A/N- Hello! So... yep decided I would put another chapter in here. Basically the rest of the Avengers thoughts of what happened in the last chapter. And a bit at the end as well. Hope you enjoy!

Chapter Two

Bruce's POV

After changing back from the Hulk, Bruce could have happily slept for 2 days. But one thing had to come first. And that was food. The shawarma was something he had never tasted before, even with his ranged diet after living in India for a year or so. It felt good to have food that had pretty much no nutritional value in it, unless you count E numbers and an overdose on salt and fat, slide down his throat and satisfy the Hulk's endless need for food that got worse the longer he was... "out".

He looked over at Tony who was staring of into the distance. Bruce wondered vaguely if he would be able to get away with it. It wasn't like Tony was eating all of it himself. His hand snealed across the table, and grabbed some of Tony's food. Bruce could see the smile on Tony's face, and although he had been seen, he had gotten away with it! He wished that Tony would be as friendly as he was towards Bruce to the other Avengers as well. He felt like he was the only one who understood Tony on any level, despite having only known him for like, three days.

Then Tony jumped, and Bruce automatically looked at him. He felt the Hulk stirring inside him, but he knew that he wasn't actually going to make an appearance. And for that he was glad.

Tony was busy grinning and holding up his hands in surrender. "Sue me. I'm jumpy."

Bruce smiled, amused by his friend's sarcasm. He was also smiling at Thor's dumbfounded expression at the word 'sue'. Somebody should really get him caught up to today's world. He sat there, thinking about how they all had had to accustom to some sort of change over the past few days. Thor was obvious, Barton had had his mind taken over by a crazy god and was just back to grips with reality, Tony actually had to be part of a team and work with others, Steve had been thrown from the 1940's seventy years into the future, then had to deal with aliens. Natasha had dealt with her partners mind being taken over and had had to fight him. He had been forcefully removed from India and dumped on a helicarrier, then sent of into a lab to work with the one and only Tony Stark who had turned out to be a pretty nice person.

By this point he realised he had eaten all of Tony's food, and he was about to give him a sheepish apology, when Tony leapt up from the table and started to run out onto the , and alll the other Avengers, stood up and started to jog after Tony, worried about what had happened to make him dash of like that, for apparently no reason.

Natasha started yelling after him. "Tony! Where are you going?" Clint and Steve echoed this with their own shouts of Tony. Bruce followed them more slowly. And then he saw someone else running towards Tony. It was definitley a girl anyway. She looked like she had been crying, but Bruce had no idea who she was.

Steve's POV

We all stood up, and I know I for one was wondering what had possessed Stark to run off like that. I shouted after him, then noticed why he was running. He was actually running towards someone. And they were running towards him too. I stood there wondering who on earth was running towards Stark, when they reached each other in the middle if the street. And then she slapped him in the face. I was about to step forward and enquire on why she was doing such a thing, when Natasha put her arm out in front of me, blocking the way.

"Don't." She said seriously.

The woman opened her mouth and started yelling at Tony for flying the missile into space. I wondered who she was to Tony, then paused as I realised that they probably... like were... did... uhhhh... went for fondue together. I am almost pitied Tony, if that was even possible, this girl reminded him slightly of Peggy. Then all pitying thoughts went out of his head as Tony said, "It was actually a nuclear missile.

She exploded. I cringed.

"Oh yes! How silly of me!"

Tony really should learn when to be quiet, or else he was going to get himself into a lot of trouble at some point. She kept shouting at him until she ran out of steam, and I had to give credit to her for staying around him if she actually expects this kind of stuff. I was really surprised that Tony had a girlfriend, if that's who she was to him, because myimpression of him was a self-centred idiot who took nothing seriously. It seemed hard to imagine him in a relationship with someone. Maybe I had gotten him wrong though. Because there is no way someone would stay beside him and support him if he acted like that all the time, could they?

I stood there in shock, when they started hugging, and whispering to each other, and I was wondering if we should give them some privacy, but nobody was moving. I was left wondering if the 21st century meant that you didn't have privacy anymore.

Clint's POV

When Tony had been slapped in the face, Clint had barely been able to contain himself. Iron Man himself had just got hit in the face by a girl. Not that girl's were weak or anything like that, Natasha was living breathing proof of that. But still, Tony didn't even look very shocked. Clint could tell that he was going to like this girl, since she had just had the guts to go and hit Tony Stark in the face.

But then came the awkward hugging scene. Well, it wasn't awkward for the huggers, but it was damn awkward for Clint, who was standing of to the side, next to Natasha. Tony and the woman were whispering to one another, and from where he was standing Clint could make out some of the words.

"...ver leave you, I promi..."

"...ove you so muc..."

He shifted his weight onto one foot, wondering if this was going to end anytime soon. He was kind of surprised about Tony being this emotional though, because however short of a time Clint had known him for, he really didn't seem like he did this kind of emotional things. Ever. At this point Tony and Pepper, were on their knees, arms wrapped around each others necks. I looked over at Natasha, surprised to find she was smiling, albeit slightly. I turned to Steve, wondering what his reaction was going to be. He was just standing there a little awkwardly, like me. The girl was crying even harder now, and Tony attempted to comfort her, stroking her head, and pulling her closer to him. She raised her hand to his chest, and placed it directly over the arc reactor.

Clint was amazed by the fact that Tony Stark was acting so caring towards someone. He had read Nat's report on him, and nothing that it said in it had ever indicated Tony as loving or comforting. It had, in fact, said the complete opposite. And Natasha was never wrong.

Tony's POV

They were on their knees now, her arms around his neck, and his hand planted firmly on either sides of her head, cradling it. It pained him to see Pepper, the strong person that she was, reduced to tears because of him. But he knew if he hadn't flown that missile up, he would have had no way of knowing if she had been outside of the explosion area. He couldn't have risked that. He could feel her hand over the arc reactor, just one of the ways of knowing that he was alive, and not going to go away.

He stroked her hair, and pressed his lips gently against hers. She kissed him back, and he couldn't remember ever being happier that he was alive and with the woman that he loved, and would continue to love for the rest of his life. He opened his mouth and murmured, "Dismantle, J.A.R.V.I.S."

The suit fell to pieces around him, and he couldn't help but think that it symbolised Pepper, because she had take him, and stripped off every mask and wall that he had to keep everybody out, and she hadn't been scared by what was underneath. He wrapped her tighter in his arms, and he didn't know if he would ever be able to let go again. He shut his eyes, squeezing them tight, and just listened to the never ending beating of Pepper's heart. He wished and prayed that it would never stop while he was alive, because if it did, he didn't know if he would be able to live with out her, and he doubted he could. Because everything that he did revolved around Pepper. Going to board meetings made Pepper happy. Sleeping regularly made Pepper worry less. Even the Iron Man siut was to protect Pepper, even if that wasn't what he had made it for in the first place.

He could feel all of the Avenger stares directed at him and Pep, but he couldn't find it in himself to care. All the matrered was that him and Pepper were together again, and nothing could seperate them.

A/N- I know, nothing much happened in this chapter, but the next one will have more talking between the Avemgers and Pepper. Please leave a review :) Thanks for reading!

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