The room was freezing cold, raising goosebumps on her pale skin. Her eyes darted around wildly in the darkness as she struggled against her restraints, panicked, to no avail.

Pepper had lost her sense of time. Not only was her hair out of her perfect bun that she was previously wearing, but her limbs were beginning to get numb due to how long they'd been tied up. It could have been hours, days, weeks, she didn't know anymore. She took a deep breath as she tried to keep herself calm, knowing that Tony would have figured things out sooner or later, and would try to locate her whereabouts. Though even if she tried to keep a placid demeanor, she was outright scared, and confused. What did the captor want with her?

Soon enough to her surprise, Pepper felt the pain of a fresh cut upon her forearm, which stung as she felt her own warm, crimson blood running down the rest of the way until it slowly dripped onto the concrete.

"Boo!"

She screamed before hearing dark laughter envelope the room. "You should've seen your face! I'm surprised you didn't see me earlier! You should totally adjust your eyes to the darkness, you know. I did~! Otherwise I'd miss /that/ priceless expression! I heard that that was the reason pirates wore eye-patches - to adjust their eyes to darkness and whatnot. But pirates sucks ass - ninjas, on the other hand... Though I've never seen a ninja with an eye-patch. Wouldn't that be weird?!"

Pepper stared at where the voice was coming from in bewilderment, wide-eyes and breathing heavily. The man jumped to his feet. "As you can see, I like talking. A lot. It's not that I enjoy hearing myself, I fucking annoy myself. My voice is pretty cool sounding though, isn't it?! Don't answer that, I already know it is. To be honest, I wouldn't be able to stop talking even if my life depended on it - which it did once! In a scene that involved some guy and a teddy bear..." He shuddered.

"Who the hell are you?!" She questioned in a mix of anger, terror, and annoyance.

"Well, that depends on the writer! I may or may not be who I am or am not, but it's all confusing and boring. I'm a mercenary! Look at me, talking you to death," he replied, taking slow steps toward her. He placed a gun to her head and continued in a deeper, more serious voice, "What a shame. Because I'd /really/ rather kill you with this!"


Hello everyone! This is my first fanfic for Iron Man, yet I'll be co-writing this with my best friend Bobbi. I apologize if this first chapter is a bit short, but I found it to end nicely with a gun against Pepper's head. -cricket noises- Anyways, Bobbi wrote most of the first chapter, with me editing and writing a few things for Pepper, and we both hope you enjoy!

If there's anything that you find that we should remember for next time about Pepper, or other characters to come, feel free to let us know!

Also, can you guess who Pepper's captor is?

(Quick edit here, hello everyone! I was previously on ShelteredSacrifice but since I made this new account, I have decided that I shall move the Iron Man/Deadpool story over to this account to revive it once more. Previously we gave away too many details in the story, which was mainly my fault so we kind of stopped writing... But now that it's April, I wanted to bring back this fic because it is one that I really enjoy writing for, especially with Bobbi, and a lot of our followers really loved this as well. So for you all, we're bringing it back here, I also have messaged each follower on my other account to let them know and also, please check out my other account so you don't end up being an asshole claiming that I "stole" this. Just go to the author's note(chapter 4-soon to change once I update my account over there, should be chapter 1 by the end of the night) on the story, or even look at my profile. It states that I moved this here.

Though really, thank you to everyone that previously supported us, I hope you all are still active on here because I know you've all been waiting for our return.)