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[tasteslikecoconut]

Sooooo who's got some palladium they'd like to give me? No reason. Just need it. Preferably like. I don't know. One point six grams or so. Not greedy.

Oh, and some scrap metal. Again, no reason.

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[itsnoteasybeing]

Tell you what, if you want to take care of the palladium on your own, I'll handle finding you a way to settle in on the R&D here.

[ It's a fair compromise at least, considering Tony didn't want Bruce's help in the first place for something so important.

Because petulant as Tony could be from time to time -- and however much it was true -- he wasn't going to be the person to let Tony suffer through everything on his own. ]

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[tasteslikecoconut]

[There's a brief shocked silence on Tony's end.]

You'll be my Pepper?

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[itsnoteasybeing]

No.

[ Because somehow that sounded like a marriage proposal to him. ]

I don't carry the same charm as her.

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[tasteslikecoconut]

[A small laugh on Tony's end. Wow he really really misses her, and not just because of SI.]

But you can roar almost as loud. You know, when you want to.

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[itsnoteasybeing]

[ He scoffs in return; the Hulk was pretty damaging in the long run, but the bit of Pepper he had heard of when she took over managing Stark Industries was anything except that. ]

And she's the only one who can keep you in line?

[ Come on, Tony, spill the beans. ]