Pepper froze as she felt the rough pad of Tony's fingertips as they slipped along the back of her elbow. Her immediate reaction was to jerk her arm away and give him one of her calm, warning looks...but something stopped her. It might have been the fact that she was busily running her fingers across the small head of the small fluff of white, listening to the low, purring noise it made as it arched its back up into her palm for similar attentions. It might have been that his touch was not the usual, playfully lascivious manner in which he'd touch her...but rather a slow, almost thoughtful movement. It might have been that the feeling of those calloused fingertips against her skin simply felt just a little too good for her to force her body to pull away. After all, hadn't she been dreaming of that touch of his practically ever since she'd come to be in his employment?
Whatever the reason - Pepper didn't draw away as she usually might have. Instead, her eyes quickly darted down towards Tony's face...and she stilled as she saw a momentary flickering of what almost seemed to be fascination as he brushed his fingers over her skin. She pursed her lips together, not quite certain what to do in response...
...but Salt quickly managed to break the tension with an attack at Tony's neck.
Pepper leaned back again, laughing as Tony squirmed beneath the kitten's tongue and had to pull her away from him.
"Seems that even in this new world, you still have that effect on women," Pepper smirked, her words laced with that gentle affection that she held for her employer. She leaned forward and removed the cereal from where it was balancing so precariously on him and set it aside so it wouldn't fall to the floor.
Leaning back again, Pepper curled her legs up onto the chair with her in a comfortable position as she looked up at the television screen and smiled to see "Batman: The Animated Series" just beginning to come on with its familiar theme song and stylized animation.
"Oohh, Batman," she smiled, leaning her chin comfortably against the tops of her knees as she wrapped her arms languidly about her legs. "You know, I had the biggest crush on him when I was younger. Now there was a superhero. Tall...dark...mysterious." She risked a wicked glance over towards where Tony lay with Salt pouncing back and forth over his arc reactor. "And ever so sexy too."