If you want me why can't you get any closer ★

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One outspoken CPA on his team of accountants is making a big deal of the formula he'd floated casually today. He might be a genius, but he still makes mistakes, and the truth is that he gets nervous and agitated in these meetings all too easily. He had gotten flustered and run the math wrong and he knows she's right even before he's helplessly watching Happy dive on top of the woman. He wants to be aghast or some other appropriate emotion, but Hogan is always overzealous and Tony has always particularly appreciated that about him. His lips twitch as she reels back and sprays him with mace from her pocketbook. Only him, only Stark Industries. He needs his own reality show.

"...What's your name?" he asks, singling her out while the ruckus gets sorted. Happy is trying not to hyperventilate while a calm medic flushes his eyes out and this wily redhead has been sequestered off to one side to await whatever act he deems fitting he supposes. Everyone was expecting him to get mad, he thinks. To fire her on the spot. The truth is that both this woman and Happy were doing their jobs, both overzealously. Both in a way he appreciates immensely. He's a man who's passionate in his work and only wants those who live their lives just as loudly surrounding him.

Tony slots his way onto the seat next to her and waits for the answer. There are people holding their breaths, watching him and waiting for the gossip to sell it off to the nearest magazine. He calmly tells the rest of the security team to herd everyone back to their cubicles. He's seriously done with being their spectacle for today.