[Desperate people, as they say.
 
And she is desperate.  Pepper doesn’t want to have to explain to someone else how she’d nearly died, and especially not to Phil.  He’d offered at the very beginning of his previous stay to show her how to use a tazer, and she’d refused.  Even if the weapon itself would’ve been useless, maybe Pepper could’ve reacted differently with that training.  So early on, Phil had recognized the danger Pepper could potentially be put in, and he’d tried to help her.  What would’ve changed if she had just let him?
 
But he promises later, and it’s something Pepper can cling to.  There’s a guilty wish that maybe someone else will explain what happened to him, so she doesn’t have to, but Pepper knows the thought is wrong and pushes it away quickly.]
 
No, I guess it doesn’t.  [But it had been a convenient way to change the topic.  Still, there are things Phil needs to be prepared for, and Pepper takes a slow breath.]  There were also some new arrivals shortly after you left.  Clint Barton’s here now.  You know him, right?
 
[He can probably tell from her tone that Clint isn’t the person she needs to tell him about most.]