Thread: Thicker than Water. (Maria & Eddie) Characters: Maria Hill & Eddie Brock NPCs: Maria's Biological Father Location: New York, Manhattan, Bluebird Coffee Timeline: July 16th, 2012, Around noon [forward-dated] Description: Maria runs into her dad, Eddie witnesses the event and the two talk. Rating: R, language
Maria could never really forget about her biological father, it was impossible to just shove memories like that aside without messing with your pysche. However, she’d gotten comfortable with the idea of not having him around. At Stark she’d made friends with her team, was finding direction for her future, and well, happy. No, the memory of the asshole that was her father could never be erased, but it could easily be brushed aside for various, more pleasing, memories.
Nobody at school, save for Carol now, knew she was actually adopted. It wasn’t something she mentioned because she didn’t want to explain. No, she wasn’t embarrassed, but it took a lot of explaining and then people acted like she was delicate or something. She wasn’t delicate, she was anything but. So her father was a far off though that day and Maria took the proper buses into town to do a little exploring of the city in daylight, possibly visit some iconic places if she could. The Empire State Building, Staten Island, and Rockefeller Center.
There was a particular coffee shop in town she was told to go to. It was called Bluebird Coffee and it was in Manhattan. She inteded on getting something small and preferably inexpensive. She looked at the map she printed with walking directions and then looked up. This was the road and oh, there it was. Maria started in the direction, coming to the front of the shop when a blast from the past came walking out with a woman and a little girl.
“Dad?” she blurted out in shock. Normally she kept cool and calm, her face the epitome of collectedness. But the look on her face was unmistakable. Surprised mixed with anger and a heavy dose of disgust. Standing before her was the man who made the first decade of her life complete misery. Standing there with a woman with pretty blond hair and blue eyes, and a son with the same blue eyes as his mother but his hair color the same as Maria’s.