I'm fine, he wants to say, but he doesn't. If Pepper finds out about this (which she will, because it's Pepper and she knows things about him that even he doesn't know) she'll be mad at him for not getting it looked at right away.
But on the other hand...
"Let me try and walk it off for a few minutes first," he offers, as a halfway point they can both agree on.
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I'm fine, he wants to say, but he doesn't. If Pepper finds out about this (which she will, because it's Pepper and she knows things about him that even he doesn't know) she'll be mad at him for not getting it looked at right away.
But on the other hand...
"Let me try and walk it off for a few minutes first," he offers, as a halfway point they can both agree on.