Lab Below Stark Industries, Friday Morning

[imafuturist]

It was safe to say that Tony too had not noticed anything strange today. Mostly because he rarely used a filter when working with JARVIS and had been working since the night prior with only a few coffee breaks.

On one hand, he was getting closer to finding where HYDRA currently was, but on the other.... sleep deprivation.

Choices, choices.

He took a sip of lukewarm coffee and fiddled with the code on a bot he'd designed to watch the traffic cameras in Queens. For the tenth time that hour.

Yeah.

[open for anyone lookin' for him!]

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[fjordicswagger]

"What even is your life?" Tamsin asked him. "Don't answer that. It's rhetorical and I mostly don't care."

[imafuturist]

"That's sad, I care about yours." A beat. "I care about everyone's."

Another beat.

"Bleeding heart."

[fjordicswagger]

"Sometimes I wish I could care, but then I remember what a pain in the ass it is," Tamsin said "No thanks."

[imafuturist]

"I didn't care when I was younger, but watching people die because of me put a damper on that," Tony muttered into his bottle.

[fjordicswagger]

"Really?" Tamsin said, sipping from her bottle. "Usually it's the other way around."

[imafuturist]

"I built weapons for a living. Really, really effective weapons."

Cry more, Tony omg.

[fjordicswagger]

"Congratulations?" Tamsin said.

[imafuturist]

"No," he said, shaking his head. "Not really. Can we go back to talking about your love life?"

[fjordicswagger]

"No," Tamsin said sharply.

[imafuturist]

"Then what's a subject that won't make one of us get alcohol poisoning?"

Maybe if they ever talked about their problems with a professional...

[fjordicswagger]

"I don't know," Tamsin said. "You watch any particularly stupid police procedurals lately...?"

[imafuturist]

And there was Tony laughing again. "No, sadly I don't have much time for TV."

He gestured toward the piles of armor scattered around the room.

[fjordicswagger]

"Maybe you need another hobby," Tamsin said, squinting that way. "It's like Revenge of the Man-Eating Tin Cans in here."

[imafuturist]

"I did think about starting a poker night before everything went to crap," Tony said.

Because oversharing was caring today.