meme #004 | slow-dancing ( think outside the boxstep )

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slow dancing ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ a meme → COMMENT WITH YOUR CHARACTER'S NAME, FANDOM, AND PREFERENCE. → PICK A CHARACTER YOU WANT TO TAG AND GO FOR IT. → PLAY NICE; NO WANK, FLAMES, OR GENERAL HUMBUGGERY. ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ the deal FORMAL OR INFORMAL, WITH MUSIC OR WITHOUT, YOU COULD BE AT A GLAMOUROUS GALA WHILE A SINGER CROONS SOFTLY OR IN THE SILENCE OF YOUR OWN LIVING ROOM. WHEREVER YOU ARE, YOU HAVE THE URGE TO DANCE. DID YOU ASK YOUR PARTNER OR DID THEY ASK YOU? HAVE YOU GOT TWO LEFT FEET OR IS THE VIENNESE WALTZ YOUR JAM? IT COULD BE AWKWARD, IT COULD BE ROMANTIC. EITHER WAY IT'S CUTE AS HELL.

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[theagent]

About you, Mr Stark?

[ All those lessons paid off, she's following his lead easily. The way her lips curl says she knows exactly what reaction her next words will evoke: ]

You're not that interesting.

[fe_male]

[ ....... ]

Are you serious? You can't be serious. Did you just intimate something about me being boring.

[theagent]

I'm serious. [ Still smiling. This is the first thing this evening that she's enjoying. ]

[fe_male]

[ He doesn't even care that she's smiling and clearly amused because she's still saying it and who on earth could even jokingly assume that. ]

How can you say something like that? I'm eccentric, a genius. With social skills, I'd add. I'm not boring. That's... Ridiculous.

[theagent]

[ Oh, she's amused. No one ever said anything about joking. ]

Still not that interesting.

[fe_male]

[ :|

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What does it take for you to find something interesting then? Because I'm fascinating, personally, even I don't fully understand myself, and if that's not cutting it, I'd like to know about my competition.

[theagent]

I divide my time between soldiers, scientists and politicians, Mr Stark. There's little I haven't seen in one form or another.

[ And you'll note she didn't actually call you boring, just not that interesting. There's a fine line there. ]

[fe_male]

[ In his mind that's honestly just the same thing. ]

That... sounds really depressing, actually.

[theagent]

[ Too bad. ]

I make do.

[fe_male]

You make do with depressing? You do realise that's just even more depressing. Have you ever had a vacation?

[theagent]

Stark. [ Eyeroll. ] Of course I've had a vacation. [ Sometime before she joined SHIELD. The military has R&R. ]

[fe_male]

Okay, rephrase. Recently had. Have you had one in the last... eight months.

[theagent]

No. [ So what. ]

[fe_male]

That's crazy. How are you not crazy? I would have thought SHIELD - in, clearly, all their infinite wisdom and power - would not want their top agents to go around being crazy. Maybe I can put in a recommendation.

[theagent]

It's fine. I have days off. [ It's really not as big a deal as you make it out to be, Stark :| ]

[fe_male]

[ But he's so good at it. ] There's a world's worth of difference psychologically between a 'day off' and a 'vacation'.

[theagent]

And yet, I'm perfectly sane.

[fe_male]

Yeah-huh. Or a very good faker.

[theagent]

[ It doesn't make a difference so long as she's doing her job, really. ] I'd have to be really good to pass muster.

[fe_male]

[ Who's muster. ] Hence the 'very', so... Are you saying you don't want a vacation?

[theagent]

[ SHIELD psychologists, obviously. ] I'm too busy for a vacation.

[fe_male]

That's the point of a vacation. I thought I was the one who didn't understand how work worked.

[theagent]

You probably don't.

[fe_male]

Well apparently neither do you, so you can come play on my team. Speaking of that, how's that guy? Still here?

[theagent]

I have a pretty solid work ethic. [ Sneaking a look over his shoulder. ] I think he's actually waiting for me.