Pepper laughs lowly, grinning even as she squirms a little against him at the nip to her lobe. "Looking forward to it already," she murmurs back. It is his birthday, after all.

"Oh yes, that's clearly why George Clooney has to fend women off left and right. Hmm, should've invited him," she remarks with an appreciative hum, zero percent serious. He just makes it so easy to tease him.