Peppers hair flowed in the breeze. As tony speeded down the canyon road. It had been months since they had been able to get away just the two of them, and pepper was nervous. From Tony's job as Iron Man to Running Stark Industries, it rarely gave them enough time to go to the bathroom, let alone go on a romantic vacation. But now that they finally had some free time they intend to stay away from their lives as much as they could. Which frightened pepper. She never had been truly alone with him, and she wasn't really sure how it was going to turn out. As tony flew around a sharp turn in the road, Pepper felt a chill rush down her spine, that chill of darkness and worry. She shuttered, and Tony looked at her.

"You Okay, Pep?" He asked as he turned back to the road.

"Yeah…I think. I had just felt a weird chill, that's all." She said looking back out the window of Tony's silver mustang. He put his hand on her lap, reassuring her that everything was going to be all right. It had just been so long she was worried there wasn't a spark anymore, she was afraid Tony had come to his senses. He would realize that she is nothing compared to him, and leave her for some Victoria secret model, or a playboy bunny. She sighed and put her head against the window. How could a man as famous as Tony Stark fall in love with a small town girl who wanted to escape her fighting past. By running away to L.A. hoping to turn her life around. She sighed and smashed her face against the window. Tony sensed that something was wrong; he squeezed her leg a little.

"Tony?" Pepper asked quietly as she kept her head in a uncomfortable position against the window.

"Sorry, you just seem like…is something wrong? Cause we could go back?" He said glancing at her for one second before he turned back to the winding road. Pepper sat up and looked at him.

"Why me?" She asked softly. Tony looked at her again, then turned and laughed a little. Pepper scowled, and His smile faded.

"Your serious?" He said with a puzzled look. "Why you?" He said looking at her with his play boy smile, taking his full attention away from the road. She wasn't amused. At all. He kept starring at her, not paying attention the big rig approaching them.

"Tony…Stop screwing around and tell me. Why me? Why not some Victoria secret model, or a playboy bunny? Why boring old me?" Tony was stunned. He couldn't believe she didn't know he loved her. The car started to drift in front of the truck. And he continued to look at her.

"Pepper. Why would ask such a thing." The car was now directly in front of the truck. Tony turned only to see the glaring lights of the truck. He quickly grabbed the wheel. The car quickly swerved out of the trucks way, but the car flew into the other lane and off the road. The car jerked forward and launched down the canyon cliff. Tony grabbed peppers hand, and braced for impact. He turned towards her, to take one last look at her before he died.

His life flashed before him. He saw his parents funeral, and remembered how he locked himself in his room for a week with nothing but a dozen beer bottles. He saw the first day he met pepper, he saw her long strawberry hair, and he deep blue eyes that glistened from the glow of her smile. He saw the day they finally kissed, and he knew he would never let her go. Not even now. Not even as the world was about to end, he would never let her go.

Peppers flash was short, but very strong. She remembered when she ran out of her mother's house tears running from her face, and promising herself she would never return. She remembered when a man picked her up off the street, and gave her a job. She remembered all the hell she went through to become Tony's assistant. She saw they day she met him, she remembered she was so nervous, so afraid she was going to screw up and have start all over again. Then she saw them on the roof, and she saw Tony fall from the sky, and then everything went black.

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Tony woke up to sound of people yelling. They kept flashing light in his face and yelling. He couldn't make out what they were saying. He was still trying to figure out whether or not he was alive or not. He felt someone touch his shoulder, and he turned to see a paramedic, yell something at him then drag him out of the car. Time froze as they slowly pulled his limp body out of the car. He saw pepper, and his heart dropped. She laid there, with eyes closed. With blood dripping from her chest. Turning her white blouse into a rose color. What had he done! He was so stupid not to have been looking at the road. Now because of that pepper, might be…dead.

Tony felt spark. Probably from the ARC reactor breaking down. He pushed the paramedics away in an angry furry. He pulled himself up, ignoring the shocking pain coming from his legs. Ran to pepper, and pushed the rest of paramedics away, and sat by her side. He put his hand on her cold face, and opened her eyes. He felt her eyes twitch, and he dropped his hand. He was relived for the moment to know that she was at least alive. The paramedics ran over to him, and pulled him away and slowly took her out of the car, and put her on a gurney. They pulled him into a ambulance with quick haste. And they dragged Pepper in shortly after. A paramedic kept Tony pinned down, so he wouldn't pull the paramedics off her again.

He could watch them treat her. He couldn't even hear what they were saying, but whatever it was it wasn't good.

"She has shrapnel in her heart. There's nothing we can do Mr. Stark." Was the first thing that actually transmitted into his brain. Pepper had shrapnel in her heart? Like him? He turned to the paramedic who had a grim look on his face.

"Let me up." Tony commanded. The paramedic was puzzled.

"I can't Mr. stark…" Tony grabbed his shirt.

"Let me up" The paramedic froze, and loosened his grip on Tony, so Tony could stand up. He wobbled up onto his feet, and went over to the other paramedics.

"She has shrapnel correct?" He asked the head paramedic. Who nodded.

"I'm going to need my suit case from my car. I need a metal casing, and all of your guys help." The paramedics starred at each other.

"Well…What are you waiting for go!" Tony yelled, as he looked at pepper and whispered it was going to be alright.

Well that's the first part. More to come soon. Please comment, and let me know what you think they make my day. I don't not own any of the characters.