[Clichés become clichés for a reason, and Pepper briefly meets Tony’s eyes. Even without the draft they’d all just endured, the arrival of one particular individual had been a weight all its own: Loki. Looking back on it all, it’s hard for her to say that only two months have gone by. There are other people she can think of too, maybe not as powerful, but who could be as devastating to their lives all the same.
What Billy says next isn’t an unfamiliar thought, although it’s one Pepper hasn’t spoken. She’s felt much the same since they got back, but it’s hard not to see that emotion as a defeat somehow. When Tony and Jane both are going to work so hard on a way to escape, when people are already being tortured for it—isn’t it wrong to think of the place they’re trying to flee from as home?]
I didn’t either. [Pepper looks at the ground when she says it, quietly. Like a confession.]
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What Billy says next isn’t an unfamiliar thought, although it’s one Pepper hasn’t spoken. She’s felt much the same since they got back, but it’s hard not to see that emotion as a defeat somehow. When Tony and Jane both are going to work so hard on a way to escape, when people are already being tortured for it—isn’t it wrong to think of the place they’re trying to flee from as home?]
I didn’t either. [Pepper looks at the ground when she says it, quietly. Like a confession.]