"He said something about security, and National defense, considering what happened with poor Wanda," Pepper rubbed her forehead. She still couldn't believe Wanda would attack the president, but nothing made sense these days. "And that he needed the armor."
Pepper fell quiet - guiltily so. "Thank you," she said softly, after a long minute. "I just don't know what else to do. They're going to send him to prison, if he doesn't starve to death in that suit, and I don't..." she was not going to cry again, dammit. "We've been living together," she admitted in a very small voice. "I haven't even told Sue yet, and it's been months - I don't even really know what it means, but it works. So I can't let him down now."