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Tony was staring out out of car window as they traveled down the ocean view road that led to Tony's home. He had forgotten the ocean, its smells, its majesty, another thing that his three months as a prisoner had taken away from him. He looked up front and looked over Happy and Pepper, neither had spoken since they left the press conference. He was pretty sure that Happy would be fine with dropping the weapons division at Stark since Happy really never had anything to do with the actual company. Pepper however was a much more of a wild card considering her actual job was at Stark Industries although Tony planned along the way back from the middle east to get her off the Stark Industries payroll. The market price for Stark Industries would certainly fall quite a bit but it would stabilize once he worked out his next move.

Pepper was in shock, her boss had been gone for three months and the first thing he does when he gets back is to shut down the most profitable division in his company. Not that she minded the change, she never enjoyed the weapons side of Stark Industries, Tony did often ask her opinion on projects and she often chose to try and push Tony to more peaceful projects. He didn't usually listen but he often made the more profitable decision as to Obidiah Stane's liking. Despite her disliking of the weapons division she didn't like that Tony was shutting down the division in one single move and not doing it slowly over time, shutting down too fast could not only cost Tony control of the company but it could send the company into a financial disaster it could never recover from. He was being even more reckless than usual, she knew she should talk him out of it but Tony was just as intelligent as he was reckless, he had a plan she was positive of that.

"We're here" said Happy pulling into the gate at the end of Tony's driveway. The gate opened after Happy put in the code on a panel next to the gate and he drove the car up the drive and parked just outside the front door. Tony hopped out jovially and nearly sprinted to the front door.

Tony threw open the door and shouted "Honey I'm home!"

"Welcome sir, it is most wonderful to see you" came the computerized voice of Jarvis.

Tony took off the suit jacket he was wearing and threw it onto the couch looking the house over. "Did you really miss me?" Tony asked peering around the corner to look at the kitchen. "Can you make a pizza for me real quick? I ate when I got here but I'm still hungry."

"Of course sir" replied Jarvis accessing his cooking protocols. Tony didn't feel quite at home though looking around.

Pepper and Happy came in "Did you guys clean my house while I was gone?" Tony asked with a puzzled look on his face. Pepper nodded while Happy took a seat on the couch. "You really did that? C'mon I had a system now I have to get it all fixed to the way it was" he stopped and then his eyes got big "wait you weren't in my workshop were you?"

"Well when you vanished Jarvis unlocked all the systems so yeah I was down there and I had to do at least some organizing" she stated matter a factly. This statement proceeded to sprint across the living room and down the stairs to his workshop.

"NOOOOOO" was all Pepper and Happy heard from downstairs causing them to sprint down the stairs after him. Tony was looking over his work bench when they entered his workshop. "What have you done?" Tony asked opening the various drawers looking to see where they put his tools. He spent the next twenty minutes rearraging his tools and equipment how he liked them. His robots that he built in high school soon joined him at his side and he instructed them to help arrange things to his liking.

Happy soon went back up stairs to watch T.V. while Tony disorganized Peppers work. Pepper approached Tony hoping to get him to talk about what happened feeling that he needed to get his emotions out in the open. "So do you wanna talk about it?" she asked not wanting to beat around the bush.

Tony was looking over his desk and stopped what he was doing after Pepper asked him. "Okay stop" he said causing Pepper to jump. "I promise I will talke about that hell someday but not yet. Not until I fully understand what it all will mean for me. This will take some time but I need you and everyone else to be patient with me and let me work through this on my own for now." Tony then turned back to what he was working on without missing a beat. Pepper moved to speak again but decided against choosing to go upstairs and leave Tony to his work.

She asked Happy to drive her back to Stark Industries where she could arrange Tony's schedule which was bound to get mighty busy given his recent business decision making. She reached Tony's office to find a man in a very nice suit waiting for her. "Hello, I'm agent Phil Coulson of Shield and I need to speak with as soon as possible" he said handing offering Pepper a card.

"Can't say I've heard of Shield before" said Pepper looking the card over that had a cell phone number on it.

"We tend to work as a more behind the scenes type of organization" explained Coulson with a smile.

Pepper smiled back "Well won't be in today but I will pencil you in and let you know when you can meet with him as soon as his schedule is finalized" she explained starting to walk into Tony's office. Coulson left since he needed to stop in New Mexico to speak with Jane Foster and more specifically Darcy Lewis.

Tony was ordering all the parts he was going to need to rebuild the armor and make it better than it was before. Jarvis helped him place the orders in a way that wouldn't seem suspicious to Stane or the accounting department at Stark Industries. His phone started going off, it was Stane and he was demanding to have a meeting with Stark at the research and development lab at Stark Industries. Tony sighed this was not a meeting he was looking forward too. The parts for the new reactor wouldn't be arriving for a few days and the armor parts would be an even longer wait so he figured he better get the meeting over and done with as soon as possible.