Guess who's back, back again, I'm back, tell a friend...now I have that song stuck in my head :(
Whelp, here's my latest one-shot. It's not my best, but it has been assaulting me since my last post...so yeah. I wasn't sure where to publish this seeing as it seems equal parts Pepper/Tony and Natasha/Clint...but seeing as I usually post under Clint/Natasha, I'm sticking to what I know. If this offends you, or makes you turn Hulk-ish, leave a kind reply with a suggested improvement. ...Suggestions on where I can go, will be ignored (I already have my hand basket all nice and decorated :D)
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"I don't see what the big deal is!" Tony argues, striding into the room with an angry Pepper at his side.
"You don't see...how can you...We were in the office, Tony! What if someone had seen?" Pepper exclaims, ending with an 'I'm-dating-an-idiot' look to Natasha and Clint, receiving twin smirks in return.
"It was just a kiss, Pep. It's not like I attacked you during a meeting in the conference room!" Tony replies, voice rising slightly.
Ignoring Clint's muttered "Well that's one image I really wish hadn't been planted in my head," the couple's eyes meet, brown stuck to blue in an annoyed glare.
"Sane people," Pepper addresses the couple sitting wide-eyed on the couch. Ignoring the couple's mumbled "We're normal?" as well as Stark's "They're normal?" Pepper continues, "Do you believe it is appropriate for a boss to kiss an employee in the office?"
"Before you answer that," Tony interrupts the couple's silent, yet conversationally loud gaze, "we were pretty much in the parking lot."
Pepper's professional glare silenced him to everyone's relief.
Clint begins, looking away from Nat's eyes, "I don't think it's appropriate, Stark. It would make Pepper-"
"-look like her position was only given based on your relationship. We all know the paparazzi will do anything to create a scandal." Natasha finishes the sentiment effortlessly.
"Thank you," Pepper kindly says, shooting a smile to them, and receiving curt nods in return.
The reasoning is too sound for Tony to get away from, so-like any good businessman-he begins grasping at straws, hoping to change the outcome.
"You can't ask them! They're in some weird, no-PDA-ever relationship. It's just not normal!" he tries to argue, earning smirks from the couple.
"So you're saying you want to watch? Now that's not normal." Clint comments dryly.
Tony's persistent glare causes chuckles to rise up in the couple.
"We can't base our relationship off theirs," he says, locking eyes with Pepper. "Ours is sarcastic banter and a mutual love of all things Tong Stark, while theirs is silent looks, and a multitude of other things that no one will ever know about-thank God-because they are so secretive. But we are different; therefore the rules should be too!" Tony finishes, a little out of breath, with his signature smirk firmly in place, his sentiments causing eye rolls from all those within hearing range.
"Nice speech, but no displays in the office." Pepper reasons, smiling back at him.
Breaking from her gaze, Tony glances back at the duo in hopes of having changed their minds.
"They're doing it again!" Tony announces in a whining voice, point to the couple like a child.
"Come on, Tony." Pepper commands, grabbing his hand and leading them away from the gaze-locked duo.