Hi everyone!

So I've never posted any of my fanfic online before, but I felt like our Pepperony ship needed some love, plus Spiderman Homecoming brought them back together! So yay! Also I know this is late but... better late then never? Please read!

Rated T cause I'm paranoid

Love this ship. Hope you like!

Prompt 1: Touch

Tony pushed Rhodey away the moment he saw those red eyes and strawberry blond hair. Yeah he was still hurting from three months in a living hell, but Pepper was watching, dammit! He wanted to look strong for her. He didn't let himself think about why.

He kept himself together through the whole interaction. Their banter was still there, and he could tell Pepper was happy to see him. For him, seeing her was like having a breath of fresh air for the first time since he left. They kept themselves at the professional distance of boss and employee. He was glad of that too; if she'd reached out he'd probably have broken down crying there and then. Some dignified homecoming that would have been.

They reached the car, and he opened the door for her, ignoring the startled and puzzled look she gave him at the gesture. She got in and scooted to the far side. He was just getting in after her when he hit his injured arm on the side of the door. The sudden pain surprised him, and next thing he knew he'd fallen on the leather seat: half-in and half-out of the car.

He didn't mind too much though, because his position gave him a first rate view of her very lovely legs.

Pepper exclaimed in surprise and reached down to help him into a sitting position. In the awkward scramble, her hand brushed up against his chest and felt the protruding, circular chest piece behind his suit and tie.

They got themselves situated and Happy started the car, but the entire way to the fast food place, Pepper couldn't stop staring.

At length Pepper asked, "Is that where…"

She trailed off, still staring at his chest, and Tony for once felt himself also at a loss for words.

Almost as if she didn't know what she was doing, Pepper reached out her hand slowly toward the center of his chest.

Her fingertips just brushed the fabric that covered the arc reactor, when Happy called back from the front, "Boss? They're asking if you want pickles on your cheeseburger."

The moment broke, and Pepper pulled away quickly.

Next they knew, they were both caught up in meeting Obadiah and the press conference and the various chaos that followed after that. The subject didn't come up again till he was back in his shop in the basement, when he called up to Pepper to ask the size of her hands… as if he didn't already know.

But Tony could have almost sworn that, during that single moment when her fingers touched the thin fabric of his shirt and met with the tech in his chest, that the reactor whirred to life just a little bit faster.