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[toblameforit]

"Cal," Tony asks as they pull into his driveway, "anybody ever told you you drive like a maniac?"

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[toblameforit]

"Uh-huh."

[americas-son.livejournal.com]

"You'll see."

Cal changes position, stretched out with his head hanging back over the couch and his feet on the floor, pillow clasped over his stomach.

[poeticterms]

Isn't he glad they're leaving Obadiah out of this?

[americas-son.livejournal.com]

The change of position was deliberate. The other one was too comfortable, felt too much like he was hiding. He refuses to do that.

He knows exactly what he's opening himself up to here, but better that than to let himself start thinking like prey again.

"It's a really good one," he continues.

[toblameforit]

"Is it to do nothing and wait for me to go crazy trying to figure out what your plan is?"

[americas-son.livejournal.com]

"No," Cal says, with great scorn.

That kind of shit is for amateurs.

[toblameforit]

"'Cause that's what Sherry would do. But from Sherry it'd actually work."

[americas-son.livejournal.com]

Cal pauses to think about this for a second.

"Yeah, I definitely wouldn't want to be trying to figure out some plan he had against me," he says reflectively.

[toblameforit]

"I know, right?"

He grins.

[americas-son.livejournal.com]

"That'd be pretty scary."

Pause.

"I'm not that scary."

[toblameforit]

"I know you're not."

[americas-son.livejournal.com]

"Anyway," Cal says briskly, getting back on topic, "I have my own strategy."

He doesn't need to borrow from Sherlock, even unknowingly.

(And of the people in this room, Tony isn't the one who should find him unnerving.)

[toblameforit]

"Damn, and here I thought I'd distracted you from distracting me."

[americas-son.livejournal.com]

"Not a chance," Cal assures him.

He shifts a little on the couch - his current position is making his back ache - but doesn't move just yet.

[toblameforit]

"So what's the plan?"

[americas-son.livejournal.com]

"Wouldn't you like to know."

Cal fiddles with the edges of the pillow.

[toblameforit]

"Yeah, no shit, Sherry."

[americas-son.livejournal.com]

Cal laughs.

"You know, I never really thought much about that saying before," he muses.

[toblameforit]

"What saying? The one I just made up?"

[americas-son.livejournal.com]

"Yes," Cal says dryly. "The one you just made up."

He allows himself to shift now, tucking one leg up onto the couch and turning himself to face Tony.

[toblameforit]

He snickers, but it doesn't seem to affect his Tetris game.

[americas-son.livejournal.com]

Cal considers, then throws the pillow at his head.

There are more where that came from.

[toblameforit]

Tony ducks.

[poeticterms]

"I thought I told you to leave me out of this," Obadiah says amicably, catching the pillow as it ricochets off the back of Tony's armchair.

[americas-son.livejournal.com]

Cal glances at him.

"Not my fault he ducked."