Stark Industries [afternoon]

[makemyownway]

Cade finally remembered that he had a job and wandered into Stark to a huge stack of old, broken iPods.

Apparently people had gotten new ones over the holidays.

He got out his multitool and began repairing them--making sure to mock all of their taste in music as he got the machines to show him their contents.

[OOC: Home again! Help keep me awake

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[kirked]

Jim had come into town to get something to eat so stopping in to Sparky's wasn't out of his way at all. He'd just pop in for a visit because he was totally a nice guy.

"What's up, ugly?" Jim asked as he strolled in, grinning.

[kirked]

"Well, she won't sleep with you anymore," Jim said smugly. "She got a taste of me and can't go back now."

[makemyownway]

Cade burst out laughing. "Yeah, that's what's stopping her. Jerk."

Cade was bad at expressing positive emotions, okay?

[kirked]

"Why are you laughing, you ass?" Jim wondered. "It's the truth!"

[makemyownway]

Cade was not going to say that Natalie had also slept with Cade's great-uncle. Really. Because he was a jerk, but not a jerk anxious to get into the history of his karked-up family tree.

"I'm just laughing," he said. "I'm as giddy as a karking school girl for you."

[kirked]

"Did you just call yourself a girl?" Jim asked, smirking. "Why Cade, I never knew!"

[makemyownway]

"Lots of girls you know have goatees?" Cade checked.

[kirked]

"Some of them," Jim said. "And some of them wear the goatee better than you!"

[makemyownway]

Cade laughed harder. "With those kinds of women, Natalie is a major, major step up for you."

[kirked]

"She digs me," Jim said, shrugging. "And I can't blame her because I'm me. No comment on her being too good for me."

[makemyownway]

"Then I won't comment on it," Cade said. "How's Haiti?"

[kirked]

"She's in Brazil now," Jim told him. "And I don't know how Brazil is because I haven't actually be there yet. The guy she works for evidently won some big election so that's where they're based now."

[makemyownway]

"Oh, that's right," Cade said. "He's king of the world now. Lucky them."

[kirked]

"Is that what he is?" Jim rolled his eyes. "Well, at least Natalie knows what she's doing. Hopefully that means he won't cause a world war."

[makemyownway]

"Well, the official title is Hegemon," Cade said, "and he's actually gonna bring peace. Amazing, given what a total dick he is, huh?"

[kirked]

"Huh." Jim scratched his cheek. "So, she's pretty safe being there?"