She frowned slightly at Tony's last comment, but decided to leave it. If he was going to be a Debbie Downer about it, she wasn't going to bother him about it. Instead she turned her attention to Chayse, so was at first a little unsure about being in a stranger's arms, but then seemed to settle as though he was just another person to give her attention, which was her favorite thing ever.
"I'd like to point out that she's the one who makes all the demands in this family. She decides what I do, when I do it and she has her dad wrapped around her tiny little finger, and when her face lights up like a Christmas as soon as he walks in the room, he's a puddle of goo on the floor and will do anything she demands." Pepper then laughed as a realization came over her. "I guess she's more like me than I realized. Nobody could command a board room like I could."