Stop being so understanding, Pepper. It's really weirding him out.

"Of course I wasn't going to let you die," he says. "I'd thought of you as a friend, then. I still do. And I want to...mend fences."

He sighs. "Like I said before...it's always been different, with Tony. And you know there's no love lost between me and Rhodes. But I think you were actually the first real friend I'd ever made."