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Early Morning

Early morning finds Pepper at the edge of the bed, Tony fanned out beside her on his back, arm spread across the empty side of the bed as he invades her space, forcing her off to the side. It's hardly a new position.

Sitting up in a mess of sheets, hair still thick with hair spray, she pries her eyes open through the mess of make up blinking rapidly in the too dark room.

"Jarvis, dim the windows." She requests smiling when Tony is no longer a vague shape next her, his chest rising and falling steadily with his breathing.

Transfixed on the steady movement, her hand slips out, fanning across the smooth skin along his sternum. Scars are all but non-existent, but the cool metal beneath the thin layer of skin now making up part of his ribcage is very obvious to the touch.

Tony's breath hitches as he shifts beneath her hand eyes opening, still thick with sleep. "What are you doing?" he mumbles, half asleep.

"Do you miss it?" Pepper asks, fingers still wondering along the metal plates.

Tony shrugs eyes on her meandering hand, shifting to pull himself upright. "It's different." He cringes, then chuckles when finally really looks at her, "You look like a raccoon," Tony teases at the make up caked around her eyes.

Pepper chuckles herself, finally pulling her hand back from his chest, "That's because somebody was more interested in getting into bed last night than the shower."

"You looked amazing last night," Tony tells her, leaning in.

"Your breath smells," Pepper informs him with his close proximity, nose crinkling.

"You're not exactly a bag of peaches yourself," Tony smirks back.

Pepper smiles, un-offended, "I'm going to shower," she tells him, closing the gap with a kiss. Slipping from the bed with a playful grin, she walks across their shared room unclothed, Tony's gaze following her every move. Pulling himself up from the bed as she disappears from his sight into the bathroom, Tony happily trails after her, bed forgotten and edger for the morning shower.