Virginia 'Pepper' Potts felt as if she was adjusting to the odd turn her life had taken the day she had decided that a lone trip to Malibu was a good idea. It was strange really, she had accepted the PA's job the eccentric billionaire on the basis of two things, one, she had been recently let go and needed something to pay off her monstrous student lones, and the fact that she figured that someone would have to be around the little foreign girl that had so easily had captured Tony Stark's interest to keep her from coming from too much harm in the care of the billionaire. Funnily enough, out of everything, it was his treatment of the little girl that was the least of her worries.
Tony had treated the girl with both respect and surprising consideration. Their antics within the state home for kids had been heartwarming, and had made her feel a little kinder towards the man-child Tony Stark was, and feel a respect to the ever curious Ariel who not only went along with whatever crazy thing he insisted on doing, but being toe-to-toe with the man. Now that she was going to be living with the man however, Pepper as she was so constantly called now, felt that her job was about to get that much more crazier.
As she watched the little redhead smile up at the man that had essentially adopted her, and then slipped out of his lap were she had sat, she couldn't help but feel her own lips twitch on reflex. It wasn't that she wasn't worried about the turn of events concerning Ariel's abilities, and boy, was she worried, but at the same time as she watched the two in front of her, she couldn't help but feel as if everything would be okay.
