"But what did you need time for? To get used to the idea of him being married?" Maybe Tony was missing the bigger picture here, but he just didn't get the fact that his other self having settled and had a family should have made her lash out like that. Or him, for that matter. He would have thought she'd have been happy that he'd stopped sleeping around, gotten a nice girl...oh. It was because it left her alone. Then his face sagged a little. "But I'm here. This me. I wouldn't abandon you, Pepper."