Well 12% of a moment at least...that bring us to the to the present day...I've slept with yet more women and still not won peppers heart. I started to doubt whether I was even worthy of being near her, so I began to hide away in my lab more and more. Building suit after suit because I couldn't think of anything else worth while anymore.

It was well over a month before I resurfaced and returned to the offices. Pepper immediately laid into me and started demanding to know what the hell id been doing. Yeah I get told off by pepper a lot but most of the things I do I purpose just so she would talk to me. I don't care if I got told off, her voice made my heart flutter.

"...tinkering..." That was my reply to her after all of the shouting, this reply wasn't the answer she looked for apparently an went off on one. I just stood there and day dreamed, oh pepper when will you be mine, I don't love the women i fuck they fill gaps. If I had you I wouldn't have that gap to fill, and yes I so realise how pathetically helpless I sound right now. Just listen.

Tinkering was right, but among that I'd been twiddling my mothers ring between my fingers. It's perfect form sparkling in the light of my computer screen. "Give it to someone worthy..." That's what mom said to me before she died, that someone I wanted to be pepper but how...she was too busy to be with me I doubt she likes me anyway.

Oh tony you hopeless idiot, I should have proposed to that woman years ago and I know that now. The ring was worth well over $100,000 now, but money wasn't important, not this time. Anyone who knew me, knew me and my mother were close and that this ring meant the world to me. So...in theory if people have sense anymore they'll treasure it.

Any woman who possessed this ring was my true love...if one that one person could see how blindly in love with her I really was...but I still don't understand how that woman ticks...

If you watch pepper she is methodic and somewhat calming in the way she works, it's almost mesmerising. Anyway a plan of action was needed...oh and I need a whiskey too if I'm going to be brave enough to do this. Yes I shall propose to the woman of my dreams. Ha this sound like a bloody love story and I guess you can call it that, that or a man wasting his time on someone who clearly doesn't want him.

I've seen many men fall head over heels in love with Potts but she's never really laid eyes on them...maybe she was a lesbian! Naaa I think she may be bisexual at the most but even still...drink was needed so I could even talk a word of sense near her.

How am I even going to do this, I don't know anything about proposing or even where I start...oh boy...what have I let myself in for. Come on tony...just get down on one knee, maybe in the middle of the office? No that's stupid I know how pepper hates PDA...somewhere nice, the lab? Yeah no one comes to my lab anymore...oh well. Proposing...mother would be so proud. Her voice resonates in my head as I remember what she said to me, "someone worthy" pepper was more than worthy...she was the one for me.

I felt so safe where I should be, hopefully the best damn night with the one of my dreams. I was a light in the dark, especially with my reactor, I just hope I can light up world just that little bit more...