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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.

[ still finishing up the drawing, but in a less absorbed way ]

Back in my day we used to eat the stuff at the movies by the handful.

Did you?

[plugging it in and getting some microwave popcorn]

Don't use one of these without supervision. And uh, it's gonna start popping in about a minute.

I have one at my place, you know.

[ he just won't mention that he still mostly uses the stove ]

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... did anyone bother to explain or did they just put it there and hoped you'd sort it out?

. . . well, I think there's an instruction manual.

Seriously?

[the popcorn is popping pls don't be alarmed]

[ watching it pop from his vantage point on the stool but not especially alarmed, no ]

To be fair, I'm not sure SHIELD ought to be trying to teach anyone how to be a normal person.

Maybe my standards are too high, but they seem pretty dumb for an intelligence agency.

[and after a couple of minutes he takes the bag out and tosses it to Steve]

Careful, it's hot.

[ thank goodness for these supersoldier reflexes otherwise I'd have dropped my pencil!! he catches the bag and turns it around so as to properly read the instructions. ]

Just open it. It won't blow up or anything.

[and starting up WALL-E on the biggest monitor he has]

About time someone gave you a proper introduction into this century.

[ glances at the monitor with some skepticism, but pulls the bag open, grabbing a few and offering the bag to Tony as he's nonetheless immediately transfixed by... the Pixar lamp ]

Wow.

...

[sits and takes some popcorn]

I am going to live to regret this.

[ grins ]

How often do you say that to yourself?

A lot more often than it's healthy.

[ turns back to the screen and . . . actually falls completely silent as he watches ]

[quiet too, paying more attention to Steve than to the movie and quietly hoping he'll do something funny]

[ eventually forgets to eat any more popcorn, just kind of holding it where he last had it positioned for Tony to reach.

when it reaches the end he kind of . . . clears his throat and maybe has to blink a few times and avert his eyes. ]

[I have a phone. This phone can take pictures. It can take pictures in the dark without making any noise.

...

Pictures are being taken.]

[ unfortunately for you I have a sixth sense for bastards up to no good.

. . . looking at Tony with a suspicious expression already fixed in place. ]