poly_chromatic | o8 ❂ video + action

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iron man - tony stark

o8 ❂ video + action

It's like being in Tokyo all over again - only with less medical masks and fewer stilettos stabbing my feet. And strange men against my ass on the subway.

[Tony is waiting in line at the donut place, checking his inbox and scrolling through the Network as he does.]

I hate lines. Lines are for peons- Pepper, Dawn. Get me VIP standing with this donut place, would you? Throw around words like investment and stocks. You're both good at that.

Also-- if you could set me up an appointment with our friendly neighborhood gods. I'd like to take them out on a lovely candlelit date. Preferably within the week, but whatever. I've got egg creams. No rush.

[ooc | COME AT ME WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT. Doubles, AUs, whatever! Also, Pepper and Dawn-muns! You don't actually have to set up that appointment haha.]

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Do you do this for a living?

Since I was born, kid.

[A quirk of his lips.]

John.

[He opens his laptop again and looks at the line]

Do you have cash?

Call me Tony.

[Siiiips his coffee with a questioning brow]

If you count these Monopoly pieces as cash, sure. Yes.

[He pulls out some brightly colored coins.]

[John looks them over and rewrites some of this faulty line]

In about two seconds someone from the kitchen is about to walk over and ask if you're my dad. Mostly because I've been sitting here for three hours and I haven't paid my bill yet.

[Stares]

I don't think I like where this is going.

[John closes his laptop and stands. The kitchen guy is coming.]

Thanks for paying for my breakfast, dad.

[John books it.]

[Tony raises his eyebrows as he sets the appropriate amount of coin on the table (though perhaps more than appropriate because Tony didn't like to count out menial change), standing as well.]

No problem, son. Now let's go home and we'll work out that super-hard math problem for you.

[John kind of smirks a little when he says that, half-stopping. He didn't actually expect it to work]

Don't worry, I got my sister to do all my math for me.

No, I insist. In fact, how about I ground your ass just for ignoring my helpful offer.

[Tony may be taking this little game and running off with it. He's intrigued in the coding, okay. And it's not often Tony runs into a kid who can code like that.]

Gro-

[Pause]

You really want to help me?

We speak the same language. You know how often that happens? Never. People usually think I'm making crap up.

[Ahem. Steve.]

Plus, you owe me. Just so you don't forget.

[He holds his laptop like a baby.]

My mom and my uncle don't really approve.

I'm John.

You don't need anyone's approval but your own. Wise words from dad.

Nice to meet you, John. You here for the weekend or here to stay?

[Tell that to Sarah Connor]

The weekend, as far as I know.

Okay, I can work with that.

How long've you been doing this kinda stuff, John?

[He raises his eyebrows]

Programming like that? Since I was fourteen.

[Pause]

Two years.

And you're at this level already? Not bad, kid.

[Tony thinks he was better, but Tony thinks that about a lot of things.]

[He kind of smirks, he can't help it]

So you're telling me it runs in the family?

...Yes. Figuratively and quite literally.

Great minds think alike- birds of a feather. Pick your popular phrase of the day.

[Tony your face. John actually starts laughing, this is so rare that somewhere a robot bodyguard is confused as hell]

[What can he say? Charm, wit, looks-- and hilarious. Tony's the ~whole package~ baby.]

Wow, and here I thought you were just one of those incredibly anti-social, I-hate-everyone kids.

I don't hate anyone.

[He just resents that they don't know how to keep an alias, operate an AK-47, or know that the world will end in April 2011.]

Could have fooled me.

Is that hard?

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