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[The message starts off with nothing but darkness for a few long seconds. It's quiet and still until, finally, a groan comes through. Another one follows behind it and the video shifts to show it apparently just pressed into the dirt.]

Fuck...

[The video turns again, whipping around as the person holding the comm seems to drop it a few times before finally righting it, camera facing the wrong way.]

How does...fucking... Shit...

[It falls again but then is lifted back up, turned around, and at long last the owner is shown: Richie Tozier squints at the device almost like he's in pain. Which...yeah. Sort of.]

Uh... Hey everyone... [He scratches his head.] You ever get the feeling like you missed something? Or a few somethings?

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_{[Looks like a standard hotel room to York, from what he's seen in the world wide database back home. The Stark family didn't really do hotels. He notes the cleaning products and sits in the chair. While the teen acts like a human, there's a stiffness to his posture when he sits. A reminder that he's not a human.]}

I see the cleaning staff left you some 'welcome home, we were out of balloons' gift.

_{[He thinks on what Richie says though.]}

Huh. I wonder if it's like when all of us were locked down for Calibrations, but not really like it. Like the Agrii hid you away for some fucking reason.

I was just too cool to be around you guys for that long. If I stuck around for all that time uninterrupted, it would have caused a huge rift in the fabric of time. The Agrii had to save you.

[He shrugs. Why he was gone and where he was is a mystery he'd actually like solved. Not that he ever expects it will be. ]

I just hope it was a one-time thing, ya know? I don't like losing months of time without warning. Wasn't enough to abduct me, now they want to fuck around with me too.

They had to save us from your terrible comedy I bet. I’m allowed in the library again. Don’t like going in there and it’s as barren as your sense of humor.

_{[His face takes on a look of seriousness, his body still in that stiff android position.]}

I hope so too. You missed the great full feast or whatever they want to call it, and we all got presents. Somehow the Agrii managed to get ahold of my blueprints. Both this body, and my original one.

[ Well that is pretty interesting to hear. ]

Your original body? Was that an even scrawnier one? [ He grins at York, teasing. ] If you have the blueprints, are you gonna make that other body? Have it like...I don't know. Another outfit or something to swap into whenever you want a change?

No, it was about the same height as you. An adult form, not this shitty teenager one. My original body was lost in my world, and my father figure never bothered to remake it. So I left.

_{[He knows Richie is teasing, but it is a sore subject, so he doesn't return the grin.]}

I don't know how to make it really. I might be able to ask someone to help start making it, but it'll take awhile, unless we can coax the Agrii to send us parts and shit.

[ Richie blinks a little, surprised even though he shouldn't be by the thought of York as an adult. He's been in this one for the whole time he's known him so it's been easy to just put him into the category of 'kid'. The idea that he isn't really one at all is strange to reconcile.]

Do you want to make it? I mean. I only have one form so I don't really know what it is like to have options. But is it something you'd like?

_{[That's the nice thing about androids, is that the software could be uploaded to different models. Or, in the case of Stark Technology androids, they could be. Granted, there were only the three, but it was still done.]}

Of course it fucking would be. Would you like to be shoved into hardware that's so much smaller than you're accustomed to? But we don't have anything in this city that'll work unless we take this shell apart and fuck that. That is not an option, Richie.

[ Richie frowns, feeling for York and feeling pretty helpless. ] If we can figure something out, you know I'll help you, right? And if my replicator credits help, they're yours, dude. I don't use them for anything good anyways. I can go a few months without potato chips and candy bars.

Honestly? Don't know if they will or not. Got a couple of people trying to replicate some pieces of my hardware but I'm complex. It'd be like trying to make a human but everyone knows Frankenstein is a novel saying 'don't do that'.

_{[He holds his arm out for Richie to look at. The skin melts back, leaving a pristine white shell exposed before panels hiss and whirl open to show the complex series of tubes and wires hidden within.]}

Androids are probably the closest that humans will get to making them from scratch without sex.

Not nearly as fun that way.

[ He waggles his eyebrows before laughing. But it's just to cover up his unease after seeing the skin falling away and revealing that shell. Seeing that really does hammer in how difficult it is gonna be for York to make his other body. It sucks for him to be trapped like that. ]

You asked Tony, right? I mean, you must have. I just don't know anyone else who'd be better at lending a hand.

_{[The mere mention of Tony has the arm closing back up and the skin reappearing again.]}

Yeah, well... it's weird. So he's Tony Stark, but my creator back in my world is Tony Stark. But they're not the same person, but he looks too similar. And after what my creator, my dad did... It's tough. He's fixed a couple of pieces though.

_{[He rubs his arm with frown, the LED glowing into yellow for a few seconds before cooling back into teal.]}

Since you're back in town, guess I'll have to clean up the warehouse so it's decent if you swing by for a visit.

[ Richie looks at the yellow concerned for a second before it evens out. He figures York would say something if he needed to be worried but still peers at it on and off. ]

I could be the gopher on that, you know. Jon sucks, but Tony's cool for me. If you, ya know. Just wanted me as a go-between.

[ At the mention of the warehouse, Richie frowns more. ]

You're still living there?

As it is now, I’m… okay with Tony. Reworking my deviated programming to not be terrified of what he could do to me.

_{[York notes the frown that Richie is gracing him with.]}

Uh, yeah? I don’t need human comforts so I’m still out there. No one goes there.

_{[Quiet, but dangerous in a city that could throw literally anything at you. One good earthquake and the warehouse could come down on him.]}

It’s not the prettiest but it keeps me dry.

[ Richie raises an eyebrow, clearly not convinced about this. ]

Dude, just camp out here.

[ His room isn't big but it's secure and relatively clean. ]

Eddie lived here before he vanished so I know it can accommodate two people. And it's not like I am gonna be hanging a sock on the doorknob anytime soon, so. Why not?

_{[York stares him down, almost as if trying to judge if Richie's joking or not.]}

Seriously?

_{[Then the judgmental cat expression melts into confusion.]}

What do you mean 'hang a sock on the doorknob'? Explain.

_{[Nevermind the Eddie guy - who was probably the person behind the cleaning supplies.]}

[ Richie stares back. It's a real mental issue to reconcile the fact that York looks like a child with the fact that he wasn't one. On one level it feels like corrupting the youth to tell him anything about the sock or whatever. But still, he's an adult, kind of. Right? God, this was confusing sometimes. ]

Yeah, it's fine for you to stay here. And the...sock thing. It's when...you know. Someone needs privacy? You put the sock on the door to make sure you're not walked in on...

_{[He's here to help melt your brain, Richie. And you want him as a roommate! He continues to give Richie the confused look.]}

Yeah, not following. Might need a better explanation.

_{[This is too good to pass up. And he's thankful for android programming to keep his face in check.]}

Privacy for what?

[ Richie squints, not sure if he's being teased or not here. It's impossible to tell, stupid android. ]

Jesus... Sex, York. Sex. With yourself or with that special someone in your life. Alright? Get it now?

_{[Finally York allows the facade to crumble and grins with a devilish glint in the bright eyes.]}

You should see how absolutely red you are, Richie. Perks of being an android - you can't tell when I'm pranking you!

[ Richie groans and covers his face with his hands as he tries to fight off the blush. ]

You're a dick. I take it back. You can sleep outside in the rain,

_{[The grin doesn't falter. Because of course it doesn't.]}

Fell right into my trap. Hey, you'd want me to short circuit in the rain? That's not very good roommate of you. And I know your weakness!

_{[He gets up and gives Richie's shoulder a playful shove with that shit-eating grin still on his face.]}

[ Richie shoves York right back and then ruffles his hair. ]

You're an asshole. God, you're gonna be insufferable as a roommate. And if there are any balloons in here, I am gonna get revenge. Don't think I won't. I have ideas, Yorkie.

_{[The ruffled hair sticks up every which way and York gives another soft shove.]}

Yeah, but now I'm your insufferable roommate. You invited me! Thankfully I don't have a lot of stuff. Just my blueprints and the thirium pouches in case of an emergency. Got a spot where that shit won't get ruined? Not next to your cleaning supplies.

[ Richie looks over at the collection of cleaning supplies and his smile fades for a second. He tries to paste it back on but it's thin. ]

Eh. Don't worry about those. I should have gotten rid of those awhile ago. I'll...find somewhere else to stow them.

Don't get rid of them. They'll probably be useful at some point given what the Agrii like to put us through. They can stay there really.

_{[He gives a shrug because they're not really that concerning. Instead York points at a corner on the desk that's empty.]}

How about that spot there? I gotta go get my shit, so I'll be out of your hair for an hour at least. What do roommates do anyways?

_{[He's never had a human roommate before. Just other androids and they didn't really require things like humans did.]}

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