Tony tried to imagine how it would feel to know he'd been born some other species. It wasn't as hard for him as it might have been for someone else, someone with a normal life, a normal childhood, a normal family. He'd been isolated his entire life. His best friends had been built at his hands. The largest portion of his life had been spent drinking away who and what he was or using others to help hide from himself. All the years he'd lost hating himself? Tony could never get those back. All he could do was work hard to enjoy the Hell out of what he had left with Pepper.
He couldn't offer life advice to the woman. She was young, but Tony hadn't learned as much as he should have in his years. Too much of his time had been spent trying not to learn his lesson for him to try to pass one on to another. Tony couldn't tell her how it wasn't her fault. He remembered how Phil Coulson had looked in the moment he'd been stabbed, speared straight through. Tony remembered how he'd joked about meeting the man's cellist and he remembered how it had felt to know that day would never come. Phil Coulson would never annoy him again. He'd never do anything again. He'd died because Tony Stark, because The Avengers, had been too busy with their petty squabbling to protect him.
Tony could not do too many things to name, but he could make her some stabilizers.
"I can help you. I will help you. You mind going by the local hospital to have some blood work done? Get one of our doctors to help you. There's a few of us working in medicine. Transplants. I'll need everything they can get out of the panels. I can start with some basic designs and go from what they get me. I'll make you safe. You aren't a thing. You're a person with a certain condition which requires treatment for now. That's all. We can do this."
He smiled at her as if he were trying to pick her up. It was usually reassuring. Pepper hated when he did it, but that was only because she thought he was reverting to his old ways instead of falling back on one of the few good habits he'd ever picked up.
"Keep on trusting me. I'll make it happen for you."