While Gryf had no idea about Pepper, for the moment. She remembered Tony telling her about Pepper, but it was a vague and far away thing when they were together on the Station. Her thumb slowly stroked the side of his hand, feeling deliciously naughty for someone like her. She had been ready to give him everything - herself, even the bio-tech inside of her - when he had vanished and time had yet to kill that those feelings.

After all, her whole goal had been to get back to Earth with him, with Col. Earth had been their destination from the start.

"About the same?" Questioning before she got it, then stepped in front of him and looked into his eyes, trying to read them. "What's going on, Tony?" Now with concern in her voice.