Mystic Pizza (Open to Defenders)
Little more than a year had passed since Dawn Roberts has first joined the Defenders, and it was almost impossible to believe that the time had flown by so quickly, or that so much had happened during that time.  Dying, being bonded to the soul of an Asgardian goddess and wielding her form and powers, helping to protect the universe from a variety of threats, almost dying again, being separated from Asleif, being drafted by Asleif to watch over her siblings (complete with a physical and mystical upgrade), being called in and feeling entirely out of her depth with a council of other mystics, being selected to be Doctor Strange's apprentice and possible eventual successor, eventually having to tell her family everything that had happened to her (including also finding out what her cousin David was one of the X-Men!), picking up a boyfriend in the form of Griffen, getting to see an Asgardian wedding (the parameters of which still baffled her modern world mind), and plenty of other odds and ends that she was probably leaving out.

She was not the frightened young woman who had first showed up on the Defenders' doorstep, convinced she was going out of her mind.  Nor was she the nervous would-be hero who was one panic attack away from total collapse on a good moment.  She definitely wasn't always sure of herself, but it was amazing how far she'd progressed.  Once, the thought of being a super-hero, let alone a mystical protector of Earth, would have been so far out of her ideas of how her life was going to go that she would have laughed had anyone suggested them.  Now, though she could quite easily imagine other paths of life (her old job at one of the LA public libraries looked occasionally tempting still), she harbored no true thoughts of getting off the one she was on.

The past, occasionally, has a way of catching up with you.  Like it had when she'd been out today.  She'd held herself together, but right now... she needed something to take her mind off it.

Waiting for the frozen pizza to cook in the oven wasn't really doing it.