The ending isn't great, but I thought that this needed something to tie the last two chapters together x Please read and review x

They love each other and it's a feeling neither of them have much experience with, not even Pepper. They love the feeling, but they love each other more. It's why they put up with each other, even when Pepper threatens to quit and Tony goes on suicide missions to space.

None of that matters, not really, because they hold on to each other tighter than they've ever done before.

And sometimes it's suffocating. That's when Pepper flies off to Japan on business for the weekend or Tony locks himself in the lab.

And other times it makes them feel safer and more alive than they ever have. It's new to them, this caring thing.

What had they wasted so much time?

Neither of them could work out the reason, but they both know it was a stupid one. Because feeling like this was much better than whatever the media could say and what the public could think. This feeling was stronger than any of that, stronger than anything they'd ever felt. It was what got them through Iron Man and Afghanistan and the nuke going into space.

It could withstand a few petty reporters.

It is strong enough to keep them together, even when Tony is falling from the sky his arc reactor dead and Pepper can't do anything more than watch him.

Because even when they are falling, they are falling together, and then it doesn't really matter.