Pepper is starting to feel a little frustrated and annoyed with Gene, but she doesn't want to fight with him right now. It's been a crappy night and she doesn't want to make it worse.

"Don't tell anyone this, especially not Tony because if you tell him I will dye your clothes pink, but I'm a pretty terrible liar." She could pull it off when she needed to, and any hint of oddity was normally attributed to her being weird. "You know me well enough to know that. You are a good person, even if you've done some phenomenally stupid things. If you don't believe me, ask Tony. I kept telling him that even when he wanted to rip your head off. You're a good person but you're also pretty messed up, I get it, I can't pretend to know what's happened to you, but I can guess it's pretty bad because you'd rather punish yourself than grieve. And I know you can't just flip a switch on something like that, because you're not actually a robot, but eventually you're gonna have to face it. Or I'm going Rafiki and knocking some sense into you."

A slight edge has crept into her tone, and she rubs her eyes.

"I'm just... I think I'm gonna go try to get some sleep."