A/N: Hope you enjoy! chap 2/2 out tomorrow!
This chapter is between Iron Man 1&2
Disclaimer: Marvel owns the characters...sadly
If I run will you find me?
If she left would he even notice? Pepper Potts pondered this question. Tony had recently been spending less time with her. He disappeared into his lab and would stay there for days. He wouldn't talk to her. He would barely eat. He had been drinking until he fell asleep. He would only shave every two weeks. Pepper barely knew this Tony Stark. Instead of waiting for him to change, she left. She moved where she knew he wouldn't look for her. To Biloxi, Mississippi. It was a town on the Gulf of Mexico. It wasn't small but it definitely wasn't New York City. She had been living there a week and a half when a clean shaven Tony Stark showed up at her door with flowers and apologizing for ignoring her. He begged for her to come back home with him. Finally she agreed. He had come to find her. That had to mean something.
If I fall will you catch me?
Pepper Potts jolted awake from the terrifying dream. She had been having the same dream for weeks. She was falling. Falling into darkness. She always managed to wake up before she hit the bottom. She went through her morning routine. Then Tony came struggling into the kitchen. He looked terrible. There were dark circles under his eyes. He hadn't combed his hair. He hadn't shaven today yet. He wore a tee shirt and some sweatpants.
"I need you," he said. And then he went over to her and kissed her. Pepper felt amazing for the first time in weeks. The rest of the her day she felt like she was floating. And later that night, she had the same dream of falling. But she finally hit the bottom. And Tony caught her. And kissed her. Tony had caught her when she was falling.
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