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[manofiron]

You know what? Forget it. I'm done.

You want to do this, find someone else. I quit.

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[veryastute]

.. Sir?

[manofiron]

Long day. Don't worry about.

Remember that thing I said about the ice cream? We're getting a few gallons. Like, ten.

[ Since he promised no more drinking, he's going to turn to sugar. ]

[veryastute]

Only if you promise that I can make you run later. --Does this have to do with Colonel Rhodes?

[manofiron]

Sure. I'll run later. What say we hop a plane and go running in, I don't know, Africa? That's nice. Lots of plains, very flat land.

...Broadly, yes. That's really more of a symptom though. You know, the general me disease.

[veryastute]

Also a rather impressive number of people who would be only too happy to get their hands on Tony Stark, Sir.

Tony, you are not a disease.

[manofiron]

Track record contradicts you, Jarvis. But thanks. Glad someone thinks so.

So, okay. Africa's out. You suggest somewhere.

[veryastute]

More than myself, I like to think, Sir. Miss Potts, for instance, and the Avengers.

Spain, perhaps? You do seem to like Ibiza when you're there.

[debts]

[ Natasha being Natasha, she doesn't sound particularly reassuring, just plain, when she says: ]

There is no-one else.

[manofiron]

You sure? Because I remember this whole team thing. Seemed like there were lots of someone elses.

[debts]

A machine doesn't function without all of its parts.

If you were easily replaced, you wouldn't be here.

[manofiron]

[ He's reminded of a bit of birthday party-related advice that, while outwardly looking pretty disastrous, actually turned out fairly well. So maybe she's on to something. Maybe.

Possibly. ]

Oh, come on. There's got to be someone else crazy enough to like playing with nukes. What about Barton?

[debts]

[ And it all ended without any violence or needles to the neck. How about that. ]

Disarming a bomb is a different from a nuclear weapon. [ A beat. ] He'll always go for the red wire.

[manofiron]

You should probably talk to him about that. Explain it's not always like the movies. You know, give him a few pointers.

[themanoutoftime]

Never pegged you for a quitter.

[manofiron]

You sure about that? Because I remember this one time in Fury's helicarrier...

[themanoutoftime]

I said you weren't the man to make a sacrifice play. That's not the same as being a quitter, you know that.

[manofiron]

It's not quitting to stop doing something that isn't working, is it? That's called common sense.

[themanoutoftime]

What's not working?

[manofiron]

Focusing on things that aren't work.

[therealgenius]

You can't quit. I can't quit you, so...you know. No quitting.

I'll pull That Face. Do you really want that? Really?

[manofiron]

I can't tell if that's supposed to be a reference to Led Zeppelin or Brokeback Mountain.

Help me out.

[therealgenius]

Sorry to say, Tony, I can't quite moan as wonderfully as Robert Plant. I hope that doesn't break any hopes and dreams you might have had about hair bands.

[manofiron]

Those got broken the day I realized I could only play the piano. And I tried to grow out my hair and saw what it looked like.

[therealgenius]

I remember that. You know, from the press and stuff.

To be honest? You look better with it down. Slicked back is kind of...not as good as when it's down.

[manofiron]

Wait, you mean the disheveled poof? Is that the down you're talking about?