The Park, Monday Morning

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Being in kinda-sorta Greece made the usual morning run almost fun for Tony today. Almost. His sides still hurt when he moved wrong, but at least it wasn't due to him being woefully out of shape.

Go him?

He slowed down once he entered the park, pulling out his phone to check for new messages. Because technology would always trump exercise in his mind.

((Open like a park!))

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[lockestheway]

Sometimes, going out for a walk helped perk up Peter's creativity. He was mentally drawing up Topher's contract, thinking about potential clauses he could add in to further his cause - this was going to work out quite nicely. And he was jogging along just like that when he very nearly ran into...

"Tony!"

Luckily, at least Peter wasn't staring at his phone.

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Because Peter was eeeeevil. And stuff.

Tony looked up quickly, text from Rhodey momentarily forgotten. "Hey, Peter."

[lockestheway]

He wasn't evil, he was just misunderstood.

"What's up?" Peter asked. "Out for a morning run?"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Which meant evil where Tony was from!

"Mr Rogers seems to think running will be helpful," Tony replied dryly. Because he knew science was better.

[lockestheway]

"Ah, one of those really over-motivated teachers, huh," Peter said, with sympathy he didn't actually feel. "What, has he turned you into a project?"

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"I asked him for help, but I didn't realize how much stuff went with it," Tony admitted. "I don't know if he's even human at this point."

[lockestheway]

"Considering the island's track record, it wouldn't be that far out of left-field," Peter said, cheerfully. "Sounds like you've got a while to catch up with the guy, buddy."

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I'm not your buddy, guy!

"It's not as bad as when I first got here," Tony replied, shifting from one foot to the other to find a comfortable position. Oh, breathing, so evil right now.

[lockestheway]

"I figure you'd need to learn, though," Peter said, thoughtfully, "With all that stuff invading the island. Cardio, my zombie teacher likes to wax about it."

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"Attaboy! Go, Tony!" came a not-entirely-teasing yell from somewhere up among the branches of a tree, because Stephanie liked perching in high places for some STRANGE REASON. She was kind of itching to go explore Atlantis herself, later today, like after class, but having taken care of her own morning run she felt she was entitled to at least a few minutes of hanging out and relaxing.

The entertainment was a bonus.

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"I'd make a rude gesture, but somehow I think you'd be better at that than me," Tony informed the tree. Oh, and Stephanie.

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Stephanie leaned to one side slightly and pulled the branches away from her face, just so she could smirk down at him. "Putting down the phone would help with the rude gesturing. Just a tip. Hi, you."

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"I have one hand free," Tony insisted, waggling his fingers up at her. "Any reason youre up a tree?"

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"Oh, the jokes I could make about that," Stephanie said, deadpan, swinging around to dangle her legs off the branch. "Do I need a reason, anyway? Maybe I didn't get enough skinned knees from tree-climbing growing up, and I'm making up for it."

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"I climbed on particle accelerators when I was a kid," he admitted thoughtfully.

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"Okay, more like jungle gyms," Stephanie replied, just to be more accurate. "Decent climbable trees in Gotham are hard to come by." Seriously, hear about one nasty encounter with Poison Ivy and you'd never look at plantlife the same way again.

She waved a hand at him, then patted the branch beside her. "Want to give it a try?"

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"If I do, will you start singing nursery rhymes?"

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"Tony!" Juliet had actually sort of forgotten about her conversation with Sov until right then, but she believed in seizing opportunity when it came banging at her door. She bustled over with a grin and a shopping bag over her arm. "Would you believe I was hoping to run into you?"

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"For a good reason or a bad reason?" Tony asked because blond girls were scary, he'd discovered.

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Juliet frowned as she tried to work out her confusion over that one. "For a 'my phone is being funny and Sov thought you could fix it' reason," she settled upon. "So ... good? If you like work?"

She' didn't, but she thought Tony did.

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"Good reason," Tony confirmed, putting his phone away. "Do you have it with you?"

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"Duh. Of course," Juliet said, seeming mildly perturbed anyone would go out without a phone. "It works, the videos are just coming out all fuzzy."

She retrieved said phone from her bag and punched a few buttons. "Want me to load one to show you?"

[OOC: Her video card is corrupted, or something along those lines. Nothing big.]

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Some people lived in the dark ages. Not them, of course.

"Go for it," Tony replied, leaning over to take a look.

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"See?" Juliet said, showing him the same video she had showed Sov of a tour of the cabins. "I wanted to let my friends back home know what the cabins looked like, but it's all ... randomly fuzzy. And green." She puted at the screen. "It makes me look gross."

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"Well, at least it's an easy fix," Tony replied, holding out his hand to take the phone.