2014-01-25 - A New Best Friend

Amongst the numerous things Sawyer has added to her plate lately, she can't possibly overlook the promise for a playdate with Asia and.. well.. the girl's not really her neice, unless Aunt Mellie adopts her.. but she's started to think of Tanya that way. She still has the phone number Tony had given her to call the Avenger's Academy about Asia, and puts in a request for an hour or so of the girl's time. Jarvis, of course, is tasked to transport her, bringing her over to Aunt Mellie's home. Now, it's not a place Asia has been before, but Jarvis is familiar enough with it, and soon enough, he's standing at the front door with his charge.

As soon as the bell rings, Sawyer makes a beeline for the door, knowing it will probably be more advantageous for Asia to see a familiar face in the new environment. When she opens the door, she's revealed in a long-sleeved, black cotton shirt, with a crew neckline, and a pair of black, bootcut jeans. Her feet are in socks, and her hair has been left down to fall around her shoulders. There's a hint of red highlights that can be spotted whenever the light hits her hair just right. Another 'new' addition, is the discoloration to her left cheek, where it appears she's tried to cover up a bruise with make up... something she hardly ever wears in the first place.

"Asia!" She's enthusiastic to see the girl, all smiles. ".. and Jarvis." She steps in close to hug the man before turning back to Asia. "Tanya is so excited to meet you.. and guess what?"

Asia doesn't look to happy, and that's no fault of anyones except mother nature. She not excited about the cold weather, but her little frown is turned upside down upon seeing Sawyer and she rushes over to her and intecepts the hug. "Hi Sawyer!" she squeals happily. "Oooh ah wanna meet Tanya too." she adds, before tilts her head and thinks a moment looking to Sawyer. "Um Ah dunno wha't?"

Sawyer crouches down, pulling the girl into a hug. She lowers her voice to a conspiratorial whisper. "Aunt Mellie has made her famous chocolate chip cookies. She has a platter of them on the table.. and Tanya has had to wait to get into them, until you got here." With one arm around Asia's shoulders, she pivots her body enough where she can look past the living room, and back toward where the dining table is half hidden by the wall supporting the stairs to the second level. She points in the direction. "If you go round that corner.. you'll see Tanya, and Aunt Mellie is all ready to set you up with a glass of milk."

Asia grins at her. "Ooooooh!" and with that she doesn't have to tell the little girl twice, she rushes as fast as her little feet will carry her around the corner in search of of her friends and cookies. "Mah Tummy hungers for Cookies!" she squeals with delight. She bounces right into the area to see what she can find.

When Asia rounds the corner, she sees a medium long table, set with eight chairs. On one side of the table sits a cute little girl with fair skin and pretty red curls. Her face still has some of the baby fat, giving her an adorable, rounded face with cheeks that 'aunts' seem to love to pinch. She's sitting on some sort of a booster at the table, and turns quickly when Asia comes into view, a big grin brightening her whole face. She squeals with delight, wriggling down from her seat to come over to Asia, opening her arms wide. "Is this my new friend?"

Aunt Mellie is right there, across the table from where Tanya was sitting. She's a kindly looking woman, slender, and not looking that much older than Sawyer. She has a warm smile on her face to greet Asia, and it's not hard to believe she and Sawyer are related. "You must be Asia." She says, coming over to join Tanya. "Easy Tanya.. you don't want to make your new friend uncomfortable, do you? Maybe she's been warned about hugging strangers." She crouches down to the girls' level. "Hi Asia.. you can call me Aunt Mellie, and this.. is Tanya. She's been so excited to hear about you coming for a playdate.. it's been the only thing she's talked about all morning."

Asia giggles and gives Tanya a big hug first. She giggles and smoochies her cheek. "Yep ah'm yer new friend!" she says happily, and bounces up and down, before turning to Aunt mellie and curties. "Nice to meet you Aunt Mellie, mah name's Asia you can calm me Asia.' she says happily to her. "How is everybody?" she asks politely, seems like Jarvis is giving her some lessons.

Speaking of Jarvis, Sawyer straightens and invites the man in, but he seems to have a lot of things to accomplish and promises to be back for Asia in a few hours. Sawyer, gives him a quick hug before closing the door behind him as he leaves. It isn't long before Sawyer has joined the three of you in the dining area, smiling. "It seems you all are getting acquainted easily."

Aunt Mellie gives a nod to Asia's curtsey. "It's a pleasure to meet you Asia. May I take your outer wear.. jacket, etc.. and you can take a seat at the table with Tanya? Would you like a booster seat too?"

Tanya hugs Asia in return, and takes her hand, even as the girl curtsies. It causes Tanya to giggle, and the girl starts to tug Asia over to the table, even before she can divest herself of her jacket. "Auntie Mellie made chocolate chip cookies. Hers are the best ever."

Asia shakes her head to Mellie. "Ah sometimes get chilly." she explains that her she'll keep her jacket for now and then she is tugged out to the table. "Ooh I like cookies, ah can't wait." she says happily before climbing into the seat. She grins at the little girl. "Wha are ya workin on, or are ya just waiting on cookie time?"

Tanya's face is all alight, eager to share. There are paper towels set at each place at the table, and a plate piled with chocolate chip cookies. "I was waiting for you to come." Her wide, blue eyes look up at Aunt Mellie. "We're ready.. can we have some milk please?"

Aunt Mellie chuckles softly at the girls and heads into the kitchen to get the milk. Sawyer, meanwhile, moves over behind the chairs the girls occupy, and reaches to pluck some cookies from the plate and set them on the paper towels. "I'll start you two out with three cookies for now. How does that sound?"

Asia smiles happily to Tanya. "SO wha do you like?" she asks as she trying to get to know her new friend. She smiles at Sawyer and blows her a little kiss. She giggles and smiles as the cookies are presented before them. "That sounds very very yummy.' she little girl replies.

Sawyer playfully ruffles Tanya's hair, and lovingly pats Asia's shoulder. "I'll leave you two to get to know each other for a bit. I'm going to borrow Aunt Mellie's computer for a bit, okay girls?" She gives each a kiss on the cheek, then disappears.

Aunt Mellie appears soon after to set a glass - perfect shape and size for dipping - of milk in front of each of the girls, before taking a seat with her own glass of milk and snags a cookie. She remains rather quiet for the moment, letting the girls talk for now.

Tanya's eyes light up.. as if they weren't bright enough before. "Oh, I like my dollies, and drawing. Oh.. and Aunt Mellie's friend said he made robots.." A slight pout has her lower lip protruding. ".. but I didn't get to see any to play with." She heaves a sigh, and her smile is immediately back in place. Seems the girl doesn't stay sad very long. "What do you like?"

Asia smiles at Sawyer and returns the quick peck on her cheek as she leaves. "See you later." she offers. "Thank you." she says to Mellie as the milk is placed. HEr attention those go to her new friend and she listens. "Oooh I seen lots of Robots, ah use to have one but she um broke." or rather slayed but that's not polite subject for such company. She grins at her. "I like dollies and i got a ton of legos and I like music, and climbing things, ah'm a real good climber."

Tanya's eyes widen even further when Asia mentions music, and legos. "Oh.. I love building things.. and.." Again, the pout returns.. even if briefly. ".. if it wasn't so cold outside, and the snow.. I have a tree house in a big tree in the backyard to climb and play in.. and swings too.. but it's too cold." She perks up. "But when we finish with cookies, would you like to see my room? I have some blocks we can play with.. and Aunt Mellie can put on music so we can dance in the living room." It's obvious she's getting excited about the fun the two of you are going to have.

Asia giggles excitedly, as she breaks her cookie in half and dips it into the milk, letting it soak a bit before she puts it in her mouth. She mmmms happily. "They are very good cookies." she compliments before her attention returnst o Tanya. "Yeah ah don't like the cold, it's not good for me." she explains. "Ah like it better in the spring." she giggles. "Maybe in da spring you can come see the school I sometimes go to and we can play in the forest there it's very nice, the trees are very very nice."

Tanya takes hold of a whole cookie and dunks it, bringing it to her mouth to take a big bite. "I'd like that. Lots of trees to climb." She says with her mouth full, leaving milk residue and cookie crumbs around her mouth.

Aunt Mellie just smiles, breaking off a piece of her own cookie to dunk and pop in her mouth. She finishe the bite before speaking. "You should wait to speak until you've swallowed your cookie Tanya." She leans over, taking a napkin from the napkin holder, and hands it to Tanya to wipe her face. "Would you like a napkin too Asia?" She asks, reaching for another to hand to the girl.

Tanya's fair cheeks turn rosy, and she wipes her mouth. "Thank you Auntie Mellie." She murmurs sheepishly, turning back to Asia. "Do they let you climb a lot of trees?"

Asia smiles and nods. "Thank you." she takes the napkin, though she's a little cleaner at this age with her food. She dunks the cookie. "Oh yes ah can climb whatever I want, but I always ask the trees if it's okay to climb them first." she explains to her. "It's just nice, most of the time they don't mind." she takes the dunked cookie into her mouth.

Tanya blinks, looking baffled. "You ask the trees, and they talk to you?" She looks completely baffled. "I talk to things, and they don't talk back.. unless they're people." She looks wistfully at Asia. "You're lucky. Can you teach me to talk to the trees so they answer me too?"

Aunt Mellie looks only mildly surprised. By now, she's growing somewhat accustomed to strange things in her life, and even if it shocks her, she's gotten better at disguising her reaction.

Asia shakes her head. "Yeah ah can talk to trees and do some other stuff, ah'm so much better in the spring, in the winter ah get little and my powers don't really work so good." she explains. "Buh yeah ah can talk to trees pretty mcuh all the time and they do talk to me, but no one else can hear them, it's cause ah'm a mutant." she says happily to her.

Tanya pouts, looking over at Aunt Mellie. "I wanna be a mutant too, so I can hear the trees talk to me."

Aunt Mellie smiles, shaking her head. "Honey, it doesn't quite work that way. You'll just have to be with Asia when you want to talk to the trees, and she can translate for you."

Tanya's brow furrows. "What's translate?"

"It's when Asia tells the trees what you want to say, and they talk to her.. then she tells you what they said." Aunt Mellie smiles over at Asia across the table. "It's a wonderful gift you have."

Tanya's still pouting a bit as she dips and takes another bite of her cookie. "But /I/ wanna talk to the trees, and hear them."

Asia grins at her. "yeah ah can tell you any thing they say. " she giggles. "Oh ah bet you can do lots of things ah can't." she grins. "Do you go to school? "she asks her.

Tanya nods. "Yeah.. but.." She doesn't seem all that excited. ".. but I wanna be a mutant too." Her expression changes as she looks back over to Asia. "How did you get to be a mutant? Maybe I can do it too.. and then I can talk to trees."

Asia shakes her head. "Ah don't go to school." she tells her. "Um ya gotta be born one." she says. She grins. "Though you never know you might get powers were you grow up ah know lots of grown ups with powers." she says to her.

Tanya wrinkles her cute little nose. "I guess having a friend mutant is better than nothing at all.. but I wish I could have powers too." She gets a big grin on her face. "There was this pretty girl.. she had stars.. and did.. like magic." She describes a bit, and if you're familiar with America, you might recognize what she tells you. "And school's okay. We get to go out and play when it's nice.. and get to draw.. but they make us learn to write letters too. I don't like tracing, and coloring in the lines all the time."

Asia giggles at her and blows her a kiss. "Oooh ah know her, she's very nice." she grins. "Oooh ooh I need to let you meet mah friend Supergirl, she can fly, you'd like her." she grins at her. "She might even take you on a trip." she giggles.

Tanya squeals in delight, dropping her unfinished cookie to the paper towel so she can clap her hands. "She can fly too? Ooh.. I wanna fly." She looks at Aunt Mellie. "Can I go flying.. can I.. can I please?" She gives Mellie the wide eyed, puppy dog look, staring at her from across the table.

Aunt Mellie smiles. "Tanya.. you should wait for someone to offer, and you haven't even met Supergirl yet." Her voice is kind and gentle. "Just try not to get her too excited Asia. I'll never get her to sleep tonight." She chuckles at the thought.

Asia grins at her and nods. it's hard to live the superhero life even when you are a preschooler. She giggles at her. "Next playdate you can come to mah house and we can go flying." she says to her. She giggles. "Ah always sleep, I sleep a lot." she frowns. "Kinda ike bears do in da winter, ah don't like winter."

Tanya leans over from her seat, trying to hug Asia. "Kinda like a sleepover?" She looks over at Aunt Mellie. "Can I? Can I please?" She begs, giving Asia another squeeze before sitting back up and diving back into her cookies.

Asia giggles at the squeeze she love hugs. She grins at them. "Ah gotta ask if ya can come over buah ah don't think it should be a problem.'

Tanya is quick to finish her cookies, and is all ready to hop down when Aunt Mellie pipes up. "Why don't you finish your milk Tanya, then I'll clean you up and you can show Asia your room, what do you say?" She asks, and Tanya's expression falls briefly, obviously wanting to go play now, but she suffers herself to finish the milk as quickly as she can, and waits for Mellie to clean her up.

The girl stands beside Asia's chair, shifting her weight from foot to foot. "You wanna go play now? I can show you all my dollies.. and we can play with my blocks.. and dance to music.. and draw."

Asia grins and slides out of the chair and nods taking her hand. "Okay dokay." she says happily to her. "We are gonna go play!" she informs the other while it's pretty well established everyone knows exactly where the two girls are going to.

Tanya takes Asia's hand, hurrying to lead her up the stairs and straight to her room. It looks like a pink explosion in the girl's room. The twin size bed has pink sheets, and a pink bedspread, with a unicorn in the middle. The pillows are varying shades of pink, and her walls are a light blush color. The carpet is a more neutral sand shade, but Tanya's doll house is pink, and several of her babies are dressed in pink outfits.

Tanya leads Asia over to where her dollies are all carefully placed, as if the girl really believes they're real. One in particular is sitting at a table and chairs set, with a tea set placed as if in the middle of a tea party. Her other dolls are neatly arranged, one in particular might stand out. It appears to be an Iron Man doll, with a princess crown on its head, sitting right next to a Merdia (from Brave) doll. "Come see.." She leads Asia over to her dolls and names them off one by one. One of the dolls, more of a brunette barbie, she calls Sawyer. It doesn't really look like Sawyer, but it seems to be one Tanya thinks a lot of. "Mr. Clint saved her from being hurt. He's a hero." And her absolute favorite? "This is Honey." The almost real life baby doll that she has sitting at the table with the tea set.

Asia grins at her. "You like pink ah see." she grins happily and walks inside. "You have lots of nice things." she grins and looks around the things. "Ooh ah know Iron Man.' she says. "Ah got one of those too." she does recgornize Merdia, she turns to see where Tanya leads her to the dolls and nods. "Ah know Misser Clint too, he is a hero, one time we beat up some bad guys trying to break outta jail, ah was on a boat and ah jumped off and it went BOOOOOM! It was fun." she grins at her. "Ah don't really got any dollies anymore, ah use to have Daisy buh she broke so ah just got legos."

Tanya's eyes widen when you talk about beating up bad guys, breaking out of jail and jumping off a boat. "Really? You have so much fun.. and you're no bigger than me." She grabs a bean bag, one of the few things in her room that isn't pink. It's purple, and there's a matching white one, and she plops down on it. "You know how to beat up bad guys? Would you teach me?" Her expression turns sad. "Your dollie broke?" She hops up to her feet, grabbing your hand and leading you over to her dollies again. "If you want.. you can have one of mine."

Asia grins and sits with her and laughs. "Well ah can't beat no one up now, ah get bigger in the spring and summer and ah get little in da fall and winter, sometimes ah even get smaller dan yew." she grins at her. "Ah bet you have lots of fun."

Tanya's eyes widen. "Really? You are the coolest friend I ever had." She gives you another tight hug, squeezing as hard as her little arms can. "I have fun.. but you have more fun. You get to make friends of all the superheroes.. and beat up bad guys.. and talk to trees.."

Asia laughs and hugs her and shrugs. "Well now we are friends ah let you meet all da superheros and you can be friends with them too, and you can ask me anythng an ah can talk to the trees for you, and when you are bigger ah show ya how to beat up bad guys."

Tanya giggles, her happiness bubbling over as she claps. "You can't teach me while I'm little?" She sounds mildly disappointed, but it doesn't last long. "I'll get my blocks out, and we can build.. or do you want to dance instead?"

Asia grins at her and stands up. "Ah don't remember how ta do it when ah'm little, ah can't do it right.' she tries to kick but it's all awkward and little kid like. "Hi yah!" she says. She tries to flip but she basicaly just cartwheels onto the ground. She giggles at her.

Tanya hops up and tries to mimic you, not looking any better at it than you do, but when she lands on the floor, she falls into a fit of giggles. She pushes herself up to her feet. "Why don't we get Auntie Mellie to put on music, and we can play fight, and dance in the living room?"

Asia nods to her and pushes her self up, taking Tanya's hand and both rushing over toward Aunt Mellie!

Down the stairs and into the kitchen, Tanya drags Asia along behind her, and runs up to Aunt Mellie who is at the sink cleaning glasses. The woman 'oofs' as Tanya latches her arms around Mellie's leg. "Hey there peaches." She tousles Tanya's hair.

"Auntie Mellie, can you play music so we can dance and play fight in the living room?"

Aunt Mellie arches her brows, looking down at the two. "I'm not so sure about the play fighting, but I can start the music for you on the stereo. I'm sure Sawyer would be willing to help me move a few things so you two can have more room to dance." She wipes her hands off on a dish towel, setting it aside and moves into the living room to start the stereo to playing. "Sawyer?" She calls, looking off toward one of the rooms down the hall. "Can you come help me move the couch and coffee table so the girls can have a dance floor?"

Tanya beams. "Oh.. we won't really fight. I promise." She says as she follows Aunt Mellie into the living room.

Sawyer emerges a few minutes later, a smile on her face. "You girls dancing? Mind if I join you?"

Asia giggles and nods. "Yes we can dance ah love to dance." she grins and walks with Tanya to the living room. She lets go of Tanya's hand and rushes to SAwyer her arms out stretched, well it's good to snuggle with Sawyer a bit she does know her better and while Tanya's great, Sawyer's amazing!

Tanya looks disapponted when Asia lets go of her hand, but she can't complain too much when she sees the other girl run to Sawyer. She doesn't know Sawyer nearly as well as she knows Aunt Mellie, but she likes the woman, and follows Asia over, holding her arms up too.

Sawyer chuckles, dropping to a crouch to hold her arms open to the two girls, taking them both into her arms. "Should I take that as a yes?" She asks, giving the girls a squeeze. "Maybe you can show me some new dance moves. I don't dance very often.. and am not really very good." At least, not without a partner to lead her. Her smile falters a bit as she remembers dancing with Tony a few times, but the smile quickly returns.

Aunt Mellie grins, watching the girls. Both Sawyer and Tanya are like her own daughters in the way she sees them.. and her mother affection extends to Asia as well. She's just like that, after all. "I'll let you girls dance while I finish in the kitchen. I want to make sure to pack up some cookies for Asia to take with her.. and maybe some for Jarvis too."

Asia grins looking at Tanya. "Sawyer gives the bests hugs!" she says happily before listening to the music and starts to dance. She doesn't dance well, like any preschooler mostly bouncing and shaking one's posterier. She giggles and claps a little though and starts to sing along,. Asia loves music.

Tanya giggles, nodding at Asia. "You haven't hugged Auntie Mellie yet.." But she doesn't linger long in Sawyer's arms, following Asia's lead, while Aunt Mellie and Sawyer see about moving some furniture to give the girls more dancing room.

As soon as the furniture is moved, Aunt Mellie returns to the kitchen and Sawyer joins in.. all three looking very much like they're enjoying the music.. enjoying each other.. and not caring a wit about what anyone who might see them thinks. Every now and then, Sawyer picks up either Asia or Tanya, and twirls the girl around before setting her back on her feet.

Asia giggles and watches Tanya. "You dance real good, maybe that's your power, maybe you should do ballet dancing!" she compliments. "You could be a star!"

Tanya giggles, her fair cheeks turning her favorite shade of pink. "Oh.. I don't think it's a power." She says, though she tries a little 'leap' in the air. She doesn't get very far off the ground, or very far, and she drops to her knees when she lands.. but she giggles, having fun with it all. "You dance good too. Maybe we should do ballet together?"

Asia thinks about that. "Ooh yeah maybe that be fun, gotta find a place to do it at." she says thinking. "Yeah let do it."

Tanya hugs Asia and tries to spin together with the girl, before letting go. "We have to find a place.. a teacher.." She looks over her shoulder at Sawyer. "You can find us a teacher, right?"

Asia grins looking over to Sawyer. "You know anyone who can teach us ballet." she tries to twirl.

Sawyer shrugs. "No, not really, but I can look into it. We'll see what I can come up with." She smiles at the girls and moves over to flop on the couch, looking tired. "You girls wore me out."

Asia gigles and gets the ottoman, and slides it over to Sawyer. "Help me Tanya." she says putting one of Sawyer's feet on the ottoman.

Tanya giggles with Asia, and picks up on the idea as the other girl begins pushing the ottoman over to Sawyer. She's right behind her, reaching for Sawyer's other foot, mirroring her new friend.

Sawyer chuckles. "Well, I should get worn out by you two more often, if it means getting this kind of treatment." She pats the couch on either side of her, inviting the girls to sit up with her to cuddle.

Asia crawls onto the couch and cuddles with Sawyer. "All better now?"

Tanya crawls up on the other side, snuggling in against Sawyer's other side.

Sawyer smiles, wrapping an arm around each girl, hugging them against her sides. "Much." She leans to press a kiss to the top of Asia's head, and then to the top of Tanya's soft curls. "Now.. I can take a nap."

Asia frowns and sticks her tongue out. "Eeew Naps."

Sawyer chuckles. "Are you kidding? Naps are the best thing ever invented, since caffeine." She grins, giving Asia a little squeeze.

Asia shakes her head nope. "Naps are for babies."

Sawyer snorts. "Then I guess I'm a baby." She leans back, resting her head on the back of the couch, closing her eyes.

Tanya looks across Sawyer, over at Asia. "Aww.. she's no fun."

Asia giggles sits up and looks at Tanya. "Well if she's a baby, she needs a bib, and a bonnet, and a bottle, you got that in your room?"

Tanya's eyes light up, and she sits up quick, sliding from the couch to run to her room. She comes back with a bib and a bottle, but no bonnets. She holds them out to Asia, the bib a little small, and the bottle fit for her 'real life' baby doll, Honey. "Here..."

Sawyer hasn't drifted off to sleep, but she's willing to play along, at least for now, and keeps her eyes closed. She even fake snores.

Asia grins at her. "Put the bib on her." she grins and slides down pulling out her phone from the pocket. "We gotta take pictures of our baby." she says happily.

Tanya crawls up beside Sawyer, doing her best to put the bib around her neck, but has to keep from tying it so it doesn't choke the woman. She holds up the bottle, looking over at Asia. "It won't stay in her mouth." She pouts cutely.

Tanya nods, holding the bottle up to Sawyer's lips. Sawyer must have missed the mention of taking pictures, or she really drifted off, because she doesn't budge, and the fake snores fade to slow breathing.

Asia grins and takes some more pictures. "See your a good baby sitter." she bouncies. "You need to meet my babysitter Molly, you can ask her how she got to be one so you can get a job!" she says happily at her.

Tanya continues to 'feed' Sawyer, before taking the bottle down. "Now I need to burp her.. but she's too big. I can't pick her up."

Asia thinks a moment. "I can help." she jumps on the couch and and pulls her forward. 'SEe you can get her back now."

Tanya works with Asia, leaning to pat Sawyer's back. Sawyer feels heavy to move, and when she's leaned forward a bit, the bib falls from her chest to her lap. Despite Tanya's efforts, Sawyer doesn't seem to burp, however.

Tanya bites her lower lip, frowning slightly. "Did we break her?" She looks over at Asia, concerned.

Asia thinks a moment and pushes Sawyer back and pokes her nose. "Did we broke you?"

Sawyer flops back, her hair falling against her shoulders, stirring a bit. When Asia pokes her nose, she opens her eyes, nearly dislodging the girls if they're leaning on her at all. "What?"

Asia grins at Tanya. "We didn't broke her she's okay dokay." she leans over and kisses her nose.

Sawyer wraps her arms around the girls, hugging both as she tries to pull them into her lap. "All right girls." She gives each a kiss. "I'm going to go back to my research while you two play, before Jarvis returns to pick you up Asia."

Asia looks at her curiously. "What are you researching?" she asks curiously.

Sawyer just shrugs a shoulder. "Just looking into literacy classes, and maybe trying to get some set up at the bookstore. I'm wanting to open up the upstairs, looking to help people who don't know how to read, learn to read.. to share my passion for books with others."

Asia smiles at her. "Ah can't read." she says. SHe grins at Tanya. "Can you read?" she asks curiously

Tanya shakes her head. "I can read some words.. but that's cause Aunt Mellie has Leap Frog videos that show me letters, and letter sounds. Would you like to watch them with me?"

Asia shakes her head. "We can, just my nogging don't work that way, that's what Doctor Hank told me, ah know some things something ah wont know." it's not what she was built for.

It seems to go a little over Tanya's head, not understanding why Asia wouldn't know or learn the way she does.

Sawyer smiles and pats both girls, getting up and excusing herself to let the girls play. After all, Mellie can keep an eye on them from the kitchen.. now why she didn't stop the girls from babying Sawyer, only Mellie knows.

Asia barely understands it she just goes on what people tell her. She giggles and she hugs Tanya! From afar, Tony Stark has an article to work on about Sawyer too. Long distance to Tony Stark: Sawyer eeps?

Tanya giggles and returns the hug. "So, what do you want to do now?"

Asia thinks about that. "I wonder if AUnt Mellie will give us one more cookie?" You paged Tony Stark with 'Oh, and Aunt Mellie is sending chocolate chip cookies home with Asia and Jarvis.'

Tanya's eyes light up. "If we ask her nicely, and promise it won't spoil our dinner." She wrinkles her nose,, sliding from the couch. "You know grown ups. They don't like it if you don't eat all your dinner.. even when the dinner they make you is something you don't like."

She scoots on in toward the kitchen where Aunt Mellie has just finished cleaning up after making the cookies. She has a few containers with cookies, one set aside for Asia to take home with her, and one for Jarvis. She smiles when the girls come in. "Let me guess, more cookies?" What? Is the woman psychic, or just have good ears?

Asia smiles to Aunt Mellie as she comes in with Tayana. "can we just have one more cookie, they were very tasty, and we've been dancing and playing and turning Sawyer into a baby, we need energy."

Aunt Mellie chuckles softly, nodding as she snatches two cookies from those remaining on the plate. "Come on then. Both of you to the table." She lets the girls go ahead of her, following along with two paper towels and cookies, setting them down in the spots the girls occupied earlier.

Tanya scrambles up on her booster chair eagerly, reaching for the cookie set in front of her. "Thank you Auntie Mellie."

Asia smiles to Aunt Mellie as she comes in with Tayana. "can we just have one more cookie, they were very tasty, and we've been dancing and playing and turning Sawyer into a baby, we need energy."

Aunt Mellie chuckles softly, nodding as she snatches two cookies from those remaining on the plate. "Come on then. Both of you to the table." She lets the girls go ahead of her, following along with two paper towels and cookies, setting them down in the spots the girls occupied earlier.

Tanya scrambles up on her booster chair eagerly, reaching for the cookie set in front of her. "Thank you Auntie Mellie."

Asia smiles and crawls into her seat and sits down happily looking at Tanya. She grins. "They are good cookies, ah like cookies, do you like oreos I love oreos."

Tanya nods, her mouth already full of a cookie. "I like oreos." She mumbles, around the cookie in her mouth. "I like all kinds of cookies." She says, after finishing up the bite. Aunt Mellie frowns slightly at the girl talking with her food in her mouth, but refrains from chastising her again.

Asia doesn't talk with her mouth, her mouth is soft anyways takes her a little longer to munch on it. She grins at her once she finished. "Ah love all kinds of cookies too, and ice cream, ah love ice cream."

Tanya's eyes widen. "Me too!" She giggles, taking another big bite of her cookie. "We have so much in common."

Asia grins at her. "Do you wanna be my Best friend?" she asks curiously.

Tanya nods emphatically. "Yes.. best friends!" She leans over and hugs Asia as tightly as her little arms can.

Asia grins and hugs her right back kissing her cheek. "You totally got to meet MOlly, then we can have our own Team you me and MOlly!"

Tanya brightens, ecstatic. "Oh can we? Really? I want to be part of a team!" You paged Tony Stark with 'Practically porn.' Asia grins and nods. "Yep we gonna be a team. Molly's really really tough, and strong."

Tanya looks over at Aunt Mellie. "When can I meet Molly? Can I go with Asia.. pleeeease?" She draws out the word, whining a bit, looking back and forth between Asia and Aunt Mellie.

Asia grins and continues to munch on the cookie. "Ah gotta see if she's busy. She's older I think she's ten, or eleven."

Aunt Mellie shakes her head. "Not tonight Tanya, but we'll definitely get the two of you together again.. and I'm sure you'll get to meet Asia's friend Molly."

Tanya's eyes widen. "Really? That old?" To Tanya, that's old.. at her six years of age.

Asia nods to her. "Yep." she grins.

"Wow.. you have so many friends." Tanya sounds awed.

Asia grins at her. "Ah like people." she says. "People are nice." she pauses. "Well most people."

Tanya wrinkles her nose up. "I try to talk to everyone, but Auntie Mellie says I shouldn't. She says I'm too friendly."

Aunt Mellie nods. "You need to be careful. Not everyone is nice to little girls."

Asia nods to her. "Uh huh there lots of people not too nice. My mother isn't a nice lady. She's a bad guy." she says. "She's in a jail."

Tanya blinks when you say your Mom is a bad guy. She turns sad. "My Mommy died.. and my Daddy.." She grows quiet for a bit before continuing. ".. he's in jail too."

Aunt Mellie doesn't comment. She knows this isn't easy for Tanya.

Asia grins at her. "See we have a lot in common we are suppose to be best friends." she says sliding down to give her a hug. "I don't know even know who mah daddy is." she says. "But ah got lots of people who love an you got lots of people who love you."

Tanya slides down from her booster seat too, and hugs Asia, holding on tight as if she doesn't want to let go. She finally does, and she's smiling. "Auntie Mellie loves me.. and Sawyer loves me.. and you're my bestest friend in all the world."

Asia grins at her happily. "See it's okay dokay." she says happily to her. You paged Tony Stark with 'It's all right to use Jarvis for dropping Asia off, and picking her up, right?'

It's about that time that the doorbell rings, and Aunt Mellie is getting to her feet to answer it. She lets the girls have their little bonding time. "Ah.. Jarvis. Is it that time already?" She smiles, letting the man in. "I packed some extra cookies for Asia to take with her, and some for you too." She doesn't bother to ask about Tony. She's smart enough to figure out she's probably not going to get very far.

Asia smiles and heads over to Mellie and hugs her. "Thank you for the cookies." then she heads over to Sawyer and hugs her. "Tahnk you for letting me come over." and then finally hugs tanya. "Thank yew for being my new best friend!" she says happily before taking Jarvis' hand. Tony Stark pages: Yep!

Aunt Mellie gets down to Asia's level for the hug.. and yes.. she's a really good hugger. Must be where Sawyer learned it from. "You're very welcome honey. You're welcome back here any time." A soft smile forms on the woman's lips as she watches the child move to Sawyer next. Yes, she adores Asia already.

The ringing of the doorbell has Sawyer coming back out from the computer room, leaning against the railing at the base of the stairs. She smiles, dropping to a crouch to hug Asia when she comes over, smiling up at Aunt Mellie and mouthing the words. 'Told you you'd love her.'. She gives Asia a kiss before letting her go to hug Tanya. "Thank you for coming sweetie. It's really good having you here."

Finally, Tanya gets to hug her new best friend, and she squeezes her as tight as she's able. "You'll have to come back real soon.. or I can come over to your house.. and we can have a sleep over.. and eat Auntie Mellie's cookies.. and she bakes the best pies and cakes.. and cupcakes.. she's the best cook ever." Of course, she's never eaten Jarvis' food either. Tanya's reluctant to let her friend go, and sadness settles on her features as she watches her take Jarvis' hand and head out the door.

Sawyer says her goodbyes to Jarvis. The man holds a special place in her heart, but she's quick to disappear back into the computer room even before he leaves with Asia. Mellie, on the other hand, sees them to the door and watches Jarvis lead Asia back to the car. Tanya rushes to the window to watch her new best friend climb into the car, and stays there, until the car is completely out of sight.