Scared To Be Lonely

Chapter 2: The Best Dork

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When Nick eventually got home, she had gone done what she basically did each time she got home and dropped her bag on the coach, along with her blazer, before pulling her hair out of the ponytail since she didn't take it out after dodgeball. Then she headed down to the basement while pushing her knee high socks down to her floral boots, but when she got to the door and looked at the password thing, the girl groaned and knocked on the glass. "You know what, I still don't think it's fair that you changed it again. I mean, you told me what it was a year ago."

"I told you that because I thought I was a goner." Tony said after letting her inside, and as she followed him over to where he was setting something up, she then crossed her arms over her chest. "Which I get that you changed it. But then you changed it again, when I finally found it out."

"That's because you cheated and got it out of JARVIS." Tony pointed out, as Nick rolled up the sleeves of her white button up shirt, while rolling her eyes. "Well, he's your AI. So, it's your fault that I was able to get it out of him with a simple question system."

"A simple question system?" Tony looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "Bambi, we both know you hacked him. But thank you, by the way, it just made me realize that everything needed security updates."

Nick gave him a look, before looking over to where the white Christmas tree was. "Okay, how come you always forget to actually plug this tree in?" She said as she moved over to it, but then Tony spoke up. "Because I don't need to." 

Then he clapped and it turned on, making her look at it then back at him with a nod. "Okay, that was kind of cool."

"I'm always cool." He said as he then injected his forearms with something, and she already knew what it was, since she had been listening to him work on his suits since she had basically gotten there. The girl then frowned while furrowing her eyebrows, "I thought those weren't ready yet."

"Well, they are now." Tony then groans in pain as he does another one, causing JARVIS to then speak up. "Sir, may I please request just a few hours to recalibrate-"

"No." Tony cut him off, doing another. "Forty-eight. Ah!" He injects another, before finally putting the thing down and shaking off his arm before wiping off the blood on it. "Micro-repeater implanting sequence complete."

"As you wish, sir. I've also prepared a safety briefing for you to entirely ignore."

"Which I will." Tony nods, and Nick nods as she speaks up while sitting on the desk. "Don't worry, JAR. I'll read it so that Tony doesn't end up getting himself killed."

"Bless you, Miss Mendes."

Nick smiled as she looked over to Tony, who then nods and stands up. "Alright. Let's do this." But that's when he saw the robot who was sweeping. "DumE. Hi, DumE." It stops sweeping and it's arm moves as though it's looking at him. "How did you get that cap on your head? You earned it."