The unspoken past of a goth-phase Bruce Banner can just go sit beside the unmentioned youth of Virginia Potts that features flower print prairie dresses and an impressive set of braces. (Their respective pasts probably wouldn't actually have sat together outside of surreptitiously, in the library.)
In the present, Pepper gives him a half smile and reflects that "Good, mostly seems to be a popular state of being around here. You should fit right in."
Back in Stark Tower, back in New York, and all the explosive fanfare of the Clean Slate Protocol and personal growth via stray snarky children and a really impressive Home Depot entry on his personal credit card can't magically undo PTSD. Sleep isn't something that comes easily to Tony or Pepper, but that they can at least be honest about it is something. Good, mostly is what greets them every morning in the mirror. "How long can you stay for?" Pepper wonders, emerging from the reverie she'd lost herself in. "Or how long do you feel you can? Real answer," she requests, no nonsense mingled with self-aware humour. "Not trying to deflect Tony."
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Date: 2013-07-27 02:39 pm (UTC)In the present, Pepper gives him a half smile and reflects that "Good, mostly seems to be a popular state of being around here. You should fit right in."
Back in Stark Tower, back in New York, and all the explosive fanfare of the Clean Slate Protocol and personal growth via stray snarky children and a really impressive Home Depot entry on his personal credit card can't magically undo PTSD. Sleep isn't something that comes easily to Tony or Pepper, but that they can at least be honest about it is something. Good, mostly is what greets them every morning in the mirror. "How long can you stay for?" Pepper wonders, emerging from the reverie she'd lost herself in. "Or how long do you feel you can? Real answer," she requests, no nonsense mingled with self-aware humour. "Not trying to deflect Tony."