If Pepper were not a grown up, very mature young woman, she would stick her tongue out at Gene. Instead, she just makes a face at him. Very mature indeed.

"Soooo, not straight to punching things, then?" she asks as she steps inside. "You're just like Tony. But at least you don't have to build me armor to teach me things." Tony always insisted on practice, and Pepper always insisted that she learned best by doing, particularly under pressure.