Chapter 1

June 17 2013

It was early Monday morning, Tony wakes up to the smell of bacon and eggs (his favorite) He turns in the bed so he can see who is there today. He gives Pepper a tiny shove to see if she is awake. Pepper groans because she had a long night, she has been working for a while and hates to procrastinate.

"Good morning babe" Tony whispers with his voice still tired from last night's sleep, he gives his girl a small grin. "Hey, sweetie, you want to come with me to get some breakfast?"

"I think I'll stay here for now." She says with her head still groggy from sleep.

"You sure? You know he cooks the most amazing eggs."

"Yeah, I'm still not completely awake though."

Tony just smiles and gently kisses Pepper. He gets up not even bothering to put on anything else except for his boxer briefs. As goes to the door to get breakfast he looks over to her and mouths "I love you" She smiles back. Tony walks down the long corridor, the smell of his breakfast gets stronger and the sizzling of the bacon makes his mouth water; He surely knows that today's going to be a special day. He walks into the kitchen and sees Bruce standing next to the stove flipping the eggs in the pan. Bruce is wearing his sweatpants and an Aerosmith t-shirt he "borrowed" from Tony

"Good morning hon." Bruce says

"Good morning, though you know I hate it when you wear my clothes without asking." Says tony with a sly smirk on his face as he walks over to the counter where Bruce is standing, they share a small kiss along the way. Tony picks himself up to take a seat on the counter, the light of the arc reactor shining onto the already bright kitchen.

"You don't like when I wear anything." Said Bruce, huffing a little laugh.

"You're not exempt from that opinion either." Bruce's simper turned into a wide smile. "So what are you trying to butter me up for today?"

"Nothing I just figured I would make you your favorite today, anything wrong with that?"

"No... I guess not." Tony is still a little skeptical of Bruce though Tony can never stay mad at Bruce. With his cute smile and bedhead, Bruce seems to get away with everything. Bruce hears a noise coming from the hallway and turns his head quickly to see who was there. "There's the sleepyhead!" Pepper walks into the kitchen and grabs herself a cup of coffee only wearing her underwear and one of Tony's big shirts. "Seems today is wear Tony's clothes day."

"Someone's still a little grumpy it seems." Pepper says.

"Seems fine to me" said Bruce

"NO! No no no," Stated Tony frantically "You guys are not starting this again, every day I have to deal with you guys. When we decided to be together we made our vows to each other so stop fighting!"

"Sorry babe… didn't mean to make you mad, here breakfast is ready." Bruce puts an egg on his plate with a strip of bacon.

"Make it two and maybe I won't be mad at you." Bruce slaps another piece of bacon on Tony's plate "Thanks." He walks over to Pepper with his devilish smile; He grabs her by her waist and brings her in, brings himself nose to nose "You can make it up to me later." and brings her in for a kiss. Bruce Scoffs. Tony lets go of Pepper, grabs Bruce's hand "You can help her." and gives him a kiss as well.

Tony perks his head up as if he just remembered something. "They need me at a meeting for work today. We can have our fun when I get back." Tony takes out a roll slops on the eggs and bacon and heads upstairs to get dressed.

Bruce watches Tony to make sure he gets upstairs before saying "Hey Pepper?"

"Yes Bruce?"

"Why did you say yes?"

"What do you mean?"

"When Tony asked if you if about me, why did you say yes?"

"Well we always talked about it, you know having another person."

"Really?!"

"Yeah we both loved each other but you know like any old couple we can get tired of each other sometimes so we figured, hey if we had another person we could spread out our time with every one of us."

"Makes sense but… why me, we never really seemed to know each other that well, so why me?"

"Bruce, you love Tony right?"

"Yeah, what about it?"

"I bet you would do anything for him then, anything to make him happy, and anything you needed to do so he would stay with you right?"

"I get it now."

"Now that we're on this topic now, why did you say yes, when Tony asked you, that is. Why did you say yes to be with me as well?"

"Well yeah same reason as you, I loved Tony and I love being with him, also I always kind of swung both ways and you are a beautiful woman so I thought hey why not."

"Okay then, so if you think that we barely know each other how about tomorrow we can go out for lunch while Tony's at work, get to know each other a little bit more?"

"Sounds like a plan to me."

A few minutes later Tony comes running downstairs just barely getting his coat on, half of the roll left in his mouth he runs over to Bruce and Pepper and kisses them goodbye. "Don't have too much fun when I'm gone!" he yells as he runs out of the door.

"Don't worry!" they both yell as he shuts the door.