Believe me. To him, it was much more. [Pepper speaks with certainty despite knowing neither Peeta nor Katniss well. She just understands from her own relationship, how dear she finds those words every time Tony chooses to say them now, and how many things they've come to mean. Promises and hopes and comforts all; Pepper thinks it would break her heart to discover Tony had gone back to being unable to say those things.
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Even if it happened because she had gone.]