Valentine's Day ((Open))

[ngm_miscellaneous]

It was February 14th. And all across New York (and a little bit of New Jersey) superheroes had to deal with someone somewhere wanting them to:

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[wateronthebrain]

Erin had been very busy today. This was all about making sure everyone else got to have something. She's not dating anyone at her school and her other interest seems.... pre-occupied.

For Marcus she gets him a chocolate shield. She thought he would be entertained.

For Sammy? Well Erin was entertained by this idea so she has someone hand craft a Desert Eagle out of chocolate. The chocolatier was even entertained enough to do golden wrapping.

Bruce got a chocolate Captain America shield and a note thanking him for his help.

Kitty gets chocolate covered expresso beans.

Jay gets a high end box of chocolates.

Vincent gets a eight inch tall chocolate wizard's staff and a note hoping he's having a good day.

Tony gets five pounds of really good coffee.

Erin thought she got everyone then remembered Susan and Nicky.

Susan gets a chocolate bow and arrow set. Also offers to find a good place to eat should she ask Nicky out.

Nicky gets three chocolate covered apples.

Erin herself? She has no plans for the day. She decides to go riding on one of her horses away from everything.

[vincent_amora]

Vincent just looks over the gift in befuddlement when he receives it. Valentine's Day with Roxanne had been... well, a bit more about carnality than confections.

He must be more out of it than he'd even realized, if Erin was apparently interested in him and he hadn't even noticed.

Hm.

[wateronthebrain]

Why is it the wrong Avenger guy gets the signal she had been trying to throw out? Erin will be utterly confused.

Jay has her convinced she is a bit unnoticeable by nice boys. The guys at Rushmore aren't what she'd think of as "nice" certainly. She knows that very well.

[iced_cherub]

At the school there would be childish cards scrawled with names. Bobbi had made sure there was a card for everyone with little candy hearts and chocolates because that was the thing to do right?

[fourshelled]

Pete wasn't quite sure who 'Bobbi' was. He had been trying to live at the school unnoticed. So, he had to scratch his head and wonder how he ended up with little candy hearts and chocolates.

[iced_cherub]

Easy, Bobbi pays attention so she made sure not to exclude anyone.

[lil_hulk]

Jay was in his room and planning to stay that way. He had some food, his gaming system, Boo, and blaring blues music. He had no plans to even come out and do his daily workouts. It was his first Valentine's Day without May in a couple of years, and he wanted to be a hermit.

[beckysmash]

Becky didn't have a date for Valentine's Day. But she did know that her cousin was probably less than stellar. She opened the door to his room, peeking her head in.

"I have B-action movies, popcorn, pizza, and soda," she said with a grin. "I'll be very sad if you turn me away and I have to watch movies and stuff my face by my lonesome."

[lil_hulk]

Becky caught her cousin completely by surprise. He had been grooving to some Indigenous and trying to beat the snot out of a speedy luchador on the hardest level. He jumped nearly a foot at the sudden appearance of cousin-head at his door.

"Gaah!" He flailed an arm to smack the volume down on his radio. "Becky! Uh, hi!"

He blinked a little. He completely did not expect a visitor. Especially since the other Stooges still had their girlfriends. Jay smiled like he hadn't screamed like a girl.

"C'mon in."

[nohoundsallowed]

Since Valentine's Day was on a Tuesday and a school day, Rachel couldn't spend it doing unspeakable things to her husband all day. Nor could she do it all night since both of them had to teach the following day.

Though with what time they had, Rachel put up nigh-impenetrable telepathic shields. Because she was at least that considerate to the rest of the school to not have to witness any of it.

[pym_kitten]

Chris decides to go with a grab bag option for everyone's presents. Two boxes are left in the common area, one for girls and one for boys. Each has a 'take one' sign; the girl box contains hair accessories and bits of homemade jewelry, the boys get an assortment of neckties, cufflinks, or belt buckles.

[aqua_gambit]

This Valentine's Day was a challenge for Remi. He was not at a bar to pick up a woman for the evening. He was in a relationship, and he got the implied message that he and Alexa should do something for it. Provided her morning sickness let her be her natural pale color instead of green.

Getting things together for the day had been a task. He had gone to a floral shop and used some of his charisma to get a lot of help from a florist. And her number without trying. (Which he got rid of once he was out of view of the store.) So, he had a small mixed bouquet in hand when he went to a recommended chocolatier to pick up his custom order of chocolate science tools.

Despite dating what he caught the drift as a woman in line to be one of the richest in the world, Remi was running low on his own money. A considerable amount of what he earned from the Foundation was spent on feeding himself and taking care of his salt water tank. So, he had to be a little more aquatic about how he got her non-perishable gift. He had spent every moment he could trying to find a shipwreck he remembered from his own world. Though without the planet's land masses be rearranged, it took him longer to find it than he liked.

Thankfully, the wreck still existed on this world. He did not find the necklace on the sunken Spanish ship he had hoped for, but he found one that was suitable.

The last thing was the card. He spent an inordinate amount of time on finding the one worded just right. While Alexa had dropped the l-bomb on him, he had not been quite sure it was genuine. Especially since it sort of came out like a forced reason to not have her father kill him with orbital lasers. The Atlantean prince did feel something for Alexa, but he was extremely uncertain what it was. He had never felt anything like it. He did not want to put the wrong word to it.

Love was very loaded to him. If he said it, he needed to really mean it. Though his inner musings were jumbled, he just needed to make sure he did this Valentine's Day in a relationship thing correctly. He settled on a card saying 'Be Mine.'

[soulstealingstark]

Alexa had been nervous about Valentine's Day since the epic fail of telling Remi she loved him. That hadn't gone over well and the idea of just how badly she might bungle a love-based holiday made her green more often than the morning sickness did. Now that the day had arrived, though, she found herself doing better than expected. She was also fairly organized and had Remi's gift ready well in advance: all of the supplies to take care of his salt water tank as well as a component he'd wanted for some time. She'd even managed to find some candied sea urchins for him, a delicacy he'd mentioned in passing that he enjoyed.

The card, however, was a surprise. She had it sitting on her lap as she waited for him to show up.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi checked for the fifth time: fresh flowers, non-melting chocolate, carefully picked out card, and a bulge in his pocket that was actually a boxed gift. He took in a deep breath and went to go shower Alexa with holiday affection.

He hoped.

"Bonzou, mo copine!" He tried for an easy grin. Though he wasn't sure his nerves would let him.

[enduring_pryde]

With the way things had been going as of late, Kitty was unable to go back home. So when it came to her birthday, and of course Valentine's later in the week, she opted to take a week off, telling Stark and everyone that she would be returning on the 19th.

And what a great week it was going to be. Pete was taking the week off too. She had sent a personal note to Alastaire to thank him for that--and for watching the kids until the 15th. It wasn't very often that she was able to get four solid days of alone time with her husband.

[avengeriniron]

When Kitty returned, she'd find a black velvet box on her desk with this inside and a note that simply read:

Happy Birthday.
- Tony

[avengeriniron]

Tony spent his Valentine's Day at the office with various projects. Even so, around lunchtime, various packages were delivered to the Avengers Mansion. Each lady of the Avengers received a bracelet and each of the guys got a watch.

A special package was delivered to Alexa at the FF Pier. It contained a mother and child necklace and a dozen roses. It was delivered via Tony's sailing yacht which moored off the Pier and was available for whenever she and Remi felt like sailing.

Misha received an enormous delivery. The shell and a few random parts of a 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda arrived on a truck along with a note that read:

Hurry up. I have a meeting in January and I need a chauffeur.

- Tony

PS: Mine is prettier.

A smaller delivery accompanied it with a necklace for Hana and a bike kit for each of their boys.

[brother_bear]

And cue headache. Because now he had to tell Hana that the boys had motor bikes meant for teenagers and there would be no way to keep them off the things once they figured out they had to build them.

He'd let her write the thank you notes because he'd be busy keeping Rose, and Dad, off his new project.

[clobberin_kid]

As the perpetually unattached member of the Future Foundation, Jacob usually ended up volunteering for any side duties that came up around holidays. This Valentine's Day, he was making a tour of the local grade schools for some kind of PR thingamabob. It wasn't a bad gig. He liked kids well enough and it was something to do instead of sitting around feeling left out.

What he didn't count on was all the enthusiastic kids and their arts & crafts skills. Each school he left sent him off with bunches of Valentine Cards and candies from his new, tiny fans.

Best. Valentine's. Day. Ever!

[the4thblackknight]

Marcus whisked Sammy away for a Valentine's Day, overnight trip to Howe Caverns Adventure Park. They had a tour booked through the geode caverns, 5 course dinners prepared by a Culinary Institute of America Chef, and then all the shopping, biking, and hiking she could stand.

[agent_timeout]

Trust Marcus to plan a weekend that had everything - romance, adventure, physical activities and good food. He was so much better at this than she was. Sammy had double chocolate brownies for her guy, and carrots and sugar cubes for her other favorite guy. What she lacked in the romance department, she made up for in the appreciation arena.

[crawler_kid]

Valentine's Day was, fortunately enough, relatively simple when your boy really liked candy and really liked sex (not in certain combination though, because chocolate was a bitch to get out of fur.).

But those were the easy parts. The other had been a little trickier, but pretty inspired when she'd actually thought about it. Call it calling in a favor, but hey, it just might work.

She went looking for Aiden.

[sonoflongshot]

Aiden was stretched out on the lumpy thing they called a couch. He was trying not to doze and mostly succeeding due to Cedric scampering about in a crazed puppy way and pouncing on Aiden.

[brother_bear]

Valentine's Day was kind of special for him. It marked the day of his first official date with Hana. There would be dinner and dancing, chocolates and flowers, and something pink. Maybe pink leather. She loved leather and pink.

And breakfast in bed. He and the boys handled that. He gave them each something to carry upstairs, Zack the chocolate cookies, Jeremy the chocolate chip muffin, (because everything else would make a mess if they dropped it), and served their best girl a delicious breakfast of eggs, bacon, pancakes, and lots of milk.

The mini lecture he gave them during the process had to do with always taking care of your best girl and everything else would work itself out.

[shadeblossom]

Valentine's Day was quickly taking over from Christmas as her favorite holiday of the year. She'd had her chocolates already purchased to send to all the men in her life, as per tradition, but since she was with an American guy, she also got to look forward to a little pampering on the day, as well. It was the best of both worlds.

In fact, she got not one, but three good looking guys pampering her this morning. Hana greeting them with a dazzling smile and pure delight when they delivered her breakfast. "Wow! You guys have been busy this morning."