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Darling Dexter (i_fakeit) wrote in we_coexist,
@ 2013-01-30 10:27:00

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dexter morgan, tony stark, zz:status complete

So disturbed (Tony - Random Pairings)
The sun that had stayed up too long was bad enough. This? This was just beyond what Dexter was willing to consider alright. This was the sun moving backward in the sky. On the complete opposite path of what it should have been.

There was also news about a girl named Fred dying. He'd met a girl named Fred before. He didn't know if it was the same Fred he'd known, or if it was another version of her. But he was pretty sure that it was still Fred. There couldn't be too many of those floating around. There had been a crime scene for it, of course, but he'd not been called in for it. There was no blood. No blood meant no Dexter. It didn't mean, though, that he couldn't snoop in the file and see what was going on.

He'd thought to find Wash to talk about this new change in the sun's habits. The other man had been bothered about the sun not going down. It had created a moment for bonding. Bonding was good. Bonding meant that there was another person in this place that would rely on him to behave normally. Or, as normally as he could stand to. Dexter needed all the people he could get who needed him to be a human being.

But he was a bit distracted from that by a strange phone call directing him to Stark Tower. It was vague, and the voice on the other end insisted that it needed to be him to take the call, but wouldn't say why, or what was needed from him. Dexter had his work box with him, because that was the only reason he could think of that he'd be needed. Work. He arrived at the building and announced his presence in a professional manner.

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i_shoottothrill
2013-02-07 06:52 am UTC (link)

"Nope. He's AI. Artificial Intelligence," Tony clarified, used to the slow sort that needed to be walked through information to find conclusions. "He runs the building." And Tony's lab. And life. And virtually any piece of Stark tech that could be remotely accessed. But that was a bit much ot reveal to a total stranger, so he didn't. "But watch it. He still has feelings, don't you, J?"

"I am my programming, sir," Jarvis responded. Tony shook his head.

"Don't believe him for a moment. He's been progressing since my old man first put him online," he informed Dexter cheerfully. For many people that idea would be unnerving, but Jarvis was one of the few things Tony had complete faith in. He'd left his life in Jarvis' hands too many times to count, and the AI had always come through. It was why he never bothered to reprogram him, or wipe out the "ghosts" in the programming that accounted for the personality Jarvis had been developing. Jarvis was, perhaps, the only long term family Tony had, and as such he guarded the AI discreetly and absolutely, and rarely messed with the AI's programming. Usually it was to buffer the defenses or fix dangerous bugs in his programming, which came about when integrating him with new systems.

"So you catch bad guys. And, what, that's the feild kit?" he nodded to the box. "What do your type of forensics use, anyway?" He was always interested in the technology others used. Mostly so he could be sure that his own gear was vastly superior. He was rather vain.

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i_fakeit
2013-02-07 05:07 pm UTC (link)

Of all the things that Dexter had expected to encounter on a call, discovering artificial intelligence was not one of them. He badly wanted to return to the Iron Man statement, but he really just couldn't bring himself to. He knew very little of the comic book character, and didn't want to be insulting about it. He had also learned, long ago, during his first stay in the City, that such things existed here, such people. It was better to take folks at their word.

Dexter looked down at his box. "My field kit, anyway." He agreed.

"I do the more hands-on kind of work when I'm not in the lab. Simple physics." He opened the box. There were a few things in there that might have looked strange. Like the red string. His camera and several lenses were snug inside. "Blood spatter is my thing."

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i_shoottothrill
2013-02-11 05:00 am UTC (link)

Physics. Feild work. Blood spatter. "J, summary report on that kind of thing," he said, leaning over to activate what looked like a long black bar on the side table near his seat. a pale blue screen, pure light, came up and quickly filled in with pictures and a few documents, which Tony moved around by putting his hand through the light. He read through the work quickly, then nodded.

"I have no idea why anybody from here would call you. The worst we get are burns and oil spills. Maybe ink on the lower floors," he said absently, sipping his drink. "J, status report on the scan."

"The building has been throughly scanned, sire. No sign of bodies, dead or injured, anywhere in the vacinity."

"Huh. And the phone call?"

"Does not seem to have originated from any of our lines. Shall I check Miss Nashton's personal phone and computer?"

"Oh come on, Jarvis. Let the CEO play her pranks if she wants to," Tony said, sounding bored. It was entirely possible that Enigma had nothing to do with it, but he was going to let her have this if it was what she wanted. Probably just a small thing to annoy him. She'd been doing good work lately and he had no real reason to suspect that she'd be setting up anything big and dangerous.

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i_fakeit
2013-02-19 04:42 am UTC (link)

Dexter made a bit of a face. He'd been called here for a prank, potentially? What kind of CEO played pranks on anybody, let alone people she didn't know, and somebody who worked for the police on top of all of it?

"Well." He looked around a bit, quiet for a minute while he tried to come up with an answer for any of this.

"I guess then I should go."

He wasn't fantastic with people, and being in a situation he wasn't supposed to be in didn't help at all.

The fact that this guy didn't seem bothered at all at the prospect of a prank, and actually seemed like it was day to day goings on in this place made Dexter wonder exactly what kind of person Stark was.

Not that it was any of his business.

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i_shoottothrill
2013-02-20 05:35 am UTC (link)

Tony nodded slowly and got to his feet. "If it was my CEO you have my apologies, and a warning that getting mixed up in her schemes can be a bit messy, and getting yourself out of them trickier than figuring them out," he said, quite casually. Enigma was damn good at business, but he still didn't take his eyes off her game plan and playing methods.

"Though I am curious," he walked over, giving Dexter a closer look. "Why would you come here, expecting a crime scene, but not bring any cops with you?"

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i_fakeit
2013-02-20 08:37 pm UTC (link)

"Okay." Dexter nodded, finding the warning even odder than the idea that the CEO would play a prank. He had no idea at all what to say to that. So he decided that saying nothing would suit everybody better in the end.

"Sometimes what people think are crime scenes end up being nothing more than an easily explained incident. A bad cut can look like somebody was killed, but to somebody who knows, we'd see that there wasn't nearly enough blood. The body expels blood at five liters a minute, so the amount of blood from a death from violence by knife or some other object would be pretty incredible. But I could also have been called down to collect fingerprints or trace evidence from under somebody's nails, which doesn't need the police. Or maybe I was called down to give a presentation to kids. I don't know. I just decided to bring my box and be ready for anything. I wasn't told what to expect, just to be here."

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i_shoottothrill
2013-02-22 11:31 pm UTC (link)

"They let you talk to kids? Aren't parents usually all up in arms about letting kids near violent stuff?" Tony honestly had no idea. He'd never been around children before. Not since he'd grown up, anyway, and he hadn't exactly been a "peer" with anybody he'd gone to school with.

The other answeres seemed to make sense enough, but Tony still wondered why the police department would allow a vague call like that to pull out a specialist. Maybe it really was the City messing with them.

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i_fakeit
2013-02-23 03:12 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, but honestly, they generally don't get the idea of what I do until after I've started talking. They think it's all secondhand lab stuff. But really, my job is 90% hands on. The technical aspect tends to bore the crap out of the kids long before the adults are unnerved enough to ask me to stop."

Politeness would be the end of all childhood innocence, he was sure of it. Kids got a lot of details between the time he started and when he noticed their eyes glaze over, and the parents were just too stuck in what was the polite thing to do to stop him sooner.

Dexter stood up, picking up the case that he'd brought.

"I suppose it's been an interesting time meeting you, Mr Stark. Sorry about the intrusion, and confusion I guess."

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i_shoottothrill
2013-02-25 09:07 am UTC (link)

"Yeah," Tony frowned, still unsure, but not ready to press the point. He nodded his head towards the elevator, which stood open. "Well, if you get anything else weird let me know. If it's anything to do with this tower," he clarified, just to make sure.He wasn't one to help the local authorities, but he did want to know anything that had to do with the building he called home. And if the City needed him and called specifically, he'd help out. After all, the City was his home, too.

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i_fakeit
2013-02-26 12:31 am UTC (link)

"Sure."

Dexter nodded at Tony Stark and then lifted a hand, thinking he should somehow say goodbye to the voice that filled the building and wasn't attached to anything. It was more habit than it was a need to interact. Dexter had been taught to be polite to those he spoke to. It might have had a snowball effect.

He moved toward the elevator, thinking about the things that he'd just learned. The City was never going to get any less weird, he decided. It was just going to get stranger every time he turned around.

He didn't look back as the elevator opened, and didn't look up after he punched the button and was taken away.

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