"Where do you want it all to begin?" She had been talking to Tony for over two hours now, over the course of the interview, her camera had died twice and her recorder had used 2 tapes, and they had hardly started. She had learned more about Tony Stark in those two hours, than in the two months of research she had put into prep work. She had learned about his childhood, although a bit glossed over, his teenage years, the years after his parent's death, and up to the point where he was captured by terrorist. The descriptions he had given of such events had been brief but detailed, and he promised that he would go into more detail later, but the purpose of this interview was for her to get an idea of his life, so that by their already scheduled appointment the next day, she could come with a draft of how the book would be laid out. Tony had been insistent that the book not is chronological, he called it stuffy and traditional, he wanted her to choose what she thought the order of importance of the events in his life. For now, they were taking a short break, and she thought she'd use the opportunity to pick his brain a bit.

"Where everyone thinks it begins." He says while bustling around the kitchen preparing them a snack. She had been surprised when he had offered, she had assumed he would have a cook for such things. She had learned a lot about making assumptions over the past two hours, because up until this point, all hers about him had been wrong. "When I became Iron Man."

"You haven't told me about that yet."

"That's because it's not important."

"But you just said…"

"I know what I said, but to understand why I became Iron Man, you have to understand more than just that event itself. So right now it's not important."

"But that's going to be the beginning."

"I thought you of all people would understand that the beginning is not the most important thing, sometimes it's the end."

"What are you making anyway?" She asks observing him pulling out a carton of eggs from the refrigerator.

"Pancakes." He says simply, cracking the eggs into the bowl he begins whipping them.

"Pancakes, it's three o'clock in the afternoon."

"The biggest fault in our society is the fact that we label foods by what time of day is socially acceptable to consume them. I'm hungry for pancakes, therefore I am making pancakes."

"You don't like to follow rules do you?"

"You're starting to catch on Madeline."