Stark Industries [afternoon]

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Cade finally remembered that he had a job and wandered into Stark to a huge stack of old, broken iPods.

Apparently people had gotten new ones over the holidays.

He got out his multitool and began repairing them--making sure to mock all of their taste in music as he got the machines to show him their contents.

[OOC: Home again! Help keep me awake!]

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Jim had come into town to get something to eat so stopping in to Sparky's wasn't out of his way at all. He'd just pop in for a visit because he was totally a nice guy.

"What's up, ugly?" Jim asked as he strolled in, grinning.

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Cade grinned back. "Nothing I'm going to karking tell you about," he declared. "You'd want to cut in on the action."

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"Seriously?" Jim feigned astonishment. "What do you take me for, Cade? An opportunist? Why I never!"

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Cade snorted. "I'm terribly sorry to have hurt your karking feelings."

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"You should be," Jim told him, slapping a hand on the counter. "Make it up to me immediately, Cade."

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Cade smirked at him. "You're not my type."

No one had apparently told Cade there were non-sex ways to make up to people?

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"Is everything about sex to you?"

Not that Jim was that different, mind you...

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Cade thought about it, then shrugged. "Basically."

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"Has it been awhile, Cade?" Jim asked teasingly. "Feeling a little sexually frustrated?"

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Cade laughed. "There were twins this weekend. Didn't even make it back to the island until class today."

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"You're getting old," Jim quipped because that's what he got out of Cade's boasting.

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"You're just jealous I didn't invite you along," Cade decided.

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"Natalie would kill me if I got invited along," Jim told him, shaking his head. "She's possessive."

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Cheryl...had looked better. Sure, she was dressed and had managed to do her hair, but anyone who saw her would probably peg her for hungover within...oh, seconds.

And she wasn't, but that wasn't really the point.

"Hi, I broke this?" she said, lugging a really nice flatscreen TV in after her. Dragging it on the ground probably wasn't helping, but whatever. The bigger issue was that the whole thing was covered in a slowly-melting sheet of ice. "So I like...need you to fix it."

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Cade's eyebrows rose. "What karking stupid thing happened to it?"

Cade's customer service needed work.

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"I dunno, it was just like this when I woke up," Cheryl lied like a liar who lies. "I guess it got cold."

You don't say.

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"You do know TVs belong inside, right?" Cade offered helpfully.

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"Duh." Cheryl rolled her eyes. "It was like, really cold inside my house. I had a really weird weekend, okay?"

God, Cade. Be more sympathetic to her really weird, totally self-inflicted plight.

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"So did I," Cade said, "there were these twins in Baltimore--"

Stop talking, Cade.

"Anyway," he said, cutting story time mercifully short, "now that you've learned an important lesson about the air conditioning or whatever the kark, let's see what happened to this poor thing."

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Cheryl dragged the big block o' ice that was her TV in so he could see better. "What's 'kark'? I feel like you're swearing at me," she said, frowning. "Is it French?"

Cheryl spoke French, so...one would think she would figure that that was a "no."

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"It's Huttese," Cade said absently, crouching down and with most of his attention focused on the TV components. "Kind of west of France."

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"They have a fun party scene there? I've never been."

Cheryl wasn't yet aware that he was talking about another galaxy. Geography wasn't really a strong suit with this one.

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"If you know where to go," Cade said with a grin, "and I always did. Let me go after this thing with a hair dryer and see if it can be saved."

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Well, Cheryl could have done that, but whatever. She also could have just bought another TV but she was stubborn and wanted this one.

Besides, at least Pam hadn't mauled it. That was the other problem with everything in their house.

"So like, do you guys just repair stuff here? Or make things, too?" Cheryl asked with interest, looking around.

No reason. Asking for a friend.

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"Little bit of both," Cade said, "or at least I do. My family's big into tinkering. Why? Need something else?"