[It's hard. Hearing it. Hearing that you die, even if you go out in a bang. Saving everyone. A real hero. It's never easy to hear that everything ends. On a certain date, at a certain time, no matter what... everything ends. That he's leaving everyone he cares about behind. Pepper, on a plane somewhere, watching him die on TV. That he'll be doing that to her. And he'll know it.]

It's been boring. [That's all he's saying. But the way he's moving over, sitting down so his shoulder is bumping against hers, hands tilting the sketchbook, flipping through some pages of suit designs, schematics. The breakdown of gauntlets, boots, chest-piece. There's even a new arc reactor design in there, key parts left out, of course.]

Yeah, no. Tony Stark theme park is happening. Let's put it in Kansas or something. Make it the new Las Vegas. They could sell those little bobble heads you said no on. We still have like two hundred thousand prototypes in storage.