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Anya Antonovna Romanova Stark ([info]anyastark) wrote in [info]marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-10-20 09:22:00


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Entry tags:anya stark, inactive - austin caine

Without You I'm Not Okay (open)
Anya stood in Terminal B of Logan airport and stared at the screen of departures. She wasn't sure how exactly she ended up here, but she went for a drive and ended up at the airport. Her backpack with her laptop in it was over one shoulder and the only other things she carried was her small handheld which was computer and phone all in one. The only clothes she had were the clothes she wore.

She looked at the screen. Nothing stood out. There was no place she really wanted to go, but she knew she had to go somewhere. She didn't care where as long as she could get out of Boston for a few days and away from everything and everyone she knew.

The last two months were...they were the hardest of her life so far. She had been relatively okay as long as she kept busy, but not even she could fill every minute of every day. Downtime meant thinking about Steve and her heart would just hurt too much at the thought of him. She missed him so much and she had to wonder if he was ever coming back. She had to believe he was, but it was getting harder to keep the faith.

She went for a drive and ended up at the airport. Maybe getting away would do her some good. Her heart and head were no longer in school work or being a Thunderbolt and she wasn't interested in eating or sleeping. Alcohol didn't help keep the nightmares away anymore. She needed a break and needed to go to a place where she didn't know anyone and very few would recognize her.

Picking a place seemed to require too much thinking.

She stepped up to the counter of a random airline and looked at the woman behind the counter.

"Can I help you?" the woman asked.

For a second Anya thought about answering that with a line about only if the woman was a psychiatrist, but she didn't. "If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?" Anya asked.

The woman seemed surprised by the question. It took her a moment to reply. "Someplace warm with a beach of white sand," she answered.

Anya thought about the woman's answer. There were so many places that fit the bill. Anya had done extensive traveling in her life so far. "That sounds like what I need. Please get me a ticket to anywhere that fits the bill," Anya said. "Preferably out of the country."

The woman smiled. "I know just the place."

Anya handed over her passport and a credit card.

A few moments later Anya had her boarding pass in her hand and was heading for the gate to fly to St. Barthelemy in the Caribbean. She sent a message to Goddard and had him get her a private villa for a week and to also hire a housekeeper/cook.



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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-02 03:46 am UTC (link)
Austin laughs. He nearly falls out of his chair from laughing so hard. When he collects himself enough to speak, his eyes are still watering.

"You...went to Vegas for a concert and they thought..." Austin laughs again, having to cover his face.

It's a few more minutes before it's all out of his system.

"You are true trouble, Anya. True trouble." he chuckles.

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[info]anyastark
2010-11-02 03:51 am UTC (link)
"They did. Of course they didn't stop once to actually call and ask us what we were up to. No. They followed us out there and busted up four weddings trying to find us."

By this point Anya was laughing too.

"Though I will admit that if any one of us is the type to runaway and get married, it would most likely be me. So Toni did have /some/ reason for concern, but a phone call could have saved them A LOT of embarrassment."

She grinned.

"Being good is no fun."

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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-02 12:37 pm UTC (link)
"I also notice that your story does not contain anything to refute the idea that you and Steve were gettin' married." Austin says, raising an eyebrow.

"I mean, if your friend knows you and you go runnin' off...well, I'd probably disrupt some weddings too if I were lookin' for a friend of mine." Austin chuckles.

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[info]anyastark
2010-11-02 09:44 pm UTC (link)
"We weren't getting married," she said. "I always keep my word and I promised Toni when we were five that I would never get married without her there."

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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-02 11:35 pm UTC (link)
"Well, I'm sure that you keep your word, Princess Anna." Austin grins.

"How long is the flight to St. Bart's? I might try to get in a bit of my new book on the plane." he tells her.

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[info]anyastark
2010-11-03 12:13 am UTC (link)
"We've got three hours to Miami and then an hour and a half from there," she answered. Looking back going by suit would have been a faster option, but then she wouldn't have run into him.

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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-03 02:41 am UTC (link)
"Oh yeah. Plenty of book time for me." Austin says with a smile.

"I just got into this fantasy series and I'm really likin' it. It's called A Game of Thrones."

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[info]anyastark
2010-11-04 02:32 am UTC (link)
"Cool. I wish I had time to read. I honestly can't remember the last time I sat down with a book." Anya always did have ten million and one things going on at any given moment. It was a Stark thing.

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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-04 02:46 am UTC (link)
"You could always /make/ time, Anya. You look like the kind of person that always has to be on the move, because you'd go nuts if you had to sit still. When do you take time for yourself that isn't spent on a computer or in front of some other machine?" Austin asks, genuinely interested in the answer.

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[info]anyastark
2010-11-04 03:02 am UTC (link)
"I take time," she said. Going around and beating up bad guys was doing something other than sitting in front of a computer. Though it did use a machine so to speak. "And I have classes."

The question made her realize how much she missed Steve. She spent her weekends and free time with him and since he had been gone, there was no such thing as freetime or downtime. She had kept busy.

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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-04 04:12 am UTC (link)
"Spoken like someone who knows they aren't really taking time. What does your boyfriend have to say about the constant computer stuff? Does he have to drag you away from it and padlock the thing so you can't use it?" Austin jokes, trying to be funny.

He wouldn't have said it if he'd known the real story behind Steve's departure.

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[info]anyastark
2010-11-04 04:17 am UTC (link)
Anya looked away as her eyes started to tear up. Dammit. She wasn't going to cry. Not here. Not now.

"He'd drag me out when he thought I'd spent too much time in the lab," she said trying to detach herself from the subject.

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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-04 04:20 am UTC (link)
Austin Caine isn't a Super-Genius, but he does know when he's hit a nerve, which wasn't his intent.

"I'm sorry, Anya. Did I say somethin' wrong? Look, maybe it's not my place to say this, but you've been gettin' a little weird everytime your boyfriend comes up.

Is he really just away on a trip or...did he break up with you and you've just been puttin' on a brave face for the rest of the world?" he asks.

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[info]anyastark
2010-11-04 04:30 am UTC (link)
"He /is/ away," she said. "I don't know where he is, if he's ever coming back or even if he's still alive. What I do know is that if he could come home he would. In a heartbeat." And it was all her fault he was missing.

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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-05 12:14 am UTC (link)
Oh wow. Her boyfriend is missing and she's here, trying to pretend everything is just fine? Austin's mind processes that, considering that a man like Tony Stark probably has a lot of enemies, which his daughter would inherit.

Enemies that didn't think anything of going after loved ones to get what they wanted. That made him angry.

"Anya...did someone kidnap your boyfriend? If they did...maybe I could make some calls and see what I can find out. If there's a way to help you help him, I'd like to." Austin says, before he realizes what he's agreeing to.

He'd have to call his dad...and step back into the family business.

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[info]anyastark
2010-11-05 01:58 am UTC (link)
"No, he wasn't kidnapped," she said. Exactly how did she explain that her boyfriend was most likely in another dimension.

"What do you know about quantum mechanics and Hugh Everett's Many-worlds Interpretation?"

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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-07 04:31 pm UTC (link)
"Okay, you got me on the quantum mechanics part. I know nothin' there. The many-worlds thing, though...wasn't that what that show Sliders was about?" he asks.

He'd liked Sliders a lot.

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[info]anyastark
2010-11-07 05:11 pm UTC (link)
"Sliders was about alternate realities, but they actually do exist. I believe my boyfriend is trapped in another reality with no way home." It sucked in a major way.

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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-07 05:23 pm UTC (link)
"Wait...you mean he's seriously trapped? When did this happen? Can you bring him back from this side?" he asks.

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[info]anyastark
2010-11-07 05:27 pm UTC (link)
"Yes," she answered. "Back in August. We're working on it, but the problem is finding the right reality. With an infinite number of possible universes, it's kind of almost impossible to narrow it down to one."

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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-07 06:03 pm UTC (link)
"I guess that explains things." Austin says, a note of sadness in his voice. Anya had seemed either perpetually sad or as though she'd been trying to cover something around him and now he knew what. He couldn't imagine what it was like for her.

"How are you holdin' up? You don't have to pretend around me anymore." he says.

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[info]anyastark
2010-11-07 06:15 pm UTC (link)
"I'm okay. I keep busy. Which for a Stark is a good thing," she said with a small smile. "We get into trouble when we get bored."

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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-07 06:42 pm UTC (link)
"Anya...have you talked to anyone about things since this all started up?" Austin asks.

"I'm pretty sure he's workin' on gettin' back to you, too, Princess. I know that because any guy who's got a girl like you waitin' for him would be crazy /not/ to." Austin smiles.

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[info]anyastark
2010-11-07 06:53 pm UTC (link)
"I have," she assured him. She didn't mention about going to see a shrink once a week. There were certain things she didn't want people knowing about her.

"I know he is," she said. "And I know he'll come home one day." She had to believe that.

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[info]nextgen_citizen
2010-11-07 06:55 pm UTC (link)
"Good. As long as you know that for sure, then things are gonna be just fine." Austin says, trying to keep her spirits up.

"Suddenly, I can see why you might have taken this trip. I don't have to go if you need the time alone." he says.

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