"I can handle our usual level of busy. This is pushing it." He probably wouldn't say it to most of the people on board with them, but Pepper is different. Not likely to take it as something to report to Fury, or something to crack jokes about, for one thing, which already takes out most of the non-former-student personnel.

He eyes the file in his hand for a second before shutting it and setting it on the desk, leaning forward against it. "What have they got you doing, when Tony can spare you for a minute?"