It's more than that. More than that but Tony can't say it because he doesn't know what it means to feel it. Loving Pepper is obvious. She knows him better than anyone in every way except his mind. She knows how he takes his coffee and his social security number. She even knows his heart. Or, that he has one at least. And so, he loves her for it.

But all of that had happened before Bruce came along into his life. It'd been so easy. It'd never been that easy before. And while Tony is obsessive and childish and so very confused, he just has to cover it up lest anything happen to these few moments.

He knows, deep down, that he's not the person Bruce would ultimately choose. And it kills him.

Tony's next kiss is heartbreakingly soft. Even he doesn't know why that is. But he tastes Bruce, memorized him. Pleads for him to care enough to overlook how shitty a human being he is... And then stretches out like a cat under him.

"Good. Entertaining as the other guy would be... Good."