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[ after he does a thorough perimeter of the room the tone of his inspection changes, as though he's looking for something in particular.

not that Tony will necessarily notice. ]

[too into whatever he's doing to notice Steve's nosiness. At one point he jolts and swears under his breath]

[ quickly looks at him to see what that's about ]

[he seems to have electrocuted himself. Nothing serious, he's shaking his hand and glaring at a bunch of wires, still totally oblivious to Steve's presence]

JARVIS whenever I get you back running properly, you're taking the blame for this.

[ resuming his search ]

Doesn't seem very nice.

Wh—

[turns to face Steve]

Thank you Jiminy Cricket. What are you doing?

Hey, I know that reference, too.

[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?