"I'll never understand scientists. I still wake up terrified that I'm going to be burning Tony or exploding or something, despite the fact that I've shown no signs of doing either since he fixed it, but I know you would take it in a heartbeat and love every second of it."

Pepper really really doesn't get it. She's not a scientist or an engineer or anything like that, and she just... can't understand how they think.

Luckily, she doesn't have to, and it doesn't usually bother her, just... baffles her.