig; it paid dividends, even if being shot at and nearly killed by life-draining nutjobs was part of the job. They'd also done the world a favor by removing Benedict Kine's sorry self from it, and Mel figured they deserved medal for that. Instead, they got hefty-paychecks. Maybe she'd /buy/ herself a medal.

She walks into the kitchen, going through the cupboards to see if there's any eggs to make an omelet. If there is bacon, it's left untouched.

Bacon is against her personal religion.

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lady_hood
2010-09-26 05:08 pm UTC (link)

"Don't mind Grumpy here. Humanity will set in a soon as she's had three or so cups of Demon Blood." Mel says, stroking Kelly's hair as she flops down. Poor baby.

"I might take you up on that offer sometime, Red. I have a friend in New York I could see while I'm there." Melissa says, not discussing the topic of family any longer. She's never mentioned Bree to Kelly, for what she thinks are good reasons.

"You do any work on guns, Red?" Mel asks out of curiosity.

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goesbothways
2010-09-26 05:14 pm UTC (link)

The g-word perks Kelly up immediately. She's usually high energy anyway, so a little bit of her sugar with a little bit of coffee combined with her favorite word gets her somewhat back on track.

"Ooohhh, so we're on warm and fuzzy family topics? Cool." She hasn't done anything more family-related than introducing Mel to her dad's head - which says everything one needs to know about her family.
"Oh, Mel, dad says hi from the bowling alley. He sent a card through the shoe rack attendant and wants to know when I'm going to come get him."

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	anyastark 2010-09-26 05:19 pm UTC (link)
	"Most of my family is like that. You don't get in between Mom and the coffeepot in the mornings." "Define work," Anya said. "I know how to use them, clean them, put them together, fix them, and identify them but I don't make any." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

lady_hood
2010-09-26 05:35 pm UTC (link)

"As much as I wanna say soon, I don't think your dad is going to fit in around here, babe. Hell, I don't think we really fit in around here, what with all the stares Bug Babe gives us." Melissa says. That girl Sydney is pretty wacky, but she's also a complete buzzkill.

"Speaking of family, Kelly, my Uncle Clint and Cousin Jack are coming up from Texas along with the family for my early birthday party. They said they're finally okay with meeting you. It's a costume party, though, so we need to go shopping." Melissa says.

Translation: Gun shipment with buyers in town, good stuff. Wear gear.

Melissa looks back to Anya. "Oh, too bad about not making them. But you could make them better? I'm thinking about switching my current ones out for something with a bit more stopping power, but I'm not sure yet." she says. Besides, her first guns had been a pain to enchant and she'd have to scare up and kill another demon for part of the ritual.

Maybe Dawn would help.

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goesbothways
2010-09-26 05:38 pm UTC (link)

Kelly nods thoughtfully. "You're probably right. I'll tell the bowling alley they can keep him for a while and have someone pick him up when they get around to it. I guess the attendants were a little wierded out, but they have good nachos, so its ok now." she muses aloud.

"Got it, costume party, I'll dress for the occas..."

She blinks. "Ooohhhh, working on guns... /you're/ the chick with the power armor. That's hot."

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dont_bug_me
2010-09-26 06:00 pm UTC (link)

Sydney has made little secret of her general distrust of the two newest house guests. That they had yet to receive a satisfactory explanation for why they had been there or why the other people had been attacking them...

To say nothing of the sheer amount of guns and general bad vibe she got off of them. The one with the cape might have been okay. But the other one was just plain not right. She'd been keeping her door well locked at night.

However briefly, she had been a super-villain. She knew how to recognize certain kinds of signs. Maybe even the signs of people who enjoyed hurting people a little too much.

She'd spent the morning in the lab, on a couple of freelance engineering consulting jobs, paid under the table, but for people who checked out. Now, however, her system demanded food--mostly sugar, but some protein too.

She saw Anya first. "There any frozen waffles left?"

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	lady_hood 2010-09-26 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	"Hey, Bug Babe! Come to the dark side. We have coffee and pastries." Melissa says, smiling at Sydney. That smile could be anything from a subtle come-on to an outright threat. "You look chipper this morning. Have any good wood lately?" Melissa asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2010-09-26 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	Anya groaned at the pun. "There may be some in the freezer. You know I don't go anywhere near food that has to be cooked." Though Anya has eaten food cold or mostly frozen before. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2010-09-26 06:17 pm UTC (link)
	"Waffles? No. You guys are putting us up, cooking is the least I can do." Kelly comments, going to the fridge to dig through to see if she can find things resembling cream cheese, eggs, bread and sausage. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dont_bug_me 2010-09-26 06:40 pm UTC (link)
	Sydney fought down her anger, including a small voice inside her that was telling her to bite off Mel's head and lay eggs in her stomach. Dammit. Pastries. So much sugar... No. She held Mel's stare however. "Afraid not. I've got standards." The offer to cook, however, surprised her. "Er... thanks?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_hood 2010-09-26 06:48 pm UTC (link)
	Melissa just watches Sydney as she responds, almost hoping the girl gets angry enough to flip out. Maybe she'll tell her to buzzzz off. That would make Mel laugh. Loudly. She gives her credit for not rising to the bait, though. "Impressive. The Force is strong with you, young Skywalker...but you are not a Jedi yet." Melissa teases, biting into her pastry. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

goesbothways
2010-09-26 08:46 pm UTC (link)

"No problem." Kelly responds to Sydney, going to town with a cutting knife, hacking up some sausage and browning it before blending eggs and cream cheese, the knife flying across the cutting board almost too fast to track as she gets going on extra-light sausage scrambles on toast to go with the pastries. She doesn't bother using a spatula, speeding up the process all the more by handling everything with her hands and a fork to do the blending, the small burns on her fingertips from working with a pan filled with sausage grease disappearing almost as fast as they appear.

"Who wants scrambles? And by the way, you guys have this place really well stocked."

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	anyastark 2010-09-27 01:49 am UTC (link)
	"And yet none of us really cook," Anya said. "I would love some. Thank you." "We mostly survive off of takeout." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

dont_bug_me
2010-09-27 02:00 am UTC (link)

"Sure," Sydney said, maybe in spite of herself. She was hungry. "Just add some powered sugar to mine."

She didn't really think she was wrong here. Certainly... she understood a second chance. She was living one. But what she'd done and what she suspected the other two may have were a fairly vast gulf.

No real option but to wait and see. Right now, living under the auspicious of Stark was about the only thing that kept SWORD or SHIELD from capturing and dissecting her ass.

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	lady_hood 2010-09-27 02:46 am UTC (link)
	"Ooh, me!" Melissa says, very happy to have scrambles today. "So, how often do you people gear up to fight the good fight and rescue innocent people like us?" Melissa asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2010-09-27 03:10 am UTC (link)
	"Depends," Anya answered. "Sometimes it can be quiet for awhile and other times it can be something just about every day. It goes in cycles." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2010-09-27 03:27 am UTC (link)
	"Hmmm, powdered sugar, sure, no problem." Kelly agrees, sweetening up Sydney's extra-fluffy sausage, egg and cheese scrambles some, and serving everyone else with hot off the stove food. "Funny how that works. Thanks for helping out. Doubt that'll be the last we see of them, persistent sons of motherless bitches, but at least now I'm watching for them." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dont_bug_me 2010-09-27 04:11 am UTC (link)
	Argh. And now they were being reasonably pleasant. What the hell? "Thanks," she managed. She certainly didn't think they were harmless... but they also hadn't done anything against the T-Bolts yet. What to do, what to do. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2010-09-27 06:13 pm UTC (link)
	"My family has some history with your former team," Anya said carefully. "By the way, if my one brother ever visits, don't mention Weapon X. I'd like to keep bloodshed to a minimum in headquarters if possible." Anya smiled. "You're welcome. Glad to be able to help out." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goesbothways 2010-09-29 05:47 pm UTC (link)
	Kelly grins. "Ooohhh, hey, yeah... you're Misha's sister, aren't you? Yeah, Nicky's got a serious hard on for your brother." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2010-09-29 05:53 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, the Dork is. Not that he'll ever visit. I'm only his sister. Great. This will just fuel his '/everyone/ is out to get /me/' delusions because apparently he's the only mutant that Weapon X or the only person Red Room could ever be interested in." "Is Nicky the big guy who looked like he went overboard on the steroids?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

goesbothways
2010-09-29 06:03 pm UTC (link)

Kelly snickers. "Weapon X has a lot of targets, they originally only went after Misha to get to his dad though. Don't know as much about Red Room, but actually, I think they want his mom... or, really, his mom's kid. Some creepy Russian dude wanted to do something or other to the kidlet. That, and he has some thing for some chicky in New Orleans. Not sure what it is. I read the mission reports, but they don't usually say a lot of WHY someone wants someone 'napped, just the who and how. Yeah, Nicky is the 'roid case. And yeah, he has it bad for your brother. Well, your brother and Justin Timberlake. No accounting for taste. I think its a family thing. His old man has a thing for hairy Canadians too."

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anyastark
2010-09-29 08:58 pm UTC (link)

"That's nothing new with Logan. The man is a walking target. Well that could either be me or the one she's carrying. Either one isn't a good option. The one in New Orleans could be my sister Eliza. She's down there with the Champions."

Anya snickered a bit. "I should introduce him to the fanclub my brother seems to have. All the girls seem to follow him around."

Anya nodded. "Yeah, Victor Creed and Logan go way back.

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goesbothways
2010-09-29 09:24 pm UTC (link)

Kelly grins. "Well, you guys will be on their shit list now too, so since I'm not going back, I should give you guys some of the info on them. I'm sure your mom and Misha's dad could find something to do with that to make it not worth their while to pursue any grudges til they get some new hires and new secret bases."

Yeah, before, she was just going to go free and call it good. But since they sent people after her, all bets are off.

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	anyastark 2010-09-29 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	"I'd appreciate it," Anya said. "Any info will help." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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