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[Jack is standing in the square, looking up and around at the City and then back down at the Vortex Manipulator on his wrist.] Oh, come on. You had to malfunction now? I mean you've done it before, but...

[Another few brisk taps at the wristband.] Work! If you don't work, a lovely second in command named Bernard is going to be very disappointed when he's stood up. And seriously, of all the places...

[Another sigh as he looks around him again. No way had he wanted to come back to Earth yet. It had been a couple of months but all that guilt he carried still felt as if he'd only acquired it yesterday. He wasn't ready to be here on Earth again. At least it seemed Earth-like...]

Well isn't this nifty? And convenient... [He spots the device and eyes it for a few accessing moments before picking it up. It's rare that Jack shies away from alien technology so he he instantly begins to fiddle with it. The video comes on to a brightly smiling Jack.] Ah, there we go. Captain Jack Harkness here. [And since he knows his smile is impressive, he nods his agreement with what others obviously must be thinking at the sight of it.] I know.

Seems I'm a little bit off course from where I intended to materialize. Malfunctioning Vortex Manipulator. Anyone care to put me up for the night while I work on repairing it? [A glance to his left at the coffee shop and then an arched brow back into the video screen.] I'll be sure to con you a cup of coffee for your trouble.

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And clearly you're a man with excellent taste. [Self-confident and narcissistic Tony Stark enjoys the compliments very much he's not even gonna lie.]

You make the gadgets yourself?

Oh, I pride myself on my taste. Creating gadgets, not so much. I buy or come across them and tweak them a bit here and there. Once I have a gadget in front of me, I'm pretty good at figuring out how it works, not to mention how it can be improved. Little knack I've had for a lot of years. Who am I talking to?

The name's Tony Stark. [And here we have your dazzling Stark smile.]

And I'm interested in your gadgets. Namely, fixing it if it's really broken. And if it's not broken, I just want to. Touch it. [A vortex manipulator sounds cool okay he wants to replicate one.]

[Jack's smile just grows at the sight of that sexy Stark smile.]

Well Tony Stark I'd let you touch my gadgets any day. Seriously, anytime. But about the Vortex Manipulator. It can be useful for a lot of things, communication, getting from point A to point B, working and communicating with most electronic devices... Handy piece of equipment, when it's working.

Sounds like my type of gadget - and nothing I've seen yet where I come from. Hell, teleportation's still science fiction.

[That gadget sounds sexy. Really sexy and advanced and he wants to take it apart and put it back together...]

Let me guess, twenty-first century? You're right on the cusp of science fiction turning into reality.

Is it that obvious? I'll try to be more subtle about which century I'm from.

A man that interested in gadgets without teleportation knowledge? Gotta be twenty-first century. That's when everything changes, after all.

You're keeping me in utter suspense here. Change to what? To not science fiction?

Aliens. Open mindedness. Acceptance. Realization. I'm from the fifty-first century. The Universe is a completely different place by then.

Got any fifty-first century stories to tell?

Have I got some stories? [He smirks, grinning again.] I've almost got too many stories. Some of the best from the fifty-first century. People in that time are far less inhibited than people in your time are, if you know what I mean.

Because of all the shiny, non-science-fiction technology? Teleportation, computers connected to your mind, and whatever else makes things a little more convenient for your average lazy human?

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