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Set after Monaco events in Iron Man 2. If you don't want spoilers from Iron Man 2, do not read.
Chapter 1: The beginning of the end.
Why did he do it? How COULD he do it? In Monaco's Grand Prix? Did it have to be there? Pepper thought again while she was sitting in one of the comfortable seats in Tony Stark's private airplane. She had asked her those same cuestions since she had seen Tony on the Hotel de Paris' television, getting into his race car, or well, actually she saw him telling the real race car driver from Stark Industries to go to hell. But the importance of the event wasn't that. It was that he did the most foolish thing he had ever done. And Pepper had seen a lot, really A LOT. She had seen him get drunk until actually forgeting his name! And if Pepper knew something for sure was that Anthony Edward Stark never, never, forgets his name. He just was too proud for that. For that and for a lot of other things. Like to admit he has messed up something, like their vacations in Monaco.
And there she was, alone in his private jet plane. Now that she thought about it, where was he? He had left 3 hours ago and she had not seen him since then.
She had to admit it, she was worried, very worried. She had been with Tony for a long time, but he never had been so reckless. Not even with telling the hole world he was Iron Man. Actually, she should have thought of that one. He was Tony Stark, he wouldn't keep a secret like that. He couldn't. And she also had to admit, even if she didn't want to, that she had some... feelings for Tony.
Ok, big feelings. She loved him.
She loved the way he smiled at her, his brown eyes, his dark brown hair(no matter how he wore it), his weird humor, his embarrassing jokes, his weird nicknames (like Pepper) but that actually fit people very well (like Pepper, or Rhodey), his brilliant mind, etc.
And she loved the way he looked in any tight. Not that she had seen him a lot of times, but she loved those days when she walked into his work shop and saw him work in an underwear T-shirt. Those actually ended to be her best days because she had a brilliant humor after seeing him like that.
Oh, and those brown eyes...
No! Potts, you're loosing track of your thoughts...again! She turned on the plain TV to just see the Sen. Stern talking, no, babbling about the armours and the Monaco event, again armours, again Monaco...
"...and this man doesn't know what he's doing. He thinks of the the Iron Man weapon as a toy. I was at a hearing where Mr. Stark, in fact, said that these suits can't exist anywhere else, won't exist anywhere else, never will exist anywhere else, at least for five or ten years. And here we are at Monaco, realizing, oh-oh, these suits exist now..."
"Mute" a voice said behind Pepper, but she already knew who it was. " They should give me a medal for this." He put a plate in the table near her.
"What's that?" Pepper asked
"This is your flight meal." Pepper looked at a very weird thing, with yellow and black. Was it meat or fish? And then, it hit Pepper. Tony was hiding something. Something from her.
"Tony, what are you not telling me?" She looked at him with curious eyes.
He seemed to study her for a moment, like seeing if he could trust her.
"I don't wanna go home, Pepper. Let's cancel my birthday party...and...and go to Venice." He sad in a tone she had never heard him use before, an almost...sweet tone.
"I don't think it's... the best moment, Tony" Pepper responded "We're a bit bussy now."
"But maybe that's why it's the best moment. We just have to recharge our batteries and clear things up" He sad in a worried tone. His eyes were ilegible to her...Which was a new thing. She always had known what his eyes said. That's how she knew when something was wrong with him and she could help him. Now...she felt useless. But instead of showing that, she looked at him and gave him a sweet, sad smile as she said:
"Not everyone runs on batteries, Tony."
Tony gave her a sad smile back.
Pepper spend the rest of the flight trying to figure out what he was hidding from her. But she couldn't.
Because the only thing she could think about was that sad smile he had gaven her. It was the first time she had seen him so... vulnerable.
She just couldn't stop thinking about it...
Well, here's the first chapter of my first fanfic, hope you enjoyed it. Any comments will be gratefully accepted.
Music for this chapter:
Iron Man score: Dying Hero - John Debney.