Sherlock Holmes, after a fashion (
if_inconvenient) wrote2010-09-02 04:50 pm
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Right. Cal is due to arrive any minute now. Tony is downstairs in his workshop, playing with his cars. Sherlock puts away his violin and descends to the ground floor, pondering the choice of living rooms.
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Which, when he's out of the house, isn't hard at all. It's Peter who follows the minutiae of Cal's movements when he's being followed, and the fact that he never even mentioned to Mother that he caught Sherlock sneaking in speaks volumes all by itself. Cal is pretty confident that a visit to the Stark residence will go similarly unmentioned.
(He's not wrong. Peter's been out this way to check out the Stark property, and one look was enough to tell him that Cal is safer here than he would be anywhere else in Sunnydale.)
Which all boils down to Cal driving up the driveway, grabbing his backpack, and heading to the front entrance without any hesitation.
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"Oh, let him in, would you?"
"Certainly, sir."
Sherlock is just arriving at the bottom of the stairs, down the hall from the foyer. When Cal reaches the front door and it unlocks audibly, Sherlock is still ten feet away.
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"Hi."
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The references just pop into his head. He can't help it. That's a lie; he could. But letting them through is more fun.
(Jarvis is silent. He prefers to be unobtrusive.)
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"Right," he remembers, "I brought -"
He goes digging through his backpack, which is kind of a mess, but it doesn't take too long for him to surface with the Sherlock Holmes DVD. Along with a couple others.
He forgot the binder of Holmes titles from the Bar. Whoops. Maybe next time.
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He doesn't look it, but Sherlock is utterly and completely out of his depth. No vampire research, no sneaking into houses, nothing that can be remotely described as within his area of expertise. He's watching a movie. With a friend. How did this happen?
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He brings the Holmes DVD over to hand it to Sherlock, saying,
"I brought the one you had picked out (http://americas-son.livejournal.com/1290.html?thread=127754#t127754) before, and the sequel." Because he really, really doubts that Sherlock owns any normal movies. They're probably all like, documentaries and French movies and all that other smart people stuff.
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As it happens, the selection of DVDs already present on the shelf are devoid of documentaries and French. This is because they're all Tony's. Which isn't to say they're not for smart people, if by smart people you mean geeks; Tony has standards for his science fiction.
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"No problem," he says, "you really seemed to be looking forward to it." Yes, that is a joke. Cal is smirking as he says it. In a strictly friendly kind of way.
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"I can be very convincing." It's a skill.
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Sherlock probably thinks he's making his own decisions here. How charmingly naive of him!
Or something.
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"Dear me, you sound positively nefarious."
Which is a compliment.
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"It's practically in my DNA. I am a Chandler, after all." He pronounces the name with gleeful sarcasm, jumping on the chance to send up his family image.
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"Yeah. You know, I'm not supposed to tell anyone, even though everyone knows anyway, but Dad's running for President in the next election, so I'm gonna get a lot of practice in the next couple of years."
Getting votes for his father is pretty much why Cal was born. It certainly didn't have anything to do with anyone in the family wanting a child.
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For one thing, it introduced convenient doubts about the number of said offspring.
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Cal was always jealous of the kids whose parents left them at home for the stilted social affairs that consisted of everyone trying to impress everyone else (and, he realized when he was a little older, everyone knowing that everyone was trying to impress everyone else), but he himself was one of the ways in which his own parents aimed to impress. Such a lovely family, such a charming boy, just like his old man.
He wants Dad to be President, of course, and he knows he has to put in the work along with the rest of his family, just like every other would-be President's family has always had to do, but he wishes he could just skip ahead to the day after Election Day.
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Sherlock is certain that only disaster could have resulted, and knowing Tony, that disaster would have befallen everyone else.
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"God, that would have been awesome."
There is something that could almost be called longing in his tone.
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Also anything that might piss everyone else off. Double points for that. The people who attend those social affairs deserve to be fucked with, as far as Cal is concerned.
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"Don't think for a minute that I couldn't."
This is one of very few areas in which Cal is genuinely confident in himself. It shows.
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