From lines in the movie and internet sites (yes I really am that sad) I'm assuming that when Tony first creates the Iron Man armour he is 37, making his year of birth 1972. I also know that Pepper is much younger than Tony but in this story she's only 2 years younger.
Btw- Ginny is short for Virginia, so it's Pepper.
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When Pepper Potts first stared working for Tony Stark (after an incident involving numbers that hadn't been counted properly and pepper spray) she wasn't sure what she was getting herself into. Everyone knew his reputation for being a womanizing playboy with no care for anything, but to Pepper he was a challenge, a challenge to give her experience. And besides, when you have 'worked as a PA for Tony Stark' on your CV there isn't a job in the world you can't get.
But, unbeknownst to both Pepper and Tony, they'd met each other before during a school trip to Stark Industries.
16th July 1989, 09:13am (Tony is 17, Pepper is 15)
Ginny Potts pulled her rucksack onto her back and gazed up at the large building in front of her. It was huge, all glass and shiny metal with the 20ft sign reading 'Stark Industries' printed on the side.
Ginny joined the rest of her classmates as they trudged up the steps into the building, where they were met by one of the secretaries of Stark Industries, a black-haired women in heels and a smart suit. She shook the hand of the teacher and smiled at the group of 30 children.
'Welcome to Stark Industries,' she said. 'My name is Amanda Missoti, please step this way and I'll give you the grand tour, we should be finished by 2 o'clock.'
Ginny and her classmates followed Amanda up into the heart of the building, gasping at the shear size of the place.
They first stopped at the Arc Reaktor and many of the classmates gasped in astonishment, including Ginny.
'This is the Arc Reaktor, it was developed by the CEO of this company Howard Stark and the CFO Obadiah Stane as a means of saving energy. Howard's son Anthony managed to enhance the energy output using…' she paused. 'I actually don't know, I leave all the engineering genius to the Stark's.'
'Will we be seeing Tony Stark?' Gena Hayward asked. Many girls giggled and Ginny rolled her eyes. Gena was a blond with a huge chest and a slim waist who fancied herself in with a chance of dating Tony.
Amanda smiled; clearly she was used to this. 'I don't make it my business to know where Tony is.'
Gena blushed and looked at her shoes.
Amanda clapped her hands together. 'Next?'
Ginny followed her into a further 7 rooms and departments, where engineers and designers and accountants stopped and waved and offered information when asked.
However, the building was huge and it didn't take long for Ginny to get lost. Rounding a corner she soon realised that her classmates weren't there. She turned round and went back down the stairs, but they weren't there either. Ginny stumbled around the corners until she found herself in an almost deserted section of Stark Industries. In front of her were doors where the sound of cutting machinery drifted through.
Panicking, Ginny turned back round and collided head-on with a dark haired boy coming the other way, sending them both flying and crashing on the floor, the objects that had previously been in the boy's arms went skidding off into the distance.
'Oh I'm so sorry!' Ginny said, standing up quickly and gathering up some of the boy's fallen objects, staring at them as she did so. They were strips of metal, screwdrivers, screws, general engineering objects.
'No, it's fine, let me' the boy said, grabbing the nearest parts that were around him and standing up.
Ginny stared at him. He was ridiculously good-looking. He looked around 17 or 18 and his hair was a dark brown, almost black, and his eyes were the same colour as chocolate. The boy smiled and Ginny found herself smiling back involuntarily.
'Um… I'm Ginny,' Ginny stammered.
'Nice to meet you Ginny. Here, I'll take these,' the boy said, taking the objects out of Ginny's arms. 'Back in a sec.'
The boy opened the nearest door and threw the objects in before turning back to her.
'So let me guess, you're part of the school group that came this morning and you've got lost?'
Ginny blushed to the roots of her strawberry-blond hair. 'Pretty much, yeah,' she mumbled.
The boy grinned. 'It's not hard is it?' he said. 'Follow me; I'll take you back to your group.'
Ginny followed the boy up two flights of stairs and along endless corridors, neither of them said anything.
The boy stopped in front of a door and stuck his head round it. 'You're in here,' he said stepping back.
Ginny stepped into the room; her class did not even seem to have noticed that she was gone.
Ginny stood next to a small mousy haired girl named Kathleen. 'Where have you been?' Kathleen asked.
Ginny looked up and the tall, largely built man in front of her. 'Who's he?' she asked.
Kathleen rolled her eyes, 'oh, I don't know, it's only the CEO of Stark Industries. That's Howard Stark, Ginny!'
Ginny looked back at the door. The boy winked at her, and then he was gone.