Stark Industries [Friday Afternoon, 31/5]

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It was shaping up to be a fairly quiet shift, so Mariner had decided to give herself an 'independent study', and was cajoling the gremlin to made every single kind of coffee that had been mentioned in class yesterday.

Every. Single. Kind.

There was no way this could end badly.

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At some point during the cajoling of coffee, Kamala showed up for a visit. Her arms had a very large stack of papers.

"Hi! Hello! I'm Kamala Khan, intern," She said placing the stack of papers somewhere near Beckett but as far away from the gremlin as she could manage. "Are you Beckett Mariner? I just have a few reams of paperwork from HR for you to fill out."

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Mariner who was several espresso shots in by now, waved Kamala off . "Oh, yeah, I've taken care of all that."

Mostly.

Look, it wasn't her fault her birthdate fell a few centuries outside the system's limits.

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"Uh, yes, but they still need you to sign the disclaimer about being attacked by anything that Mr. Stark has created and few other things," Kamala said looking around to see if anyone is listening.

"I also think the lady in HR has it out for me so if you could do me a solid, it would really help me out," she whispered.

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Mariner sighed and held her hand out for the paperwork. "Maybe the HR lady should've got that before the gift basket incident," she announced in JARVIS's vague direction.

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“Oh! Thank you so much!” Kamala said with a relieved sigh and handed over the paperwork which had those tiny arrow post it notes that said “sign here” and “initial here” everywhere.

Kamala then looked over at JARVIS and back to Mariner. “What happened with the gift basket?” She whispered. “What kind of incident?”

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Did it take very long for Mariner to get bored and start mixing in letters and orthography from every single language she knew even a little bit of? Nope.

"Tony gave me a welcome basket, most everything in it tried to kill me," she explained with a shrug. "It was a whole thing."

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Kamala was completely astonished. “The coffe gift cards came alive and attacked you?”

Look, that was pretty much the contents of Kamala’s gift basket.

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"Oh, no, it was a bunch of gadgets and doohickeys and stuff."

Which was probably why Kamala's only had coffee gift cards.