AN: After the Iron Man 3 trailer I needed some Tony/Pepper fluff. I wrote that one while listening to „Nothing else matters" from Metallica. Great song!
It was horrible, really.
All those people who wanted to see them fail, all those people who said that he was going to use her, all those people who believed she only became CEO because she slept with her.
The media had gone wild when they started dating in public, and somehow everybody seemed convinced that they would not last. Most old friends or even family of Pepper thought he was going to hurt her. Everybody who had ever met Tony said the same.
But Tony loved Pepper more than anything in the world, and Pepper loved him equally much. To them, it was not important what others thought. They had themselves, they knew that the other was their one true love, and that was the one thing that was important.
They had a few friends, Rhodey who had known them for so long and knew it was going to work, and the Avengers who had gotten to known Tony a lot more than they thought. They heard him calling her when he went to that portal, the nuke on his back, they saw how gentle he was around her, they noticed how his eyes lightened whenever she was there. They saw she was always there, they saw how she would always do everything for him, even though he sometimes didn't know he what he needed. They saw the love in their eyes.
For Tony and Pepper, the only thing that counted were the moments they spend together, how Tony would visit her office out of impulse and take her on a short trip to relax, how Pepper would convince him to get out of the lab, how they would feel just lying together in bed, in each others warm embrace, how they would open up to each other like never before, how they saw love in each other and heard it in their words.
They never cared what others said. They never cared what others thought. They never cared what the press wrote.
They had each other, and nothing else mattered.
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