[Surprisingly leash comments are the least of his and Pepper's relationship. It's more...him calling out terrorists to cage matches and creating murderbots. Throwing their friends in jail. There's kind of a list stemming from him not...adhering to Pepper's ground rules.

And he is very much not saying how crazy he's feeling without her. He keeps trying to reassure himself F.R.I.D.A.Y. would let him know the millisecond she ever arrives. But somehow the thought isn't sticking.]

If you tell me it's sharing your improbably large city apartment and which drawer socks go in I'm going to have to stop you there. I have seen Sex in the City for all I'm dating myself here.

If I put a particle accelerator into a phone that's not going to end well for you, me or Reims. Not without some vibranium which, coincidentally, I'm fresh out. I'll ask around. Maybe someone has some magic that can supplement the dampening effect.