"Maybe," Pepper allowed, smiling back. "But I figure you should have right of first refusal or something. Or, you know, at least options. Usually when people move in together, there's all this combining that has to happen, and we mostly get to start from scratch." She stuck her tongue out at him. "I wouldn't want to pick stuff you totally hate."

For the moment, she can't go completely overboard with decorations anyway, so it's mostly the basics they'll have to decide on. "I can always go with 'essence of dojo' for nostalgia purposes," she proposed lightly. "Someone had a table that looked like it's cross pieces were swords."