"I think I'll skip the costumes," Jack says, giving him a lopsided smile.

He raises his eyebrows slightly at Tony's explanation - it doesn't sound well-practiced enough or casual enough to be the whole truth, but he was never going to get anywhere by confronting a teenager outright on a lie.

"You seem a little young for that kind of thing." A little, but not necessarily too young. All the cybergeeks he knew were pretty fresh-faced. "Have you even graduated high school?" Jack asks mildly, playing dumb.