Virginia "Pepper" Potts (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
didknowthat) wrote2012-09-16 09:21 pm
didknowthat) wrote2012-09-16 09:21 pm
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[Well well, isn't this a familiar face? Should be for at least some of you. Same strawberry blonde hair, same proper dress-suit and perfect hair and worried crease in her brow. Yep. It's Pepper alright.]
I'm back, for those of you wondering. Sorry about ... disappearing like that. Business I had to attend to. [Not at all awkward or uncomfortable about that, at least.] For anyone who doesn't recognize me from before, my name is Miss Virginia Potts, but feel free to call me Pepper.
[And with that? End goes the feed. She's not in the mood to lolly-gaggle.]
I'm back, for those of you wondering. Sorry about ... disappearing like that. Business I had to attend to. [Not at all awkward or uncomfortable about that, at least.] For anyone who doesn't recognize me from before, my name is Miss Virginia Potts, but feel free to call me Pepper.
[And with that? End goes the feed. She's not in the mood to lolly-gaggle.]
[Private]
Not that sorry. :v]
We need to have a serious discussion at your earliest convenience regarding what's happened in your absence.
[Private]
Now. Now would be good. Is now good? I can do now, if you can.
[Because she has this sneaking suspicion that it has to do with Tony Fucking Stark.]
[Private]
After you left, Mr. Stark was returned home briefly, and came back to the Barge after redirecting the missile launched at New York. Ever since then, he's been sliding further and further into a destructive spiral, largely through the abuse of alcohol. Last week, he had a bit of an incident, and he's been down in Zero detoxing since then.
He's not allowed any alcohol under any circumstance, and I've asked the pub staff to make sure he doesn't have any access to the pub, no matter who brings him in with them. I've told the other Avengers to monitor him in case he's been getting any from an outside source as well, and confiscated his supply from his room.
I understand that this is a bit much to hear just after coming back, but if he has any hope of returning home, I need your help enforcing this.
[Private]
When you say incident.
I'm a bit surprised you've .. managed to keep him sober.
[If only because even she has a hell of a time keeping him off the liquor. Then again, he hadn't been... that bad in the past few weeks before New York.]
Wait- He's in Zero? Until when? Can I- Is he allowed visitors? [No one said she wasn't good at keeping the panic out of her tone, right?
Not.][Private]
And I won't be able to keep him sober without other people knowing there's been an issue and thus something to look out for. I trust I have your support on this?
[Private]
Of course. Was there any particular catalyst? Something that set him off? Or was it just ... general schematics.
[Private]
He's been on a downward spiral since you level, but Agent Barton recently came aboard and was being taunted by Loki, apparently similarly enough to how Loki manipulated Tony to make him and Captain Rogers want to "teach Loki a lesson". He was already drunk when it happened. I found out about it before he could do anything to Loki, we fought and he got drunker and broke into the art room. A friend of mine helped me bring him down to Zero.