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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.)

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"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."

"That'd be the next logical step," Cal agrees.

Hey, once you get started, you may as well keep going.

"Which would be bad, and we totally shouldn't do it."

Tony is responsible!

"But it would be so much fun."

"And if we don't do it, Mother probably will," Cal puts in.

And they, obviously, would be much better for the world.

"Preemptive conquest is the only option."

"Now, now, children. Don't get carried away."

"But we haven't made any real plans yet," Cal objects, briefly forgetting, in his preoccupation, that Jarvis is a computer.

The amusement in his voice is as close as Jarvis ever gets these days to a laugh.

"So long as it stays that way," he allows.

"Party-pooper."

"Maybe we should get a different computerized palace."

If that's how Jarvis is going to be.

"Perish the thought. He'd be terribly lonely without us."

"Nothing but squirrels for company," he says in melancholic tones.

"Squirrels are cool."

Cal considers.

"They could bring you acorns."

This represents the sum total of his knowledge of squirrels.

He can't help it. A merry beep/whistle escapes from the speakers.

Tony bursts out laughing.

Even Sherlock chuckles along.

Cal's pretty sure he recognizes the sound effect, but doesn't know what it signifies here.

It's obvious he did something right, though, so he just looks cheerful and eats his pizza.

"I didn't know you still had those on file," he manages, still snickering, after a few moments.

"I'm just full of surprises, sir," he says, having given up on dignity for the moment.

It really is like having a fourth person in the room. How weird.

Sherlock observes Cal's reaction thoughtfully.

Cal, unsurprisingly, is not paying much attention to being observed. Mostly he's thinking about Jarvis.

And pizza.

For the second time today, Tony belatedly realizes that Cal doesn't know.

Whoops.

Cal is learning quite a bit today.

Jarvis probably would be the best computerized palace ever.

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