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Virgina "Pepper" Potts" ([personal profile] pepperedsmile) wrote2020-02-20 01:03 pm

contact。



You've reached Pepper Potts. I'm sorry I missed your call, but please leave a message with your name, your contact information and details as to why you're calling after the tone and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you.

[There's a pause and it's almost added as an after thought:]

If this is a message regarding Tony Stark, I will make sure to address the matter or concern as soon as possible. Thank you for you patience. 

☎ Call
☏ Text
✉ Email
✔ Voicemail

[ooc: You know what to do! c: Indicate if it's ic/ooc and I'll respond accordingly!]
amygdalae: I do not remember planes being this hideous (yeah total awkward)

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[personal profile] amygdalae 2013-05-05 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's been a day since that dream from Tony - and his subsequent reaction - and to say that Bruce is worried is a massive understatement. It gnaws at him endlessly, having kept him awake through the night because he can't just not worry after seeing - after hearing something like that.

Considering how he still can't go to the tower, this is the next best way to be sure about things. Its not what he hope he would have to do, but... now is not the time to be held back by his own discomforts. Tony was far more important.]


I'm sorry to interrupt you, Pepper. Tony - is he alright?
amygdalae: (one against the world)

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[personal profile] amygdalae 2013-05-06 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[During that time Bruce distracts himself with whatever he can - work, his research, anything else that won't make him think about Tony except everything he does reminds him of Tony. He's in everything Bruce does and says and thinks, an echo - a reminder of everything Bruce has (had) since he came into this world.

He quickly picks up his dreamberry when it chimes with a returning message, instantly getting worried all over again at the response. Trying to, she says. Trying to - and isn't Bruce familiar with that? He's been through the motions himself, of spending countless nights awake when the nightmares plague him and keep him awake.

If only he could be around to help. If only he hadn't said all those things back then.

(If only, if only.)]


I'm sorry. I should have--I should have been around.
amygdalae: make sure its the right one (pick a side)

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[personal profile] amygdalae 2013-05-06 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pepper says that, but what else Bruce can do but to blame himself? He's useless here, utterly useless even though he knows he would give his life to Tony in a heartbeat. But what can he do when the danger is all from within? When he's put a divide between him and Tony?]

I just. I wish I could be there to help. Properly.

[Not here, where he's so far away and so useless. So helpless. So powerless.]
amygdalae: a typhoon in the eye of the hurricane (like fire and ice and rage)

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[personal profile] amygdalae 2013-05-06 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[The truth of the matter is that Bruce does want to come back - he really does, because every part of him misses his life in the Tower. With Tony. It was the best thing that ever happened to him and he had loved every moment of his time there. Loved being around Tony and cherishing every moment he spent with him. He wants that back.

But he doesn't deserve it. Not after everything.]


I can't. I... it won't help.

[His presence will just make things worse.]
amygdalae: this is really not English (complicated explanation time)

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[personal profile] amygdalae 2013-05-06 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's okay, Pepper. Nobody tramples on his feelings harder than Bruce himself. He's the pinnacle of self-loathing.]

I. I said things to him in our arguments. Things I shouldn't have said. Things that hurt him.

[He doesn't deserve to be near Tony after all of that, really.]
amygdalae: inspire. expire. (inhale. exhale.)

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[personal profile] amygdalae 2013-05-06 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Its not something a simple apology can fix.

[Because he knew he had ruined something so much more than that and Bruce doesn't deserve anything now, really.

He breaks everything he touches, even that which is supposedly intangible.]
amygdalae: it was never meant to last. (and so it goes.)

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[personal profile] amygdalae 2013-05-06 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[This response takes a while to come, because Bruce literally has no idea what to say - or what he can say to this, really.]

...I'll think about it.

[No guarantees, though. Things are hard enough as it is.]
amygdalae: (seeing what you did there)

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[personal profile] amygdalae 2013-05-07 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
[It's hard to be mature about things that he's emotionally stunted to, and this is just one of the many things Bruce seems like he should be better about but actually not. Semi-manchildren, indeed.]

Make sure he gets some rest. Even if it's only just a little. It'll still help.

[Better than to stay awake all the time and eventually collapse.]