Room 401, Saturday Evening

[not_trivial]

It was officially way too loud everywhere. In town, in the common rooms, just everywhere. In the world. Ever.

All Alec wanted to do was quietly read his book on demon poison, but no. He had to be subjected to an endless loop of child shrieking. And, considering he'd only ever gotten along with one or two children even when he was a child, it was

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[ultron_junior]

"How come you're in my room?" Victor asked, when he came back from the common room.

He'd woken up here. Therefore, it was his entirely.

[not_trivial]

Oh god no. SOMEONE SAVE HIM. Alec couldn't even handle his own baby brother, so there was no way this was going to work out well.

"I live here," Alec said patiently -- or as close to patiently as was possible at the moment. "We share, actually. That's your side."

He pointed.

[ultron_junior]

"But you're a teenager," Victor pointed out, and went to sit on the bed he knew was his anyhow. It had better posters over it. "Teenagers and kids don't have to share. Unless they're brothers and I don't have one of those."

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"Well, I do," Alec replied. Though that was not at all relevant to this discussion. "But that's just how it works here. We share. Apparently."

Sigh.

[ultron_junior]

"Here is weird," Victor decided, with no real heat. He bounced onto his bed, took another look at Alec. "Are you listening to music? Can I hear it too?"

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"I'm actually not," Alec sighed, yanking out the headphones and giving them a good glare. "I can't figure out how to work it."

Well that was an embarrassing thing to admit to a seven-year-old. Especially one who was a robot. Ahem.

[ultron_junior]

"Is the battery dead?" Victor asked, seriously. "'Cause that's usually the problem. You need to charge the battery for, like, foreeeeeevvvvvver."

This particular seven-year-old did not know he was a robot, but he liked playing tech support long before he had powers.

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"...I don't know," Alec said slowly, then reached around to grab something from a nearby outlet. "Does it work with this charger?"

No, Alec. A brand new iPod did not work with that dinosaur of a phone charger. Really now.

[ultron_junior]

"Nuh-uh, you need a white ... thingie, with a long part to stick in the iPod," Victor said knowledgeably, thinking that for a big person, Alec wasn't very smart.

He poked into a milk carton of random electronic parts his older self kept at the foot of his bed, came up with an Apple charger that was rather the worse for wear. "Like this! Try it."

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Alec plugged it in, and... wow. That actually did seem to do the trick. It was lighting up and showing him an apple on the screen, anyway.

"Thanks," he said, mildly surprised that that had worked. "I haven't used one of these before. I thought it'd be easier than this."

[ultron_junior]

"De nada. And how come?" Victor asked bluntly. "Are you poor?"

His mother would have told him that was a rude question, but she wasn't there.

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"No," Alec said, making... kind of a face at that. Not much of one. But it was definitely a face. "I just don't have a lot to do with technology. Anyway, are you even supposed to have these now? You're a little kid."

Oh, Alec. That was the wrong way to refer to a seven-year-old. Really now.

[ultron_junior]

"Seven isn't little," Victor said, returning the face. "And ... the cord was here, so I'm allowed. Obviously."

His mother, again, might have disagreed.

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"Right." Okay then. Alec wasn't sure about that, but Victor wasn't choking or getting electrocuted, so he figured it was fine.

"Well," Alec said, "do you know what to do now? I guess it's... on."

He held out the iPod. Sure enough, it was on, but there was no music on it, seeing as how he hadn't set it up yet. Plus it seemed to want him to calibrate some settings, which was just... way out of his league.

[ultron_junior]

Victor took the iPod, mashed the buttons for a moment before glancing back over. "Did you put any music on it?" he asked. "It can't find any files."

Alec, wee Victor thinks you are a dumbass.

[not_trivial]

"...It doesn't come with that?" LOOK, IT WASN'T HIS FAULT, OKAY. SHADOWHUNTERS DIDN'T USE THESE. "Well, shouldn't it? I don't know what people listen to."