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[cleanedslate]

[ not too much later in the day, on a less populated section of the beach, Tony and Bruce are on a mission.

the mission is science, of course. and their weapons, at the moment, are a large expanse of beach that is currently serving as a makeshift whiteboard.

scrawled across it are a series of equations, all of them deceptively brief (read: condensed), but also filled with cryptic symbols that won't be familiar to anyone who hasn't gotten deep into physics. a healthy heaping of biochemistry will also help you to parse their work, which at the moment seems to be very focused on energy conversion and heat especially.

come stare! or step all over their hard work! you jerk :(

feel free to tag either of them but expect some thread jacking! after all, they are both standing right there ♥ ]

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[sublimating]

[folding his arms and offering her a crooked smile] Sorry. You might have to watch where you step. We kind of -- claimed this section of the beach. In the name of science.

[fuck yeah science]

[maidenlysense]

[Petunia jerks up, managing NOT to blur any precious lines of science on the sand, still looking a little confused (because that's science??) and guilty for thinking that these two adults were drawing pictures in sand like little kids...]

I'm sorry, I don't know what any of this means, so I wanted to get a closer look... [tony what are blue light specials??]

tony why so mean

[cleanedslate]

[ all the science ]

Well, if you start right now, you could get a mail-order physics degree in about six years... [ he looks up at her, eyes running thoughtfully over her face, then amends ] Make that eight.

[sublimating]

It's-- [spoken a little quickly, to sort of talk over that last part, thanks Tony] It's a little complicated. Biochemistry and the modification of cellular processes. I wouldn't expect anyone without a graduate degree in science to even begin to know what this is. [a sheepish smile. did that work?]