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The morning light bathed the room as Tony was waking up. He stretched up rubbing his eyes and taking a deep breath. He exhaled and, as out of habit, he reached for the other side of the bed.

It was empty.

His eyes snapped open in surprise. Pepper was gone. What…?

It wasn't like her to disappear. That was him, and that was a long time ago.

He took a look at the clock. It was seven o'clock in the morning. The time Pepper used to walk in his bedroom with a strong cup of coffee and a list of meetings he had to attend.

He really missed that.

Not the meetings, the whole on-the-verge-of- sexual-harassment-lawsuit game they used to play.

What was he thinking making her CEO?

Oh, right, palladium poisoning.

As those thoughts passed by his mind he buried his head in her pillow. It was still warm and smelled Pepper.

He took a look at the room. Things were pretty much as they had left them the previous night.

"Jarvis, where's Pepper?" he asked putting on a pair of boxers and a grey T-shirt.

"Ms. Potts is currently at the kitchen, sir, making breakfast." The computer answered and Tony walked out of the bedroom.

He walked on his nails like a cat approaching the kitchen. He used to do that a lot when he was a kid. He liked scaring his mum just like he likes scaring Pepper.

She had her back towards him making coffee while he stood there waiting like a hunter does its pray.

"Gotcha!" he yelled making her scream.

"Áááááááááááá! Tony! You scared the hell out of me!" she yelled punching him.

"Mission accomplished." Tony said smirking and gave her a light kiss.

"Morning, darling." He added and sat down grabbing a cookie.

Pepper turned around to finish whatever she was making.

"You know, I woke up and for a moment I thought your P.A would come and kindly kick me out handing me my dry cleaning." He said with his mouth half full.

"Not all CEOs are like you Tony." She said not bothering to face him.

"Besides why would I want to kick you out?" she added and handed him a cup of coffee.

Tony grinned from ear to ear.

"Who would fix my Blackberry? The one you stepped onto last night?" she finished showing him the ruined device on the kitchen bench.

"That's what I am to you? Mr. Fixes-All- Guy?" he teased her.

"That's why I make sure you're happy." She teased him back and gave him a kiss.

"I feel so used." He said looking disappointed but quickly smiled seeing a plate full of pancakes settling on the bench.

"Pancakes! You made me pancakes! I love pancakes but I don't get to eat very often. Why don't I get to eat pancakes very often? What's the meaning of being a zillionaire if you can't have pancakes?" he asked and took a large bite with extra syrup.

"You don't want to hire a cook, no one delivers pancakes and you wouldn't even think of making them yourself, that's why." Pepper replied taking a zip from her coffee.

"I got you for that. CEO, P.A, cook, friend, mother, lover…" he said giving a charming tone at the last word.

"What would I do without you, Potts?" he added and took another bite.

"You would perish." She answered.

"We all know that." He said smiling stealing a smile back from her.

A few minutes past as Pepper reads the paper obviously nervous she can't check her messages on the Blackberry.

Tony is more than amused by the way she glances at the destroyed device every once and a while and how she already calculates the meetings and the delays she's going to have during the day.

"So, are there any meetings you would like me to attend today, Ms Potts?" he asked her.

Pepper's eyes popped out and she froze at the question. Did she hear what she thought she did?

Oh, Tony was so going to enjoy it.

"Excuse me? What did you just say?" she asked him not believing her own ears.

"I think you should see a doctor, Potts, you seem to lose your hearing lately. I asked if there are any meetings you would like me to attend today." He said trying to hide his smirk and look normal.

"Tony, I'm going to ask you one last time and I want a straight answer." She said putting her cup away and looking him in the eye.

"Are you dying?" she asked him seriously.

Tony was trying so hard not to laugh. He loved teasing Pepper.

"No." he answered in the same tone.

"Jarvis." Pepper asked the computer but he too confirmed his master's saying.

"Are you serious? Oh, I get it, the suit finally got to your head and you've gone mental." She said in a worrying tone.

Tony couldn't help it anymore. It was way better than what he had imagined.

"Both my gorgeous body and my wonderful mind are in perfect health but if I'm going to you back to that bed any time soon I would do anything, even attend a meeting." He said grinning.

It was Pepper's turn to laugh. She hated when Tony teased her because she fell for it every time!

"You're stupid." She told him and punched lightly on the arm.

"That's why you love me." He said and kissed her. Just a light peck on the lips but that was Tony's favourite. Feeling her soft lips was no match for any passionate kiss.

"Well, as much as I appreciate your interest, Mr. Stark, there are no meetings for you today while I have, like, forty and I must be ready in half an hour." She said shifting in his arms to leave but he pulled her back down and smelled her hair.

"Are you going to have a shower?" he asked her deepening his voice making it irresistible.

"Yes, I am." Pepper replied coldly trying to compose her self. She hated when he did that. He knew she couldn't resist that voice and unfortunately he had found it out the moment she had entered his employment.

"Would you like me to shower with you? I could rub your back, I know how much you like me rubbing your back." He said seductively.

Pepper closed her eyes and let herself to get lost in his touch and his voice for just a moment. She could spare a moment but she would have to return to the reality soon after that.

"Something tells me that if you get in that shower with me I am going to be more than late." She said with her eyes closed before leaving his arms, this time for good.

Tony just stared at her, wearing one of his shirts and her black underwear.

Damn!

Pepper Potts could rap him around her finger by doing absolutely nothing.

"Uhm, aren't you forgetting something?" he asked and she stopped.

She walked back towards him pretending to think.

"Right, you could go and meet the constructor of the new Home." She said.

"As you wish, is that all?" he asked her in a puppy face.

She smiled and kissed him gently. She liked those kind of kisses because he had never kissed a girl like that and she knew she was special.

"Good morning, Mr. Stark." She said.

"And put a pair of pants on, we are not alone in the house." She said and spanked him as she was walking away.

Tony raised his eyebrows surprised.

"Jarvis, what just happened?" he asked the computer holding his mug on the air.

"I believe Ms. Potts should stop spending so much time with you, sir." The computer answered.

"That's it; I'm re- programming you." Tony said and headed to his bed room.

He picked up a pair of black jeans and a top and headed to the room next door.

If anyone got to open that room they would think it was just another unused guestroom in the Stark Mansion.

But Tony knew better. It was Pepper's room.

He opened the closet. Seven suits and casual outfits in dry cleaning bags stood there and two pairs of shoes, one high hilled and a pair of trainers.

He didn't know Pepper could walk in trainers; she wouldn't be able to balance.

He opened one of the drawers and found a few underwear and staff.

How could she even, for a moment, think he wouldn't find out? It was his home after all and it had started six years ago!

Six years!

He would get it even if he wasn't a genius.

It had started one night while she was working in his living room. Early morning visits had started from the very first day he had made her his P.A, it didn't take her long to make long night visits too.

But she had never spent the night there. Not until that night.

He had gotten out of his workshop at, like, two in the morning and he had found her sleeping on his couch with her laptop on. He hadn't been sure what he was supposed to do but she had been really tired.

God that woman was workaholic!

Even now, after ten years, she had never taken a day off! Never!

So, he had picked her up and placed her in the nearest bedroom, the one next to his. He had taken off her clothes and nothing had felt weird until he took a moment and watched her sleep.

He remembered feeling that click, and he had frozen. She was dangerous and he had known it from the beginning.

Of course the following day she had panicked, yelling at him that he had undressed her and he shouldn't have done it and being frustrated she hadn't had clothes to change and it had been too late to pass by her place, and what would everybody think seeing her in the same clothes while they new she started and finished her day at the Stark Mansion?

He had grinned back then and he was grinning now too.

It had been that day she had brought the first suit, and then another one until they became seven, one for every day of the week, a pair of pajamas and underwear.

The rest must have been brought while he was away, in Afghanistan.

His face fell at the thought.

What had she been doing those three months?

Had she been staying there? Sleeping in that very bed? Maybe in his bed?

He liked the second one for a reason.

He picked a suit, a black one, a pair of high hills and a pair of really sexy underwear.

Sexy underwear just next to his room? Naughty Potts.

He walked back in his bedroom as she was exiting the bathroom. He held up the underwear and said.

"I didn't know you could own such things, Potts. How come and you never wear them in bed?"

"You went through my closet?" she said with her eyes popped out and snatched them from his hands.

"After ten years of you picking up my closet I thought it was the protocol for the CEO to get their clothes picked." He answered

"You're clothes for me?" she asked thrilled.

"Why haven't I seen this suit on you, like, never? And why was it locked away along with those fantasy raising underwear?" Tony asked wickedly.

"Because its skirt is really small." Pepper answered.

"And hot along with these!" he said gesturing towards the undergarments.

"And they were just next door, open for me to find them!" he said flying his hands in the air.

"That room was locked." She said dead serious.

"You know I can pick any lock I want. How long have you been planning on seducing me, Potts?" Tony asked smirking.

"How long have you been picking at the drawers in the guestroom, Stark?" she asked him back smirking and took the clothes to the next room.

"What no dressing in my room?" he whined.

"It's the undressing you care about and no, if I want to make it on time." She said leaving.

Oh, she wasn't going to leave just like that. He wanted to tease her some more. He was really in the mood today.

"Jarvis, lock the front door until I'm out of the shower." Tony said.

"As you wish, sir"

Twenty minutes later Pepper walks to the front door ready to leave. Tony was on the shower and he hadn't fixed her blackberry so she would have to wait until she was in the company. And she hated that.

She tried to open the door but nothing happened. She tried again and again, various times but it just wasn't her day. The whole universe was telling her to stay where she was and enjoy another day at the arms of her wonderful Tony Stark… except of course if the universe was doing exactly what Tony had told it to.

"Jarvis open the door!" she yelled frustrated.

"Mr. Stark said to lock the door until he's out of the shower." The computer replied.

And of course Tony was the master of the universe.

"Tony, I swear to God, next time I will kill you!" she said angrily bursting into the bathroom while Tony was getting out of the shower.

"Changed your mind about that shower?" he said playfully.

Pepper rolled her eyes and handed him a towel to cover himself.

"Tony, I'm late!" she said shooting him a killing look.

"Two out of two, I'm on fire today!" he said picking up his toothbrush.

"Tony, please, tell Jarvis to open the door." She said giving up.

"Jarvis, unlock the door." Tony said.

"Done, sir." Jarvis replied.

"Thank you, Tony." Pepper said relieved.

"You're not mad at me are you? 'Cause I don't like it when you're mad at me, it usually means…" she shushed him with her finger and gave him a good bye kiss.

"Have a nice day, Mr. Stark." She said and left.

"Have a nice day, Mrs. Stark. He said and froze. "Potts, Ms. Potts. Have a nice day, Ms. Potts. Jarvis what just happened?" he asked his computer frozen in front of the sink.

"I am no programmed to analyze human psychology, sir, but I believe you just expressed a subconscious wanting or need." The cold tone of the computer answered.

"Oh, my God."


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