She did catch the joke in his tone, but only after enough of a delay to see a hint of retreat in Sam's face, which only made her smirk deeper.
"Maybe he was a pacifist before he was forced to fight," she explained dryly, then bobbed her eyebrows in the universal however... expression. "Though he had no trouble knocking our asses back in line when we deserved it." There was no resentment in her voice- only the same level of teasing as was in Sam's.