nextgen_parent (nextgen_parent) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2013-08-25 11:36:00

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anya stark, npc - maria saldano, sunny saldano

He's a good boy. Now eat before it gets cold.
Tuesday mid-morning, a little woman entered RenTech offices pulling a small two wheeled cart behind her. She provided security with her identification and shamelessly used her son's name to be ushered to Anya Stark's office.

As the executive assistant's desk was currently unattended, she proceeded to let herself into Ms. Stark's office and smile happily at the president and CEO. "Oh, you are so beautiful, more beautiful than the newspapers say, but too thin. So thin. You need to eat."

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anyastark
2013-08-25 04:21 pm UTC (link)

Anya wasn't used to people just barging into her office. Sunny was her line of defense against such a thing and did a good job at keeping unwanted people out. There were a few who always had access, but this woman clearly wasn't one of them.

"Normally I'd ask you who think you are just barging into my office like this, but I think I know who you are." Anya stood up and moved out from behind her desk. "It's a pleasure to meet you Mrs. Soldano." Anya held out a hand.

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	nextgen_parent 2013-08-25 04:26 pm UTC (link)
	"Call me Maria, dear." Maria took Anya hand in both of hers and patted it. "I am so sorry for coming unannounced, but Suntano keeps telling me that now isn't a good time to meet the wonderful boss he is so happy to work for, and I know my son. There will never come a good time so I make one." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2013-08-25 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	"It's quite okay," Anya assured her. "I've been wanting to meet you since Sunny has told me so much about you." Anya smiled. "I don't think he wants us talking since it may mean we gang up on him. Please sit." Anya gestured to one of the large chairs in front of her desk. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

nextgen_parent
2013-08-25 05:30 pm UTC (link)

"He is so like that." Maria waived Anya to go back to her seat and pulled her little cart up to the desk. She opened the bag and pulled out a placemat. "You didn't have breakfast, did you? I can guess, Suntano didn't have one this morning. I'm visiting him and he left before I could make him a good one. So I brought it with me."

She carefully moved the items on the desk and arranged the placemat. "I hope you like Mexican food, dear. I made the tortillas fresh this morning."

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	anyastark 2013-08-25 05:38 pm UTC (link)
	"I had a bagel on the way in," she said. Bagels and cereal were the only breakfast items in the Thunderbolts' kitchen that didn't require the use of the stove. Anya grabbed a bagel since she had been running late. "I'll eat anything, but I do love Mexican food. You really didn't have to do this." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

nextgen_parent
2013-08-25 05:57 pm UTC (link)

"Pfft, that is not breakfast. I read the papers. You do important work, you must eat well to keep your strength up."

With a maternal frown of disapproval for her newly acquired employer-in-law's eating habits (it only has to make sense to a mother with affection to lavish), Maria quickly served a steaming meal for four of enchiladas, beans and rice, a container of homemade salsa and a stack of corn tortillas in front of Anya. "I started cooking yesterday to make sure he had food in his little freezer, but I made too much."

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	anyastark 2013-08-25 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	"I always appreciate home cooking," Anya said. Her mother and father weren't exactly cooks. "Is there meat in this?" she asked. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

nextgen_parent
2013-08-25 06:42 pm UTC (link)

Maria paused to put her hand over her mouth. With her eyes twinkling, she nodded yes. "Are you like him? No meat? I don't know how I raised a boy who won't eat meat now. There is good pork in the enchiladas. I blame the army. Before, he would eat whatever I put in front of him. He comes home, he won't eat any meat. Not so difficult to cook for now, but a growing boy needs meat."

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	anyastark 2013-08-25 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	Anya sighed and then shook her head. "Oh no. I love meat. Your son keeps trying to serve me meals without meat in it. Have you ever tasted a veggie burger? They're sacrilegious." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

nextgen_parent
2013-08-25 07:12 pm UTC (link)

"And he's such a good boy, too." Maria sighed and shook her head in exasperation. She went around to sit in the chair in front of the desk and watch with great satisfaction as Anya tried her food. She knew she cooked well, but it was plain food. Not at all what a rich young lady would be accustomed to, not in Maria's world.

"Eat now, before it get cold. Just like Suntano, he comes to see me and spends the mealtimes looking at papers and telling me what I should do. As if I was a little old lady who needs someone to look after her! I managed quite well when he was growing up and when he joined the army. He bought me a house a little while ago, did he tell you? I am staying with him while the workmen paint and do things he told them to do."

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anyastark
2013-08-25 07:19 pm UTC (link)

Anya eagerly dug into the food. She'd eat anything, but home cooking was her favorite. Her parents didn't cook, but thankfully she had Jarvis around when she was growing up. He had been the only source of home cooking.

"He told me," Anya said after she swallowed a mouthful of food. Her mother would brain her for not having good manners. "He said it was the first thing he did with his salary and bonus."

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	nextgen_parent 2013-08-25 07:22 pm UTC (link)
	"It's beautiful. I'll have a garden again, and grow my own tomatoes." Maria smiled happily. "I wish it was closer to him, but he'll move many more times and I /am/ getting to be an old lady. I'll have my family close by. You'll come for dinner? I love to cook for a family. Perhaps one day soon he'll give me grandchildren to visit and play in my back yard." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2013-08-25 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	"I'd love to come for dinner," Anya said before putting more food in her mouth. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_parent 2013-08-28 01:17 pm UTC (link)
	Maria took her groceries directly to the kitchen. "Would you like to help prepare the meal?" she invited. She didn't know if Anya had ever cooked for herself, but to Maria the table was were she'd shown her love of family. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2013-08-28 09:19 pm UTC (link)
	"Me? Oh no. I don't think your son would appreciate me setting fire to his kitchen." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_parent 2013-08-29 02:53 pm UTC (link)
	"You don't set fires to kitchens," Maria said with a headshake. "Did your mother teach you to cook? Suntano learned to make tortillas when he was a little boy."" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2013-08-30 10:18 pm UTC (link)
	"I can set a kitchen on fire just walking into it," Anya said. "Appliances have been known to commit suicide in my presence." If Toni were here, now was when she'd make a comment about setting cereal on fire. Anya shook her head. "Mom doesn't really cook. She did teach me how to call for takeout." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_parent 2013-08-31 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	Maria made a face. "Takeout is not as good as homecooking. Come, I show you how. You don't have to use fire at all." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2013-09-02 12:14 pm UTC (link)
	"Thankfully I had Jarvis around when I was growing up. He took care of all the cooking." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2013-09-04 12:17 am UTC (link)
	"I can chop," she said offering to help. "I just don't do well with appliances." Anya smiled. "How long were you married?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_parent 2013-09-04 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	"Twenty three years." Maria found the chopping board and selected a knife. "They were good years, but we didn't until it was too late that he was sick." She smiled at Anya, a little sad but content. "Suntano wanted to come home to take care of me, but he was finally doing so well. It wasn't an easy life for him in the old neighborhood." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anyastark 2013-09-04 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm sorry," she said. "I'll make sure to take very good care of him for you. I promise." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)