Uh. [Pepper likes to think she's a good liar, but honestly:] I'm not great at lying. I wouldn't say terrible. I mean, I got away with using my school ID as a government badge once and I'm good enough at it to infiltrate a high tech corporate building during business hours.
[She's a pretty bad liar, even so. She's better at just not saying anything.
Gene does know how lucky he is to have Pepper and Tony in his life now, after everything that happened. They're all lucky, really.]
Well, that's something. I'm sort of in a similar situation - I'm from right before an invading alien ship explodes, but my best friend Tony is from after and said everything turns out as well as it could and we avoid Armageddon. [Something is nagging at her about this, maybe because Zelos is turning more boisterous on an otherwise serious subject. It doesn't feel like he's lying, although he's apparently good at that by his own admission, but it does feel like she's not getting the whole picture.] And it could have had to do with flirting. C'mon, you have to admit it would be funny if it was.
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[She's a pretty bad liar, even so. She's better at just not saying anything.
Gene does know how lucky he is to have Pepper and Tony in his life now, after everything that happened. They're all lucky, really.]
Well, that's something. I'm sort of in a similar situation - I'm from right before an invading alien ship explodes, but my best friend Tony is from after and said everything turns out as well as it could and we avoid Armageddon. [Something is nagging at her about this, maybe because Zelos is turning more boisterous on an otherwise serious subject. It doesn't feel like he's lying, although he's apparently good at that by his own admission, but it does feel like she's not getting the whole picture.] And it could have had to do with flirting. C'mon, you have to admit it would be funny if it was.