Okay I am so so sorry that it took me this long to update. I've just had a lot going on. Hopefully I will be able to update much more regularly than this!

After Pepper had dropped the eggs, she had gone straight to the car waiting outside for her. He had promised. She should have known something like this was going to happen. Tony could never keep a promise.

"Happy will you take me home? To my apartment please." she said. Happy looked back at her and nodded.

"Pepper is something wrong?" he asked quietly.

"No. Why would something be wrong?" Pepper asked in a voice Happy had never heard before.

He replied in a careful voice. "Well, you're engaged to Mr. Stark. When people are engaged, they don't normally flee from their fiancee, crying."

When he said this, Pepper finally realized that there were tears streaming down her face. She hadn't seen how much Tony's betrayal had upset her until Happy had pointed it out.

The car reached her apartment and she opened the door before the car stopped moving, grabbing her purse from the other seat. It had started to rain on the car ride home and it was pouring now. Rain mixed with tears as Pepper ran towards her apartment door. By the time she was inside, she was thoroughly soaked, her body dripping with water. Immediately Pepper shut the door, locked it and collapsed on the ground, letting go of her barely controlled emotions.

She laid there crying for a while just thinking. Why would Tony do this? Everything was going so good and then he had to go and ruin it. Pepper got up clumsily and walked toward her bed. When she reached it, she collapsed again, sobbing. Before blacking out from exhaustion, she noticed her left hand. The ring was gone.

Tony watched dumbfounded as Pepper stormed out the door. What could be mistaken as anger was actually sadness. Tony knew that Pepper walked out that fast so that he wouldn't see her cry. Her and her pride. Tony walked over, intent on cleaning up when he noticed something shimmering in the middle of the broken mass of eggs. He bent down and there it was. Pepper's engagement ring. He had made this with his own two hands. A miniature arc reactor in the middle of a titanium steel ring. It was beautiful and unique. It would have stood for something.

Tony's hand clenched around the ring. It wasn't going to end like this. He wasn't going to let it. He didn't tell the press about the engagement and he knew Pepper hadn't told anyone except for her family...

So who could have said anything? There was Claire, her mom, her dad, and Rhodey of course. But the flight attendants had also heard something about an engagement. If one of them were actually smart enough to catch on then they could have told the press they were together. It was highly unlikely though. Tony had hired them because of their stunning looks, not their brains.

There's still a chance though...

"Jarvis, where is she?" he asked as he went to his couch and sat down heavily.

"At her apartment sir." Jarvis replied, almost sounding sad.

"I need to get her back somehow. Do you have any sorry presents?" Tony asked Jarvis as he turned on the television.

"Do you really think a sorry present is going to work this time?"

Tony narrowed his eyes. Then he closed them. "No. I need to find who did this and make them explain to Pepper that it wasn't me that told the press. I'm starting with the flight attendants. Get my private jet, I can question them while we're on the way to Pepper's parent's house. And call Rhodey up just for the hell of it."

A few hours later, Tony and Rhodey were boarding Tony's private jet. Rhodey had a killer hangover from the day before. He, of course, hadn't told anyone about the engagement but Tony asked just to be sure. When the flight attendants asked him if he wanted anything to drink he glared at them. They slowly backed away towards Tony.

"Mr. Stark, I think something is wrong with your friend." A tall blonde said seductively. "He doesn't want anything to do with us."

"Yeah," A little brunette pipped up. "he doesn't want anything to drink."

The final flight attendant, a short redhead popped up from behind the brunette and nodded, poutingly.

Tony stared at them for a moment, transfixed. How could anyone be so into themselves to think that everyone wanted them. Oh, right. He used to be like that before the whole Iron Man incident. In fact, he was still like that at times.

"None of you told anyone about an engagement right?" Tony asked out loud to the three women.

They all stared at him, confused. "An engagement?"

"What engagement?" The three of them asked together. Tony couldn't contain his laughter. They were all so clueless! They didn't even know about the engagement yet even though it was all the news was talking about right now!

"Never mind ladies, never mind." he laughed. Then Tony turned serious. "If it wasn't you three, then it could only of been thre-four other people."

Tony turned to Rhodey. "You didn't tell anyone about the you know what, did you?"

Rhodey stared at Tony like he was crazy. "Do you really think I would do that to you man?"

Tony shrugged. "I guess not. Now we know whoever told was from Pepper's family. And I think I might know just who it is."

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