The Field of Heaven

Chapter 1

Ever since Pepper Potts and Tony stark had started dating, Tony always wanted Pepper to stay the night, every night. Pepper's heart said to stay, but her brain said to go because she had to go to work the next day. However, Tony had that irresistible charm and he used it, a lot. And it work, a lot. There were nights when Pepper did stay the night, and the next day she would get to work at least an hour late, but she didn't really care and no one else seemed to care either. Of course, she was basically running the company, considering Tony never showed up any more. When she didn't stay the night, she could barely sleep and always kept thinking of Tony and how much she missed him even though he was only twenty minutes away. She always regretted not staying at Tony's. It seemed like it was her house too. She barely spent any time there and most of her stuff was at Tony's anyway. She probably spent one, maybe two, days at her apartment, but she really didn't mind at all.

Tony had been planning to ask Pepper to move in with him, he just needed to find the right time, and tonight seemed like a perfect night.

Tony was sitting in his workshop upgrading the suit, when he heard Pepper come in from work. He quickly jumped up and cleaned up the suit a little bit so it would be out of the way and the workshop wouldn't look like a tornado had hit it.

Pepper came down the stairs and entered her code to get in to the workshop. She saw Tony sitting in front of his computer and walked over to him.

Tony looked up at here, "Hey. How was work?"

"It was alright." Pepper walked around the desk and kissed Tony on the head. Then she noticed that he was just staring at his screen saver. "What are you doing? I thought you would be working on the suit."

"I was, but I wanted to ask you something." Tony stood up and took Pepper's hand pulling her over to the couch he had put in the workshop for the nights he came home and was way too sore or tired, or both, to make his way up the stairs.

They sat down on the couch facing each other. Tony looked away from Pepper trying to find the right words to say.

After about a minute Pepper said, "Tony-"

When she got no response she said, "Tony is something wrong?"

"What? Oh no. Sorry I just… It's just… Um… Do you want to move in with me?" It just slipped out of his mouth and he couldn't control it. He tried to fix the situation. "I mean you already basically live here and I was just wondering if you wanted to. You don't have to. It was just an idea. I could handle all the moving. You won't have to lift a box. I'll even personally fly all your boxes over here myself and drive them if you prefer. Or we could get a moving truck. I mean I…" He trailed off puzzled by the look on Pepper's face.

"Are you done?" Pepper asked.

"Yeah." Tony said dropping his head.

"Fine."

"What?" He wasn't sure he'd heard her right.

"I said yes Stark." Pepper jumped on Tony as she spoke and started kissing him.

Tony couldn't believe what he'd just heard. He was sure from the look on her face she was going to say no.

Pepper pulled away, breathing heavily. "Took you long enough Stark." Pepper said as she sank on top of Tony, resting her chin on his chest looking up at him. "I have been waiting for you to ask me for the longest time."

"Really?" Tony asked. "Why didn't you hint at in or something?"

"Are you kidding me? I have all of my stuff here except for a very few amount of clothes, which, by the way, wouldn't even get me through one week, and I also stay here pretty much every night. It's like I already live here. You're such an idiot Tony."

Tony couldn't believe his ears. "Oh. Well I guess I was just waiting for the right time."

"Well you could have found the right time a little sooner, just for future references."

"Future references?"

"Um yeah you know for when you pro…" Pepper blushed and buried her face in Tony's chest.

"For when I what Pep?"

"Never mind." Pepper said into his chest. "I'm hungry." She said as she lifted her head back up a rested her chin on his chest again.

"Let's go out for dinner then, ok?"

"Ok. Where?"

"Where do you want to go roomie?"

Pepper couldn't resist laughing at this. "Um. Let's go to the pier and then take a walk on the beach after."

"Sounds good. I think we should probably change first though." Tony said looking down at Pepper, still in her work clothes and then at his own attire, covered in grease.

Pepper got up off Tony and went up to Tony's, now their, bedroom to change followed closely behind by Tony. Tony took a quick shower and changed into a t-shirt and jeans, while Pepper put on jeans and a shirt that showed off her figure. Tony did his hair and found Pepper at the door waiting for him. Tony took Pepper's hand and they started down the beach for the pier.

Once they got there, Tony ordered their food while Pepper found a table. Tony brought their food over after a minute or two.

After they finished eating, they started walking further down the beach and eventually got tired so they turned around. They got back to the house and noticed how late it was and got ready for bed. Pepper curled up next to Tony and before long, they fell asleep in the comfort of each other's arms.