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[rosenbridges]

WHO: Jane Foster and Youuuuu
TONE: General…?
RATING: Should be PG, PG13 tops
WHERE Astronomy tower
WHAT: Jane takes a break from studying. Kind of.
STATUS: Ongoing

Okay, looming exams? Maybe getting to Jane, just a little. So much so that she’s settled high atop the astronomy tower at night with her journal and sketchbook, half doodling, half studying, half thinking. Her mind is ever in the stars, or so Erik says. That will never change.

Even Jane realized when she needed a break though, and her textbooks, while certainly within reach, are closed and in her bag. She’s leaning back on her hands, head tipped up as the moon douses her in soft light, eyes closed.

She’s just asking to be pestered, isn’t she.

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[rosenbridges]

She heard Tony before she saw him so by the time he comes into view, the element of surprise is gone and she’s expecting someone.

“Hi, Tony.”

Jane absently reaches over to snag one of the cherries, nibbles it, then flicks the stem at him.

“Hardly. Taking a break. You?”

I'll take that to mean you're pleased then?

[arrogantalloy]

He pulls a face at her as she flicks the stem and it hits him.

"Wow, that's. Like, so mature. I can't believe you just attacked me with fruit I gave you. Is this why you don't have a horse? Keep looking in their mouths or something."

As much as it sounds like he's complaining he sits down neck to her.

"Well, you could say that. I share a room with Herbert, Sherlock, and Alec. And really there's only so much teen brooding you can tolerate when it's not yours. Not that Sherlock's brooding, but he's ... Well he's Sherlock."

Very /bounces around

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"That was hardly an attack." She's chuckling a little anyway, and scooting to make room for him.

"Mhm. I know what you mean." She sets the notebook she was holding to the side and leans back, palms flat. "Can I have another cherry?"

Not that this pleases me at all.

[arrogantalloy]

"Hardly and attack? I'm bleeding because of you, look" He pulls out his shirt slightly to show a slight almost stain from where the cherry used to hang from the stem. "If I die, it's all on you."

Not that he knows he's hamming this all up.

He plops the bag down between them opening up the bag more for easy access.

"You say you know, but you don't have to wake up with one judging you, one staring at you expectantly and one waiting to start a sarcasm battle most mornings. It's bad enough I don't have regular rights to coffee here."

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“Well, that’s true. No one is really watching me sleep.” That she knows of.

Jane desperately, desperately tries to smother the giggle that bubbles up, but she’s pretty unsuccessful.

“I can get that out, I bet.” She’s obtaining another cherry for herself first, though. “Want me to try?”

;D

[arrogantalloy]

He grins at her giggling.

"You can try, but I have really good lawyers that specialise in fruit based manslaughter. So cute smile or not, you're going down. But hey, if you're nice to me in my last hours, I might write into my will that a life time maintaining my grave will be punishment enough. If you're going to kill me, you might as well be saddled with keeping me beautiful to those who will visit. And don't forget, I'm kind of famous in the muggle world, so that'll be a lot of people to keep my stone good for."

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Good heavens Tony talks a lot.

"Famous?" Jane innocently asks, pulling her wand from her pocket. "I'm not sure what you mean, exactly..."

A soft, murmured spell and hopefully te little red blotch will disappear.

[arrogantalloy]

That's what happens when you don't cut in to make him shoosh.

"You know, something about having my name attached to a multi-national corporation that caters to muggles and wizards alike."

Tony's too busy talking to actually notice the splotch leave his shirt.

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"Oh...I hadn't noticed." She's teasing him as she leans back, pleased with her work. Pocketing the wand, she helps herself to another cherry.

"What kind of business is it? Donut factory?"

[arrogantalloy]

"Oh, cute, no really you're being cute right now. And ignoring the fact I like donuts, why even pick donuts? Wait, I'm not coming off as the Pillsbury dough boy, am I?"

He looks sarcastic at first then looks down at himself. Since being with bruce he eats fairly regularly now, and really doesn't need Sherlock noticing and making wiseass comments about domestic life suiting him.

[rosenbridges]

She snorts. Oh Tony, worrying about his appearance. Jane herself has her hair pulled back into a ponytail and lacks any makeup.

"Of course not. Don't be silly." Jane waves a hand dismissively. "And even if you were so what?"

[arrogantalloy]

Poor boy's vain, can you blame him?

He flattens out the front of his shirt and glances at her.

"Because summer's coming up, which means a week in New York, in front of the papers. Everyone loves to find something to talk about when it comes to Howard Stark's boy." Then there's a pause. "And well, Summer also means swimwear, and you know what, I've been working on my four pack, and I really don't want to lose it."

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"I think you'll be okay."

She reaches for a quill and scribbles a thought or two down before glancing over.

"Do you have any plans for summer? Besides New York, I mean."

[arrogantalloy]

"Well, if I come back here with newspapers proclaiming me to be Tony Starch, or something equally unflattering. You owe me. Just saying."

Tony eats a few more cherries while she eats then contemplates her question, punctuating the thought with a shrug.

"I'll be finishing the Roadster finally. So driving that about on the estate. Taking Bruce somewhere, because that's what boyfriends do. Not that I really know where to take him, because well, girls are a lot easier than him to please. And there's also having everyone over, I mean Steve's looking forward to a Bruce Willis marathon so that's going to end up with everyone showing up, of course."

He thinks for a second.

"You can come too, got an email, or a home number or something I can have?"

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Jane visibly brightens.

"Yeah. Once second."

She flips through one of her notebooks and rips out a blank page, and scribbles her name, number, and email address on it.

"Here. Thor's coming too, right?"

[arrogantalloy]

"My house has free food. Of course he's going to be at my house. The better question is 'does he leave my house?' Because sometimes even I'm not sure of the answer on that one."

To be fair, Tony doesn't mean it. But he does love making up things about Thor to see if they get back to him.

"But, one thing. You can't let him know you've been invited. If you can do that. I'll buy you a puppy."

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Jane giggles, just a little, at that. Poor Thor.

"So..it's like a surprise, or something?"

[arrogantalloy]

With a smirk, Tony shakes his head.

"I just like the idea of surprising everyone with inviting a girl who doesn't secretly plan to snap some of us in half."

Well, really Natasha has only really threatened that once, and only to Tony. They have a really strange friendship.

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"Did someone -- really say that?"

Because that makes Jane terribly amused, especially if someone said it to Tony.

[arrogantalloy]

"Well, not so much say, as highly imply it with a look. But I know for a fact she's a danger to a well groomed man."

To punctuate his point, Tony runs his fingers through his hair.

"I'm actually starting to think Natasha only has it out for me though."