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

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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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Still Crazy After All These Years

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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.

Somewhere along the way, namely when she started thinking about Iron Lad, Cassie decided getting some chocolate icecream from the kitchen would be a good idea.

"Vision's brain patterns are based on Iron Lad's?" Kristoff refrained from calling him 'Young Kang'. Cassie had clearly been fond of him, judging from the when she had to mention him she spoke in hushed, reverent tones.

"Uhm, yes." Cassie quickly popped a spoonful of icecream into her mouth.

"Hm." Know thy enemy, Kristoff thought.

Cassie ate another spoonful of icecream the moment she thought Kristoff would talk, but he didn't. Eventually she ended up speaking. "Why did you freeze up when we were fighting er- he who must not be named? You know, when Mrs. Xanathos er... sort of died."

Kristoff stared at the center of the table. "I watched my mother die in a similar situation."

Cassie said nothing but pushed her bowl aside, stood, walked to Kristoff and hugged him. Kristoff clung to her.