anyastark:

Anya blinked at the computer screen. She was done. Two AIs written in the past two weeks. Thankfully she didn't have to start from scratch and had used Darlene and Goddard as bases. She blinked again. It was a good thing she was done. Words and things on the computer screen were starting to run together.

Anya wondered what day it was. Without Toni and Steve around, it was easy to lose track of time. The Thunderbolts had yet to learn that if she hadn't been seen for more than twenty four hours, someone had to pull her out of the lab. Which in this case was a good thing. She got done what she needed to get done in between going to classes.

She checked her phone. For a moment she expected to see a text message from Steve and then remembered why she wouldn't be getting one. Her eyes teared up and she blinked them back. Two messages from Mom. Three from Dad. Two from James. Five from Toni. There was even one from Eliza. There wasn't any from Misha. Now that she thought about it she hadn't heard from him or seen him since her birthday. Even then she had only seen him for five minutes while he dropped off her gift.

He hadn't come up to visit. He hadn't called. He hadn't texted her. Not even to tease her about being taken into SHIELD custody yet again. Either she did something to piss him off, which could totally be the case, or he was just PMSing. Anya would put money on the latter.

She wrote the two different AIs to external hard drives and disconnected them from the computer. Time to deliver them. One to her professor and the other to Justin.

Anya smiled. She'd stop by Big Nick's while she was in New York and bring back dinner for the Thunderbolts.