“she just goes to the shop to listen to me babble I’m pretty sure.” Tony admitted. “that and…” he hessitated and his voice lowered so only Pepper could hear. “being alone is kind of the worst ever…” he admitted softly. He liked it when Steph was there because then his mind didn’t go racing around either. Both of them suffered pretty extreme PTSD. Tony had open heart surgery that he was awake for… twice. Had been tortured, had almost died in the suit multiple times… Steph had her own trauma to work through. She’d never said anything about it, not to Tony anyway… but sometimes he wondered if she had been awake when she’d frozen in the plane. He knew Bucky screamed sometimes in the night, begging invisible enemies not to put him back in the cold box. Begging them not to freeze him. Not to kill him again and again, and again… they where all fucked up in their own ways. Eve Natasha and Loki and Coulson. Tony was pretty sure that Loki had been tortured before, the way he tensed when metal glinted in someones hand… “oh I will definitely enjoy the opera.” Tony wasn’t exactly a classy man by any means. But Pep loved it, so he’d love it for Pep.<br/><br/>“not even I we do it in the superhero training grounds?” Tony asked, pouting. They where still being built but would be capable of containing even the Hulk when finished. Even Thor’s hammer couldn’t break through the protective fields surrounding the area. Tony did beam at Pepper’s kiss and made a mental note to buy her some more shoes before beaming at her. “Laser Tag! Pep your a genius.” he informed her. Because it was her Frisbee comment that had made him think about it. “we have a whole two floors still not used. I’ll make a laser tag arena.” he decided, clapping his hands together and rubbing them with glee. “buy yourself something really really nice.” he ordered. “full outfit. And I’ll buy you flowers too. Jarvis will help me.” he decided.<br/><br/>Bucky chuckled at Clint and shook his head and gave Clint’s hand a squeeze. Bucky knew that most of the people here didn’t like Loki much. He himself rather appreciated the guy, Loki was one of the few who didn’t walk on eggshells around him when he was having a bad day. They all settled in to watch, though Bucky for his part, had been waiting for Loki’s signal. Once it was given, he set a hand on her knee, flicking a glance at her with a smirk. “you know, it should be illegal for you to wear things like that.” he informed her. “I have such a boner right now. Very rude of you I must say.”