task_two | Tall skinny mocha and a muffin.

Evelyn was not used to hanging too much with the others outside of the hero arena, it felt the slightest bit odd to have arranged this little get together but here she was. And hopefully he would arrive soon. She checked her phone again, the text said he would be arriving shortly and that was a few minutes ago.

Until he arrived she'd been enjoying her coffee, she was on her third cup. dad would have scolded her for drinking too much of a stimulant. That sort of thing could effect her reflex reaction time. Unlike her father Evey was not work minded all the time, she was far more relaxed. At least relaxed at most circumstances, meeting a teammate outside of the school or 'work' setting was still a bit uneasy for her.

Carter was a powerhouse, she'd seen him fighting and he was impressive. She lacked his invulnerability but she also had skills and agility he lacked. the way she saw it they would make a pretty decent team up. Her dad had done similar things before and was actually the one who gave her the idea.

So here she was, asking Carter out for coffee so they could have a chance to talk without the ever present eyes and ears and sometimes minds, of the rest of the team.

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Carter strolled down the street to the coffee shop, a nice little place near the school. He found himself wondering why Evelyn had asked him for coffee. They were friends and all, but she hadn't said whether it was as such, or for another reason. He walked into the shop, looking around for a moment before spotting Evey. He waved, and walked over, "Hey" he said with a smile.

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task_two

"Hey, thanks for coming." Evey waved him over and gave the nod to the barista to fix his coffee. Tall, bold hazelnut blend she'd noticed he seemed fond of. Noticing things was part of her gift, she could be behind the counter and making the coffee herself, but she preferred to sit here.

She sipped her mocha and licked a bit of froth from her lip. Well might as well get down to business. "So this is going to sound a bit weird, but, I've been watching you." Yeah she was expecting the reaction there but she pressed forward. "You're good, I mean seriously good in the field. But you could use something to polish you. You're an excellent weapon but if you had something to fine tune you, you'd be amazing."

Ok, that was out there, time to give him a moment to react.

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walking_alchemy_lab

Weird way to start a conversation, "Okaaaaaay. Thanks, I guess." He said, obviously feeling just slightly odd here. Little strange hearing himself referred to as a weapon, especially considering who they were just fighting. After taking a sip of his coffee, the hazelnut satisfying his sweet-tooth, "What did you have in mind?"

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task_two

He took that better than she'd hoped it was an encouraging sign to her. Evey tended to be erratic and if he could take that in stride, well all the better.

"I think, and you can tell me if I'm way off base here, but I think we'd make a good partnership. Between the two of us we have speed, power and," She quieted as someone walked by, resuming once they had passed. " Well I can do pretty much anything, given a chance to see it. It seems like a mutual beneficial idea. What do you think?"

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walking_alchemy_lab

"Well, yeah. I think we'd make a kick-ass team." Carter said with a nod and a grin, leaning back in the chair he was sitting in. He trusted her enough to fight with her with the other X-men, and knew her fairly well, so a little weirdness wasn't too much of a curve ball. "By the way, the thing with the car in the last fight? Awesome."

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task_two

She grinned, it was the sort of look that mixed pride with just a touch of crazy.

"Dad always told me 'Use your resources Evey!' So I did. You fight with whatever you have at hand."

She'd been inspired by the immediacy of the need for help and the fact that it was the fastest most direct method of attack at hand.

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walking_alchemy_lab

"Smart. Kinda has a double meaning with me." Carter said with a small laugh. Turning a speedster into road pizza probably took a ton of skill, or luck. Probably both. "Did you see Nik throw me at the bearded dude?" He still couldn't get over how much fun that was.

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task_two

"No I missed most of the party, but it sounds pretty fun!" She did tend to enjoy the fighting, she was good at it and it was more or less in her blood. Having Taskmaster for a father meant, aside from a pricy education in private school she had been given his gift.

"Yeah, you. Ok what you do is really pretty cool. One of those things I can't really replicate."

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walking_alchemy_lab

"Yeah, it was!" Carter said, he had the same enthusiasm for fighting, but mainly because it gave him the adrenaline rush of being in danger, but most of the time he wasn't. He was nearly invulnerable when he wanted to be.

"Thanks, and I kinda thought so. How does the whole thing work anyway?"

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task_two

She lacked his ability, but her own tended to compensate more than enough. His curiosity of it made her smirk. She sipped again for a moment to prepare her response.

"It's sort of like photographic memory, except with action. If I see something I can do it." That was the easy version of it.

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walking_alchemy_lab

"Awesome!" Carter said, liking the idea. He could think of endless uses, and that alone was pretty cool. "What's with the smirk?" He asked when he noticed it tugging at the corner of her mouth.

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task_two

"Most people aren't that excited about the idea of my powers. Except my last boy friend. he had weird ideas when he found out, they guy had a huge collection of porn." She shrugged, laughing it off.

"That's what you get for dating a guy in college when you're in high school."

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walking_alchemy_lab

Carter couldn't help but laugh. He hadn't thought of that, but he can see why the guy would. "Well they are pretty cool powers", he said. Although he could definitely see why the college guy would want to date her.

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task_two

"It's why I have my ring tone set to this" she played her ring tone, endlessly amused by it. Not only could she copy but she improvise and improve. So if she didn't have a power like his she could always work around it.

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walking_alchemy_lab

Again Carter was laughing, "Oh that's awesome." And it was just perfect. "Mine is Iron Man, by Black Sabbath. For obvious reasons."

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task_two

"Really? You don't look like a Stark." She snickered and leaned her cheek on her hand. "I mean that in a good way. You're cute and not all... ego."

And apparently good taste in music, who knew?

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walking_alchemy_lab

Carter grinned, "Heheh, thanks. You're pretty cute yourself." He said, finishing off his coffee.

Her taste in music was pretty good too.

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task_two

"Good genes." Oh there was a joke in and of itself, given that few people aside from her mom had ever even seen her dad without an image inducer. So looks couldn't really be judged there all that much, but her mother was quite pretty.

"So, cool. I actually had this whole list of reasons we would be good to work together in case you needed convincing."

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walking_alchemy_lab

Carter raised an eyebrow, "Really? Like?" He was a little curious. He was already sold, just thought this could be interesting.

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task_two

Ok, well if he was going to call her on it....

She pulled out a piece of paper from her pocket, unfolded it and chew her cheek for a moment.

"Well we work well together, we don't have pre-existing animosity, our ability slash power sets are complementary, you've got an easy going personality and so do I, I have experience and resources, you have good taste in music, you're not afraid to improvise, you're not easily scared or intimidated."

She looked up, there was more but she thought that might have been a good enough example.

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walking_alchemy_lab

"Heheh, you really put a lot of thought into this." Carter said, not exactly surprised.

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task_two

"What did you think I was going to say? Because you're cute?" She laughed, and finished her coffee.

"That was way down the list."

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walking_alchemy_lab

Carter smiled again, "Heheh, well I figured it be somewhere on there." He quipped.

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task_two

"Number twenty three. Right after' bathes regularly' and before 'not lactose intolerant.'"

That was a joke, with any luck his sense of humor was as good as she thought.