Gene's changed a lot in the past three years. Granted, he still has a bit of a short fuse, but he's been working on that. Honestly.

"I could," Gene says, a little warily, sine he knows Pepper and thus knows just about exactly what he'd be getting into. "Though you would have to do what I say."

It's really a toss-up between how mad she still is at him and how much she wants to learn the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon shit he pulled off while fighting the Makluans.