Title: You Can Get Used To Most Things If You Try
Length: 228
Rating: PG
Notes: I'm dabbling in the Pepperony100 and this is prompt #65 – Change
She never used to do walkthroughs.
But there are a lot of things Pepper Potts never used to do that are second nature to her now; things like keeping her employer stocked in condoms and talking to a house, a house with a name and personality; arranging the life of a man who has a flying suit of armour and a permanent hole in his chest.
But now she does.
And now she does walkthroughs; every night before she leaves. Working her way through the mansion and burning it into the back of her eyes.
It's more than a bit OCD she realises, and not because of its obsessive quality, but because she uses it as a charm; her routine has become her talisman.
If she can walk the house, once through, she can be sure that everything is where it should be, that her boss is where he should be; safe in his workshop or bedroom or whatever, before she leaves for the night.
And when those moments of panic hit and she's obsessing over him being safe, she can see him there.
She never knew she would need a good image to call up, to quell the worry that gnaws at her.
She never used to, it never used to.
But then, her boss never used to fly out on business trips and not come back.