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or will have, I suppose. In this case.

(This was not the message he was hoping for when he saw Jarvis's name on his screen. He was hoping it was about lunch.)

It's been briefly mentioned by a few people, yes.

[it was not the message he'd hope to send either, but here they are.]

You didn't think to mention it?

(Kiss it better.)

I was trying not to think about it. Apparently this place is a "multiverse" where people get pulled from different worlds? I was.

He.

Apparently I? Or. Whatever version of myself that has him, names him Tony. Anthony, I'm assuming.

A perfectly reasonable name.

Are you alright?

How could I have a son? I'd make a terrible father.

I find that people often have a great capacity for change.

What if I don't?

I also find that time is wasted wondering about "what ifs".

I usually cut the conversation short, the two I've had. I don't know if I want to know more.

I'll be quick to admit that I don't know how these other worlds and times work, but it does sound like tempting fate to find out too much about a time ahead of us. At least as we are involved.

There've been quite a few who seem to know who I am. They've expected me to know this or that, yet when they talk, I feel like an idiot. This whole place does.

I think we both know that you are not an idiot. You're just at a disadvantage for the time being. Try not to focus on what you don't know.

No, I know I'm not, but it doesn't help feeling like one. My greatest skills from home aren't applicable here. Ideas I've had, I've looked some of them up and some of them have been realised, but then they've been taken miles beyond anything I could think up. I'd say I'd never blown up anything before, but we both know that would be a lie. But I wasn't even trying to do any sort of experiment. I should have known to not put metal in it. I just wasn't thinking. And then the alarm went off and I panicked.

At least you have skills that can be used across time. I have nothing.

Howard. You're hardly useless. Do you think such things would have been developed in the time they were if people like you had not tried your own experiments and inventions to begin with. Great strides do not happen all at once. They happen because generation after generation have worked towards them.

As for the microwave explosion, everybody makes mistakes, even Howard Stark. Perhaps your thoughts were somewhat preoccupied?

Here I am. Any idea I could possibly think up has probably already been thought up, or made better, or made useless because something bigger or better has already been made. This place is peaceful, so it's not like my other area of expertise is much use here, either. I'm not saying I don't do good at home. I know I do. But what can I do here? People talk, or I read things, and it's all like a foreign language.

I work hard not to. No? On what? I was just a bit tired.

I was thinking of your new friendship with Mister Xavier.

But that aside, you're still a businessman, and a charismatic one at that. I'm certain there is something you could do. And there is still the matter of the agreement you made in coming here. Could you not focus on that?

What about it?

Harry, a kid I met, he mentioned starting a club. Like, a nightclub. The Stork Club, if I have a say, but I'm not sure where that's going yet. Maybe business hasn't changed as much, but I feel like those who know who I am expect more.

They're not paying me cash to hug people, Jarvis.

Edwin?

It seemed to me that there was a possibility that the two of you are on...intimate terms.

A club certainly sounds like something you might do. And I hardly see how other's expectations come into play. Do any of those people actually know you? Or just the you that you project to others?

Why would you think that?

I could at least model it after what I know. There are very few who know me the way you and Peg do, so it's easy to guess. I still don't want to disappoint.

I may have seen some things when I stepped out to the kitchen...

If you don't want to, then you won't. I'm quite certain of that. Once you put your mind to something there is very little that stops you.

When did you step out to the kitchen?

I feel like I already have. I can't even work a microwave and have a panic attack from a fire alarm.

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