Pepper buried her head against Adam's shoulder, her hands clutching at his back. It was releaving, having him solid and right in front of her, and himself again. "I didn't expect you to get so angry," she admitted, her words muffling against his shirt. "It's not like I haven't thrown things at you before." A shuddering laugh came then, and Pepper screwed her eyes shut because right now she felt so stupid, even more so because he wasn't angry with her, not at all, and she had been running from him like he was.... Like he would do something terrible.

She would never do that again.

"And of course I forgive you, you bloody idiot. I'm your shoe-stealin' witch, 'member? And I'm first mate on the pirate ship. Can't be angry with, it'd ruin everythin'." Maybe it wouldn't make sense to Adam, but it made sense to her.