So this is just a little random fluff i had the urge to write after having a particularly weird dream...hope you like it!

Pepper smiled sleepily as she felt a hand caress her shoulder. She shivered as lips touched her neck and finally she turned and came face to face with another pair of sleepy eyes. He smiled at her and pepper smiled back. She felt unexplainable joy in her heart, but before she could find the reasoning for it, the man in front of her rippled as if in a movie. She cried out for him and then he was gone.

Pepper jolted awake. She looked next to her and found the other side empty. Just a dream, she thought to herself. She turned back on her side and tried to quell the memories of her and Tony before he was kidnapped. She swiped an errant tear from her eye before it could make a path down her face. Pepper sighed and let her eyes drift close, mind moving on its own to more happy times.

Two months later: Pepper smiled sleepily as she felt a hand caress her shoulder. She shivered as lips touched her neck and finally she turned and came face to face with another pair of sleepy eyes. He smiled at her and pepper smiled back. She leaned in close and pressed a light kiss to his lips. When she pulled away, he chuckled softly and said, "What was that for?" Pepper smiled, "I'm just happy to see you." Tony laughed and reaching out, pulled her close. "Whenever you wake up and look at me, its as if you are seeing me for the first time in years. Before my…before my kidnapping you never looked at me like that. What changed?"

Pepper's smiled dimmed at his mention of the kidnapping, but she looked into his eyes. "I just have some bad dreams is all. They remind me of the time when you weren't here and it kind of feels like a healing wound. It's closing, but every once in a while, something either pulls it open a bit or pokes it." As she talked, an unnoticed tear fell down her face. Tony reached out and wiped it away.

He pressed a light kiss to her forehead and squeezed her gently. : If you have a bad dream or feel in pain, I am right here beside you. Just wake me up and tell me about it." Pepper nodded and nestled into his arms. Tony smiled sadly at her distant look and watched as her eyes closed and she fell asleep. He watched her for a while, looking for signs of distress, but there were none. Suddenly she smiled. Tony smiled instinctively back and let himself drift off to sleep.