Stark Industries, Sunday

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So call Jessica crazy, but she was starting to think that the mansion where the students were staying might be haunted.

CRAZYTALK, of course. But still, she was trying to do some research into a scintific solution to dealing with ghosts or whatever was happening in her room.

Yes, watching a movie counted as research.

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There were certain spots in the house where Vitor could be left without barking like crazy, so Sia had left him in one of those for a while so he (and everyone else) could get some peace. However, the place still made Sia feel really uneasy, so if she had an excuse to get off that little island, she'd take it.

"Have some coffee," she said as she came in with two cups.

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"I couldn't. I never touch the stuff," Jessica said before taking a cup and also a sip.

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"It's good to see you keeping away from vices," Sia said. "I was going to ask if you were busy, but..."

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"I'm doing research by way of 80's comedies," Jessica said. "It's a valid method proven by scientists the world over."

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"Name one," Sia said, sipping her coffee.

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"Shifts in causality due to time travel, documented in detail in both action movies and comedies from the 80's," Jessica explained. "And while neither got things quite right, I can give you Baxter Building papers on how the effects of time travel actually do manifest through empirical study."

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"Nevermind. Either you're telling the truth, or you're joking and I'll never be able to match you on this one," Sia decided.

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"For the record, I'm telling the truth," Jessica said. "There was a pretty great think tank on my world that did some completely out there experiments, and time travel was one of the things they tried successfully. They decommissioned and dismantled the time platform a while ago, though. They realized that actual time travel was probably a dangerous thing to have."

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"I'd say so," Sia said, though she was pretty impressed that they'd done it. "That's something you really wouldn't want falling into the wrong hands, and there isn't any way it wouldn't eventually."

Pessimism.

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"And considering the guy who invented it went completely crazy, tried to take over the world, and that was just the start of it, you're absolutely right," Jessica agreed.

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"Your world is never boring, is it?" Sia said, shaking her head.

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"Some days, here and there," Jessica said. "For better or for worse."

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"Is there anything new going on over there?" Aka was there anything Sia needed to worry about Jessica doing.

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"Not really. I got some incomplete reports about something happening in deep space, but that stuff usually doesn't affect us," Jessica said. "My understanding is that we only have a handful of alien species who have even made contact with earth, and most are peacefully observing, so it's not anything anyone is worried about yet."

She was wrong about that.

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"In my experience that isn't anything to worry about at all." Though she lived somewhere weird.

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"You never know. A swarm of planet eating robots invaded once. Things happen," Jessica pointed out. "But we have a space division watching out for that kind of stuff now."

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"...Planet eating robots," Sia repeated.

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"The universe is a weird place," Jessica said. "I think I'm glad to live in a small part of it."

"Um, when I'm not living in an entirely different version of that universe."

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"And a small part of that entirely different version," Sia said. "Details."