Stark Industries - Monday

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Kamala was tackling yet another project for her Stark Industries internship. This time, her task was digitizing a backlog of inventory tags for outdated tech stored in the archives. It was a tedious process—scanning barcodes, writing up descriptions, and occasionally laughing at some of the more ridiculous designs.

Despite the monotony, her mood remained upbeat. With a certain song playing on repeat, Kamala hummed along, occasionally breaking into soft singing as she worked

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Well, hopefully, at some point, Kamala was feeling ready for a little bit of a break, because Eleanor was stopping in for a visit, bearing two Squishies (Apple Cider for herself and Red for Kamala, of course), but also a tiara.

"Hi," she said, and handed Squishy over first and then tiara. "Here. I got this for you."

It was cheap and plastic and had been free with her purchase of Squishies, but she figured Kam would get a kick out of it.

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Kamala was always ready to pause for a visitor—especially when this particular visitor had a connection to the song she’d been happily humming when they arrived!

"For me?" she exclaimed gleefully, greeting Eleanor with a quick kiss before carefully placing the tiara on her head.

"How do I look? Am I regal?" Kamala struck a dramatic pose, then grinned. "Or do I look like I’m about to cut the ribbon at a car dealership opening?

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"You look perfect," Eleanor told her, fondly, and with another quick kiss back, "but that has nothing to fo with the tiara. The tiara does make you look like you've gotten quite the promotion above Intern, though."

She just took an additional moment to admire the grinning pose and how that was pretty much the reaction she'd expected.

"I love it."

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"Mmmm. And I love you," Kamala said pulling Eleanor into a warm hug. "You came in just in time. I don't know why Stark Industries have so many weird gizmos and gadgets but I sooooooo needed a break from scanning barcodes."

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Eleanor was more than happy to be pulled into that hug, and return it in kind, and linger there for a moment with a happy, contented sort of sigh before shifting a little put of it, so that her arm was still slung around Kamala's waist as she leaned into her a little.

"Did you need help?" she offered. "After your break, of course. Or would that break some sort of intern moral work ethics code?"

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"Wellllll, I should probably handle this on my own since I’m the one getting paid to do it," Kamala said with an exaggerated sigh. "But you’ve already helped by visiting me, boosting my morale, and delivering the all-important Red Squishy that’s going to power me through the day."

She grinned mischievously. "Of course, we could just extend my break a little... Maybe you’ve got time to join me for lunch? I could order in?"

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"I've got all the time in the world for the rest of the day," Eleanor said, since she'd obviously, conveniently, come by after her class, and then she grinned a little herself as her eyes tracked up to the tiara, "especially for royalty.

"What are you in the mood for?"

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"Well her royal highness is feeling flexible today," Kamala said with an amused laugh and a very bad British accent. "So I'm somewhere between pizza and shawarma. As my royal subject I shall let you choose."

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"How gracious of you," Eleanor huffed a small breath of laughter, "your majesty. And you know, I feel like Pizza Planet does so many unique pizzas that they could probably do a shawarma one, but, if I had to pick one, I think I'd pick the shawarma."

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"Then shawarma it shall be," Kamala said in her most regal manner before pulling one arm from their embrace to grab her phone and go to the app for food delivery with her free hand.

Could she use JARVIS for this? Maybe. But Kamala felt weird asking an advanced AI to do something so basic as order lunch.

"I'm going with the lamb and getting some fries," she said holding the phone up and leaning against Eleanor a bit so she could share the screen. "What are you in the mood for? Chicken? You want fries or any deep-fried goodness?"

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"No, lamb and fries sound pretty good for me, too," Eleanor said. "Unless if I get chicken, we could share and have the best of both. But fries sound pretty great, too. You know I'm not usually all that picky."

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"Let’s do both! Perfect!" Kamala chirped, her face lighting up as she carefully tossed her phone back onto her desk. Her now-free arm immediately found its way back around Eleanor, as if that was its rightful place all along.

"Now," she said, her tone turning mischievous, "what in the world can we do while we sit here and wait for our food?"

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Eleanor's blush probably answer that question well before her words did.

"I might have at least one idea," she admitted, "but," she leaned on Kamala a little more, "you are at work..."

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Kamala’s eyebrows arched just a bit higher at the response, but her smile grew a touch brighter. "Hmm. Well, we could head up to the roof, at least," she suggested. "Get a nice view of the island from the top of our very tiny Stark Tower. And..... maybe save that other idea for when I'm off the clock."

She hesitated for just a second before adding, "Oh, and there's a cheese fridge up there, if that sweetens the deal."

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Well, Eleanor was going to go and kiss Kamala anyway just then, although it was, admittedly, a much softer, lighter, more chaste kiss than the one in her mind that had brought all those interesting mottled colors across her pale face.

"How could I possibly say no," she said, smiling softly, "to a cheese fridge?"

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“Well you can never say no to cheese,” Kamala said with a small chuckle as she slipped her one arm away so that the two of them could hold on to each other while walking towards the elevator. “And maybe after work we can meet up and consider that idea of yours.”