"I'm so angry with you right now," Pepper admitted, although she sounded more woeful than anything else. "But I'm so-" She paused, sucked in a sharp breath and huffed it out. "So grateful and overwhelmed that I don't even know how to feel."

He wasn't looking at her. Everything that had happened, and he wasn't looking at her.

Pepper crossed the distance between them and tipped her head over into his line of sight. "Tony. You just saved my life. Please look at me."