Tamsin's Office, Town Hall, Thursday Afternoon

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"Didn't I give you the day off?"

Tamsin could distinctly remember giving Bright Eyes the week off, actually.

"Oh, no, no no no," Bright Eyes said, enthusiastically picking through stacks of paperwork. "No, no, no, we can't have that."

Tamsin pulled a face. "Well, can you at least have a day out of my office? Shoo. Go work at home."

Bright Eyes clutched the paperwork to her breast. (Several sheets of it fell to the floor.) "... Can I keep this?"

"Just get out of my sight," Tamsin sighed, and sank further into her chair.

[[ expecting one, but open! ]]

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[imafuturist]

Tony helped a little with that part. And he was always way more concerned with the safety of others rather than himself, so she'd be fine.

They arrived in a mostly quiet area of a multilevel parking garage. The kind that were at nearly every hospital. "Awesome. Got the coordinates right."

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"All this fuss and you wanted to take me to a parking lot?" Tamsin said. "How do you ever get laid?"

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Tony raised his eyebrows at her like he was reconsidering his plan immensely. "I don't lately," he replied dryly.

Then looked up at security cameras to put them on a loop of footage until he'd safely passed by on his way to the entrance of the hospital.

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Tamsin rolled her eyes at him. "Okay, into the hospital, grab a lab coat, and then you point me at whoever you want shitting their pants," she said, starting to walk.

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"Scare them off before they recognize me," Tony agreed, waving his hand over a scanner that would normally only work with the proper ID card. Oh, Extremis. You made things so much easier. "Don't need a fight here."

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"I can scare people without starting a fight," Tamsin said dryly. (He didn't even know how easy that was for her if she wanted to put her powers into it... which she didn't if she could avoid it.)

"Right, so we should probably find a break room for the doctors or whatever, first."

[imafuturist]

Well, in his defense, the not wanting a fight was more for his own sanity.

Tony opened the door for her after a moment of checking the video feeds inside. "Nurses' station down the hall and to the right. I can set off an alarm in a patient's room to clear it."

That wasn't creepy at all.

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"You really have to stop surfing the internet with your brain," Tamsin sighed. "Okay, you do your thing. I'll go do mine."

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"How else would I win at Internet poker?" he asked, eyes going a little blank as he concentrated elsewhere and...

There was the high pitched alarm of something going wrong, followed by the slap of feel on tile floor.

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"You play internet poker--"

Never mind the snark. "Right, I'm up," Tamsin said, walking away from him briskly. Down the hall, to the right, and past a bunch of panicked nurses.

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And look at that! A convenient lab coat was tossed over one of the chairs there.

Tony followed past her, keeping an 'eye' on the security cameras. Because not watch himself walk around like that?

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Weird, Stark. So weird.

But Tamsin snagged the lab coat nice and quick, pulling it on over her arms. "Been a while since I impersonated a doctor," she mused. "Memories."

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"You're sharing that story sometime," Tony replied, leading them through the god awful maze of hallways to both avoid people as much as possible and get them where they needed to be.

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"Maybe," Tamsin said. It was like two hundred years before his time. Long story. "So how long do you need these people distracted anyway?"

She followed along, paying close attention to their surroundings as they went.

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He hung out with people from the 40s. It was almost normal.

"There will be people guarding the room," he said, sounding a bit strained.

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"And...?" Tamsin prompted.

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"I... I don't know. I just need to make sure." He exhaled heavily, frustrated by his own lack if foresight here.

Look, it'd been a kneejerk reaction to go.

"If you can keep their focus elsewhere for a minute, I can get past them. Come in after if you want."

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Tamsin sighed. "Eugh," she said. "Can you stop jittering already? You're stressing me out."

Right. A distraction.

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Tony nodded, trying to regain the chill he never had. No chill at all, Tony. Don't front.

"Just--if it gets dangerous, JARVIS can pull you out. A little rougher ride back that way, though."

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"If it gets dangerous, I'll just break a few bones, don't worry about it," Tamsin said, shaking her head. "C'mon."

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"That's what I'm worried about," he muttered, holding up a hand. "Around the corner. There should be two SHIELD--"

He huffed in annoyance.

"HAMMER. Whatever agents outside a room."

And yeah, they were wearing the ridiculous blue bodysuits with the white gun holsters. Oh, classic Marvel. Never change.

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"Right," Tamsin said skeptically. She peered past him. "Anything I need to know about these guys?"

[imafuturist]

"Low level. Probably just doing their job." Which Tony was going to mess up, but he felt bad about it! "The mess I'm in is above their pay grade so try not to break them."

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"Ugh, they're just mooks," Tamsin said. She straightened her shoulders.

... and marched forward. "What do you think you're doing?"

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Tony stayed where he was, watching through cameras and trying very hard not to laugh at their faces.

"Ma'am?" the braver of the two ventured.