Stark Industries, Monday

[imafuturist]

Tony was in the shop today, finally working through the pile of paperwork that he'd been putting off for the week. And listening to Pepper inform him about the lawsuit he'd gotten them embroiled in despite being mostly out of the public eye.

"--no. No, Pep. Pepper. They're wrong. You can't claim copyrights on alternate universes. If you could, Doom would have done it to be a jerk to Reed Richards."

On the plus side, it was turning out to be quite the interesting thing for his legal department.

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[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry had no interest in legal battles but he did have an interest in Stark. He'd been meeting to poke around and meet Stark at some point outside of class but hadn't really figured out a time to do so. But with Elsa back home and not having Any TA duties, Barry finally decided he needed something to do on the island where he wasn't just stuck in his lab all the time.

Which of course meant checking out another hi tech lab. It was variety. Really.

He walked in as Tony was on the phone and started looking over some of the gadgets lying around and doing his best not to fiddle with anything until Tony was off his call.

[imafuturist]

"--now you're just being unreasonable. I sign everything you ask me to," Tony said, eyeing the person in his shop for a moment. "And I have to go now. I'm working. Don't laugh at me, Pepper. It's not polite to laugh at the person who signs the paychecks that you give me to sign."

He hung up the phone once she decided he wasn't worth the aggravation today.

"Hi."

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Barry said looking up from the tech he was studying. "Hope you don't mind me dropping by. I took your class the other semester. I'm Barry Ween."

[imafuturist]

"Right, I remember you." In the way Tony remembered everyone. "Need something?"

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I was kind of looking to learn more about running a business," Barry said with a shrug. "You have any openings?"

[imafuturist]

Then he totally should have talked to Pepper instead. "Tuesday and Wednesdays are filled."

And Tony was terrible about the whole interview thing.

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

"That's the job interview?" Barry asked with a smirk. "Fine. I'll take Thursdays."

[imafuturist]

"Don't start a lawsuit and don't blow up the place," Tony replied, firmly setting down some rules. "Lower lab is off limits. JARVIS keeps an eye on things when I'm not around."

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

"I can handle that," Barry said with a nod.

He'd save his explosive stuff for the warehouse.

"Who's Jarvis? Sounds like a butler."

[imafuturist]

"Sort of. JARVIS, darling?"

There was an almost put upon sigh from the speakers in the walls that Tony was certain he'd picked up from Pepper. Or maybe Rhodey. Or... there was a long list of candidates for that honor, to be honest.

"Yes, sir?"

Tony pouted at the sigh. "No need to get tetchy. Barry, JARVIS. JARVIS, Barry."

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry turned his attention to the speakers and then back at Tony.

"So I'm guessing Jarvis is some sort of security guard but knowing you is some fully realized AI," Barry theorized. "Which if that's the case, that's pretty fucking cool."

[imafuturist]

"I started him as a teenager and he sort of grew on up," Tony replied.

JARVIS chimed in with a dry. "A pleasure to meet you."

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

After her horrifying ice cream adventure earlier, Jessica decided to swing by the shop and check in with Tony, while hoping there wasn't any unpleasant lawsuit news. "Hey boss. You're actually doing paperwork?"

[imafuturist]

"I do it sometimes." When Pepper makes him.

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Well, don't let me stop you," Jessica said. "I just wanted to check in and make sure the probe drones we talked about are as good as good can be. I think I'm ready to send one through tomorrow and I'm paranoid."

[imafuturist]

"It'll be a good field testing," Tony replied. "There's only five right now, so try not to get them blown up."

Five that he built to take the sort of beating he normally got.

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I'll do my best," Jessica said. "Let's just hope I didn't accidentally dig up the coordinates for an Earth where everything explodes all the time."

[imafuturist]

That would indeed be a problem. "Worst reality ever."

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Better than the world where everything blows up when you least expect it," Jessica theorized. "But five should hopefully be more than enough. I think I've gotten the noise out of my dimensional readings. I should be able to find my reality without too much extra calibration."

[imafuturist]

"If anything happens, let me know." A beat. "And if nothing happens, still let me know. I like a good puzzle."

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Something will happen. I just hope that something isn't crushing disappointment and a need to hit the bar," Jessica said.

[imafuturist]

"Try to refrain from that when you have to use a soldering iron the next day." Tony spoke from experience.