Wait; did you say months? [But Tony had only talked to him days ago, insisting that Banner at long last revisit New York to see what had become of Stark Tower. So while he isn't confused she certainly is, by that and pretty much everything that comes next.]

Of course we've met; don't you remember? [The truth is so far beyond her realm of conception, it might as well be the planet that the ship now approaches. With no answer apparent in his method, she gives him an uncertain look, but offers up answers all the same.] I'm assuming you mean from before I got here? I was in my office in California, getting ready for a really important meeting with people who aren't going to at all believe why I've missed it, if I can somehow get in touch with them, and then I was going to fly out to New York this afternoon to meet Tony.

[Who no doubt is going to be going out of his mind now that she's disappeared. The fact that there's no reason for it is bad enough, but Pepper hasn't considered duration until now.] You've really been here for months?