Re: Back at Home...
Melissa doesn't join her on the bed, her body language tense and cautious as she paces the floor. Kelly wouldn't leave her over this, at least she didn't think so, but...most people didn't care for being on the receiving end of another person's drama when they had their own to deal with.
"Okay. You and I haven't done a lot of talking about stuff we did before we met. I don't mean old girlfriends or boyfriends or stuff like that. I mean things like family. In the whole time we've been together, I've met your dad and your half-sister. The whole Weapon X thing caught me by surprise, but now I feel like I know a bit more about you than I did before." Melissa says, still pacing.
"I haven't told you stuff about me, not because I don't trust you, but...because that's how I am. My dad was pretty big on trust and he rarely trusted anyone, outside of my mom and /that/ took years.
Wait, I should start with the important stuff. My dad's name is Parker Robbins. He used to be a New York gangster called the Hood. He wore the same cloak and boots that I have now. Stole them from a demon, I found out later. My old man had brass ones, on top of being pretty smart for a guy who never finished high school." Melissa says, smiling ruefully as she remembered how often Dad would help her with her homework or a problem she was having at school with a few kind words and mostly, just by listening.
"My mother's was Whitney Frost, at least in America. In truth, her real name was Giuletta Nefaria, daughter of Count Nefaria. Yes, /that/ Count Nefaria." Melissa specifies, certain that Kelly's probably heard of the Maggia, with everything she knows.
"My dad cheated on his girlfriend at the time, who'd already had his first kid, my sister Bree. He almost took New York from the Kingpin at one point, but Spider-Man and Daredevil shut him down. When he did, my dad broke the code every gangster lives by: he sold out everyone he knew. He didn't do it for special favors, but more to ensure that Bree and I didn't have to grow up looking over our shoulders for people who might come after us to get to him. He did some time, but when he got out, he came home to Mom and me and we tried to be really normal family for awhile.
It /almost/ worked." Melissa says.
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