[Trust Tony to be able to joke about his own goddamn death. Pepper might have killed him if it didn't completely defeat the purpose of her being here. Maybe that was why he was from the past. He couldn't have been from her time because she hadn't saved him yet. Did that make sense? Sure, let's go with that.

So despite the rather irritated look she's giving him, she's pulling away again. ... Just to sit on the edge of his probably fairly unused bed. ... Or at least unused in the sense of it's actual purpose. Yes, she means sleep.]

I'm not making you a museum. You're not going to stay dead. That's why I'm here. We don't even know if you are dead- you're just .. Somewhere else in the universe. [Or dead.] So I'm here. The deal is if I work, you get to come back, alive and well.