"She might not talk, but she can tell one hell of a story"
Dia doesn't talk by choice, only a few people know why. She communicates by sign language and so her friends were left with no choice but to learn the language so they can understand her.
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Bucky.exe has stopped working.
He's been in autopilot since he saw Dia standing next to the table in the game room after everyone ran in there and discovered that Thor has a pet rat named Mr. Feathers. What was he on when he named him? Shortly after that riveting event, Natasha grabbed one of Dia's many cameras and took pictures of the pair. Dia thought the whole idea was incredibly cheesy, but if it made Natasha happy then so be it. Bucky gave Dia a matching corsage. Her dress is periwinkle, so the corsage has periwinkle flowers and white flowers, a small lavender stem, and green eucalyptus. Bucky wasn't even sure what was going on around him, he just went with the motions because all he could think of was Dia and how absolutely beautiful she looks in the sparkling periwinkle dress and the sparkling star-shaped hairpins in her brown curled, braided, whatever Natasha and Wanda did to her hair to style it.
After Natasha lived out her vision of photographing Bucky and Dia (they really didn't want the whole picture thing but Natasha not so subtly threatened them) The session went over the time limit Natasha had set, (mostly due to all the following around and the pets, Biscuit and Mr. Feathers) so there wasn't much time for Bucky and Dia to get something to eat but it didn't matter. They're jittery and giggling idiots. Besides, there'll be food and they can always use Dia's magic to get some great street food.
So after the pictures, and teasing, and all that jazz, Bucky and Dia were on their way to Peter's prom, while Steve and Tony were on their way to see Jonathan.
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"This is it" Tony told Steve as they stood in a garden deep between the trees. There are hedges of all shapes and sizes, tall strong trees, a weeping willow over a pond and across the way is a cherry blossom tree, patches of flowers of all colors and sizes, some as big as Steve's hand. There are benches, bird feeders and houses, and even little fairy houses built into trees. The miniature houses and gardens reminded them of Studio Ghibli movies.
"This is Jonathan's place" Tony sighed and looked around the garden. Birds chirping in the background and he heard the buzzing of hummingbird wings. His eyes landed on some kids sitting under the weeping willow, with books on their laps and wearing headphones.
"He was a student here?" Steve asked.
"Yeah. His mutation was plant control. That's how he built all this while he was a student here" Tony motioned to the garden around them. "After he died, everyone looked after his plants. Bobby Drake was his best friend. Lola was also pretty close to him, so they took charge of everything around here." Tony walked through the rocky path, each step he took sounded like a crunch with the rocky terrain under him.
"Huh, that explains it" Steve mumbled as he walked alongside Tony.
"Explains what?" Tony glanced at Steve.
"Why the times we've been here, Bobby acts a little cold toward us" Steve recalled the time the whole group was at the mutant school, spying on Bucky and Dia's date when Bobby walked into the room with a bowl of cereal and acted a little cold toward Tony. He called him Anthony and he called him Robert. I should've known something was wrong when he called Tony by his full name. No one really calls Tony, Anthony. He also remembers how Bobby said that Tony visits once a month. Is it to see Jonathan?
