Look, my parents were mad scientists who pumped me full of spider-juice just to see what would happen. I went to Hail Hydra high school and Nick Fury university. I've been extraordinary my entire life. After all these years of insanity... a little ordinary sounds pretty #$%^ great. You have your normal... and I have mine.
“After the past several years everyone’s had, I think it’s important to celebrate the small victories.” It was the only thing that kept Cassie sane all that time without her dad.
“Your dad knows you’re smart, right? If he doesn’t he definitely should.”
Cassie grimaced upon hearing that her dad ate all of the powdered sugar donuts. That sounded like him, and it definitely diminished her hopes of surprising him with a nice meal. But Spider-Woman seemed to think it was a good idea still, so she decided not to give up hope just yet. She’d at least offer it to him. “They don’t have like a communal coffee table of food or something? No catering?” She knew it was a pretty isolated investigation, but you’d think S.W.O.R.D. had some money to spare to set up at least some pizza. She grinned as the conversation shifted to the suit and nodded quickly. “Oh yeah! It was trending on Twitter first time you wore this one out.” She paused when she realized how weird that sounded. “Not that I’m like.. a fangirl or something. Just kind of hard to avoid front page hero celeb news. And I’m gonna stop talking now.”
Jersey was windy and a gust of air blew her hair around her face. It would have been nice if she a hairband but she never carried them when suited up. She’d have to check her go bag. Jess settled with sticking a hand in the dark waves and shoving them back. “Oh, we did. That’s where the donuts were. I think the agents are hoarding it, honestly. They don’t love having us around.” The trending comment earned a wince. “Yeah, wow. I mean, that’s better then when the red suit trended. I’m guessing you saw all the comments when people thought I was getting fat before they realized I was pregnant?” Another good one. “Not a fangirl. Got it.”
Cassie lit up when she realized this lady knew her dad as she nodded and held up the McDonalds. “I’m actually surprising him with some food. He hasn’t really spent much time at the hotel recently which means he’s probably pretty focused on whatever all of this is. Which also means he probably hasn’t eaten in awhile.” Cassie and her father traveled over to New Jersey once her dad got the call that they needed some help, and she’d been hanging around with him since. Or more recently by herself while she waited for him to get finished. “Yeah, I can kinda tell.” She commented as her eyes slowly drifted over towards the giant red barrier that wasn’t too far away from the base. It was huge, and she still couldn’t believe that there was someone powerful enough to do all of that. “Nice suit, by the way.”
“He ate all the powdered sugar donuts. All that was left was the custard filled ones.” Which meant Jess had abstained and drank cold, watery coffee. The nice thing about living with Roger was that he was a human garbage disposal. He ate whatever was left or Jess didn’t want. “But, I’m sure he’ll love something hot that isn’t stale. One would think S.W.O.R.D. could spring to feed their agents, but I suppose the priority is combatting terrorism at the moment.” Not that it was easy to think of Wanda as a terrorist. She and Jessica weren’t super close but they had ran in the same circles for quite some time now. Maybe there was something else going on, something they didn’t know. Jessica could only hope so. “Yeah?” She turned slightly to glance at the back of it. “Trying something new out. I made the mistake of googling myself once and I’m still suffering as a result.”
“You wouldn’t have happened to see my dad around here, have you?” Cassie questioned the nearest person to her as she approached an area of tents with a bag of McDonalds in one hand and her phone in the other. Superheroes had to eat too, and she wanted to make sure her dad was at least eating if he was going to spend this much time out with S.W.O.R.D.
God, whose kid was she again? Jess could remember her own but that was it. Stark had Morgan, but Pepper kept her daughter out of the public eye and Jessica had little reason to visit them Upstate. As it stood, not many of them were popping out kids. That meant.. “Scott!” Jess snapped, gloved fingers dulling the sound. “You’re Scott’s kid. Cassie, right?” She was definitely giving herself a mental high-five right then. “Does he know you’re coming? It’s a mess here. Wanda…” Jess shook her head, bottling that thought. No need to confuse things anymore. Gesturing over the annoyingly tight spandex of her red and black suit, Jessica offered an apologetic smile. “We’re clearly all hands on deck here.”
