“Did you just refer to our relationship as 'the divorce'? Because that might have an impact on the current state of my BP.” Her hand moves under his; tenses, her own skin made unfamiliar, and it's not that she doesn't appreciate what this means for her (for them), but that doesn't make it less complicated.

For either of them, since she's currently hearing a disconcerting replay of her own greatest hits. (It isn't that she didn't know he cares. It's that- this is weird, something crazy happening to Pepper, Tony worrying about the consequences. They're in a Beyonce video. Well, she already knows she'd probably be a better man, she's got bigger balls than most of the ones she's met.)