Apparently Brian was more worried about feeling her wrath than she'd originally anticipated... or he just didn't want to see that much.

Pepper whirled around, snapped the shirt up from the ground - crouching, as she realized that bending over would be a bad mistake - and threw it over her head, pulling it down far over her legs. She set her eyes in Adam's direction and spotted him in the distance.

"Right," she said, and dashed off.