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Oh please. It wasn't like that. [ Sort of. There's a mute sigh. ] That, it's even more complicated than before.

No! Why?

( This isn't allowed! ) I am feeling the overwhelming desire to meddle.

( Nevermind that she hasn't known Pepper very long and has never met Tony. Details. )

[ The look she gives Jules is sweet and sad and polite. Always that. She feels like she can trust her, even if they've only just met. ]

He's been here for a long time. Months, I think. He won't tell me everything. I can't even, I don't know what to do.

Months?

( She remembers something about time, about it being mixed up and muddled, but there was too much information and so many people, and she looks utterly perplexed. There are moments when she just... when it slips, despite her best efforts and best intentions. )

If it's been months, and-- and if everything is all mixed up, he might just need time. It sounds like a bit of a pickle, all this. As far as I understand it, talking to someone you care about isn't always the easiest thing, as wrong as it seems. Strangers can be a bit easier to talk to, but it doesn't mean--

( It doesn't mean things are all messed up and tangled about and headed into a disaster. Jules was familiar with confusion, with struggle, but she believed in the good of people, as well. It was the only way to justify what she had to be. )

How are you coping?

You don't know Tony. If he won't tell me now, he probably isn't going to tell me later. [ So, she's going to have to find out on her own. Which isn't entirely awful, but it's a lot of work. Besides, if he's been here long enough to do all the things he has told her, that also means he might have enemies too. ] But I'm fine. Some of this is normal, you know. I think I can manage.

Oh. That's no good.

( But Pepper's the one who's meant to be upset by this, isn't she? Jules is here to be the bright and optimist one, tracking down silver linings as if they were truffles (although she'd rather protest being compared to a hog). Apparently the silver lining here is that Pepper is used to it, can handle it, although that isn't Jules' favourite kind of solution. )

If you like, I could give him a severely disapproving look next I see him? Solidarity, and the like.

[ There's a moment she forgets that Jules doesn't actually know Tony, and she's covering her mouth to keep the laughter that never sounds to herself. She shakes her head, a little too amused. ]

I can handle it. I mean, you're free to do whatever you like. But I'm not sure he'd appreciate something like that at all. [ It's meant to be a tease. Why does she feel that Jules and Tony meeting would be a disaster? ]

Mmm. I never appreciated my mother making me eat broccoli when I was a child, but it was still good for me.

( That's totally comparable, right? Totally! ) Don't worry, I'm very tactful.

[ She'd sigh if she was able to. Gosh, Jules. ] Maybe I could set something up then.

Do, absolutely do. Definitely do.

( She's been drinking coffee again. Make her stop. )

Oh, we could all get coffee!

( NO THAT WAY DANGER LIES )

Something more casual, I think. You haven't seen my apartment yet. [ Just an idea. She could get Tony to sit still there for a second at least. Probably. ]

I haven't! And my feelings are so deeply hurt, let me tell you.

( So playful, ridiculous. )

Really, it's probably the same as yours. I'll show you some time though.

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BUT WHAT IF I LIKE TYPING

YOU'RE A MONSTER

YOU BET I AM

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