TWENTY-TWO :: [video]

[superspeeds]

[The feed clicks on to show a postcard, held in Pietro's hand. He's obviously displaying it purposefully for the network to see, and just barely visible, half-hidden by his thumb is the Cancun, Mexico text.]

After some minor confusion, I have been informed that my wife, Angelica, simply decided to take an unscheduled holiday. One about which she declined to tell anyone, apparently. Even myself.

[He flips the postcard around, revealing a typical note (wish you were here, the sun is amaaaazing, etc) and a few hearts scrawled lazily toward the end).]

I would retrieve her myself, but as I do not know exactly where in the Cancun she might be, and wish to avoid our son feeling any further parental abandonment... [Pietro clenches his jaw, the tenseness and resentment pretty palpable.] I will merely have to await her return.

I'm sorry to have concerned anyone over her absence. In the future, I will make sure Angelica and I discuss any future travel plans prior to gallivanting off.

[With that, Pietro folds the postcard with a huff and kills the feed.]

Comments

[centurybaby]

What's the fucking deal with superhuman parents and ditching their kids? Keep that up, and your son's gonna grow up to be a chain-smoking punk or something.

[voice]

[superspeeds]

To be clear, Angelica's dalliances aside, Calvin is very well cared for. I resent your implication to the contrary.

[centurybaby]

You seem like a kinda resentful guy. So I won't take it personally.

permavoice;

[mocks]

I knew she'd turn up. You need me to babysit while you fetch her?

[voice]

[superspeeds]

She's there with our friend Gemma Doyle and I don't know that it would be safe to carry both of them back simultaneously. I'll await her return. Eagerly.

[mocks]

Whatever you say, buddy.

[futureleader]

I wasn't concerned at all~!

[superspeeds]

How fortunate.

[futureleader]

She could have been hurt you know!

voice

[acrossyourpath]

Well. At least she's having fun.

[voice]

[superspeeds]

Well, fun should always be one's priority when raising a child.

[voice]

[acrossyourpath]

I agree.

video

[hellionated]

So, your wife's gone, and you didn't notice until she sent you a postcard.

[ Wow that's some first class husbanding. ]

[voice]

[superspeeds]

I noticed on Saturday morning when she neither answered my calls, nor returned home. I informed our friends, and the rest of the Avengers, but felt it premature to alert the network at large.

[hellionated]

[ Pause. ]

So she just disappeared. And this is the first you knew about Cancun.

Why the hell did you think she left?

Voice

[liverletdie]

Hey, how are you holding up?

[voice]

[superspeeds]

I am in a perfectly reasonable state of mind, if that is what you're asking. I am, however, frustrated.

[voice]

[notadartboard]

What, she just flitted off like that when there was a damn war going on here?

[he's not pissed, just really disturbed]

[voice]

[superspeeds]

No one was more shocked than I, rest assured.

Video/Action

[magicalworld]

I can't believe she went to Mexico and didn't tell us! Or bring me!

[action]

[superspeeds]

[Pietro appears beside Calvin with a whoosh, and hands him the postcard. On it there's a note saying "Give Calvin my love. I got him a gift, but it's a secret."]

She has a souvenir for you, apparently. Perhaps next time, she'll consider her family prior to leaving.

permatext.

[psychomancy]

[WHOOPS
she's too terrified to do anything but text]

Oh good, you got the postcard!

[voice]

[superspeeds]

[sdljkfjklsdf There's a pause before he speaks. When he does, Pietro sounds surprisingly level headed.]

And that's all you have to say on the subject.

voice;

[radiantly]

[She cannot stand to let him see her now, mortified look on her face that she just can't shake.]

... Whatever happened to keeping our personal business between us?

[voice]

[superspeeds]

I'm sorry, that consideration slipped my mind.

Similarly, I would imagine, to the way informing your family of your imminent disappearance slipped yours.