Ties that Strain (Bruce Gotham)
The mood was always, well, frosty when Tina spent more than a moment in her mother's company.  It wasn't for lack of engagement on Emma's part and even Tina acknowledged that the woman did try to make conversation and participate.  Tina, however, had little patience for Emma and even less in the way of trust so when Tina started asking Emma about Bruce Gotham and got shut down pretty quickly Tina had no qualms about just walking away from lunch early.  Justin would tell her to try to work things out at least on a civil level, but Tina just couldn't.  Some part of her inside threw a temper tantrum at the very idea.  As far as she was concerned, Emma was never to be allowed even an inch in the way of courtesy.

Still a bit on edge from the disappointment that was trying to get information out of her mother Tina made a call to Namor with hope that he would give her a bit of information.  The man was happy to hear from her, glad to talk to her, but like Emma before him didn't give her any information--though Tina could tell from the way his voice changed that the wing-ankled man wanted to do harm to Bruce Gotham in ways that even she couldn't fully imagine.  Rather than trigger an incident she thanked Namor for his time, promised to check in on Kassi, and hung up the phone. 

Still no closer to any answers she made her way to the coffee shop where she had, weeks before, promised to meet Bruce Gotham for coffee.  At the time she'd looked forward to it; now she was just uncomfortable.  She was a mutant and he knew it, yet he worked for (and seemed to be friends with) someone who was very publicly anti-mutant.  Something didn't make sense.  It troubled her and continued to trouble her even as she walked into the Starbucks, ordered herself a venti misto, and found a seat to wait in.