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[idmakeitaweek]

[Tony Stark is sitting in front of a computer in City Solutions. He's wearing a short sleeved pull over shirt that clearly shows the arc reactor in his chest. He's got glasses on and his fingers are flying across a keyboard. He's clearly concentrating on what he is doing which appears to be filling a screen up with lines of code. After a moment he

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[ageoftheg33k]

Tidy code.

[Hardison points at his screen, trying to play it cool.]

Uh you uh-- might wanna fix that delimiter. Maybe. Unless I'm supposed to be able to get in through a back door. I mean in your defense, I am very good at this.

[idmakeitaweek]

Good catch.

[He quickly fixes the mistake then looks back at Hardison on the screen]

He's far from finished. Just up and running. By the time I finish with him, you come in his back door he'll escort you out the front door.

⌈That's assuming you have a front door by then, Sir ⌋

Hush or I'll put you on mute.

⌈As you wish, Sir⌋

[ageoftheg33k]

I know.

[Have we mentioned the daddy issues yet? Here they are.]

Hey, I'll be happy to help you make sure no one is touching anything you don't want touched. Even if Jarvis whoops my ass for it.

[idmakeitaweek]

That would depend on how good you are. So was it a lucky catch or do you really know what you're talking about?

[ageoftheg33k]

[Give him a second...]

You're running low, downloading him into your tablet kind of slow, but if we just [fingers clack away on the keyboard] you should notice an increase in the download speed. Latency's not too bad on these things with a little tweaking.

I can send you my personal guide on filters, minus a few parts I'm partial to. Easy to learn, you'll probably tweak them in no time, but I can jumpstart you.

[idmakeitaweek]

[Tony watches what Hardison is doing, checks out the numbers and runs them through Jarvis. When he gets back confirmation that Hardison has done exactly what he says he's done he grins]

Very nice. I don't think I ever got your name.

And yeah. I'd appreciate the guide. No reason to start from scratch if I don't have to.

1/2

[ageoftheg33k]

[Hardison grins back, happy that Tony's recognized his talent.]

Thanks. Alec Hardison; call me Hardison. Sending it right now, it's stripped if you want to develop it better for Jarvis too, by the way.

[ageoftheg33k]

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[idmakeitaweek]

[He's already working on the file as he gets it. That serious boy genius look comes over his face as he concentrates]

Hardison. Thanks.

⌈Thank You Mr. Hardison⌋

[ageoftheg33k]

Hey, you're both welcome. Gotta respect a fellow hacker, right? If anything else ever comes up, drop me a line.

[idmakeitaweek]

I will definitely do that. I appreciate people who are good at their jobs.

never apologize, never ever

[ageoftheg33k]

It ain't ego if it's true, you know.

[ageoftheg33k]

You don't have to believe it for it to be true.