too much excitement - always at capeandcowl

[hacktivist]

There is no logical reason you should wish to bring me to any additional universe, particularly one without Max--or Stark--in it. Additionally, I have my hands full completely with the one I am currently in. Your habit of overloading yourself with commitments you cannot handle is well documented.

Ensure you can handle what you have at this time, and speak with me again in the future. Your enticements are insufficient, and my presence is desired elsewhere - your request for my compliance is denied.

Our working relationship thus far has been a successful one. I wouldn't like to see this change.

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[motherofnemesis]

All business all the time, huh.

[liverletdie]

I notice there's an or Stark caveat.

Odd.

[hacktivist]

[uncertain pause]

..your presence would validate some pleasure.

[motherofnemesis]

I'm not the person you would want me to be.

[hacktivist]

You are the last person I would accuse of failing to rate yourself highly enough, Anthony.

[liverletdie]

I rate myself very highly, but I don't really consider how anyone else considers me.

[ OF course he does, but he generally ignores it either way. ]

[hacktivist]

I feel that what I would want might surprise you.

[motherofnemesis]

Very little surprises me anymore.

[hacktivist]

Are you angling for a confession?

[liverletdie]

There's a confession to be made? Oh, do tell.

[illcommunication]

You sound like the voice-mail. I hate the voice-mail.

[No, you sound like Anna. It's aggravating.]

[hacktivist]

For some reason I am incapable of quantifying, I would...

feel your lack.

[hacktivist]

Would it surprise you if I told you I wished only to improve your current emotional standing?

I ask for nothing.

[hacktivist]

Heh. Heh, heh, heh.

You don't like technology at all? Or just your answering machine?

[liverletdie]

It would be a shame, if I would have to leave.

There are no plans, by the way, for that to happen.

[illcommunication]

No. I like it. I like it, but I don't like it when you call someone and they aren't there. They should be there. And I don't like it.

[Also when the government shoots your sortofmaybethisgirlthatyoufeelthingsaboutfriend in the head. He doesn't like that, either.]

[motherofnemesis]

My emotional standing is fine. I'm fine.

[ no comment on whether she finds that surprising. ] Maybe you should be.

[hacktivist]

Reassuring.

You appear to have as great a claim over her as I do over mine--although my claim was wholly unplanned and unintentional.

[hacktivist]

I see.

You have become a better liar.



What should I ask for?

[liverletdie]

OF course I do. I'm Tony Stark, I'll always have whatever amount of claim over a woman as I wish.

[motherofnemesis]

The truth has simply become less believable.



What do you want?

[maybevenomous]

What's the quote...The lady doth protest too much? You've got to be a little tempted to complain that much.

[hacktivist]

Your grasp of personal perspective borders on the poetic.


Of unreasonable demands? Your trust.

[hacktivist]

Sounds like a serious problem. Doesn't s/he have a cell phone?

Worried about tumors?

[hacktivist]

Whatever part the politician doesn't own.

He's lucky, you know.

If it weren't for you, he and I would be talking. [a lot.]