pepper notices that he’s in pain, and she can only hope the painkillers will help because she can’t do anything else. it’s her fault in the first place.
she gets out of bed and gets dressed quickly, heading into the kitchen to make them breakfast. english muffins in the toaster, bacon and eggs on the stove, and after ten minutes she’s got two pretty stuffed breakfast sandwiches. she heads into the elevator, plate in hand, and goes down to the third floor where his workshop is.
tony is a notorious packrat when it comes to intellectual property, so his previous work on extremis is still available to him, digitized years ago. he has everything pulled up when pepper steps into the workshop, his hand raising silently in acknowledgement, the other scribbling down notes. biology isn't exactly his strong suit, more of a mechanic than anything else, and he might need to get bruce banner's help the further along he gets.
pepper steps into the lab and eats the sandwich down on the workbench next to him. she can see a stream of data fleeing down the screens, and she walks over to stand next to him, biting into her sandwich.










