Mindy Macready (adultsizedbamf) wrote in blackpoint, @ 2013-09-28 18:37:00 |
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Entry tags: | jessica drew, mindy macready |
Who: Jessica Drew and Mindy Macready
When: Backdated to: September 18, 2013
Where: Jess’s hotel room
What: Mindy explains how she knows Jess.
Rating: R for language. It’s Mindy and a young Jess okay.
Everything in this world was fucked up. But then again, everything in her own world was fucked up too. Jess had been awake for a few years, brainwashed by HYDRA, escaped from HYDRA and attempted to live a life until she was hunted down. They failed to take her out, and then suddenly she had Fury knocking on her door asking her to help yet another government organization. That kind of life didn’t leave any openings for catching up on pop culture (she’d been too interested in going out drinking and messing around with guys on any free time she had). But now that she was stranded in Hawaii with the message received that she should take it easy with her powers, Jess was left with little more than catching up. The news was depressing. The internet was depressing. The stack of textbooks that were a gift were boring - she knew this shit, it was the practical stuff she was missing. So she settled in with movies, and hell if they were educational - all the better. And then… there was whatever Mindy knew about her. That was enough to turn her stomach into knots even with the reassurance it was good. The last “friend” she had turned out to be yet another attempt to get into her head, and she’d fallen for it. And him. Now he was dead and she still looked at friends with a wary eye and obvious apprehension. Which is what she kept doing now as she snagged her first piece of pizza from the box and settled into a chair farthest away from her new blonde companion. Mindy was far from the eleven year old sociopath she used to be and she was smart enough to know a lot of that was due to an older version of the girl giving her the side-eye from across the room. Sure, she was still prone to violence and cursed more than was necessary by anyone’s standards, but she was more compassionate and aware of the people around her. For the most part. Okay, the list of people she was considerate for was probably shorter than it should have been, but come on, people - as a whole - were fucking needy. Easing back into the cushions of the small hotel room sofa, Mindy lifted her beer bottle for a quick swig before she started talking. “Okay. We can sit here and eat and drink in awkward silence while a movie we’re only half paying attention to plays in the background...or I can give you the short version of how I know you and what I know. Then you can decide whether I can stick around for the probably still pretty awkward part.” She grimaced a bit at that, since she was still worried most about Jess telling her to stay away for good. At this point in her twisted history, the woman Mindy had been calling Mom for almost a decade had every right to be skittish and distrusting, even if you took out all the portal business. It made her feel like the defensive kid she’d once been, convinced the world was too harsh to let her keep anything she cared about, so why care in the first place and all that. Unfortunately, it was too late not to care and, young or old, Jess was one of the few people Mindy was a bit desperate to keep in her life. “Your choice,” she muttered before lifting the bottle for another drink. Jess’s face contorted into a mixture of cringing and relief that Mindy was the one to bring it up, not her. She hadn’t really wanted to ask again, especially as she’d already lightly poked around on the internet and discovered the answers there were not really the ones she wanted or needed. Not to mention the amount of porn that came up. Was she HYDRA? Was she former HYDRA? Did they know each other from her world? Were they girlfriends? The questions ranged from ridiculous to more ridiculous the more they stewed around in her head. Mindy had said she’d been in this world for a decade, so that ruled out several of the choices, at least. “Let’s get this over with,” Jess grabbed her beer and took a long drink, as if she was bracing herself for an oncoming storm. “At least finish a piece of pizza so you don’t go hungry, or something.” Flashing an amused smile at how the twenty-something Jess had just sounded so much more like the parent she was used to, Mindy grabbed a slice of pizza and propped a foot up on the opposite knee. “Okay. I originally got here when I was a kid. So, the HPD said I needed a guardian. For school shit mostly, since I was already pretty capable of taking care of myself.” Taking a bite of her pizza, she kept talking around the mouthful of food, never having been all that good with basic manners. “Anyway, this guy named Matt was here, Daredevil? Doubt you’ve met him yet. We got to talking until it ended up that him and his friend Jessica Drew agreed to be my fake parents. Eventually, he left, and it was just me and you. It stayed that way for awhile until...well, you got yourself a guy, but that’s another story.” Mindy figured talking about Rhodey was probably messy, with young him being here and Jess not exactly being the type to have things pressured on her. “But yeah...I guess that’s the short version. An older you has been my mom for about eleven years now.” Mindy’s explanation came when Jess was mid-bite of her pizza, and she paused for a second. She started chewing again, slowly, and staring at Mindy like she’d dunked her head in something ridiculous. She really had no idea what to say to that, torn between amusement, relief and annoyance. Amusement won out, and the laughter spilled out of Jess before she could stop it. “Okay, okay. You’re-” Pausing a second to catch her breath, she braced her free hand on her stomach. “That… was pretty good. I mean--” A quick look at Mindy’s face made her double-take and her expression go sober. “You’re serious? Because you don’t look fucked up at all, and I don’t even like kids. I wouldn’t even know the first thing about raising a kid.” It was one of a small handful of reactions Mindy had expected, and definitely better than the one where Jess assumed she was just fucking with her head and told her to stay away for good, so she laughed and shrugged a shoulder heavily. “Well, I’m fucked up in my own ways, but who isn’t? I was never really normal. Grew up kind of like you did, with the training and the violence and the just plain screwed up. But you didn’t try to shove me into some box and you never talked to me like I was just a dumb kid, so it was more like a friendship at first.” Mindy dropped her eyes to the beer in her hand and took a drink. It was a strange feeling, missing someone when they were sitting right across from you. But she and her Jess hadn’t gone more than a few weeks without at least stopping in on each other, so she was sure that empty feeling in her chest was going to get really fucking annoying before it got easier to ignore. “And...I don’t know. We grew into each other. That sounds stupid, but I don’t know how else to put it,” she grumbled with another shrug before starting in on her pizza slice again. Jess pursed her lips slightly, closing down the laughter effectively. Twirling the neck of her beer bottle through her fingers, Jess glanced away from the younger girl during the explanation. Suddenly feeling a little more awkward about everything but not graced with the social skills to apologize or smooth things over, she just took another drink of her beer. A little part of her pushed aside the nagging feeling of hope that she’d actually get to feel what it was like to have a family, but apparently that was in her far future and some.. alternate version. Either way, she finished her bottle of beer in record time and pushed it aside, debating something stronger. “So the guy thing.. He’s hot, right?” It was probably cowardly to change the topic, but easier for her brain to process sarcasm and humor. Despite the fact that Mindy was far from the introspective type, she did keep quiet and let Jess mull it all over. Piling on more details would be pointless unless the girl asked for them, anyway. But the change of subject did earn Jess a crooked smirk. Fuck if they weren’t a lot alike at this age. “Uhhh…” Mindy coughed out a laugh and set her pizza slice aside. “Well. He’s kind of my dad. Buuuuut...yeah, yeah, he is.” She nearly added on a ‘he’s hotter here’, but caught herself and took a drink instead. “Speaking of guys, though, we should get you set up with your pheromone perfume ASAP. I’m sure the eggheads around here can recreate it. Make your life a little easier,” she smirked. Jess couldn’t help the wince when dad comment being thrown out, as much as she knew it wasn’t her. Or was, but was years off. “I don’t have to uh- stick to that, right? This isn’t a set destiny that I have to go along with? Because that’d suck.” Not that she probably would, even if Mindy had told her that it was needed. It was no secret that Jess didn’t like to be forced into things. “But yeah, I guess if they’re going to be picky about me using my powers. I should get something. Fury mentioned they’d work on it, but I didn’t have to deal with too many people before I got here.” Or, at least, she’d been in the position where she really didn’t care who was affected by the pheromones. She lifted up her now empty beer bottle. “I think we need to get started on something stronger than this.” “Like you’d stick to it even if I said it was destiny,” Mindy laughed, quickly finishing off the last half of her beer. “Don’t worry, no one expects you to follow along with what your future-slash-alternative self did here. The perfume, though, that’s something I know was a pretty big help for you. At least, the you I know.” Leaning over, Mindy deposited her beer bottle on a side table and then reached down to the bag at her feet. She glanced up at Jess and winked as she rummaged through dvds for the bottle of tequila she’d brought along. “I got you covered on the rest.” The bottle made a hard clink as she set it down on the table and grinned. “Time to catch you up on some movies. And less talking, more drinking has been my motto for a while now, anyway.” |