ngm_parents: (Luíz Adriano Alencar da Silva)
The parents of NextGenerationMarvel ([personal profile] ngm_parents) wrote in [community profile] nextgenerationmarvel2013-06-17 09:56 pm

Long Overdue

Luíz Adriano Alencar da Silva was visiting New York City once again. It had been a long time since his last visit, but this visit was a bit more personal than business. He hadn't seen his son in awhile, and there were things he needed to look into about his son. Particularly this woman he had been dating.

The flight in had been long, and though he was greeted warmly by his son, he was getting too old to spring right into action after a flight. Luíz begged off meeting Stephanie until he was more presentable.

Before a quick nap and exercises in the hotel's gym, Luíz used his pull and influence to get a nice, quiet table for three at Eleven Madison Park. He sent the time for Marcelo and his girlfriend to meet him and got ready.

He tried to be a little early, so he could watch how his son and his girlfriend interacted as they approached. Over two years with one woman was certainly a record for his son. That he had not proposed marriage was slightly worrying to the Brazilian father considering the last relationship before Marcelo left for the States. For now, Luíz needed to meet and learn.

Then he would start asking questions.
pyroprincess: (In the media spotlight)

[personal profile] pyroprincess 2013-06-18 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Stephanie had become very good at masking discomfort, either physical or otherwise, especially in circumstances that could, in any way, be described as "ordinary". She still needed a little help from a walking stick, though the particular one she was using was at least as stylish as it was practical, made from a special, particuarly dense wood. She also had Marcelo handy, though she didn't lean on him particularly as they walked arm in arm. It was good knowing he was there if she had to, though.

"It's hard to believe that I haven't met him yet, you know. We've been together for quite a long time." It occurred to her that he hadn't really met her father either, though she had to admit that she was slightly dreading that meeting. They would cross that bridge when they got to it, though. "Is there anything I should know about him?"
vesper_verde: (Hat dapper)

[personal profile] vesper_verde 2013-06-18 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Marcelo was a bundle of nerves. He hadn't slept much the night before and what he had was not good sleep. He was dressed up as he should, but he kept adjusting and readjusting everything he was wearing. Except the lady on his arm.

"That's probably why he took matters into his own hands and made a visit I couldn't refuse." His grin was a little tight. Though at least her first meeting with his papai wasn't at his funeral. "Take all my good traits and bleach them lighter. Better hair. Never remarried after my mother ...died. Uhm, doesn't know my big secret. That kind of stuff, right?"
pyroprincess: (Sultry)

[personal profile] pyroprincess 2013-06-18 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Marcelo. It's your father, not mine. Your clothes are fine. He loves you and won't mind if your tie is a few millimeters out of place." She teased slightly, offering a smile. She supposed it would be normal to be nervous, but after everything that happened, she found that she couldn't work up anything resembling fear for this. After being brutally beaten by a psychotic madman and having her father come back and dictate the terms of her life ...

"So no polite tableside banter about your newest upgrades. I'm expecting he will ask us about our lack of marriage." Even though by her reckoning, it really wasn't that unusual that they weren't married. They'd been together for a little over two years, not including the time they'd parted. She had an appointment to see the traders in the District, she remembered.
vesper_verde: (Hat dapper)

[personal profile] vesper_verde 2013-06-18 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Since Stephanie mentioned his tie, Marcelo's hand went to smooth it out. He stopped himself and winced slightly. "Sorry. It's just if I look good, you look better."

Even though he didn't have the problems Stephanie did with her father, Marcelo's father still had plenty of sway in his life. His approval of Stephanie was vastly important.

"Well, you could. He thinks I fund and supply for it, not that I am it." He scratched his eyebrow. "Very likely considering my history at home. Congratulations on lasting the longest."
pyroprincess: (Sultry)

[personal profile] pyroprincess 2013-06-19 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
"It's more important that I be impressive than you. I'm the one who's likely to be judged here. He's known you all his life. Lots of time to be impressed with all your virtues." She smiled and kissed his cheek. "And besides, you look great. Almost too good. It's hard being good, you know."

"I think it's best not to be mentioning certain Brazilian flying mammals at all in a public place, don't you?" She seemed downright chipper. It was almost fun, pretending that her joints didn't hurt and that she was deeply concerned about her future. But she wanted to impress Marcelo's father so Marcelo would have one less thing to worry about.

"And nobody will be besting my record."
vesper_verde: (Hat dapper)

[personal profile] vesper_verde 2013-06-19 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Half his life. He knows my virtues and every one of of my faults." Most of his faults having been women, but Marcelo was told not to discuss that by Stephanie. He was going to keep to it. "But you look gorgeous, querida. Though I'm entirely biased."

He swallowed a bit when the restaurant came into view. "That seems best, but it'll come up sometime. Possibly when he drops in at the penthouse for an unexpected visit." He glanced at Stephanie with a grin. "If you were anyone else, I'd take that as a threat."
pyroprincess: (Sultry)

[personal profile] pyroprincess 2013-06-19 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Not a threat to you, mi amor." Steph replied with an honest-to-God grin. "We'll deal with that when it comes up. I can talk about the time that Vesper saved me from a robber at a convenience store." She looked up at the restaurant. "So does he have any preconceptions about me I should know about? My name is hardly unknown, and I did fairly recently come out as a mutant."
vesper_verde: (Smile)

[personal profile] vesper_verde 2013-06-19 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
He chuckled softly. It did scare him a little, but his heart was too in her hands for him to do anything but ignore the fear. With one exception, he had kept his other relationships brief for a reason.

"He knows you make me very happy. Also, whatever he could find on the internet about you. Actual news articles. I don't think he reads gossip columns. Though we'll find out if he does if he asks why you dumped Brooke to come back to me." He grinned.
pyroprincess: (Sultry)

[personal profile] pyroprincess 2013-06-19 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Must have been the sex." She smirked at him, wondering how he'd react to that. She turned towards the door. "Point of no return. If we cross this threshold, I'll be meeting your father." She pondered what her father might have read about her. Business dealings. Her public speech about being a mutant. It was a lot to consider, but for now, she would be the best company she could be.

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pyroprincess: (Sultry)

[personal profile] pyroprincess 2013-06-20 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Duck confit, it appears." Stephanie didn't really want the conversation to linger around marriage too long, either. It reminded her that she had business in the Diamond District. "With cherries. And a Chilean Pinot Noir." The glasses were filled and the dishes were set before them.

"I'm going to have to pay much more attention to Chilean wines, I believe." She smiled slightly at the two men. It had probably become clear that, among other things, her appetite was larger than either of them. Another small wrinkle of her mutation, if Mr. da Silva was keeping score.

vesper_verde: (Bwuh?)

[personal profile] vesper_verde 2013-06-20 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Marcelo did not know why his father had thing about saying shocking things while his son had things in his mouth. The mention of Helena and Marcelo nearly snorted his wine out his nose. He quickly used a small silence field around his head to block out the noise. He had already been coughing food, people didn't need to hear him snort wine.

He closed his eyes and put the back of his hand under his nose to make sure he wasn't leaking the good stuff out his nostrils. When he felt safe after a second, he blinked open his eyes and dropped his hand.

"Helena? What's she doing here in America?" He hoped desperately it was just for a short vacation. In California.
pyroprincess: (Glare)

[personal profile] pyroprincess 2013-06-20 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Helena?" Stephanie carefully sipped her wine as her eyebrow rose slightly. Marcelo's father would not be mentioning some woman he was dating for a few months. "An old flame?" Another careful sip of wine and a careful glance, that Marcelo's father would probably write off as curiosity but would say to Marcelo, There is something you have not told me, and I am not particularly happy about this.
vesper_verde: (Bwuh?)

[personal profile] vesper_verde 2013-06-20 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh." Fudeu a tabaca de chola! This was not good news. Thankfully, he could cling to the small hope New York City was a very big place. There was a chance they would not remotely run into each other.

Marcelo rubbed the back of his neck. "Uh. Yes. Helena was the last relationship I had before leaving Brazil."

Anymore explanation might ruin the meal with all those courses left to go. "I can tell you about her when we get home?"
pyroprincess: (Sultry)

[personal profile] pyroprincess 2013-06-20 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Stephanie's expression changed smoothly, like slipping on masks. "Of course." She smiled. "We have a dinner to attend to." She sipped her wine again and smiled sweetly. She had said to him that she didn't want to know about previous relationships, but that was under the assumption that they were minor ones. Perhaps this one was too, though she doubted it. She'd certainly be talking about it with him when they got home.

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[personal profile] pyroprincess 2013-06-23 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
It was a long, silent and awkward ride home, with Stephanie not saying anything until they were back at their place. She didn't want it to be a public thing, even in front of a cab driver. She locked eyes with him for a long moment, before speaking.

"Helena. Who was she?" Stephanie glared at him. "You told me all the other women were insignificant."
vesper_verde: (Dark back)

[personal profile] vesper_verde 2013-06-23 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Marcelo didn't even try to talk once the conversation at the restaurant ended. He didn't want to poke an inferno with a toothpick. Though he would probably be safer in public since Stephanie was more concerned with public image than him.

He really wanted something to drink when he got home. All the wine with dinner was not helping as much as he wished. He let out a deep breath.

"Helena was a naive mistake. Which is to say she was my fiancee before I broke up with her and moved to America."
pyroprincess: (Glare)

[personal profile] pyroprincess 2013-06-23 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
"You were engaged. You had a fiancee. And you never once saw fit to mention that." She looked at him. "Yes, I know what I said about the past. But that's not the same thing. When were you going to tell me that? Ever?" They'd been together for over two years. She'd moved in with him.

"Don't you think that is a thing you should have told me at some point?!" Her lips drew tight. "So was the naive mistake before or after you asked her to marry you?"
vesper_verde: (Dark back)

[personal profile] vesper_verde 2013-06-23 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know. I don't think about her ever. First I've had to think about her was when my father mentioned her." He pinched the bridge of his nose momentarily. His sense of foreboding over dinner had been right.

He dropped his hand away from his face. He ignored what he assumed was the rhetorical angry question and when toward the latter one. "The naive mistake was thinking I should have asked her. She was the jewel of her father's eye, and her father is one of the drug lords I directly work against. Which I didn't find out until after we were engaged. So before to answer you."
pyroprincess: (Glare)

[personal profile] pyroprincess 2013-06-23 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Stephanie looked at him for a long moment. "So, in a roundabout way, you stopped seeing her because her father was a dangerous man. Now, think about me for a moment. And how confidant that's supposed to make me feel." Because though the drug lords were a more personal grudge, there was no comparison in how dangerous her father and Helena's father would have been.

"So what about me and my father, Marcelo?" There was steely anger in her face, but also real anxiety.
vesper_verde: (Dark back)

[personal profile] vesper_verde 2013-06-23 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
"And her father brought out some traits in her I didn't know I had to live with." He couldn't lay all the blame on her father. Marcelo knew he had been too impulsive and stupid. He crossed his arms in front of his chest.

"Is your father going into the Brazilian drug trade? He going to put bounties on my head to have it on his desk as an ornament? Are you so loyal to your father that you'd would let him do that? Because as much as I dislike your father after his resurrection, return, or whatever, I don't see you as a threat to my life."
pyroprincess: (Glare)

[personal profile] pyroprincess 2013-06-23 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
"My father would never deign to deal with common criminals. I can say that much about him. He weaves his webs from the corridors of political and economic power." And now, that he was very much alive and yet dead to the world, he could quietly control the web from the centre.

"I am angry that you never told me about this. But I can swear to you that Father will do no such thing." She looked at him, less glaring at him now than stating ironbound determination. "You're mine, and I am yours. And he will have to deal with that, because if he cannot, I will have no dealings with him."

She sighed, coming down to a more vulnerable place for a moment. "Part of it is that ... I knew I wasn't the first. I expected that, I'm okay with that. But the engagement ..." She didn't quite finish the sentence. "I'd hoped, maybe, sometime, that could have been a first."
vesper_verde: (Bwuh?)

[personal profile] vesper_verde 2013-06-23 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
He held his tongue on the 'common criminals'. If they were so common, he wouldn't have been giving most of his life to stop it. It also meant his mother's death was common. He pressed his lips together and let a couple breaths escape his nose.

"You the first person I've told my secret identity to." On purpose. He had made a huge mistake one.

"You're the first woman to be with me longer than a year." Which might have told Stephanie how long he had been with Helena, but he pressed on.

"You're the first to move in with me. You're the first woman I love with with all my heart. You've got plenty of important things outside of..." It was here his brain caught up to what Stephanie had been getting at. It caught up and sputtered into silence. So, too, did his mouth.

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