"Yeah, I did say that." Damon smiled. Stefan hit him and Elena just looked stunned,
"Ha ha, you really had me going there." Pepper laughed nervously. The other three faces looked at her with the same awkward look, "You are joking right?"
"Yes he..." Stefan began,
"I'm not. Want proof?" He smiled,
"God's sake Damon. Don't." Elena sighed. Damon shook his head,
"Well I was going to do this," He grabbed a knife from the table and jabbed it into his arm, it seconds it healed.
"Ok, impressive. But a lot of people can do that." Pepper smiled,
"What freaks do you know?" Damon asked confused,
"To many to count."
"Oh, spill your drink over him." Elena smiled.
"What?" Pepper asked as Elena threw her drink over Damon's arm. It burned and Damon suppressed a cry of agony,
"I slipped vervain into your drink. It is a very anti-vampire herb. To make sure he doesn't kill you." She smiled. Damon punched her arm and rolled his sleeve down, "What? Your last girlfriend's ended badly..."
"One became a vampire how is that bad?" Damon asked,
"How is it not." Stefan growled. "And the other died."
"Hey, that wasn't my fault! It was hers." He said pointing to Elena. She turned and smiled at Pepper,
"Feel like running? We freaking you out yet?"
"Meh." Pepper shrugged, "I know weirder people."
"Weirder than vampires?" Damon asked confused. "Wow, Stark and Rhodes must be freaks."

"Tony calm down!" Rhodey said ducking as Tony threw his helmet at the door of the armory.
"What is with her! The whole 'I was in love with you' crap, then she wore HIS necklace! I swear that girl I am going to, to."
"Calm down? Stop throwing things? All of the above?" Rhodey asked. Tony slumped over his workbench,
"Uhh, why am I getting so worked up over this?"
"Because," Rhodey said pushed him up, "You love Pepper."
"I do not." Tony said pushing him.
"Yeah, you do. You do anything and everything she says. She gets hurt you go physco, she upsets you, you go physco. She thinks you like Whitney so she never says anything but she acts the same way."
"You think so?" Tony asked,
"Dude, I'm your best friend, but I'm also one of the few friends shes got beside you and Happy. I have to deal with her when Iron Man is busing getting killed."
"Laughs probably."
"Try crys, scream, panicks."
"Probably pity."
"Tony snap out of it. What is up with you?" Rhodey asked. Tony no longer met his gaze,"Tony..."
"She's on a date."
"Wow, she works fast."
"Yeah but it's not... it's not." Rhodey smiled and put his hand on his friends shoulder,
"But, It's not with you."

"So let me get this straight," Pepper said walking to the Salvator house, "You both are vampire brothers, she's a Dopple ganger and Cathrine looks exactly like Elena but her hair is more styled?"
"Bingo." Damon said put his arm around her shoulders,
"And she is trying to kill, everyone?"
"Got it again." Elena sighed. They kept walking and failed to notice someone watching them from the woods. The shadowy figure moved towards them until it got a good look at Pepper. The figure ran to the high school and search the computers,
"Patrica 'Pepper' Potts." It smiled, hacking into a government network, "Moved from New York, reason...death threat? Oh, she seems fun." Scrolling the pages, "Moved with James 'Rhodey' Rhodes and Antony Edward 'Tony' Stark." Search Tony Stark, "Hrrrm, billionaire teenager...missing one week after plane crash with tragically took the life of Father Howard Stark. Aw how sad! Moved to the Tomorrow Academy and moved in with Best friend James Rhodes. Tony Stark has been saved by Iron Man on several occasions, Miss Potts has been seen an awful lot more with him. James Rhodes has aswell." The evil lips twisted into a grin, "Looks like I'll have to meet this Tony Stark."

"Here," Elena handed Pepper a necklace, "Vervain. He can't compell you with it on, and keep putting vervain in your drinks so he doesn't kill you."
"Don't you trust them?" Pepper chuckled,
"I have known them for over a year I'm still taking vervain coffes." She laughed back.
"What do you think they are talking about in there?" Damon thought outloud, lying on the sofa,
"You. And you were lsitening." Stefan spat,
"Don't be so...kill joyish little brother." Damon laughed, "Have some fun." The girls walked in.
"You said somthing about more rings, what do you know?" Pepper put her hands on her hips and talked directly to Stefan,
"The Mandarin, he found out there are five other rings," Color drained from her face ans she sat down, "Odds are he'll need Tony to find them like with the other rings. And he'll probably still need Howard Stark."
"You think he's alive?"
"I have security tapes to prove it." He said tossing her a dvd case. Suddenly Pepper's phone went off, caller Tony Stark. She sighed and ignored it,
"Who was that you snubbed?" Damon laughed,
"Tony." She growled.
"Oh, what happened between you?"
"He's an ass hole." Pepper smiled, her phone went off again, Tony Stark. Ignore. Tony Stark calling..."God Tony what do you want?"
"Steamy." Damon laughed,
"Pepper? Pepper somethings going on upstairs. Rhodey put the armory into lock down, lockdown code Khan." Tony panicked on the other end of the phone. Pepper nearly fainted,
"He's back?" She question. In unsion Elena's, Stefan's and Damon's heads snapped around.
"No, he isn't."
"Then why did..."
"Someone else is in the house, I'm trying to get video feeds but the camera are cut off. I can't get out of the armory to help him, only he has the passcode, he changed it so I wouldn't be able to get out."
"Great if he was in the frickin armory!" She snarled, "I'm on my way back now."
"No! Pepper don't come back to the house, stay somewhere safe."
"Safe, Tony you're scaring me, what is going on."
"I don't know but I sure as hell by the sounds of it don't want you in the middle of it."
"Tony someone has to help him!"
"I called the police, But I'm not in the house I got a call from Rhodey."
"Right cover story got it. Tony, I have to help him!"
"Pepper you can't please. Promise me you won't come back to the house until I call you. If something is up when I call you again I will use the codeword salt, got it?"
"I got it, Keep me posted."
"I will." Tony said solemnly, "Pepper, stay safe."
"You to, Tony, don't get yourself killed." She said hanging up.
"Everything ok?" Damon asked, she shook her head,
"Someone is in the house. It isn't Gene but apparently I'm not allowed near the house."
"That serious?" Stefan asked baffeled,
"The house is in lock down, he didn't have time to put defences up..."
"Wooden stakes, good thing to have around." Stefan added. She nodded,
"I'm sorry to ask but can I crash here tonight?" Pepper asked,
"You can come to mine." Elena said," Vampires seem to come in here when they please."
"That they do." A voice behind them said.
"Cathrine." Damon growled,
"Hey honey." She smiled, "Oh sorry, I'm being rude. I'm Cathrine, you must be Pepper. Oh I brought you something." She smiled evily, throwing someone foward,
"Rhodey!" Pepper panicked, he was covered with blood and not moving,
"He isn't dead, that would have been boring. I was looking for, Tony is it? But I couldn't find him, maybe next time." She turned to the boys. "Bye bye boys." And she was gone as quickly as she came in,
"Oh my gosh Rhodey." Pepper ran and sat on the floor next ot him, "Please wake up." She begged shaking him,
"Oww, Pepper, let go." Rhodey moaned,
"Oh sorry," She smiled, "What happened?"
"Cathrine happened." Stefan growled, "I told you not to get her involved, that you were putting more lives on the line. You don't care do you?" He yelled at Damon,
"How is this my fault!" He yelled back,
"Iron Man will be pretty easy to figuire out for her won't it?" Stefan sneered,
"What!" Rhodey and Pepper said in unison,
"You told them?" Rhodey snarled at Pepper,
"N-n-no I didn't I swear." She stuttered. Elena then got an idea,
"Damon, make him forget any of this happened. Someone got into the house but he was knocked out after entering the lock code for Stark. Make him forget the rest." She instucted, Damon knelt down to Rhodey and filled him in, then knocked him out.
"What did you do?" Pepper asked,
"He won't remember a thing, I'll take him back before the police get there." Damon smiled, grabbing Rhodey and running off.
"He's fast." Pepper gasped.
"Tell me about it." Elena sighed. "Come on we're staying here, ok Stefan?" She asked, he nodded.

Damon came back a while later and walked into the spare room.
"Hey," he said gently tapping the door, "That was proabaly the worst date ever, huh?" He said sitting next to Pepper on the bay window,
"Surprizingly no. I got kidnapped one time, nearly shot and had Tony and Gene in a mood with me. While as Iron Man and Mandarin."
"Again, you get around." He laughed, putting his arm around her shoulder. "I'm sorry I pulled you into this."
"Don't be. I'm sorry I've now pulled you guys into my business. How did you find out about Iron Man?"
"Doesn't take a mastermind like Tony to figuire it out."
"Yeah well, alot of Iron Man villains could give Cathrine a run for her money."
"I'll protect you." He smiled. Tony had said that so many times to her and she rarely belived him. Damon said it once, and she felt safer than she had ever felt before.
"You'll be the one who needs protecting," She smiled back.
"You want a bet? he said seductivly,
"Try me." She replied in the same tone. Damon quickly closed the door.

"Oh gosh", Elena sighed seeing the door close,"Can he have one date without making out with them?"

"Rhodey! Dude are you ok! What happened?" Tony asked rushing to his side. Minutes before Rhodey had got up and unlocked the armory.
"I, don't remeber. I blacked out." Rhodey replied, Tony helped him down to the armory and ran a few scans on him.
"Rhodey, something is blocking part of your brain, the memory part." Tony said confused, "I'll try and break it." He said chargeing a super powered beam. It cut throught the block and Rhodey shot up, "What is it?"
"Pepper is dating a vampire."


Sorry I haven't updated this is a while, the avenger stories have been takeing up alot of my time :L
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