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Don't be silly, I'll bet the devil himself can only envy your record collection from afar down there.

[snorts]

JARVIS try the Beatles. Do the whole discography, maybe we can indoctrinate him if we start there.

If you say so, sir.

[and JARVIS starts playing Please Please Me]

That's never worked too well on me.

[ but he just listens for a bit before returning to the pad. whenever he pauses his pencil taps lightly on the paper in time with the music. ]

[of course he'd like it, of course. Tony goes back to his work and Slick stays close to Steve because apparently he loves Steve now.

And after a few songs Yesterday starts, and Tony immediately stops what he's doing]

JARVIS skip that one. Play Twist and Shout.

[JARVIS does as told and Tony turns back to his screen super casually, though it's obvious that whatever he's doing isn't what he was doing earlier, since now he's typing a lot]

[ stops, looking up and frowning as he watches Tony through the beginning of the song ]

Everything okay?

Yeah, yeah, just coding something— use context JARVIS, I thought there weren't any snags with your processors.

[ well, he's not going to pretend he can offer any input to that, though he's still frowning a bit as he looks back at the sketchpad. ]

[he keeps it up for a minute or two longer, then sighs]

Honestly JARVIS, pull the list I'll do it manually.

[and a minute later]

... yeah, yeah fine you're right.

[ mostly tuning Tony out at this point tbh. ]

[he keeps it up for several minutes before he seems satisfied and goes back to whatever he was doing previously.

AND THEN A FEW SONGS LATER Here Comes the Sun starts playing.]

[ well, where there was previously at least the tapping of the pencil, there's dead silence coming from this part of the room. ]

[Tony doesn't register anything wrong until about forty seconds in and by then it's too late to stop it. He turns around and just sort of watches Steve.]

[ he's paused with the pencil in hand, apparently forgotten, just listening with a furrow between his eyebrows.

— after a few moments he catches Tony watching and clears his throat, immediately looking back down at the sketchpad. ]

Who did you say they are?

The Beatles. Uh... sorry about that.

It's just a song, Tony.

[ gives him a brief smile and returns to the drawing with renewed determination. ]

I like them.

... uh. Okay... good. I'll get you an ipad.

...

Or a turntable. If that's more your thing.

[ not looking up ]

It doesn't matter.

[WHY DO I DO THINGS]

Why not?

. . . I don't have a preference?

[SO UNIMPRESSED WITH YOU RN MISTER]

...

[JUST. JUST GOES BACK TO WORK]

. . . but you don't have to take out any songs.

[ still drawing~ ]

[ughhhhhh god you suck]

Sir, shall I restore the playlist?

...

I don't like either of you.

Leave it how it is for now, Jarvis.

[ still looking at the ceiling when he does that. ]

Edited 2013-09-01 07:25 (UTC)

[half-hearted because UGH STUPID STEVE]

He's not actually on the ceiling.

Yeah, I know.