closed | out of suffering, have emerged the strongest souls;

[fe_male]

Date & Time: Moderately close to post date, albeit earlier in the afterevening.
Location: Tony's workshop, dawg.
Characters: Tony and Pepper and potentially Jules? and no one else at all.
Summary: Grilling, baby. And playing 20 questions. It'll be a real party.
Warnings: General warning for Tony.



[ Tony's in his workshop.

It's such a redundant phrase. Tony's usually in his workshop. He's building things, he's smashing others, he's hanging out, he's working out, he's talking to himself, he's singing along to music - he's just, being, in his workshop. But it makes him happy and sometimes Max drops by and sometimes Ros drops by and sometimes someone who needs something drops by - although he's going to at some point probably have to put his workshop in CM somewhere, because it would be moderately dumb to have two with such limited resources and that's where he wants people to be finding him anyway.

But yes. Tony's in his workshop. By this point, he's shown Pepper where it is, shown Pepper how to ping off certain people's locations on the network if you want to find them and they have their device with them. (It doesn't always work, because it's possible to block that, but for the laymen, it's kind of fun. He feels like he's got a cooler version of the Marauder's map, with more buttons.) She's off doing... something, right now, he doesn't remember, but in the meantime, he's just chilling out. He'd had a lot of energy today for some reason, and still does, so every now and then he's up to do some exercise, and then when he's a little calmer, he gets back to business. ]

Comments

indeed

[fe_male]

[ He's smiling back at her still, all the way up through the teasing and the kiss, and even afterwards a little bit. But this isn't quite them at normal, this is all new, and he's just got her and he's a little different and he's trying to be a good person and he's a little worried. ]

We're okay though, right? We're good now.

[mostqualified]

We're good, Tony. [ The presence of his name is used in lieu of that silent 'for now' that's hanging in there somewhere. She can't promise how long it'll actually stay that way, but they're okay. This is acceptable, and she's going to take everything in stride for herself and him too. ] Really, we'll be fine.

[fe_male]

[ And levity springs back in an instant. As though they haven't sort of just had a minor fight, as though he hasn't just listed everything he's done without her for a year, or shown how much that year affected him. ] You want a cheeseburger? I know a good cheeseburger joint.

[mostqualified]

[ That's all it takes, and she's shaking her head at him, unable to hide the smile the question brings to her face. There's no reply, simply the moment she uses to rest her cheek against his shoulder before nodding. She's not sure why she's agreeing - there's so much work to be done, probably more questions to ask later - but she can give him this.

She wants to give him this, and Pepper takes his hand, a cue for him to lead the way. ]