Home is where the heart is

[sorryitasedyou]

Who: Darcy Lewis and YOU!!!
Where: ALLLLL over - see below
When: 6/30 all day into the evening
Rating: PG-13 to be safe for language - will up it if needed
Summary: Darcy's back from being sent home and is dealing with it... to a point.
The Story:



A:

[She's back in Wonderland, much to her dismay, the last thing she remembers is eating cereal with Jane, Erik, and Ian after the whole almost dying and plunging the universe into darkness thing. She moves to one of the chairs, letting out an angry sigh as she flops into it. There's a small yelp as quickly shoots back up, realizing her communicator had been somehow slipped into her back pocket. She gives out another sound, mumbling something that sounds like a long string of swears if listening closely enough as she sees the full inbox.

There's an increasing number of sounds as she continues to listen, momentarily considering just throwing the stupid thing in the ocean or whatever it was. Instead, she clears out the inbox, firing off a few quick texts.]

[text to Tony]

Got your message. I'm back - somehow ended up back home. Hope you guys didn't have to go through too much trouble with Jane's freak out.

Please tell me she didn't actually call for search teams...

Also, as an apology I will make you those brownies we talked about. I'll be in the kitchen later tonight.


[text to Jane]

Got all of your messages. I guess not all of the things in Wonderland are bottomless pits because you definitely filled up my voicemail. I'm back - ended up getting sent home somehow. I will be in my room soon if you want to meet there - I can explain more.


[mass text to other Avengers and people from her world]

I'm back - was sent home for a little bit apparently. Sorry if Jane caused as much of a fuss as I think she did.


[She spends a few more moments in the chair, gathering her thoughts before starting to make her way up to the 7th floor to make sure nothing had changed in her absence.]


B:

[She's in her room, the familiarity slightly comforting if not only adding on to the annoyance of being back. While she's glad it stayed the same, it wasn't really something she was about to jump for joy about.

She settles in, communicator at her side, waiting to hear from people. She grabs a Jane Austen book, trying to read but continually getting distracted by thoughts of home.

Eventually giving up, she turns on some music, moving back to the door to peek out and see if anyone was out there.]


C:

[After agreeing to give Jane a much needed reprieve from animal duty, she makes her way around the mansion with 2 ridiculously awesome puppies that she's still not 100% sure about and the two piglets. She has all four in harnesses and leashes, although that doesn't stop them from slipping away every now and then.

They all eventually settle in the music room, Darcy playing random chords as the puppies sing along rather loudly.]


D: [For Tony, but can definitely be open to others.]

[Puppies and piglets in tow, she makes her way back down to the kitchen to do some much needed baking. She first gets the animals settled with some water and food before turning her attention to gathering the supplies for the whiskey brownies she'd promised Tony. Turning on some music, she lets herself fall into the familiar motions of baking.

It was a welcome distraction, not thinking about Thor, Ian, Erik, or her family - just focusing on the task at hand. It's easier said than done, something she'd been struggling with all day. It had been easier being here the first time, so caught up in what was happening she didn't really have a chance to get homesick, but the dangling tease of her actual life had left her wanting to go back. She missed her friends and family, missed Thor.

Pushing it aside, she goes back to what she was doing, realizing she'd been attempting to stir air in an empty bowl.]


E: [For Will Graham, open to anyone who sees her.]

[After making the brownies, she notices she has an extra bottle of Whiskey, deciding to wrap a bow around the neck and drop it off in front of Will's door on the first floor. She makes a point to include a little bag of the brownies she'd made with another note of the alcohol content in them before making her way back up to the 7th floor.]


[ooc: feel free to have gotten a misfired text from her or run into at any point along her journey - just name the place!]

Comments

[heirtotheshield]

[ He’d heard from Tony that Darcy was back. He likes Darcy. She’d given him some much needed companionship and break from the Avengers, even though he hadn’t realized he’d needed one.

He dashes up the stairs two at a time, heading for her room – that had been easy to find. When she opens the door, he flings himself at her and wraps her in a hug. ]

You’re back! Are you okay? What happened? Jane was upset and Tony had all of us looking everywhere for you.

video;

[glumshoe]

[ Aching from a long day of herding strays this way and that, the most welcome and least expected present Will could've wanted is sitting undisturbed in front of his door. A line is formed in his brow as he gathers them up, ribbon slipping through his curious fingers. Probably safe. It goes inside.

The note has a woman's handwriting. He's... fairly certain it's not Evelyn. Brownies are too. Hm. Traditional. Alcoholic brownies, though...

Well there's one person he's talked to about copious amounts of alcohol and after he's poured a glass he opens his device. ]

Hi. Glad to see you're back in the land of the living. Or, kidnapped. [ Not glad because she's kidnapped obviously, but glad that Jane Foster can stop her impression of a whirling dervish and relax. His glass gets waved around in front of the screen, dark liquid sloshing. ] I assume you're who I have to thank for the gifts?

b

[mph]

[ After a whole few rounds of finagling, Tommy achieved putting together something akin to a dogsled. He's normally nimble, quick at building things if he can find a manual to memorize. With the event making him feel like he was trudging through rather than over snow, the whole process became laborious. When Darcy opens her room door, there's Tommy very close by, sitting in a plastic snow sled that he'd rigged up to one of those scooter boards he remembered from gym class in elementary and the closet was able to provide. The are all leashed and ready to go, but too bad none of them are running.

They're kind of just standing. And sitting. And licking themselves. ]

Mush. Come on guys, mush already!

[handing]

[Pepper opts for something other than replying over the phone. Darcy had given her an invitation to stop by her room before, and it sounds like she thankfully remembers her prior time in Wonderland given the broadcast. So she makes the short walk down the hall, meaning to see both Darcy and her room, to make sure the woman is settling in okay.

It's all very simple, until the door opens just as Pepper raises her hand. She jerks back in surprise, but quickly relaxes with a smile as she sees the person in question.]

Hey. Welcome back.

C

[hyperkinesia]

[ Sometime during the puppy serenade accompanying Darcy's chords, another tiny puppy, a short grey pitbull, is running into the room to join them in a symphony just as loud, while he jumps all over the others to try and play with them. Soon after, Bruce is following suit, peeking into the room first before he steps through the door.

He recognizes her immediately, and greets her with a smile. He'd gotten her message, and had thought of going to look for her, if anything only to say hi, but turns out he ended up running into her before actually doing any looking around. ]

Darcy. It's good to see... [ That you're back? No, he's pretty sure that given the choice, she'd have stayed back home. ] That you're alright. Jane got us all a little worried for a while there.

C-ish

[possiblymad]

[Darcy was likely on her way to the music room, though Loki wasn't aware of this, when he bumped into her and her pack in the hall. He raised an eyebrow at the piglets and puppies before lifting his gaze to her.]

If you're building an army, might I recommend something with a bit more... ferocity? Canines and swine are on the lower echelon where intimidating warriors are concerned. [It was purely small talk. Playful small talk. What he had to say next, however, was not.]

When next I am wrongly accused of--and threatened--on a matter with which I had no participation, I will live up to the crime on principal. Is that very clear? You will want to pass that little piece of information along to Jane Foster.

[But look, he actually didn't try to kill her.]

A (for the moment - likely to turn into action?)

[widows_kiss]

[When the text pops up on her phone, Natasha's relieved. Jane's not the only one that's been worried about her absence. Although now she's curious as to how and why Darcy made the trip - and what she might have learned while doing so.]

Welcome back, I think?

Have we missed anything interesting?

D. Obviously.

[sexandoutrage]

The text goes unanswered, mostly because there's the promise of those unicorn-esque brownies and because it actually goes ignored for a chunk of the day, sitting there on his phone unheeded despite JARVIS's repeated attempts to drag his attention to it. He's been busy, okay? Some of the kinks of the new suit are finally working themselves out, and he's gotten absorbed into it without much thought to anything else going on around him. After all, if he can get it to function properly (no grabbing Pepper or anything, that would be nice), he'll have a suit he can call at a whim.

Not a bad idea in a place like Wonderland, when it seems like every other week is going to be something that's going to either drown them in fuzzballs or try to kill them.

But when he finally gets around to checking it, he makes his way out of the lab and in search of the kitchen, coming upon Darcy stirring the air in the bowl.

"See, I knew there had to be a catch to this whole thing. I feel like Robin Williams with the Lost Boys. Can you feel my disappointment?"