And here it is, the epilogue to officially the longest and most reviewed story I've ever written. Thank you for sticking with it!

Epilogue.

"I'm sorry dad." Jason, who had long abandoned the Edwin after declaring it uncool, said as his father and the robots pulled him free from the mangled wreckage of Tony's favourite car.

"We'll talk about it later." Tony said as he helped the boy over to the platform so the suit could be disassembled.

"Mr Stark, Miss Stark has arrived home." JARVIS announced and Tony's grin broke out in to a wide grin, his little girl was home and as soon as Jason and his girlfriend left the garage Tony secured the suits and leapt up the stairs.

He saw his daughter as soon as he came up the stairs and rushed straight to her wrapping her up in the biggest hug he could manage.

"Daddy put me down!" She demanded. He looked at her, she only ever called him Daddy when she wanted something. "I scored a perfect score on the MCATs!" She told him excitedly "And I started applying for med schools."

All three of Tony's children were incredibly intelligent, none of them as prodigal as he was but still they'd all gained admission to the top schools in the country. Beth at 21 was studying pre-med at Harvard where she'd just finished her junior year. It had been hard for Tony to let her go all the way to the other side of the country. It had been harder for Pepper to convince him that Stark Industries did not need a Boston office, however the number of MIT events that he attended increased so he'd have an excuse to go to Boston regularly.

Ed was 19 and in a few days Tony was flying out to Maryland to watch his son attempt the Herndon monument climb at the US Naval Academy. Tony was proud of his son for getting in to Annapolis, he wouldn't let his father try and call in any favours to get him in. Rhodey was proud of Ed too, out of all of Tony's kids this is the one he was closest to, Ed had always loved to hear the stories about Rhodey's air force days and Cap's stories about the army but he wanted to be a Navy pilot. "I've seen Top Gun." He told his father when he shared the ambition "Chicks love the Summer Whites." Whilst Ed was more like Pepper in temperament and personality little bits of Stark crept through. Of course whenever possible Ed would take over Iron Man duties from his father, his mother hadn't liked that but she couldn't stop him.

"Daddy…" Beth's voice dragged him out of his thought process.

"Yeah princess?" He smiled as she blushed, only then did he notice the unfamiliar face in the room. "Who are you?" He asked the guy, stood a little too close to his daughter for his liking.

"Daddy this is Andrew, we've been dating for 6 months." Tony was shocked, he had no idea that his daughter was seeing anybody. The man in question held out his hand for Tony to shake.

"Andrew Henson, nice to meet you."

Tony just stared at the hand. Pepper lay a gentle hand on his arm prompting him to shake Andrew's hand. "Tony Stark. Tell me Andrew what do the words, 'don't touch my daughter until you put the ring on her finger' mean to you?" Andrew laughed nervously, although Pepper and Beth shot him a look, telling him to shut up.

Jason just sniggered in the background. He was the most like Tony from the getting in to trouble (always able to find it in the strangest places) to graduating early. He was on course to graduate High School at 16 and was already preparing his application for MIT to study Engineering. Tony gave him a look, reminding him he was still in trouble for the car and he shut up promptly.

Tony and Pepper had gone from strength to strength since Jason's birth, the problems they had in the months before were now a non-issue. Of course in the habit of a lifetime, Pepper found herself managing Tony's life and whilst he'd semi-retired his gauntlet's he still did the consulting work for SHIELD and helped with the technological advances. He'd not touched a drop of alcohol since he'd left rehab and was proud to say that he was god father to Reuben Rhodes.

As he watched Pepper converse with Andrew he smiled. He was perfectly happy with where he was right now (he'd be happier without Andrew obviously) he wouldn't change how he got here because that old saying was right. It's not the destination, it's the Journey.

THE END.

For reals this time.

Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed it.

For now I'll work on my current works in progress and then I'll look at starting something new.