"Another trick, much like children if they go quiet, worry." It was not in a Stark to be happy being still and quiet, they simply weren't wired that way. But the way in which she spoke about Tony begin to pain a picture.

"Does he know?" Given that she hadn't spoken the entirety of the question she could hardly expect Pepper to answer. "Does Tony know how you feel about him?"

"I know the look, when a woman takes a fancy to a man she has a certain glint in her eye. I see yours plain as day." And she was happy for it. Love was too precious a thing to be wasted.