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Anna Marie Adler-Darkhölme (_canttouchthis_) wrote in tensor,
@ 2011-03-08 23:27:00

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anna-marie_adler, piotr_rasputin, raven_darkhoelme

Piotr - Monday afternoon/evening
Anna turned onto her mother's street, doing a quick search for street parking. Not surprisingly, there was none. It was still relatively early on a Monday, and there were as many cars parked in the area because their owners were at work as there were people who lived nearby. She and Piotr had skipped out on their regular Monday gym time to head into the city so she could pick up something she'd ordered before her mother had a chance to decide she needed to open it.

"I'm pretty sure my mom's out of town." She pulled up to the garage door and glanced over at Piotr. "Not that it would be bad if she wasn't, but just as a general note." Shrugging, she pulled into the garage and into an empty space.

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tensor_mods
2011-03-10 08:48 am UTC (link)

"Don't," Raven agreed, not buying the story for even a second. "It's garbage anyway."

Both of the cadets seemed to understand her statement completely, and she nodded slightly in response. For all they knew, she was actually heading back to Utah. Officially, she hadn't yet left. They both knew better than to say otherwise to anyone. She matched her daughter's smile exactly, raising an eyebrow at the somewhat obvious suggestion that she leave. Though she would have loved nothing more than to stick around and get in the way, she did have a short time frame to work with.

"Danke," she nodded at Anna, turning to Piotr and offering a hand. "Mr. Rasputin, a pleasure. I'll see you around campus." Not releasing Piotr's hand just yet, she looked over his shoulder to remind Anna in as obnoxious and motherly a voice as she could stand, "Don't stay out too late. You have class in the morning."

Giving Piotr another smile, she released his hand and headed out to go collect her things from the study.

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abs_of_steel
2011-03-10 09:03 am UTC (link)

Piotr was trying really hard not to think about whether Agent Darkholme had noticed the suit. Or knew what it was for. Or had figured out what they had been planning on doing before she'd gotten there.

He sipped his water as Anna and her mother talked, still definitely not thinking about it. Though he had to admit feeling some relief when Anna hinted that her mother should be leaving, and Agent Darkholme agreed, seemingly without knowing what they'd been up to.

Piotr shook her hand when it was offered, firm and professional. "A pleasure as well, Agent Darkholme." And then his relief faded a bit when she didn't let go, and instead looked over at Anna to tell her not to stay out too late.

He didn't react outwardly, and smiled politely back when Agent Darkholme smiled at him before letting his hand go, but he was definitely wincing on the inside. Yeah. She definitely knew.

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_canttouchthis_
2011-03-10 09:29 am UTC (link)

Anna was a little bit surprised that her mother was going so easily. She actually thanked her - okay, sort of sarcastically, but she was saying her goodbyes and then... yep, there it was. Of course she'd seen it, of course she knew what was happening, and of course she wasn't going to just walk out of there and let them think that she didn't know.

As Raven headed out, Anna just sort of stared at her, waiting until Raven had turned the corner and she could hear her footsteps on the stairs to sigh. Moving to the freezer to get some ice (since it looked like she was going to probably have plenty of time to actually enjoy her water), she stage-whispered, "Raven Darkhölme, ladies and gentlemen."

"Want some ice?" She looked over her shoulder at Piotr, deciding not to breach the whole topic of how utterly destroyed the beginning of something worth calling an actual mood was.

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abs_of_steel
2011-03-10 09:45 am UTC (link)

Anna definitely wasn't alone in staring after Agent Darkholme when she left. They'd almost made it through without her figuring it out - all right, no, they hadn't, but they'd almost made it through with Piotr being able to convince himself that she hadn't figured it out.

He quirked his lips upwards in an almost-grin at Anna's stage whisper. "She does have quite the presence," he commented, then nodded. "Yeah, ice would be good."

Might as well, since the arrival of Anna's mother, who happened to be a very high ranking SHIELD agent and definitely knew what the suit was and what they'd been planning on doing with it had pretty much stalled any kind of those plans.

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_canttouchthis_
2011-03-10 09:57 am UTC (link)

"That's an understatement," Anna smiled, shaking her head. It probably wasn't a great idea to encourage Piotr to talk about her mother, especially when Raven outranked them both and was still in the apartment, but she felt as though it was something that had to be noted. She dropped some ice cubes into her glass, then scooped up a few more, hoping he wouldn't mind that she was touching them, and headed back over toward him to slip them into his.

"So." Anna leaned against the counter, frowning. "I think we've got board games somewhere around here." It had been nice before, when she had a pretty clear idea of how they were going to fill time before dinner. Thanks to her mother's sudden appearance, though, it was feeling a whole lot like that option was off the table. "Or there's always television."

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abs_of_steel
2011-03-10 10:16 am UTC (link)

He smiled back, though he didn't say anything further on the subject. "Thanks," he said when she dropped the ice cubes into his glass, tipping it back to take another drink.

Piotr chuckled a bit at her board game suggestion. "I used to play board games all the time," he told her. "Illyana loved them." And if she was suggesting board games or television, it likely meant that Agent Darkholme's arrival had killed whatever mood there had been for her as well, too. "Television works. Or we could just grab an early dinner." He grinned a bit. "If you're still good with braving my mother."

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_canttouchthis_
2011-03-10 10:29 am UTC (link)

Smiling as he brought up his sister, she briefly considered mentioning that there was a good chance that they didn't actually have any board games. He picked option number two, though, and added in a third possibility as well, and she laughed.

"I'm still good with it." She sipped her water and admitted, "Not really hungry yet, though." Sure, it would take them some time to get over there... but not much time, considering the fact that they were pretty close to Brooklyn already, but that probably wasn't enough time for her to actually be hungry enough for dinner. She glanced in the general direction of the stairs as Raven descended, not bothering to stop back into the kitchen and heading straight out the door.

Anna barely resisted the urge to call out a quick thank you for all that she'd done, and instead headed out of the kitchen, scooping the suit up under her arm and gesturing for Piotr to follow. He'd already had a tour of the place, but generally when she had people from school over, she made sure there were certain places they didn't go. "I don't think you've ever seen the view from the roof, have you?"

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abs_of_steel
2011-03-10 11:22 am UTC (link)

"Good," he said with a grin. He was glad of that, actually. It apparently seemed like today was going to be a day of meeting mothers, but regardless, he was looking forward to seeing his. It'd been a week or two since he'd stopped by.

"No, I haven't," he replied as he followed after her. And there was definitely a note of interest in his voice there. Of course a place like this would have a rooftop view, but it hadn't really occurred to him before now.

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_canttouchthis_
2011-03-10 11:26 am UTC (link)

"It's pretty awesome," she nodded, leading the way upstairs. They were already pretty high up, but there was really something to be said for seeing it without walls and window frames in your peripheral vision. "I don't think it's 'kill an hour' awesome, but it's something."

"Oh," she stopped, turning to him as she remembered, "Clint wanted us to pick up some dim sum and a pair of knockoff Chanel sunglasses for him on our way back." She nodded again and continued up the stairs, then down the hall toward her bedroom. "He left it up to us whether or not they were men's sunglasses or women's."

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abs_of_steel
2011-03-10 12:10 pm UTC (link)

"It might be, you never know," Piotr commented. He had a feeling it was definitely going to be end up being 'memorize to draw later' awesome, at least. Which still wouldn't be kill an hour awesome, but whatever.

He laughed at that last comment. "Definitely women's. They'd suit him better. Did he want a handbag to go along with that?" he asked as he followed her down the hall.

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_canttouchthis_
2011-03-11 04:25 am UTC (link)

"Maybe it will be more awesome than it has ever been before and suddenly we'll realize that we've just been staring for hours." Probably not.

"He didn't say," she smiled, nodding as she considered his suggestion. "We should definitely get one for him, though. Something nice and soft." Turning the knob, she pushed the door to her bedroom open and headed in, tossing the suit on her bed and heading over to the balcony doors. When she had people over, she made sure to keep the curtains drawn so that they didn't realize that they could actually go out there. Since most of the time, visitors were in various stages of drunkenness, it was a good idea to keep them from hanging out at great heights.

She pulled them open and unlocked the door, sliding it ajar and gesturing for Piotr to go out onto the balcony. Even from there, the view was pretty incredible, but a set of stairs to the left led up to the roof, which was even better. "Right this way."

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abs_of_steel
2011-03-14 04:06 am UTC (link)

He chuckled at that. "That does actually happen sometimes, you know." Then he frowned a bit, although not seriously. "Or maybe just to me."

Piotr followed her into her bedroom, smiling as she agreed that Clint needed a handbag. His eyes followed the suit as it landed on her bed, and he spared a thought for what they might have been doing - though it was brief, because it was followed quickly by remembering that Agent Darkholme might have still been there.

"And color co-ordinated with his lovely new glasses," Piotr added, moving over to follow her out onto the balcony.

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_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 04:24 am UTC (link)

"Not just to you," she assured him, nodding. Anna zoned out a lot. Got lost in thought or just in non-thought.

"We should make sure that they both go well with his uniform, for those special occasions," she laughed, turning to grin at him before flying up to the roof, completely bypassing the stairs and waiting up top. She leaned over the railing, watching with a smile as a blonde woman climbed into the driver's seat of a car she recognized as her mother's and drove away. She had no clue what her mom was up to, and she really didn't care.

"So, this is the roof." She gestured as Piotr reached the top of the stairs. "There's a wet bar, a hot tub, those chairs... that weird little table thing. The view's better from the other side."

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abs_of_steel
2011-03-19 05:58 am UTC (link)

That was actually pretty reassuring. He smiled at her, slightly relieved to hear that it wasn't just him.

Piotr laughed a bit. "Definitely," he said, then started to say more, but she took off flying, leaving him to climb up the stairs alone. He chuckled, jogging up them. "I'm counting that as my workout for today," he commented.

He looked around as she pointed out the things on the roof. "You have a hot tub on the roof? My envy just went up a little."

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