Tony Stark (in_extremis) wrote in oh_marvelous, @ 2011-07-16 22:43:00 |
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Characters: Sue and Johnny Storm and Tony Stark
Setting: The Baxter Building, shortly after this call.
Content: Science?
Summary: Sue has an embarrassing problem, and has called the master of embarrassing problems to help.
It was certainly a conundrum, but not anything that sounded like it couldn't be fixed. After all, that was Tony's talent. He couldn't help but think, though, that if Reed were around, Tony wouldn't even come into consideration. They liked to, and it was understandable, keep this sort of thing in house, after all, and look how well that had turned out for Ben. Okay, that was cruel, but it was easy to get frustrated with Reed.
After the brief and hardly enlightening conversation with Sue, Tony hadn't wasted time before telling JARVIS not to worry about him and rapidly making his escape from the office. It was always a matter of looking busy and distracted, most people knew to give him his space then. He arrived at the Baxter Building in under half an hour, looking windblown and a little breathless with a helmet under his arm and his tie flipped over his shoulder, giving wordless indication to the security that eyed him warily that he was heading on up. Again, busy and distracted, it kept the questions at bay. In the elevator, he made a gentle, flirtatious attempt to massage his way into the Baxter's systems and Sue's files to get some idea of what she had been working on and discovered up until the point of the accident, but they played hard to get and knew better than to get into bed with the first charming code that came along.
He arrived at Sue's lab blind-- almost entirely. Pausing for an unsure moment at the door, feeling quite alone and intrusive, he glanced around for some sign of life before that strange, glowing rock caught his attention and he made impulsively for it. He didn't have innate powers that could be turned against him, after all. At least, he hoped so.