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Chapter 1:

"Pepper?" Tony called as he jogged up the stairs towards the bedroom he shared with Pepper wondering why she hadn't answered his previous calls.

"I'm in here Tony" Pepper called back.

Tony entered the room to find his girlfriend sitting on the bed typing furiously on her Blackberry. He smiled at her choice of pajama wear and strolled to the bed slowly. He had originally bought the t-shirt she was wearing as a joke but it had turned out to be her favorite.

"Nice shirt" he smiled sitting down next to her.

"I know," she said briefly looking down at her Iron Man t-shirt.

"Are you wearing the underwear I got you with it?" he asked trying to lift the shirt only to have his hand slapped by a manicured hand.

"Hey! I'm only trying to be friendly. It's not my fault you decided to wear nothing but a t-shirt that happens to reach your mid-thigh" Tony said rubbing his hand pouting at her.

"It's hot and I'm in the middle of a very important e-mail," she said distractedly.

"I hate it when you pay more attention to your phone than to me" Tony said lying down next to her cuddling to her side, placing his head on her stomach and wrapping his arm around her torso.

"Are you okay?" Pepper asked running her free hand through his hair.

"Yeah, I just love you and missed you today. You were in meetings the whole day," he said sighing.

"Well someone has to be the grown up and keep the company running and since you're not taking initiative…" she said before once again focusing her attention to her phone.

"Is there anyway you can take a day off anytime soon?" he mumbled into her stomach.

Pepper sat up making Tony groan and move to lie next to her. She folded her legs underneath her and looked at him. She smiled and leaned down to kiss him, cupping his cheeks with both her hands, her phone forgotten by the pillow. He immediately cupped the back of her head deepening the kiss.

"Mmm…" Pepper moaned when Tony wrapped his other arm around her back bringing her to lie on top of him. He cupped her backside, pushing the t-shirt up past her bottom. He ran his hands down her butt cheeks smiling as he felt her thong.

"What?" she asked pulling away from him.

"What?" he asked innocently pulling on the string of the thong.

"Oh you know what. You're trying to distract me," she said smiling.

"I just wanted to confirm you were also wearing the underwear I got you," he said smirking when she rolled her eyes at him.

"Pep, I really do love you," he said smiling at her.

"Tony, are you sure you're okay?" she asked sitting up, straddling his waist while placing her hands on his chest.

"I'm fine I just realized I don't tell you how much I love you enough," he said running his hands up and down her arms.

"You're not dying again, are you?" she asked her forehead bunching up forming a small 'v' in between her eyebrows.

"No, I'm not dying again. I just realized that all this time I could've had you close to me and I'm kind of sad it took me this long to realize how much you mean to me" he said.

"I think that's the most romantic thing you have ever said to me" she smiled leaning down to peck his lips.

"I try," he said grinning.

"Listen Tony, I know that all you want us to do is spend time together and trust me if we didn't have a company to run I would love to spend every second of my day with you too, but we have to be responsible and attend to your company first." Pepper said while she caressed his cheek lovingly.

"I know but I feel we don't spend enough time together," he whined pouting sadly at her.

"I'll promise you that from now on I'll make time for you at night. I'll shut down my phone and computer and dedicate my time to you," she said kissing his forehead before climbing down his lap.

"Where are you going?" he asked sitting up.

Tony watched as she strolled down to the door and before he knew it she was out the door and he could hear her padding down the hall. He smiled at the thought of her barefoot around his house. He laid back down grabbing her phone in the process.

"Please tell me you're not responding to any of my e-mails," she said as she re-entered the room with a glass of water.

"No I'm simply 'scrolling' through them," he said smiling as she shook her head. He watched her place the glass down in the nightstand and walk over to her side of the bed crawling under the blankets.

"What?" she asked when he continued to stare at her.

"I came across a very interesting message," he said looking at her making sure to keep her phone out of reach.

"Did you?" she frowned yawning as she cuddled closer to his side.

"Yeah, some Jack Travis" he said turning back to her phone. "'Ginny I hope you're doing good. I was hoping to catch up with you now that you're planning to come back home. Call me whenever you can, I'll pick you up from the airport. Love Jack,'" Tony read looking down at Pepper once he finished.

"He's my friend Jack Travis" she smiled wrapping one of her arms around his chest.

"I know that but why did he say you are planning to go home?" Tony asked.

"My mom called said she wanted me to go visit her, but I already told her it might be a while until I can go see her" Pepper said shrugging her shoulders.

"Hmm I still don't get why this 'Jack' guy needs to e-mail you." Tony said placing her phone on the nightstand before wrapping his arms around her pulling her closer to him.

"Are you jealous?" Pepper asked smiling.

"Me of him no, but I want him to know you're with me because otherwise he will have a friendly, maybe not so friendly, meeting with me" Tony said frowning.

"Alright but don't worry about that, it wont happen any time soon" Pepper said kissing his chest lightly before closing her eyes letting the light of his Arc Reactor lull her to sleep.