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”Juniper was invited. Helped me find this place too. Sides not like I can keep her out.” Sam returned just as flat. This was his room. His office was attached to it. Meaning he had more claim on the man cave than anyone and he could say who could and couldn’t be here. The person who shouldn’t be here it the one that threw out his whiskey apparently.

”You threw it out?” Sam asked rhetorically. He smacked his head on a wall with a hidden compartment when he didn’t feel the bottles there. There was at least one he left here. Juniper didn’t even know about it. ”Come on.” Sam ran to the other side of the room near the hot tub and opened another compartment. Nothing. ”####” reluctantly he looked to the fridge and found nothing.

”****” he mumbled aloud so the man could here it. ”It makes dealing with you a bit easier and I got some time to kill.” Sam’s head tapped the fridge door when he found he was out of luck. He could just leave and go to the bar he owned or a liquor store. He couldn’t leave though his ice clone was probably mince meat at this point meaning he’d be targeted next. He had to stay here and hide. Without booze.

”Who are you anyway?” he asked as he turned towards the diaper dad. A beam of ice shooting from his hand to the diaper bag hoping that would seal the stink in. He then shot at the garbage can too just for the sake of killing a smell.

He just wanted to learn about her people, that was it. Maybe it would lead to this eventually, but by then he’d have an idea what to prepare for. He was never going to be prepaid for what just happened. It was… awesome, awesome and confusing. He had to get creative, a lot. Mainly due to her ability to create diamonds in places that should not have diamonds. Sam hoped things didn’t get too cold for her as he stared at the ceiling out of breath and cut up.

Ice covered a few areas on his body that were covered in scratches. Either from her or the gems she produced. He shifted and grunted as he pulled a diamond out from under him. He added ice there. Tossing the diamond off the bed he through one hand behind his head and started grinning it was nice to see the fruits of his labor.

After some time in silence he caught his finally caught his breath, ”That’s a good royal secret.” he laughed, ”I’m wondering how much that was worth.” he pulled a sapphire out of his back with his free hand and then raised his hand up for a high five.

”I get the position?”

Sam smirked when he walked into the panel room. He spotted three people he knew right off the bat. One was the homeless looking X-Man who kept drinking all of his beer the other was Shin, also known as Shard and the last one he knew was Xavier who kicked his but in basketball. Sam looked to Cora and motioned for her to take a seat his grin from ear to ear. He walked into the line to ask the hard hitting questions.

His arm still iced up he thought his Todoroki was still spot on despite having wandered the comic-con with Cora already. Sam grinned as he walked up to the mic and cleared his throat already looking at two of the X-men. While he might have missed some of the questions already he knew no one was going to ask anything like this not this was more to mess with the people he knew up there.

Clearing his throat and leaning into the mic Sam waved his frozen arm at the panel giving Xavier the thumbs up before looking to Shin and Saph. ”This one is for…” he put his ice covered hand over his eyes as if he was struggling to see the names. ”Shard and Saph. I mean Saphirus.” ‘good catch’ he smirked as he licked his lips then leaned into the mic again.

”I heard Cold Steel recently changed his name to ‘Rime’ to rebrand. Obviously he is still the coolest member on the team. Is it hard to compare yourself to other members on the team who did things like take on a volcano?” he spotted Cora and gave her the thumbs up. ”Follow up, do you guys ever get intimidated by his chiseled physique? The man is cut like diamonds.”

Sam smirked ”To avoid traffic?” he said as if it was the most likely answer. True he had never been in a street race. All the other races he were in were some sort of chase. His powers worked way better as obstacles or roadblocks. ”Don’t you win if you land across the finish line after a sick jump?” he asked having seen a few scenes from movies but not them in their entirety so he might have missed something.

Laughing with another mouthful of rice Sam washed it down and nodded his head, ”True, it seems I’m attracted to it.” he raised his eyebrows at her and grinned. ”I don’t try to battle them. They just make the mistake and think I’m an easy meal.” Sam set his drink down. ”Far from it.”

”Well if you just want the extra lessons, all you have to do is ask.” Sam grinned as he finished up his food. Just in time it seemed because Cora was now wrapping up with hers. Even better timing more people were showing up for food and if he didn’t have to be stuck in a crowd he didn’t want to be. ”Let’s slide.” he said as he cleaned up the table then locked arms with Cora.

”To the panels! This is gonna be fun!” he agreed.

He agreed he was confident. He had to be otherwise he would have been dead by now; it seemed to overflow into other aspects of his life. Sam thought he earned the confidence at this point. ”That is good to know.” he was glad costumes were checking the more important things.

”Never duchess.” he grinned giving the incorrect title again as she walked past. Her dress brushed past him and he just grinned. Once she was gone he quickly refilled his mug of coffee threw hers in the dishwasher and then made a b-line to Doc prof the first time since his de-aging.

After a good ten minutes of convincing Doc finally rolled his eyes and handed Sam the paperwork he gotten a few lectures before but Doc just didn’t understand. He had someone waiting. Making it to her room with a few minutes to spare he knocked on the door then entered shutting it behind him.

”Damn.” his jaw dropped a bit when he saw the princess in her changed dress. He was not expecting it. He walked in and removed his shirt and walked towards her. ”So, I’m here for the job opening?”

The icemancer wasn’t sure how to respond. He took a swig of his coffee about to say something but then stopped. She was the benefit, ”How do I know that?” he asked. ”I mean I’m sure it would be a good time but…” he smirked ”How do I know it will be worth my time to be one? Normally I’m the benefit.” he said smirking.

He thought about it more and wasn’t sure if he was a fan of the interview process felt too business to him. Kind of took the appeal out of it. Then again, ”I’m sure you have similar paperwork?” Sam asked. Knowing Doc was going to have a field day with this one.

”Twenty minutes.” he said raising his eyebrow refilling ”I’ll meet you back at your room? I’ll have the paperwork in hand.” he asked, now in too deep to chicken out now. Especially because he felt he was being challenged.

Sam raised an eyebrow at her, ”Who hates puns?” trying not to laugh. He was also glad Cora seemed to appreciate his sense of humor, ”Hold up corny?”

Laughing when she smacked his arm, ”Ow, doing what?” he made sure the to show off the food in his hands so she wouldn’t be tempted to take another swing. That was a dangerous game he was not above using food as a shield.

”Nice catch.” he said as he slid into the spot across from her. He took a sip of his soda and learned more about her dad who seemed to be a big part of her life. Again, Sam was envious. ”I’ll send him a resume.” he joked, ”Sounds like that would be an awesome job. I wonder if they need any cold specialists. It’s my area of ice-pertise.” he smirked before he picked up his fork and eyed his food not where to start.

He decided trying some of the greens first. ”Oh? I’m sure I can regal him with some of my deeds with the X-Men. However there aren’t any space missions yet, just beating natural disasters. he took on a volcano and recently added a mess of tidal waves, suck it Old Sam.

Taking a bite of his chicken next. Glad he picked the same thing as Cora he added, ”I could also tell him the time I beat you on the rock wall.” he grinned. Powers were included but her father didn’t need to know that. ”I look forward to it, guy has a kick-@@@ daughter. Bet he is awesome.” he said with another bite of food.