It was Fury's job to see through every lie and read people inside out. Fury just about knew everything even if it was a well kept secret. He had guessed Clint and Darcy would have a lot of problems in their relationship and they did. Fury had guessed that Thor was going to be pissed when he found out Coulson was still kicking. Thor had been red in the face and had yelled for so long that his ears were ringing for a couple of hours after that.

Nick Fury could tell that Tony Stark was a man in love by the way he presented himself (and having over heard the whole missed call thing during the invasion). It angered him to no end that he couldn't figure just why Pepper Potts loved the man. Fury knows that Stark has many sides (like an onion!) and that he has only seen the snarky-as-hell, I-don't-wanna-talk-about-my-past and post-near-death sides of the complicated man. Pepper was much easier to read.

She had three sides. Business, not business and stressed. Yeah, she was stressed because of Stark and his company. Fury was stressed because he was the sole leader of a worldwide government agency and co-avengers handler. Fury wins.

The first (and hopefully last time, Fury thinks.) time Fury enters Stark- or is it Avengers Tower now?- Tower since Loki and his shitty revenge, he sees Tony holding Pepper tight. Fury can hear her cry, and he faintly wonders why Pepper Potts would cry. She was practically a goddess, what with the way she can control Stark, so she presumably never has time to cry.

"I'm sorry, Pepper. I know you and Agent were good friends. It's hard to believe he's, you know." Stark mumbles. Fury has never seen this side of either of them. Fury's cold heart almost breaks and he almost shouts "Coulson's alive! Stop crying!". If you can tell, Fury doesn't know how to handle crying very well. Well, he does, just not in a comforting way.

Twilight was on in the background and he could hear Agent Barton groan, but for all of his heightened senses, Fury can't help but watch as Tony picks Pepper up and take her to the elevator behind him. Tony glares at Fury as he walks past, but doesn't comment when Fury slides into the elevator with him.

Pepper must have fallen asleep whilst Fury was thinking because he coud hear the no nonsense woman's even breaths. He watches as Stark lays Pepper down on their, oddly small, bed. The word are out of his mouth before his mind can filter them, and he winces at the weakness he has shown.

"Why? No, scratch that. How?"

"How what, Cyclops?" Stark smirks, voice quiet.

"I didn't think you would how to be quiet. How does Pepper," cue dramatic sweep of hand over said woman. "end up with you? Does she even love you?"

Stark's face grows hard. "I made advances for ten years. She told me that maybe someday, when I had grown up that she would consider going out on a date with me. When I came back from the hellish cave, she was crying. I've probably seen her cry twice maybe three times in the whole ten years she's worked for and with me. I know everyone thinks she must be a goddess or some shit because, Darcy told me that she did. Pepper is much stronger than I am if only because she almost never complains, deals with me and all of my baggage. If she doesn't love me, that's to bad because I'm not against kidnapping her and hiding from SHIELD. What was it that you wanted again, Cyclops?"

"I'll just ask Captain Rogers. Thank you, Mr. Stark." Fury's sole purpose of going to the tower was finding out about Stark and Pepper. He left without another word.

Pepper had been awake for most of Tony's speech. She had never told Tony that she loved him because she didn't think the feelings would be reciprocated. Once Fury had left, Tony fell onto the bed and snuggled closer. "You know I love you right?" She whispered.

Tony's head popped into her view, eyes wide. He laid her flat on her back and climbed on top of her. "You do? You wanna prove that to me?" And, even though Pepper was sad, she nodded happily. When Tony's lips crashed into hers and his hands started to tak her shirt off, she thought, Maybe this will help keeping my mind off of Phil.

*Later*

Tony, fresh out of the shower, stumbled into the whole team of avengers staring at him. Looking down, Tony saw that he was neither naked nor showing much skin, not drunk, extremely happy, Does my shirt have Loki on it? No, ok good. Tony thought. Wouldn't want to be in that mess. What could it be?

"Um. Hello, good morning or afternoon or whatever. I don't really care. What's shakin' bacon?" He said, aiming his question to Rogers.

Rogers leveled him a glare that had nearly the whole world shaking in it's boots, but Tony pretended not to notice. "Bacon sounds good. JARVIS! Make me some bacon. Do we have bourbon? Or coffee? Please tell me we have coffee! Btw, Rogers, did Fury want something earlier?"

"No." Monotone voice, this early? Ok, it was 4 o'clock on the afternoon but really.

Fury came to the conclusion that somethings are best not figured out. That was after two solid hours of pouring over everything SHIELD knew about the relationship and Fury's own personal recollections.

AN: Hi. I decided to add this to the story! Thanks to ANimATion ImAgInAtIoN, CriXar, louvreangel, special agent Ali and jojo32085 for reviewing! Probably not gonna add more, but that's what I said before so you never know. God Bless all. I do not own Avengers, Twilight or any of the characters seen in this story.