Yet another piece of my weekly homework. Enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
"Stop staring at me like I'm some trophy, Stark." The grin on his face grew widened. Tony never understood how he could be this lucky. A domestic life never sounded very appealing but with Pepper by his side, he couldn't imagine anything else. "And stop treating me like one. I'm no trophy wife, you know that. You can share your emotional baggage with me." Pepper wasn't greedy like the previous women in his life were. She was so pure and so real, sometimes he wondered why she even bothered to stay with him – let alone agree to marry him. "How about this: you let me stare at you as if you were a trophy and you get to do the same." That didn't make it any better. "Negotiation's in vain, Tony. I'm not a trophy, I'm your fiancée." And that was her first mistake. Pepper gave Tony the perfect argument and she didn't even notice. "Perks of being engaged: I get to look at you in every way I want to – and you get to do the same." She would have loved to wipe that proud grin out of his face, but she knew that wouldn't be possible. "Fine. Keep telling yourself just that, Mr. Stark." With a final shrug, Pepper turned around to leave and Tony took the chance to give another cheeky reply. "Be sure that I will, Mrs. Stark." Not yet, Pepper thought with a small smile and left him alone.