It was only by chance that Pepper crossed paths with Logan. After his first trip to the bar but before he quite made it there for his second, when she was between errands, but the grocery bag she carried didn't stop Pepper from lifting a hand in a friendly wave.

"Hey, Logan." She'd heard somewhere along the way that he'd gone off on a mission. It honestly wasn't all that surprising, after what had happened. Everyone had been trying to cope in their own ways, and some of them had turned out to be fairly extreme. But Pepper refused to let that life linger when she had her own to look forward to. They'd taken enough from her already. "How'd your mission go?"