"Leave it there, kid," Tony responded in that. It was his stern, but 'on your side' tone he sometimes uses with people even if he had no right to do it. It was just natural to him somehow.

The next question was like a sucker punch to the gut. Tony knew it was coming, he just had hoped it might not be so soon. He looked down at Pepper's hand in his and gives it a squeeze. He lets her go in case she needs or wants to go hold Peter. He gives a second only before he answer in the only way he knows how. "Peter.. she's.. she's gone. Like how we saw Dr. Strange on the planet. She faded too."

And he waits for it.