"Like you said: one I won't hear." They weren't friends and they would never be, and yet Loki had come to the gallery and told her of Tony's panic attacks. Whether it was out of regard for Rogue or Tony or Pepper, she still hoped on some level that he might understand what had been wrong about all he'd done. It'd make it easier for them to come to peace with it.

But peace remained a rare thing, and his laugh only earned him a hard look. Even if he was laughing at the circumstances and not at her, it wasn't a truth Pepper found so amusing. "Maybe. That doesn't make it right."