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Date & Time: Moderately close to post date, albeit earlier in the afterevening.
Location: Tony's workshop, dawg.
Characters: Tony and Pepper and potentially Jules? and no one else at all.
Summary: Grilling, baby. And playing 20 questions. It'll be a real party.
Warnings: General warning for Tony.



[ Tony's in his workshop.

It's such a redundant phrase. Tony's usually in his workshop. He's building things, he's smashing others, he's hanging out, he's working out, he's talking to himself, he's singing along to music - he's just, being, in his workshop. But it makes him happy and sometimes Max drops by and sometimes Ros drops by and sometimes someone who needs something drops by - although he's going to at some point probably have to put his workshop in CM somewhere, because it would be moderately dumb to have two with such limited resources and that's where he wants people to be finding him anyway.

But yes. Tony's in his workshop. By this point, he's shown Pepper where it is, shown Pepper how to ping off certain people's locations on the network if you want to find them and they have their device with them. (It doesn't always work, because it's possible to block that, but for the laymen, it's kind of fun. He feels like he's got a cooler version of the Marauder's map, with more buttons.) She's off doing... something, right now, he doesn't remember, but in the meantime, he's just chilling out. He'd had a lot of energy today for some reason, and still does, so every now and then he's up to do some exercise, and then when he's a little calmer, he gets back to business. ]

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[ The something she's off doing is the something he's neglected for what appears to be years. Hardly likely since he'd told her he'd only been in Exsilium "a few months", but she honestly doubts that the more she tries to sort through things and figure them out and add some kind of order to them. What she really needs is to sit him down to discuss them and more (she's made a list), but that's like asking a million impossible things to become probable at once. Which, she knows, isn't going to happen unless she does something to make it happen.

So, she's finding her way back to his workshop in a way that says she's done this so many times before. And she has. If he hadn't been with her or off being Iron Man or a combination of the two, he'd be there. They've had some of their finer arguments in his workshop, their better moments as well. It makes sense for everything to come back to that point anyway, and once she's there, she has her Very Serious face on because this is business. Sometimes, she dislikes it as much as he does, but there's always far less drama attached when she deals with it.

Getting his attention is new since she can't very well start talking - less to and more at - and though it's frustrating, she's bossy enough to get it done with little time wasted. ]

I need you to tell me exactly what it is you've been doing here. And with who. Maybe we should start with that first.