"Shh," she shushes him softly, pressing another, firmer kiss to his lips and breathing her reassurances into the scant space between them. "It was fine. Just fine."
There's so many things she wants to tell him, too; gentle things and painful realizations alike. Things she wouldn't have ever considered when she first seduced him all those years ago. What's developed between them now transcends everything she'd expected this to be, tangled and more complicated than it should've had any right to be. Like Tony, she just doesn't have the words now, or perhaps not the courage.
Taking his invitation, her thighs spread out to bracket his hips, the cotton of her shift riding up in process. It wasn't unheard of that their passions rose like this during feeding, but this time it's as much about avoiding certain things as it is slaking a different sort of hunger. With no wasted movement, Pepper takes him deep inside, crying out breathlessly against the side of his face as she begins to rock her hips, knowing this won't be a long affair with both of them already so wound up.