The Hostel, Malibu, Friday Morning

[ultron_junior]

As they stepped out of the portal and started the walk to the beach house where the team lived, Victor was feeling good about bringing Olive to meet his friends. Sure, there had been a couple snarky comments about redheads, and some genuine concern about bringing somebody without powers to the house even for a day, but ... he was home and it was a beautiful Malibu Friday. It was hard to worry too much.

He grinned at Olive as he reached for the doorknob. "Ready for the inquisition?"

[OOC: Just for Olive, and NFB due to distance. Parts will be taken from Runaways vol. 3 #10. ]

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"I see you're also the shy one," Olive added to Chase with a slight smile, before turning to look around at everyone else and waving a little nervously. "Hi. Um. Nice place you guys have here."

It was weird seeing Karolina here, but Olive was already prepared for that and thus just gave her the same standard wave she was offering around to everyone. Also with the weird? Trying not to stare at Nico. Not because of the goth thing so much as the common-taste-in-boys thing and damn it she was actually pretty and Olive had been hoping pettily that she'd be a total troll.

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"It was a big step up from the tar pits," Nico put in, with half a smile. In a petty corner of her heart, she'd kind of hoped Olive would be a troll, too, but she wouldn't admit that even under pain of death and never being allowed into Hot Topic again. "And the neighbors still buy we're some weird big foster family. Mostly they're only here weekends, anyhow."

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"You're lucky they buy it," Olive said with a little smile. "I can't even hide in my room at home without my parents and three faculty members and maybe some random passers-by looking into what I'm doing."

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There was a little magic involved, but nobody wanted to mention that in front of the muggle they'd just met. A few uneasy glances were exchanged before Karolina piped up, "You're from Ojai, right? It's so pretty there."

Which didn't really answer the observation, but at least suggested a new direction for the conversation.

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Olive, unbothered by the segue-whiplash there, replied, "Yep. Born and raised and all that jazz. I can get you guys a freaking ton of oranges if you ever need."

'Cause you know, people so often need a bunch of oranges in one fell swoop.

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"You must be very rich," Klara told her. Fresh fruit was expensive in 1907 New York even with Klara's power, and the Runaways budget of nothing hadn't yet alerted her that it wasn't the case here.

Nico smiled slightly,placed a protective hand on Klara's shoulder. "She's from 1907," she explained. "She gets a little excited about weird things."

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Olive had to grin at that. Um, hi, holy adorable alert. Even if the 1907 thing was weird, but again, she'd already known that had been a thing. "I'm really not," she assured Klara, "but the town where I'm from grows most of the oranges in California, so I can get them for very, very cheap. Kind of like how I bet it was easier to get certain things at home than it is here, right?"

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"You can't just tell people they're rich," Molly sighed, and claimed yet another cookie as Klara tentatively nodded.

"Like horses," she said. "They're everywhere at home and since we got here I've seen two. They looked sad."

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"They probably were," Olive said, because why delude the poor kid? "But hey, there's cars and stuff now. They're pretty cool. I mean, I like a horse as much as the next teenage girl, but cars are so convenient."

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Chase snorted. "We should take you up in the 'frog," he said. "It makes cars look like 18th century technology."

He realized Nico was glaring at him and added, "... but we probably don't have time if you're just here for a day."

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"That just means you'll have to show me another time," Olive said agreeably, because A) SHE WANTED TO GO INTO THE FROG THING and B) everyone won that way. "I bet it beats the pants off my little Volkswagen."

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"Definitely," Nico said, warming some, as if Olive had passed a test. "Sorry, it's just that we're supposed to be low-key. Even with the shields on, going out in a huge flying frog in the middle of the day just for fun is ... basically the opposite of low-key."

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"And no offense to you guys, but I'm pretty sure no one wants my unpowered ass freaking out if something went wrong while we were being, um...the opposite of low-key, right?" Olive offered, giving a sheepish little shrug. "I get it. But hey, there's cookies, which are pretty much right up my alley."

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"They're good cookies, too," Victor finally put in, to a general murmur of agreement. He'd been hanging back to see how things would go. It seemed like they were actually okay, and that thawed him out enough to speak.

Nico hummed to herself, tilted her head at Olive thoughtfully. "Do you freak out about stuff around superpowers a lot?" she asked. "I'd think you'd be all bored with it, between Victor and everybody else at your school."

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"Nooo, not bored. Never bored," Olive said, shaking her head. "I mean, dude, the coolest thing I can do is sew my own prom dress. So yeah, it's never really going to get old for me."

She looked a little more uncertain, but decided to stamp on in the name of honesty. "It's sometimes a little freaky, though. No one has powers or anything where I'm from -- we don't have those Avenger people or anything -- so sometimes it takes a minute for me to wrap my mind around something, but...for the most part, it's gotten to be sort of a new form of normal, you know?"

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"I know. It's not like most of us spent that much time thinking about the Avengers before we got roped into this," Nico said, sighing a bit because she knew what a fanboy Victor could be about it. "Seriously, they're about as interesting as the Kardashians and more overexposed."

It might have been hard to tell, but she was starting to decide she ... kind of liked Olive. Maybe.

"Also, props for sewing. I make like half of what I wear."

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Olive smirked, arching a brow. "But do the Avengers have their own nail polish colors? Because I know I was beating people out of the way at Target when I saw I could make my nails just like Kim and Kourtney's."

Because seriously, Kardashians. Are you for real? Are you?

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"They don't, and now I want Iron Man burgundy and gold," Nico said. (And actually kind of meant it; even if he was a dick, Iron Man's suit would look awesome in nail polish form.)

"But the Avengers have action figures and Kim and Kourtney don't," Chase contributed. "So they kind of win."

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"They might have Barbie dolls," Olive said, and then winced and added, "I'm both ashamed of myself for knowing that, and of, you know, the world for making that possible."

"On the bright side, if there's Avengers action figures, I know what I'm getting you for your birthday," she added, shooting a teasing smile at Victor.

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"Which were the ones you had back at your mom's?" Chase asked Victor loudly. "Scarlet Witch and Hulk and a couple others, right?"

"The Thing," Victor said, ears scarlet. "Shut up, that was a really long time ago."

Like, eighteen entire months!