[Tony really likes Jack too, but he wouldn't blame him if he has a problem with what he used to do--he still hasn't completely forgiven himself. Nor does he feel like he deserves it--all he could do was make up for the lives he helped destroy.]
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
Liberal media has been saying that for years. I had about a million ways to spin the story. Divert it for the sake of a usable sound byte.
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
But I really believed I was keeping the peace through selling weapons.
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
I had to have my chest blown open to see the truth. But I got there, eventually. And I stopped as soon as I did. I haven't sold a weapon since. I pooled my resources into saving lives. Really saving them.
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
Really, Benji, all of this is stuff that we were going to do, anyway. No pseudo-therapy session required.
I'd met a man who traveled between countries, taking money to incite war, because he believed, out of that chaos, would come something newer, more beautiful.
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
He told me because Cain killed Abel, and humanity was born from the remaining brother, we all have that wickedness inside us.
Beneath the veneer of civility, we're all children of Cain.
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
You aren't him.
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
You kept shooting down the other ideas. I have very few wants.
[He doesn't know what to make of Jack insisting that he wasn't a murderer. Except to make a joke about it, as usual.]
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
That guy was wrong.
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
I mean first of all, all of Cain's descendants died in the flood. Modern mankind descended from Noah and his family. Or Seth. Whichever version of the Bible you're reading from and taking way too literally.
[ he's blinking at the message for a second. fuck, that's right, isn't it? give him a second, he has to laugh.... sort of a lot in a little bit of a hysterical way, because he'd been so infuriated by that man. and he was spewing utter bullshit, wasn't he? ]
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
My God, I didn't even realize that at the time. What a psychotic. Not that that hadn't been readily apparent already.
Remember that whole thing we just talked about, a few seconds ago? I can't just give you one of my suits. Those stay with me at all times.
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
That's not just me not trusting you. I don't want to put your life in danger.
[If someone were to go after Jack to steal the Iron Man design. Or if they wanted to target Tony personally. He likes Jack, and he knows Iron Man created as many problems as he solved.]
I'll make a deal with you, Benji: when the time comes that I'll need to lie on a couch and dump my demons on you, I'll come up with something worthy of payment.
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FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
Liberal media has been saying that for years. I had about a million ways to spin the story. Divert it for the sake of a usable sound byte.
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
But I really believed I was keeping the peace through selling weapons.
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
I had to have my chest blown open to see the truth. But I got there, eventually. And I stopped as soon as I did. I haven't sold a weapon since. I pooled my resources into saving lives. Really saving them.
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
Really, Benji, all of this is stuff that we were going to do, anyway. No pseudo-therapy session required.
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Simply making weapons isn't war profiteering. It isn't the most innocent of businesses, but it isn't murder either.
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
Fine. Make me a suit.
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You and I might have to disagree on that one. But whatever. Whoever controls the past controls the future and all that.
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
Not wasting any time with the tech requests, are you?
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I'd met a man who traveled between countries, taking money to incite war, because he believed, out of that chaos, would come something newer, more beautiful.
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
He told me because Cain killed Abel, and humanity was born from the remaining brother, we all have that wickedness inside us.
Beneath the veneer of civility, we're all children of Cain.
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
You aren't him.
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
You kept shooting down the other ideas. I have very few wants.
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FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
That guy was wrong.
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
I mean first of all, all of Cain's descendants died in the flood. Modern mankind descended from Noah and his family. Or Seth. Whichever version of the Bible you're reading from and taking way too literally.
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
Why do you want one?
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FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
My God, I didn't even realize that at the time. What a psychotic. Not that that hadn't been readily apparent already.
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
I don't know, it seems handy?
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Remember that whole thing we just talked about, a few seconds ago? I can't just give you one of my suits. Those stay with me at all times.
FROM: stark.anthony@cdc.org
That's not just me not trusting you. I don't want to put your life in danger.
[If someone were to go after Jack to steal the Iron Man design. Or if they wanted to target Tony personally. He likes Jack, and he knows Iron Man created as many problems as he solved.]
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I don't really have much else to ask for you aren't already planning on giving me.
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
I suppose credits would work, but that's mostly boring.
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I'll make a deal with you, Benji: when the time comes that I'll need to lie on a couch and dump my demons on you, I'll come up with something worthy of payment.
How's that sound?
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Fantastic. It's a deal.