the season to be jolly

[keyed_up]

All supernatural excitement aside, it's almost Christmas!

Soph shows up on Tony's doorstep with a bag of gingerbread house ingredients and a big smile. "Hi Jarvis! Where's Tony?" she asks.

Comments

[toblameforit]

"Eighty-twenty."

[keyed_up]

"Flatterer."

[toblameforit]

"I call it like I see it."

[keyed_up]

"What are you made of, then, besides your share of great?"

[toblameforit]

"I'm made of Tony," he snorts. "I am, like, the least varying template in the multiverse."

[keyed_up]

"I only barely met the other one who visited here," muses Soph. "Is it bad? That you're a lot alike?"

[toblameforit]

"Nah. Well, it made picking the nicknames a headache."

[keyed_up]

"I wonder if there'll ever be another Soph. A - I don't wanna say a real Soph, but one who was, like, born."

[toblameforit]

"Maybe," he says. "Can you leave the world now? You could go to the next Bellparty and ask Glass if you're templatey."

[keyed_up]

"Yeah, I went into Milliways, nothing happened, I didn't bounce off like an unwelcome vampire or anything. I think I will do that. When Jane's back."

[toblameforit]

Tony nods.

"Roof!" he proclaims.

[keyed_up]

"With a hole in it for the chimney and everything, awesome."

[toblameforit]

"Yup."

He attaches the roof, chimney and all, onto the top of the house.

[keyed_up]

The brick of the chimney is represented by red jellybeans, carefully cut in half lengthwise to reduce their profile.

[toblameforit]

"Awesome," says Tony.

Celebratory hug!

[keyed_up]

Soph giggles and hugs him back, careful not to get the frosting on her hands onto him.

[toblameforit]

Hugs.

[keyed_up]

Soph peers at the completed chimney, critically, rummages through her supplies, and finally bites her hand for a puff of white cotton candy to tuck in the end by way of smoke.

[toblameforit]

"Best gingerbread house," Tony declares.

[keyed_up]

"Yes. None of the others are tiny Jarvises. All the best houses are Jarvises."

[poeticterms]

"Stop it, I'm blushing."

[toblameforit]

Tony giggles.

[keyed_up]

Soph also giggles.

[toblameforit]

"Okay, now who's gonna help us eat it?"

[keyed_up]

"I could probably get Bella to take, like, a wall, but basically nobody, we could just let it stand around being pretty till it gets stale and eat the spare bits?" She points at the window cutouts and remaining frosting.