12percentpotts (12percentpotts) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2015-06-14 18:22:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, !partner thread, josephine montilyet, pepper potts |
Who: Pepper and Josephine
When: Early June
Where: Clothing store
What: Helping out
Rating/Warnings: Low/None
Status: Complete
Josephine had decided that with her new job, she should get some new clothes. She’d been working at Sato for about two months now and she thought it was time for a few new pieces to add to her wardrobe. She was also thinking of getting something new for her next date with Naga. She didn’t know exactly when she’d see the other woman again, but she liked her a lot and was about 99.9% sure that they would be seeing each other again soon, so she wanted something new to wear.
Reaching the mall, she headed towards one of the slightly pricier stores where she’d gotten a lot of her more professional looking outfits for work and started looking around he racks after a saleswoman had greeted her.
Pepper had taken a few hours to herself in order to do a little shopping, there was nothing like retail therapy and she had decided a little sprucing up of her wardrobe was needed. Especially with her wedding and subsequent honeymoon heading ever closer.
It was quite nice to be on her own though the downside was of course there was nobody whose opinion she could ask. Still it was a fun thing to do and made a nice change from paperwork.
While Josephine had been able to find quite a few pieces in this particular store, the fact that most designers still made clothes with ultra skinny women in mind did make it a little more difficult for someone who was a little curvier like Josephine so at the moment she was just a little discouraged as she was having a difficult time finding anything in her size that she actually liked. “Seriously, not everyone is a size four, people.” She muttered under her breath as she continued looking through the rack of clothes.
"Awful isn't it?" Pepper said quietly as she heard the other woman mumble, "It's no wonder so many young girls have body issues. It's not just magazines, it's stores too" She knew one or two designers who tried to make their clothes accessible to all but at the end of the day it was the stores who ordered the stock in the sizes they wanted.
“Oh, you have no idea.” Josephine hadn’t realized anyone else was close enough to hear her, but she didn’t mind that the other woman had. Josephine didn’t usually get too worried about what others thought about what she said or did, “Usually I don’t have this much trouble finding something here, but so far it looks like today might be a miss.” There were other stores in the mall that she could go to of course, but this was one of the ones she liked for professional outfits, so she was slightly disappointed.
“Are you looking for something specific?” Pepper asked her, “It would be a terrible shame if you left empty handed, I do hate it when you make the effort and it’s rewarded with nothing” Mostly because it wasn’t often Pepper let herself have enough time to do things like this. Not that this woman was the same of course but even if she wasn’t it was disheartening.
“Not really. I recently started a new job and I thought I’d get a few new pieces to add to my work wardrobe,” Josephine said, smiling at the redhead, “And I’ve come here often so I thought this would be a pretty easy shopping trip, but it looks like I’ve got my work cut out for me today.” It was frustrating that there were times when she couldn’t easily find clothes that fit her body type, but that just made her even more determined to find something.
“Oh how wonderful. Then in that case allow me to help you” Pepper said, “We can’t have you starting a new job without a confident new outfit after all” She offered with a smile. Pepper understood the frustration and stubbornness born from it only too well.
Josephine smiled and nodded, “Thank you. I’ve already started the job, but I think my performance will be better with a new outfit.” Normally Josephine preferred to shop alone or with friends; not really caring for a sale associate to help her, because more often than not they would try to push things on customers simply to make their goals and when friends pushed things on her it was because they knew it was something she’d like or they were joking around, “I’m Josephine, by the way.” She said, extending a hand to the other woman.
“I think everybody feels better when they’re wearing a good outfit, especially a new one” she agreed. Pepper wasn’t usually one to interrupt someone else’s shopping but it would be a nice change to help this woman. If she wanted assistance of course. “Pepper” she replied shaking the other woman’s hand, “Pleased to meet you”
“It’s nice to meet you, Pepper.” Josephine gestured towards another rack of clothes, “I think we should move on. If I haven’t found anything in this one yet then I don’t think it’s going to suddenly appear.” She moved over to the next display, “So, what is it that you do, if you don’t mind me asking.” She said, glancing at a skirt that she liked to see the size.
“I don’t mind at all. I’m the CEO of Stark Industries” she informed her with a smile, “Which basically means most of the time I’m running a multinational corporation with an interest in research and development. When I’m not sneaking off to relax with shopping for a couple of hours” she added with a grin.
“Oh wow. I almost applied for an HR position there.” Josephine said, picking up the skirt after seeing that it was her size and placed it against herself then draped it over her arm as she continued looking through the display.
“We would have been lucky to have you I’m sure” Pepper said with a smile, as she located a top to go with the skirt the other woman had picked up and held it up for her to see and give the yay or nay verdict on.
“Oh that’s nice.” Josephine said, checking the tag on the top then took it to add to the skirt over her arm, “I ended up applying for an HR position at Sato Electric.” Yes, the company had a new name, but Josephine knew that most people still knew it by the old name.
“Ah I know of the company of course” she nodded after handing over the top, “How are you finding it?” she asked curiously as she went back to searching the racks.
“I’m really enjoying it. Asami Sato has done a great job with taking over her father’s company.” Josephine could take a little credit in that as she was rather good at her own job and assisting Miss Sato with whatever she needed for the company. “I’ll admit, one of the things that drew me in was that a woman was taking over and making it her own.”
“Well I have to admit I admire her for that too” Pepper said, “More women in business can only ever be a good thing in my opinion” Because, at the end of the day, most people knew Stark Industries was run day to day by Pepper.
Josephine smiled and nodded, “Exactly. I mean, you basically run Stark, right? You hear about Mr. Stark in all of the interviews, but if you google Stark Industries, your name is the one every article mentions.” Josephine had recognized the other woman as the Pepper Potts almost right away from pictures she’d seen while researching Stark Industries, but hadn’t wanted to be that weird person who acted like they knew someone famous until the redhead had introduced herself.
“Essentially yes” Pepper smiled with a nod, “It’s Tony’s company but the day to day running of it comes down to me. It works a lot better that way we’ve found” Tony was happier researching and developing new ideas than attending meetings.
“And you’ve been doing a fantastic job of it from what I’ve read. I mean, running a company that large can’t be easy, but it seems like it’s in good hands.” Josephine picked up another skirt that was in her size and held it up against her to see where it would fall on her.
“Thank you I do my best. It isn’t always easy but it’s rewarding. I’m very invested in where we go and what we do” Pepper said with a smile, “Oh I saw a top over here which would go with that skirt”
“Well you’re doing a great job.” Josephine smiled then followed Pepper, “Well I’m glad this shopping trip wasn’t a total bust.” She found her size in the top that Pepper had pointed out then took a quick inventory of the pieces she was holding, “I should try these on now before I accumulate more.”
“That is probably a good idea” Pepper nodded, “But I’m glad we were able to locate a good number of items, hopefully a good outfit or two will be the result”