Stephen just couldn't stop laughing at what Sophie had said on the forum. Him and Pepper Potts in a relationship for that many years? Nonsense. She was much too in love and devoted to Tony regardless of him being married. He didn't take Sophie's words to heart very much, considering it could have just been Stark's kid playing a joke on the two of them.
After he'd told Pepper he'd come to her, he made sure to check his attire. One never showed up looking like a vagabond to a date. When he looked in the mirror briefly, he then moved his hands in a particular pattern around him and a gateway of sorts opened in front of him framed with mystical glowing green runes and he stepped through right to her front door in Los Angeles. Knocking on the door, he cleared his throat and folded his arms behind his back, waiting for whomever to answer the door.