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]

I'll take that as confirmation.

[fe_male]

[ Quickly. ] No, that's not— that wasn't the point. I can make you express something. Aside from bland annoyance - I already know that one works.

[theagent]

Can you. [ Still so bland. You're not doing a good job yet, Tony. ]

[fe_male]

[ Well he's definitely expressing emotion: thinly veiled irritation. Why are you so difficult. ]

You're like trying to make a dent in a bowl of oatmeal - how do you even keep that much tone out of your voice.

[theagent]

I'll take that as a compliment.

[ All right, look, she'll let up a little. There's almost a smile on her face now. ] Practice.

[fe_male]

Did you just have like, a ludicrous number of siblings or was this a voluntary and active skill you chose to pursue?

[theagent]

I'm an only child. [ Meaning: the latter. ]

[fe_male]

I remain not-entirely convinced of about half that term. You seem a bit like a consistent 'thirty year old in a girl-suit'.

[theagent]

You're right, I'm hardly a child anymore. [ She is also a little over thirty, but he doesn't need to know that. ]

[fe_male]

Well, I meant like, 'always had been', but sure, we can go that way with it. It was vaguely worded so that's my fault.

[theagent]

I was hardly born with a suit on.

[fe_male]

Birthday counts.

[theagent]

[ She's just going to roll her eyes. ]

Mr Stark, you had better not imagine me in my birthday suit.

[fe_male]

[ Grin. ] Op. Well, too bad, now you're said it, the mental image is right there. Bare-bottomed and beautiful. You were apparently a cuddly baby.

[theagent]

[ Of course. Of course.

Witness this rather impressive feat of eyerolling, right here. ]

You would think that.

[fe_male]

And just did, in fact. And then told you about it. And then you rolled your eyes so hard I'm sort of curious how they didn't break or something.

[theagent]

It's a skill.

[fe_male]

Can you roll anything else?

[theagent]

That's classified.

[fe_male]

Tease.

[theagent]

Not at all, Mr Stark. [ Yes, she is. Sometimes. ]

[fe_male]

Is that 'No, I'm not a tease', or 'Don't mention it; I enjoy it so it's free of charge and no taxpayers are suffering'?

[theagent]

I'm not, and no taxpayers suffered.

[fe_male]

Taxpayers always suffer. And incidentally non-taxpayers tend to as well, but it takes longer and then it's all at once.

[theagent]

Not usually because of me.