Tomorrow's gonna be a better day.

[fatherofinnovention]

[It's right at 10 till 8 when Howard shows up at pepper's home with a bouquet of orchids and a bottle of Sassicaia. He's not a man overly concerned with punctuality, but he figures it'll be a nice change of pace for Pepper, who's probably used to dragging Tony into meetings by the scruff of his neck.]

Miss Potts? Hope I'm not too early.

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[yes_mr_stark]

[Pepper flinches softly and bites her lip.]

It was barely two years ago, it was a simple job. He flew to Afghanistan to do a weapons presentation and the next thing we knew, his fleet of humvees had been blown to bits by a terrorist group known as the Ten Rings. Tony doesn't like to talk about it, but I know that in the explosion his chest was pierced by small pieces of shrapnel that are constant trying to make their way to his heart. The Ten RIngs had a Doctor who implanted a magnet into Tony's chest to start with to keep the shrapnel from moving any further. Of course that wasn't good enough for Tony so he quickly made the miniature reactor and implanted t into his chest.

I know they did terrible things to him after a while they told us all to just assume the worst. I broke down at that point, me and Rhodey couldn't think like that. We had to find him. It was honestly the happiest moment of my life when Rhodey called to tell me that they had found him and he was coming home.

Though the joy didn't last long once he was back and I was back to stressing about keeping him alive and healthy --and working.

[She laughed softly and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. It was hard for her to leave the part about Stane out, but she had already been lectured by both Phil, and Director Fury about the importance of not changing the future.]

[fatherofinnovention]

Huh... [It's hard for him to feel as much as he knows he should since Tony hasn't been born yet in his timeline, since he doesn't feel like a father in any sense of the word. But he does care for the guy, and if he had to sit around like Pepper did-- not that he would, because like hell would Howard Stark sit idle and not jump into that mess the moment it came to light-- but if he -had- to, he'd be no less upset about the whole thing.]

After that, he took up this whole 'Iron Man' thing, right?