AN: You might recognise this scene haha, it's heavily borrowed from the end of 'Spider-Man: Homecoming', but the story wouldn't have felt complete without bringing it to this moment. I had great fun writing the world as experienced by Happy Hogan, this has been a random piece but I've particularly enjoyed writing it and I hope you've had as much fun reading it :)

October 2016

"Told ya he's a good kid."

Tony only gestured and smirked in reply.

"Where's the kid?" Pepper demanded, the sound of journalists shouting her name following her as she escaped the press conference, and Happy felt his joy at being right melting away as he realised how much trouble they were in.

"He left." Happy threw in, trying to reduce the damage by telling her straight away.

"Everybody's waiting!"

"You know what, he actually made a really mature choice." Tony took over, turning on his billionaire playboy charm. "Just surprised the heck out of us."

Happy knew she would see through Tony in an instant.

"Did you guys screw this up?"

"He told the kid to go wait in the car." Tony declared, giving up his act in favour of throwing Happy under the bus.

"Are you kidding me?" Pepper demanded as Happy tried to stammer out an apology, "I have a room full of people in there and they're waiting for some big announcement – what am I going to tell them?"

"Think of something." came Tony's reply, "How about, um…"

Suddenly Tony turned to face him, "Hey Hap, you still got that ring?"

Happy struggled to form words as he frantically checked his pockets, forgetting in the panic of the moment that the ring was exactly where he always made sure it was; safely threaded onto the inside of his trouser pocket. Finding it at last, he removed it from the metal key ring and handed it to Tony with a triumphant smile.

"Are you kidding? I been carrying this since 2008!"

Watching Tony and Pepper bicker back and forth he couldn't call for sure if she would accept the unusual proposal, but as she kissed him and headed back to the room, muttering in disbelief at how long he had minded the ring for Tony, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He threw the ring to Tony, who caught it deftly with one hand and disappeared into the press conference, and Happy walked away, smiling.