It was weird to see Tony turn off the playboy and turn on this other part of him that Pepper rarely saw. She'd seen it before though, she was certain of it. Was it the night at the charity event when he first asked her out? Maybe.
"Tony..." she said slowly, pulling her hand away and weighing her next words carefully. "You know you can't say that at the press conference, don't you? You'll be discredited." She said nothing of what she thought. She was purely in PR mode.