voicemail

[oldironsides]

You've reached the voicemail... Forgething... it... yeah... of Anthony Stark, Stark Industries. Leave a message if it beeps?




... how do you tell if it's recorded? Piece of alternate universe crap, you're lucky I don't rewire you into a double-ended vibra--





BEEEEEEEP

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[Voice]

[justice_is_blond]

I don't know what else I'd want. I've never kept much; you can't and stay on the run. I've got...

[There's a pause; he's looking around.]

I've got everything I need. And vambraces on top of that.

[All he wants is something he can't ask - for the Door to not take more of those he cares about.]

[Voice]

[oldironsides]

[There's a "woop!" from the other side, followed by a clap.]

You like 'em, then? They fit alright... don't need adjustments?

[Voice]

[justice_is_blond]

[His voice is amused and warm.]

They fit very well, and I'm not the only one that likes them. And that's a first.

[Voice]

[oldironsides]

Good to hear. I'm glad.

[He wants to think there's an unspoken message there, so yeah, going with that. Mission accomplished?]

Anyway... we'll do something for your birthday, and you're getting more than cake. Cake's a standard. I'll figure out something you don't know you want yet.

[Voice]

[justice_is_blond]

[There is. Mission accomplished indeed! Someone is grudgingly being won over, a teensy bit at a time.]

You don't have to. But... thank you. That you're even thinking about it.