Charming Possibilities – Part Ten

Rating: R (I guess…)

Word Count: 1830

Part Ten

For the first time in over a year Tony was happy. He was so happy that he began singing while he was tinkering with useless pieces of his suit. He didn't realize it until Jarvis informed him that Iron Man was needed in Siberia. Several dangerous prisoners escaped the highly secured prison which was located approximately eighty kilometers from the Arctic Ocean.

He'd been kind of reluctant to leave home because he knew that he couldn't be too far away from Pepper. He didn't want to be away from her anymore. He needed her like he needed oxygen, but he'd sacrifice a few hour's worth to catch those criminals.

He came home tired and bruised sixteen hours after. He'd managed to catch five of the criminals but three of them escaped. He couldn't find them because of the darkness that claimed the Siberian land.

He was pretty sure that he had cracked a rib or two. His head also hurt like hell and he believed that he had a minor concussion. That would heal in a few days, but he literally itched to touch and kiss Pepper again.

First he would need some rest. Pepper can wait for a couple more hours.

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"Honey…?"

Pepper recognized her husband's voice because no one else would call her like that in private. She was cooking some pasta when he suddenly came behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist. She gasped a little and allowed him to scoop her up in his arms and carry her to their bedroom.

She cupped his face with both her hands and pressed a kiss to his nose. A sense of guilt washed her over because she'd have to decline his invitation for sex because her period had just begun.

She waited until he laid her against the sheets to take his hands in hers.

"I'm sorry but I'm not up for it… for a week, at least."

Sean raised an eyebrow, not understanding its meaning at first but then he nodded and kissed her temple tenderly. Pepper sighed at the feel of his lips against her temple but it wasn't because she liked it. Nor she disliked it. But anytime she was touched by him she'd imagine Tony instead of her husband.

She didn't know why but she felt guilty. She would have to figure out how she was supposed to have two relationships at the same time. It didn't feel right, but she needed to be loved by the man whose heart she had broken several times, as well.

She loved Sean but she would never love him like she loved Tony.

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Tony woke up and straightened. A sudden pain in his right side made him gasp for air. He'd registered the pain last night but he'd been too tired to worry for it. He had cracked ribs before and Pepper was always there to patch him up. He didn't love the idea of taking a trip to the hospital. He'd check it out with Jarvis and he'd gladly hear him out about what he was supposed to do next.

Jarvis had insisted for a trip to the hospital, but he'd ignore his AI as usual. He would call Pepper. She'd know what to do and god help him, he really ached to see her and breathe her in.

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Pepper was startled to hear her phone ringing, but she checked it out nonetheless.

"Potts…" Tony croaked out, his voice unusual breathless.

"Tony?" Pepper asked back, unable to hold back her panicked question.

"I nngh… need you here." He muttered.

Pepper checked her watch, took her coat and put her phone on speaker.

"Are you hurt, Tony? Please respond me."

"I'm… yeah. Need you to help me – patch me up. Please."

"I'll be there in twenty minutes." She responded and sped down the stairs.

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Twenty minutes transformed into forty because of an accident on the highway, but she did everything possible to take another route. She ran as fast as she could and opened the door, only to see Tony on the couch, his arm wrapped around his middle.

"What took you so long?" He asked with a pained smile.

"An accident…" She tried to explain as brief as she could. "What happened?"

She moved to take the first aid kit from the bathroom when she heard him say.

"There was a mission yesterday. Siberia… It was really cold." He sniffed and looked at the hair on his chest. "A few prisoners escaped a high security prison there and they needed me to find them. I did, just… It was dark, like, very dark and I smashed myself into a damn huge tree while I searched for them in a forest."

Pepper returned with the first aid kit and found him laughing.

"It's hysterical, isn't it?"

"Yes, well. I thought you'd have x-ray vision in your suit."

"I have but it needs to be upgraded. Apparently it doesn't handle very well the temperatures below zero degrees. It would have been great, though. As I can recall…"

Pepper stopped him by pressing a finger to his lips. He stopped talking suddenly and the look on his face was giving her thrills. His eyes turned liquid with desire and she could feel the muscles in her cheek twitch.

"Stop talking and… and let me do my job."

He nodded slightly and resumed on watching her. He studied her face and her hands and her red, beautiful lips.

"Technically it's not your job." He told her with a smirk.

"What makes you think that I enjoy patching you up?" She asked with a small blush.

"Your lovely little blush there… You like touching me." He pointed out, though his voice was strained.

"I don't." She retorted with another red blush.

"Yeah…" Tony exhaled and enjoyed the coolness of her fingers across his skin. "We've discussed this before, so there's no point in hiding it, even though I love it every time you blush. Such as now, for example."

They were quiet for a long time afterwards until she finished patching him up. He waited until she got up before he grabbed her hand. She gasped at the touch of his warm fingers and she felt another shiver go down her spine.

"Help me put on my shirt." He told her with a serious expression.

She grabbed his dark t-shirt from the corner of the couch and helped him to get it on. He groaned a little when he had to raise his arms, but she comforted him by slowly massaging his well-built pectorals.

"What are you going to do now, Pep?" He asked with a smug grin when she didn't take her hands off him.

"I'm going to touch you." She told him and pressed her body against him. She heard him groan a little and it gave her strength to carry on.

"Just on my pectorals, cuz I know you like them but I'd really like for you to touch me everywhere…"

"Patience, Mr. Stark."

He shut off his mouth and let himself be carried on by the big wave.

He didn't complain to the fact that apparently she led him towards the couch. He didn't say a thing as she made him sit down and didn't even breathe as she settled on his lap. She kept touching him, though, arousing him further.

He closed his eyes in bliss as she kissed him slowly, exploring his mouth in every way possible. She nipped at his bottom lip before taking it in her mouth and biting it so softly he hardened even more. She felt him hard through his slacks but made no comment about the way he kept grinding his hips into hers. He was desperate, she knew that.

She let him touch her because she had always wanted to feel those strong hands on her. He squeezed her waist gently before stroking her back up to her shoulder blades, savoring the feel of her even through two layers of fabric.

Their lips parted due to the lack of oxygen and it was then when she spoke.

"He's probably going to kill me if he finds out about us…" She whispered and snuggled closer to him before burying her face in his neck for a few deep breaths.

Tony backed off to look at her with a stern expression written all over his face.

"He won't… I won't allow him to touch you. And he's not going to find out about us because we're going to keep it at minimum."

"What do you mean?" She asked him and moved her hand to the back of his neck, tangling her fingers into his hair.

"If we're going to do this, and I refer to 'sex', we're going to be doing it after office hours in your office. If he's at work we can work something out if necessarily, but I don't think it will be. Only if…" He smiled while he said this. "You miss me so much you can't focus on anything else."

Pepper smiled back and kissed the corner of his mouth lightly.

"Or if you miss me so much you can't focus on upgrading your suit." She retorted wittily.

"I agree with that." He whispered and leaned forward to kiss her, his tongue sneaky as he slid it into her mouth.

She moaned as he continued to French kiss her. He stroked her tongue with his, slowly teasing her by retreating and thrusting back in. It felt as if he was fucking her. She moaned again and again as his hand slowly stroked her hair and she grinded herself against him.

It wasn't long before she felt her orgasm let her breathless and stiff in his embrace. Her eyes were half-closed when she suddenly broke off the passionate kiss to gasp his name. His mouth was wide opened as he stared at her in complete awe. It didn't happen before but as he watched her come he suddenly felt ecstasy burning through his spine and throughout his entire body as he came in a series of hard spasms.

She couldn't move. No… she didn't want to. She felt as if she had been electrocuted and she believed that she was. But as she felt him tighten his arms around her she held her breath and waited until he stopped shaking.

She got off his lap after a few seconds and looked for a brief second at the wetness of his crotch. She could feel her cheeks burn and she couldn't really breathe.

"I think I'll head towards home." She managed to mutter breathlessly as she tried to breathe normally.

"Yeah, I… sure." Tony mumbled as he stood up trying to ignore the slickness of his boxers.

Pepper tipped his chin up with two fingers and kissed him softly before gazing into his dark brown eyes.

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