poeticterms: A surveillance camera, outdoors. (@ argus)
Jarvis ([personal profile] poeticterms) wrote2010-10-01 06:53 pm

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The thing about the Stark house is that it looks perfectly normal unless you are paying attention.

Perfectly normal houses are not covered in quite so many discreet cameras. Nor do they have pressure sensors under the driveway to record where guests choose to park. (Jarvis is already learning Cal's favourite spots in the loop.)
if_inconvenient: (!= any such experiments)

[personal profile] if_inconvenient 2010-10-04 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"I would like to register the opinion that Violet Chandler would make a positively terrifying First Lady," Sherlock comments.

[identity profile] americas-son.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
A wry smirk quirks the corner of Cal's mouth.

"Mother and Uncle Grahame have always been the ones running the show," he says.

Make of that what you will.
toblameforit: Thoughtful, perhaps mischievous. (+= pretend we're twins)

[personal profile] toblameforit 2010-10-04 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Shit, why doesn't she run for President?"

[identity profile] americas-son.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"They got started like twenty years ago," Cal says. "A woman President - they didn't think it would be possible for like another fifty. So now she doesn't have any political experience so no one would vote for her anyway."

At least, not enough people.
toblameforit: Striving for innocence. (+= wanna do my homework for me?)

[personal profile] toblameforit 2010-10-04 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Makes sense, I guess. Man, am I ever glad my family wasn't in politics. The only thing that counts for running Stark Industries is if you can get the actual job done."

[identity profile] americas-son.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, only voters care about whether you can get stuff done in politics, and they only count one day a year."

He snags a new slice of pizza.

"You spend the other 364 getting on their side."

Tony and Sherlock are filled with patriotism and a deep and abiding faith in democracy and the US of A now, right?
toblameforit: Smiling a little bit. (*= you jerk! :D)

[personal profile] toblameforit 2010-10-04 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're almost as cynical as Sherry," he says admiringly.
if_inconvenient: (== ultimately inconsequential)

[personal profile] if_inconvenient 2010-10-04 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Can I take over the country and institute a hereditary monarchy?" asks Sherlock. "Would anyone mind?"

[identity profile] americas-son.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not cynical, I'm realistic."

It's not Cal's fault they're the same thing.

To Sherlock he says,

"I dunno, that'd make Mother a nightmare to live with."
if_inconvenient: (!= brief but powerful)

[personal profile] if_inconvenient 2010-10-04 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"I could make you king," he suggests. "Or would that be worse?"
toblameforit: Grinning. (*= cranking up the charm)

[personal profile] toblameforit 2010-10-04 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sherry, quit plotting treason in my kitchen."

[identity profile] americas-son.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then I could just throw her in the dungeon. Okay, I'm in."

Tony didn't say anything about Cal not plotting treason!
if_inconvenient: (!= any such experiments)

[personal profile] if_inconvenient 2010-10-04 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Or perhaps send her into exile," he suggests, ignoring Tony, "or assign a division of the royal army to keep watch on her. Aha, I believe I have found a new job for Peter Beardsley."

[identity profile] americas-son.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Cal grins.

"Yeah, he'd be all over that," he says.

"You" - gesturing to Tony with his pizza - "can do all the building stuff."
toblameforit: Smiling affectionately or smugly. (*= recent successes)

[personal profile] toblameforit 2010-10-04 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Now he's getting into it, too.

"Oh yeah. Jarvis, how do you feel about being a royal palace?"

[identity profile] americas-son.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Computerized palace," Cal says. "Awesome."
toblameforit: Drinking orange juice from the carton. (+= endeavouring to make breakfast)

[personal profile] toblameforit 2010-10-04 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"The best computerized palace," he says emphatically. "And yeah, about that royal army? Shit, when I'm done with it you could conquer the world."

[identity profile] americas-son.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"That'd be the next logical step," Cal agrees.

Hey, once you get started, you may as well keep going.
toblameforit: Thoughtful, perhaps mischievous. (+= pretend we're twins)

[personal profile] toblameforit 2010-10-04 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Which would be bad, and we totally shouldn't do it."

Tony is responsible!
if_inconvenient: (!= any such experiments)

[personal profile] if_inconvenient 2010-10-04 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"But it would be so much fun."

[identity profile] americas-son.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"And if we don't do it, Mother probably will," Cal puts in.

And they, obviously, would be much better for the world.
if_inconvenient: (!= brief but powerful)

[personal profile] if_inconvenient 2010-10-04 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Preemptive conquest is the only option."

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