I know I just spammed the shit out of you in chat, but I was saving this one for my comment because I so ridiculously adore this all over again, okay:
Pepper looks from the ghost drive to Tony's face, and his expression doesn't change: for years, his face has always changed when she looked at him. Just a little. No matter what he was doing or saying, how obnoxious he was acting or what his date was doing under the table.
Because you sell that moment so well, you sell a Pepper that doesn't have to listen to Tony, isn't paid for it, doesn't spend every waking minute in his orbit, soaking in the Stockholm Syndrome, but that's the thing with Tony, Obadiah's always told her and Pepper could see what he meant, that's his problem, you know what he is just looking at him and he's useless in the boardroom because of it; he's always looked exactly what he is and now he's holding her gaze. Auuuuuuuuugh.
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Date: 2010-10-06 11:52 pm (UTC)Pepper looks from the ghost drive to Tony's face, and his expression doesn't change: for years, his face has always changed when she looked at him. Just a little. No matter what he was doing or saying, how obnoxious he was acting or what his date was doing under the table.
Because you sell that moment so well, you sell a Pepper that doesn't have to listen to Tony, isn't paid for it, doesn't spend every waking minute in his orbit, soaking in the Stockholm Syndrome, but that's the thing with Tony, Obadiah's always told her and Pepper could see what he meant, that's his problem, you know what he is just looking at him and he's useless in the boardroom because of it; he's always looked exactly what he is and now he's holding her gaze. Auuuuuuuuugh.