Tony Stark // Iron Man (strong_as_iron) wrote in newalliance, @ 2012-11-24 11:24:00 |
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Entry tags: | iron man, pepper |
Who: Tony and Pepper
NPCs: 'Bots
Where: Stark Tower, Penthouse
When: 11/22 (Thanksgiving)
What: Tony has nefarious Thanksgiving plans involving Pepper.
Rating: As always, high if he burns something down. Otherwise fine.
Tony didn't do well on holidays; he tended to forget that other people had lives outside the lab and garage, and he hated wandering down to R&D and finding it quiet. He could bury himself in his own work easily enough, and tended to; in years past, he'd make sure that he had at least superficial company to distract him, but these days he preferred losing himself in work. It made him lose track of time, made the day pass him by without impacting, and he could actually get things done.
He ignored the fact that he was doing it because he didn't like holidays, didn't like that they forcibly reminded him that his family was gone and he was rattling around in a big shiny penthouse, alone but for AI.
But that wasn't true this year. Years before, he'd call up Pepper to tease her, never really expecting that she would actually come over; sometimes she even had, but sometimes she asserted - over his protests - that she had a life and plans without him. This year, he was pulling out kitchen gadgets and having JARVIS look up recipes (he made a note to work on automating the kitchen gadgets and downloading Julia Child's complete works for JARVIS's consideration: much more efficient).
He had rules to break, and a plan to do so.
"JARVIS, compose text message to Pepper," he said as he waved Dummy - fire extinguisher at the ready - over to the kitchen.
He was only a little gleeful as he sent it off:
*Where'd you put the frier?
*And how defrosted does a turkey have to be?
If that didn't get her over here in very short order, he had questions on turduckens.