AN: I am updating and adding this note because I got 2 ranting reviews, and I want to repeat myself: THIS STORY IS NOT STEVE ROGERS FRIENDLY. If you're are a fan HIT THE BACK BUTTON NOW or don't bother leaving any ranting comments because I will use them to feed my cyber fire!
Since the alien ship he was on landed in Wakanda, Pepper had been glued to Tony's side. There was absolutely nothing anyone could say or do to make her leave his side. She wouldn't even leave when the Wakandan doctors, lead by the King's really young looking sister, wanted to treat Tony's wounds. She stayed so long by his side without getting any real proper rest that it took Tony himself, in a somewhat still heavily drugged state, to convince her to go get some proper sleep in the room their hosts assured her was just a few feet away from him. But she only finally went when the others promised her that Tony wouldn't be alone.
Tony didn't see her again for the next twelve hours, which was okay since he was asleep himself for most of that time. However in the hours just before she returned, he woke up to find Rhodey dozing in the chair beside his bed. Although his voice was still weak from having a breathing tube down his throat during surgery, Tony called out to his friend to wake him up. He had to in order to spare Rhodey from having an even worse crick in the neck than he was already going to have.
Tony was still awake and somewhat talking when Pepper returned to his room three hours later.
"Okay, since you're back in the best hands possible, I'm outta here," Rhodey said the second she walked back in the door.
"Go get some real sleep of your own, platypus."
Shaking his head at the weak attempt at snark by his friend, Rhodey waved him off, "See you later."
"Thank you!" Pepper called after as he disappeared before she looked at her fiancé, "How are you feeling?"
He didn't speak for a few seconds and when he did, it wasn't to answer her question. Instead Tony asked her a question of his own, "Did you really do it, Pep?"
"Did I really do what?" she replied in confusion.
"Slap Rogers?"
"Yes."
"Pepper!"
She shrugged, "What? I know I said to you more than once the next time I saw him, I was going to slap him."
"But I thought that was just something you said because you were angry. I didn't think-"
Pepper quietened him by putting a hand over his mouth, "I was angry when I said those words but I meant every single one of them."
"I really wish you hadn't."
"Why? He more than had it coming!"
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