Re: Pepper P/Tony S: in person
[Like she's dealt with a thousand press inquiries and years of media. Obstinate.] You were never the scourge of the earth. [She rubs temples.] They're friends. Which means they want you alive, too. You, not just Iron Man. [Taking the plunge.] And it's not just winding up in a hospital room. It's that it seems like you're trying to carry something along with you that you won't let anyone else deal with, and you're trying to do that as well as save the world. I thought - I thought you might actually have intended to wind up in that lab. We were down there.