As Steph was walking away Tony's phone rang, Pepper's face popped up along with the red and green buttons. It hadn't even gone through a full ring cycle before he answered and was starting to say something but Pepper cut him off quickly. “Tony listen. I want to talk to you, and I want to apologize for being busy and not seeing you at all in person or calling. Are you doing okay? Jarvis says you have been drinking a lot of coffee again, you know that's not good for you.” Pepper worried about Tony a lot. More than she probably should, and that was part of the problem. He was so busy trying to protect everyone and she was so busy trying to take care of him that they weren't really having a real relationship at the moment.