Disclaimer: I do not own the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or Pepper Potts would have been in Captain America Avengers: Civil War.
Virginia met her Soulmate the first day on the job.
He looked at her and laughed, then said. "Pepper. I'm gonna call you Pepper. That okay? Pepper Potts, get it?"
She didn't expect him to be drunk.
Or shirtless.
She set down the coffee and the newspaper she had brought him, desperate to get away, and said, "Will that be all, Mr. Stark?"
He spun around, a look of shock on his face, and ended up getting tangled in his sheets and falling back into bed.
When she went to make sure he hadn't hit his head, she discovered he had passed out.
She supposed that she could talk to him later.
Later, he didn't remember her. He asked her what she was doing there and had they...? She shook her head and asked if he would like some coffee.
For the next several years, she took a secret pleasure in the way he jumped slightly every time she said his Words.
On the day that he told her he loved her, she finally told him that they were Soulmates.
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