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[What does an insomniac superhero do at night? They wander off the pool house and build their own working area in the underground labs]

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[oh my god]

Yes Steve, I was hoping you would.

I didn't think you'd feel the need to point it out, but hey. What are you gonna do?

I take my victories where I can. You got any paper around here?

I dropped a notebook in a drawer somewhere.

[puts his tools aside momentarily to look for it]

What do you want paper for?

Thought I might sketch something.

You draw?

[opening drawers]

Thought you got a file on me, Stark.

It didn't include non-marketable hobbies. Do you do crochet too?

[finds the notebook and tosses it to him, the first handful of pages are full of computer coding. There's a pencil somewhere in it too]

I know my way around a needle and thread.

[ catches it, flipping briefly through the filled pages with a bemused expression until he finds a blank one. ]

You'll make a lovely househusband one day.

[ . . . rolls his eyes, though it might be hard to catch because he's bending his head down over the notebook with pencil in hand ]

[kind of curious, but goes back to his own work]

[ he's settled himself on a stool, the only noise coming from his direction the scratches and occasional sweeps of the pencil on paper ]

Edited 2013-08-06 06:51 (UTC)

[now that he's been reminded that Steve is there, he's quiet. No talking to himself anymore, just the whirring from his tools]

[ still, he doesn't make any other sounds for a long time ]

[okay then, eventually he starts typing on the computer and starts talking to this Jarvis person again]

[ and a little while after that . . . Steve's not looking up from his drawing, though his hand moves around the page as though putting in the final touches, so his voice is quiet in a distracted sort of way. ]

How smart is Jarvis?

Not very right now. Camp shut down over half of his functions.

[pokes the computer screen]

I hope you're as frustrated as I am, JARVIS.

So he's . . . a computer, uh, program?

A computer program that can learn, yeah.

[turns towards him]

Uh... Have you read any science fiction? Isaac Asimov?

Know I read some. Wasn't always much else to do before the war but go to the library. Don't recall that particular name, though.

Figures. How much longer are you planning to stay here?

Why, you got somewhere to be?

No, I was planning to make popcorn.

. . . I'll have some popcorn.

Uh. Just let me find the— [digging into a pile of discarded equipment until he locates a small microwave] there we go.

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