When Sue entered, the office had been dimmed, the windows turned a more tolerable grey as Tony squinted in the sunlight he was suddenly sharply reminded of then dropped his head into his hand, massaging his brow with his thumb. He straightened immediately at the sound of Sue's voice any hint of his fractured attention wiped away with a practiced smile that only brightened his eyes when she called him 'Tony'.
It had been a while, and to Tony that felt like understatement when his memory of the last time they met came back in a rush. It had been lost somewhere in the chaos that followed immediately, his day pitching from that bright spark of their encounter to some dead darkness that had somehow become familiar. He could only hope she hadn't been avoiding him all this time over a bit of innocent fun.
"Not at all," he insisted as he stood to greet her, which was only partially a lie. 'Interrupting' wasn't quite the right word; that implied a flow had been stopped, when Tony had just added another branch of production. His easy meander toward Sue came to a preemptive halt, Tony's head cocking with a teasing glint in his eye as he offered his hand for her to take rather than sweeping her closer for his kiss to the cheek.