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WHAT in person
WHERE wherever
WHEN 74

[Did you get a BINGO under the mistletoe a few days ago?

Good job!

You will find your prize... somewhere, decorated with a bright bow and your name on it. A favorite bottle of wine? A cheese plate? A snow mobile? Who knows, but it's yours now.

If you did not get bingo I guess you could just steal someone else's gift. It's not like there is any present police. There are an awful lot of bottles of wine about anyway.]

Comments

[starspangledman]

Not that long at all. I'm still getting used to it.

[thatsoundsfakebutokay]

Well, I bet you've already heard this before, but... you have time.

[starspangledman]

Yeah, only about a million times.

[thatsoundsfakebutokay]

[ducks her head, grinning]

Yeah. Sorry to be the chorus.

[starspangledman]

Seems like you can't help it if it's true.

[thatsoundsfakebutokay]

I've been here long enough that you'd think I'd have come up with some new material, though.

[starspangledman]

Well, I've got a friend who's been here going on fifty years but he said the same thing.

[thatsoundsfakebutokay]

Tony or Loki?

[starspangledman]

Tony. I'm guessing you know each other?

[thatsoundsfakebutokay]

Yeah, we know each other.

[starspangledman]

It's not bad, is it?

[thatsoundsfakebutokay]

[huffs, an amused sound]

No. We've been working on a couple of projects together lately, in fact.

[starspangledman]

What kind of projects?

[thatsoundsfakebutokay]

There are a few kids here with long-standing medical issues—one with extensive paralysis that he's able to alleviate by neurally connecting to, as luck would have it, a humanoid robot suit. It's a physical connection, though. Tony thinks he can make it wireless.

The other one's confidential.

[starspangledman]

Well the first one sounds like it's right up his alley.

[thatsoundsfakebutokay]

Aside from the surgical component, yes.

[starspangledman]

You know any surgeons here?

[thatsoundsfakebutokay]

Yeah, actually. And luckily for us, her community service stint is up, because otherwise it was going to be up to me and Bruce.

[starspangledman]

You'll have to introduce me sometime. I've got another friend who might want some help with the same sort of thing.

[thatsoundsfakebutokay]

...

Bucky?

[starspangledman]

Yeah. [a pause] I'm guessing you're the cute redhead she told me about.

[thatsoundsfakebutokay]

[raises her eyebrows a little at that, but it's hard to read whether it's in surprise or with slight irony or what]

Oh, did I make an impression? I guess I did half offer her a job.

[starspangledman]

Well, she's got a thing for redheads. But yeah, she mentioned the job.

[thatsoundsfakebutokay]

...are you... trying to do some kind of wingman thing, right now...?

[starspangledman]

...maybe?

It's not working, is it.