"Only Iron Man robots from now on," she agreed. Her smile was weak, but it was a smile, and it felt good to do it. "I'm..." she thought of her own challenge, and her eyes closed, for a moment letting herself enjoy the sensation of his fingers on her skin. The only thing suppressing a shudder of pleasure was the memory of those beast... things. "Sore, she said. "Tired, but I'm okay. And I may have developed an unreasonable fear of gorillas."
It felt good being there beside him - not just for physical reasons, but because for the first time, she felt secure and felt that he was, too. It was false, of course; neither of them could actually prevent the other from being taken again, but Pepper could breath, and when she could breath, she could think, and they had always been a good team.
"You can take the Arc Reactor with you," said. "It's part of your body, but maybe there's a way to connect it to that?" They were both pieces of technology, where the rest of him was organic. Maybe making the suit an extension of the Reactor somehow would allow it to go with him.