oh the epilogue was epic..

You really enjoy sucker punching us readers, don't you. That was bitterly sad. But what happened between them? And is that guy sitting with Pepper an original character or one already established, because the only male character I remember in the show who wore special sunglasses was Hawkeye and I doubt it's him. On to the first year to find out I guess.

Wow, a hidden clue from a previous story. I KNEW something was up with that message Pepper left! Called it! But now what's going on? What did Gene and Tony do?

Geez that was intense! Like Whitney, I didn't see Ghost coming at all. It actually scared me a little when Tony found out. And what a fight! Ghost being his usual badass self. But now he's dead? Tony actually KILLED him?! What will this mean for him? And now that pepper knows how he feels, what's gonna happen between them? Again, geez!

So many things to comment on in this chapter, but I can't think of anything to say about them right now. I'm too busy laughing at Tony seeing three Peppers and asking if he can kiss the other two! 1) can't blame him, and 2) absolutely priceless!

Well, that's pretty cool. They're gonna by Hammer's company. Interesting meeting with Pepper and the board. And again, jealous Tony with that Josh guy helping Pepper. And did he actually suggest that he marry Pepper, just like that? wow. Pepper is getting closer and closer to just saying screw it and telling tony that she loves him again, isn't she?

So many things. Pepper is healed, she and Tony bought a place together, she's remembering what happened and it's making her unstable. And she's definitely in love with him again. This is going to blow up on Tony, I can tell. Was it maya he called?

Ah crap. Wow, this one was awesome too. Pepper finally knows that Tony is keeping their full history from her, so what will she do? Now she's gonna work with him and the board doesn't like it? Are they crazy? Who wouldn't love to work with Pepper Potts? And jealous Pepper! Not as fun as jealous Tony but still cool. I guess Maya is going to be the new competition with Whitney gone. And when did Pepper end that call anyway, because if it was before Tony said that maya was the one who misses him...

I don't know how you do it, but every chapter just keeps getting better with the moments between Tony and Pepper. I really, really love how its taking Pepper's whole perspective of meeting tony for the first time and showing how it could have been if we had known what she was thinking and if all the Ironman fun was not distracting her. Here, pepper is starting to like tony from scratch, not knowing him as a celebrity or anything. She's handed this guy who she is told is her best friend and has been for a long time, hes suddenly in her life at all times and she likes him, and she's got real rasons to question why she should try at all. WE didn't get that in the series and I love how you show it here.

In the series, Pepper has known about tony as much as anyone else, and since she asked rhodey right away if he had a girlfriend, she showed us she already liked him. It makes you wonder if she had thoughts like you gave her here in those early episodes, before they really got close as friends. She had to ask her self, why would this cute guy like me? Why would this rich guy like me? why would this famous guy like me? why would this genius like me? And then finding out that he was iron man, why would this suprhero like me? She probably got so excited about the iron man thing and saw that Tony wasn't thinking about getting a girlfriend that she just set her crush aside and focused on being his friend, like you have her doing here. If Whitney had shown up sooner and Tony had started dating her then, she probably wouldt have been nearly as jealous as she was later on for that reason, but she started getting used to being THE girl in tony's life. The way you are showing that same kind of thing here without the superhero aspect getting in the way is so cool, I think this may be my favorite story ever. And you say the next one is even better? I cant wait! I wish I didn't have school getting in my way all the time, because I don't have the free time I want to read all of these stories nonstop.

This is really something. This is IMAA alright: Intrigue, Misery, Anger and Angst! There was just so much to this chapter and it was all just talking. First pepper is mad, then tony is trying to just be her friend, and gene is being both helpful and a dick to them respectively, and now pepper is beginning to suspect that she and Tony were not just friends. And Maya hansen? That's the girl from IronMan 3, right? What's that about? This is the most interesting idea for a story I've ever heard of.

Man, this is really incredible. It's like pepper getting to know Tony all over again. I mean, she technically is, but the series never showed us how Tony and Pepper first got to know each other beyond Pepper just showing up around him and getting in trouble with him until he told her he was Iron Man. This lets us see what those early moments may have been like, somewhat.

Now she's gonna know that he's rich. Boy, will she be shocked. And I love how you are making pepper act all crazy and silly, just like she is in the show. I'm loving this story!

Wow, that was amazing. It was so much longer than the chapters of the first story, and somehow was also an equal improvement in quality as well as quantity. Not saying that the first one was poor in any way, but there's something about this chapter that makes it feel like this story is more... mature, I guess. Can't wait to read the next one!

Wow, already I can feel Tony's pain. So pepper remembers nothing? She's gonna have a hard recovery. This is already looking awesome!

YOU are so so mean! I'm hoping to see a good ending

God...you'll find this crazy but I'm so attached with the story that I think it really happened I sometimes feel just like Tony you know how sad he actually is ...well credit goes to you wrote it so efficiently that it seems so real for me...hats off to you