tushanshu_logs | Tony Stark's 2:00 has arrived

Characters: Pepper Potts, Tony Stark, and Jack Frost
Date: Thursday January 10
Location: Stark International building
Situation: Pepper finally gets the chance to introduce Tony to ~~Their 12% son~~ Jack Frost. Hopefully Tony can help Jack with his little problem
Warnings/Rating: Rated S for Snark! No, no rating or warning as of yet.
Note: Tony and Jack could seriously be related with how alike they are. Just saying.

Pepper had decided not to explain very much to Tony in regards to his 2:00 PM appointment. In truth, she wasn't entirely sure how to explain to him that he was going to be meeting a legendary mythological bringer of snow, ice, and winter who, happened to be his assistant and girlfriend's good friend as well as the only person on the Turtle who she had actually told (mostly) about that fact that she and Tony were an item in any sense of the word. Clearly Pepper Potts was weaving tangled webs. Intended or otherwise. In truth, she hadn't really told Jack much about Tony either. So she felt it was fair that they were both entering into the situation mostly blind. Her only worry was that Jack's strange affliction would affect Tony and the man wouldn't be able to see him. That would make for an awkward 2:00 consultation.

Still, she stood in the lobby of Stark International with her hands white knuckling a black datebook and waited for Jack to arrive. In honesty, this wasn't just a meeting between a potential client for Stark International and the CEO of said company. This was also a meeting between someone who had very quickly become a good friend of Pepper's (really her only friend who wasn't involved in 'certain things' at home) and her significant other. It felt almost as if she were bringing her boyfriend home to meet her brother. Or something equally as strange considering said boyfriend was Tony Stark.

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Tony leans back as his mind connects the dots in rapid succession, putting together far more complex of calculations than a mere one-and-one making two. "Tooth and molar, huh. I guess that makes you buddy-buddy with the Tooth Fairy. You have a line on Santa too?"

Half of this is verbalised conjecture as he waves a hand dismissively at the other apparent problem. The conclusions are apparent to him, though he has yet to properly explain it. "Belief's the key. I bet belief in spirits and the Great Pumpkin is the turtle equivalent of belief in the great Jack Frost. Believe in one and, voila, you believe in your nose being nipped at."

"But that doesn't help us in the grand scheme of things unless Jack does something to ...." Pepper's eyes go hard for a moment before she turns directly to Tony, almost glaring. "No." It's a flat and solid no. The no Tony was given when he had asked for Natalie as his personal assistant. Only this time it was a no that was going to stick.

"Buddy-buddy?" Now this is an interesting reaction, as Jack's expression distinctly takes another route. "Well, yes, we're friends now. And, uh, coworkers. Sort of; we're both Guardians. I mean, she has been for a long time and now I'm one too, but-- and it's not really work, so coworkers might not actually apply."

He cleared his throat, focusing on the rest of Tony's extrapolation before he got too much off topic. "And yes, with North as well."

Jack looked at Pepper with a shake of his head and a faintly wry smile. "Don't worry, I can't do anything like that. There are.. rules. Believe me, if I could have just written 'hi I'm Jack Frost' on a wall a few hundred years ago, things would have been a lot different. And if I've still got the Wind here with me, it's not so much of a stretch that the Man in the Moon is still watching... I don't want to undo everything that's happened."

The lightening in Tony's expression meets a solid wall in the reply Pepper fires before he can even suggest what comes to mind. He looks at her, briefly agape and with an air of absolute innocence. "But, Pepper, it's a great idea. Why the immediate 'no' to it? Negativity ages, you know." He looks at Jack and nods his head towards her. "Help me out here, Frosty.

All the while, he's cataloguing these mentions in his head; a tooth fairy, okay. North probably means the big S.C. up at the pole. All he needs is the Easter Bunny for a matched set, but--

"Man in the Moon too? You're serious?" There's a stumbling of belief there, because it's one thing to believe in Santa and Asgard, but another thing entirely to believe there's a man in the moon that just tolerates people stomping about his face. Tony looks to Pepper. "He's serious?"

Her eyes narrow even more. Careful Tony or you'll only have twelve percent of the bed tonight. She carefully crosses her arms to accentuate her negativity in this situation.

She continued to listen as Tony switched topics, knowing that he hadn't given up on his idea. Tony never gave up on an idea. He'd chew it and gnaw on it till it was nothing but marrow, but he wouldn't give up on it. "He looks serious to me. Jack?" She turned her attention to Jack, her expression softening, but still saying. 'See, he's impossible.'

"I can answer for myself," Jack says dryly, as it was the second or third time Tony had asked him a question only to turn around and prompt Pepper for the same answer. "Yes, I'm serious."

Although he didn't want to get into any particular discussion about the Moon. So instead he asked, "So that's well and great, but how is this supposed to get me a job?"

The antic is akin to fact-checking and shock value, for Tony Stark is a diva in his own strange right. Protests against it are often dismissed without so much as a gesture, much as he does now -- in part because there are bigger fish to freeze.

"A job's the easy part," Tony said with a wave of his hand, still contemplating the Moon, Tooth, and North issues in tandem with the visibility dilemma. "You work for Stark Industries, I pay you, boom! You have a job and everyone is happy."

A glance is shot at Pepper. "Beats Natalie, don't you think? He's not as pretty, but I don't think Fury's got Jack Frost on his payroll." A pause and a look to Jack. "Does he?"

Pepper knows right off the bat that Jack would make a horrible assistant to Tony. They'd never get anything done. Still, she wasn't against keeping Jack close, and having him as an employee of Stark Industries did just that. Still, Tony had opened a can of worms and she would rise to the bait. "And here I thought you and Natalie got along."

There's a subtle smirk. Once, not too long ago, Pepper had been extremely jealous of the attention that Tony had paid to Natalie, but now that was water under the bridge and something she was able to joke about. "Or is that only when you're dying and not telling me?" Yes Tony, she's still sore about that whole thing.

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Jack suddenly realized why this feeling was familiar: it was the same one he'd had in the Pole's workshop, when North had launched into the Guardian ceremony with all the pomp and circumstance it had entailed while Jack was still trying to get his bearings and figure out what was going on. He'd been essentially a prop; an accessory in something he was supposed to be part of and it had only exacerbated his issues with being there but not acknowledged.

And now Tony and Pepper could have been having this exact conversation whether he was standing there or not, and he slid back to the ground from his position on the crook of his staff to grip the wood in his hand. A path of jagged ice danced across the floor between he and Tony, up the front of the desk and froze everything on its surface. Everything from stray papers to Tony's Starkphone blueprints instantly became covered in a brittle layer of ice; the coffee mug cracked as its contents froze solid.

"Great," Jack said with a cold smile, though his blue eyes were hard. "Thanks for the offer, I'll think it over."

Tony Stark's 2:00 has arrived

totally all the coolness! get it? COOL? 8D

Sadly, Pepper KNOWS she's going to lose this battle .... again.

with a pun war like that, winning is a dubious honour :P

a dubious honour is the best honour

Many things in her life are dubious.

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Mommy and daddy shouldn't fight in front of the kid

yeah guys take some parenting classes already jeez