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[center][h2]🔬[color=0080ff]Niah Bautista[/color]🔬[/h2]
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Location: The Hub - Niah's office -> The common room
Skills: N/A
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Niah had a desk job now. A safe away from guns job. It was nice. It was comfortable. But it wasn't her team, not yet. She could have gone back to the Philippines for the break. She was no longer an essential employee since she just worked in a lab that got involved after everything settled. But Niah couldn't go to the place her parents lived. It wasn't home. Not for her. They still lived in the small house she had spent her first ten years in, and there were supposedly plenty of memories between ten and now. Niah just didn't know any of them. She also didn't know how to deal with her sister's disappearance. Her parents still hadn't said anything to her about the letter, thankfully. There was no way they didn't know it was her by now. Were they mad at her? She would have been mad at her so she couldn't blame them. As far as they knew she had convinced them to stay in the Phillippines and lose out on the American dream and their eldest was missing because of that. 

All of that led to Niah agreeing to stay at the Hub in her lab and blessedly Tinley had invited her to the holiday party. It gave her something to look forward to, and Niah loved Christmas. She loved the decorations and the love and joy that came with Christmas. Niah had spent some time deciding a gift for her Secret Santa recipient and of course some treats for Goose. She had an odd relationship with the "cat". 

Niah dressed in a red top and black slacks. She didn't have much in the way of dress shoes, but she found a pair of simple black flats that were comfortable but looked nice. She had cut her hair, something her therapist said was sometimes necessary when someone had been through something traumatic. It was weird to have her hair at shoulder length, and she honestly couldn't wait for it to grow out. 

With three packages in hand, one a heavy square, one a bag full to brim with tissue paper, and the last a cardboard tube wrapped like a tootsie roll, Niah made her way to the Secret Warriors section of the Hub. She pushed the memories of the place from the 80's out of her mind, trying not to get lost in those memories. When she arrived she headed for the common area. Smiling, genuinely, at the group gathered there. 

[color=0080ff]"It is a pleasure to see you all."[/color] She greeted them, and placed two of the three gifts she carried under the tree. She kept the bag. [color=0080ff]"I love your hair, Tempest."[/color] 

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[h2][color=004d00]Matthew Moss[/color][/h2]
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Location: Matthew's room -> The common room
Skills: N/A
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Matthew felt a little out of his element as he put on a nice suit jacket. It wasn't the suit, he enjoyed those. It was instead spending the holidays with people he only just met. He had been asked to get a gift for someone he barely knew. He supposed it was fair and at least he knew the group better than Agent Sulivan, though not as well as Agent Carter since he had done some time traveling with the group. He was going to meet a few of the people who had left the team, which he was intrigued about. Especially Dr. Bautista. She had figured out time travel and changed the course of history. He shook his head and grabbed the, not that well wrapped, gift he had. It was, in his opinion, much too obvious what was actually in the paper.  

Down in the common room, people were starting to gather, just as he entered so did who he could only assume was Dr. Bautista, but she was distracted by speaking with Renroir. The room smelled amazing. Of pig...boar? That was unusual. He placed his gift under the tree and got a drink. It helped him feel less awkward as it was something to hold. [color=004d00]"You quite outdid yourself here Abercrombie."[/color] He said taking a look at the decorations and food.