Catching Up (Cassie and Vision, tagging Vision should he care to interrupt)

[magnetlips]

Mr. Stark hadn't looked happy when Cassie asked where Kristoff Vernard was, but he gave in when Cassie started to pout.

Cassie had figured he was in one of the labs and she was right. He was busy refining his suit. The whirring of tools masked her entrance. She thought.

Kristoff set his work aside and turned to face her. "Hello Cassie."

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[kristoffv]

Kristoff didn't smile very often, but this was an exception. Cassandra Lang was his first and only friend, perhaps more. So if his smile widened when she hugged him, well, he could hardly be faulted.

"It's so good to see you. I really never thought I'd see you again." Cassie babbled, releasing Kristoff and brushing a strand of hair out of her face.

"I would have come sooner but Nathaniel Richards thought this time was best."

"Where is he, anyway?"

Kristoff waved his hand. "Probably visiting his other son."

Cassie quirked her eyebrows. "Other son?"

"Nevermind, I'll explain later." Kristoff couldn't say how pleased he was that Cassie had pulled away from his arms. "I ah, you must hear this a lot but I'm sorry about your father. He was a good man." If incredibly thick headed.

[vision_ya]

Vision had stayed behind to help patch everyone up after the fight in Mutant Town. He'd also stopped by the hospital to check on Eli and had returned to the Tower to reassure everyone that he was all right - or at least as all right as he could be under the circumstances.

He had been wandering around at loose ends until he thought that he heard the sound of Cassie's voice. He knocked on the door and pushed it open.

"[Cassie? I was just at...]"

Oh. Oh.

"[I am sorry.]" the Vision continued, his voice flat and toneless. "[I did not mean to interrupt.]"

He closed the door and set off down the hallway, probably faster than strictly necessary.

Stupid stupid stupid.

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"Oh damn it!" Cassie swore and took off after Vision.

Kristoff was thinking something along the same lines, and followed Cassie.

"Vision, wait! You weren't interrupting anything." Cassie ran after the android. "Kristoff and I were just catching up. What did you want to say?"

Kristoff reminded himself that growling was counterproductive and a disgusting display of animal instincts. He leaves for three years and she falls in love with an android.

[vision_ya]

[I wish I wish I wish I had a spine.] the Vision thought to himself as his feet stopped moving of their own volition, the treacherous sons of toasters that they were. [Or common sense. Or that this would stop hurting.]

"[It is nothing.]" he said, only turning part way around. "[Eli is recovering. I only wished to inform you of that.]"

Still Crazy After All These Years

[magnetlips]

Cassie gave Kristoff an abridged (very abridged) summary of how she met the Young Avengers, battled Kang, lost Iron Lad, how the new Vision came to be, and how they finally got Cap and Iron Man to stop trying to disband them after the Kree and Super Skrull