Breakfast - Tagging Anybody With an Appetite

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Karolina Dean always tried her best to keep her promises. That was why she'd spent the last month and a half in space, why she intended to go back out there after this fiasco was over and done with, and why she was currently standing in the Avengers' well appointed kitchen by herself, gently folding blueberries into a large bowl of pancake batter

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[runawaywitch]

Nico had run into Jarvis on her way out of the infirmery, and the butler had been kind enough to give her directions towards both where the rest of her friends were staying, and towards the kitchen. He also gave her her sandwich and soda, which she polished off as she walked.

She had just finished the last of the soda when she reached the kitchen, and she stopped.

"Hey, K. You sleep alright?" she asked.

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"Mmhm," Karolina replied, deftly flipping a pancake. "Overslept, actually." It wasn't like her to sleep past mid-morning at the latest, but they hadn't gone to bed until after dawn.

"Molly,'s still sawing logs," she went on, depositing the latest batch of golden-brown flapjacks onto a platter. It already supported a small mountain of them. "I dunno where everybody else got to...they were all gone when I woke up." Even Xavin, which worried her a little given the proximity of one reluctant Emperor.

She turned to see Nico chucking an empty can of soda into a nearby trashcan and smiled. "I guess you've already eaten, but there's plain, banana and blueberry if you want any. I haven't started looking for syrup yet. This place is freakin' huge."

[runawaywitch]

"I've been dreaming about your pancakes since you left," Nico said, eyeing the platter the way a cat might eye a fish. She started browsing through the cabnets in search of syrup, not that Karolina's cooking ever actually needed something like that.

"If I had to guess, I'd say Chase is with the Leapfrog. And God only knows where Gert is... Vic's probably bugging the Avengers for autographs."

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"Everything still cool with Chase and Gert?" Karolina asked, slipping the last of the pancakes onto the platter. "They seemed a little less joined at the hip than usual. Though I guess that could've been because of the running and fighting and whatnot." Though she'd never say it out loud, on pain of dino-chomp, Karolina sometimes found it difficult to suppress squeaks at how adorable Gert and Chase were together.

"I gotta say, if it comes to a throwdown between us and the Avengers, I'm not sure who Vic'd side with," she added, only half joking.

She snagged another plate and piled the pancakes on herself, happily slathering them with butter.

[runawaywitch]

"If you were Chase, I would worry about perving," Nico said, waving a fork in Karolina's direction for emphasis. Of course, she thought, he isn't interested. At all. Stupid. "You, I trust. So try to relax, huh? We can't afford spazzing right now."

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Karolina grinned and tossed a half-joking salute with her fork. "Sure thing boss. Although any ideas on how not to spazz with big magical bullseyes on our backs would be welcome."

It was a sobering thought. They really had no guarantee that they were safe even here, surrounded by dangerous adults. How she'd managed to sleep at all last night, she couldn't really recall.

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"Deep breaths and focusing on what's right in front of you, instead of what may come," Nico recomended. "Come what may and all that."

She smiled just a little bit. "Besides, we can handle this. You're back, and you brought the super-skrull."