He runs his fingers over her soft stomach, making a gaspy laugh slip out of her. His self-righteous smile grows even wider and he tickles her sides, making her gasp for air.

"S-s-s-s-stop th-th-that!"She laughs and tries to fend off his hands.

She tries to tickle him back, but fails as he pins her down. She makes an effort to push him off, but to no use.

"You're supposed to be an Shield agent, and you can't even fight off a simple army man? And on top of that, an airman, the weakest kind of army-soldier!"

"But you're like twice my size in both length and weight. And you're wickedly ripped, so it's not fair!"She grunts and tries to flip him over again.

"But that's no excuse-"He smiles tricky and narrows his eyes to increase the dramatic effect of the smile."I mean, you're supposed to be able to kick Whiplash's ass, but here you are, under a very weak seventeen year old; at least in comparison with Whiplash. Otherwise, I am superman!"

"Has it never occurred to you that I am only that strong when I fear for my life?"

"Am I not intimidating enough for you?"He asks amused, leaning in closer.

"Sorry, but when you're in this position, you're usually gonna do.. more enjoyable things than death-threatening me. So don't blame me for not being scared."She smirks and he narrows his eyes a bit more, taking the reply as an invitation.

"I shouldn't go against your beliefs and expectations, so I better get down to business."He says and starts unbuttoning her pants softly, but quick.

"Oh, is that all you can think about, Rhodey?"

"It's pretty hard not to when you look that good, baby."He whispers huskily in her ear and strokes her waist under her shirt.

She traces his jaw with featherlike kisses, accompanied by small, sweet moans, inaudible for the untrained ear. Luckily, Rhodey spent so much time with Chanel, he learnt every move and sound she made under most situations, making him extremely powerful. He could tell by just looking at her that she's lying.

He presses his lips against hers, impatiently and desperately. Chanel unbuckles Rhodey's belt, rubbing him thru the thick fabric. He groans and jerks his groin against her hand, by instinct. He sighs when he sees the amused smile spreading across her face.

"What do you expect to happen when you do that?"

"Nothing, just how much it triggers you fascinates me."She smiles and he growls.

"I'm a guy, we have three purposes. And one of them is making babies, so deal with the instinctively dry-humping."He sighs and pulls off his t-shirt.

"What are the other two?"She asks curiously.

"Opening jars and defending their girl in sticky situations."

"Really? Why didn't you defend my honor when Clint said I was a slut?"She asks.

"Bro's before hoes, sorry baby. And besides, certain things you do are a little slutty."He smiles extremely amused.

"I hope you mean what I do to you, and that 'bros before hoes' rule is stupid."

"Don't you dare say that! Now I'm not in the mood anymore!"

She looks skeptically at him.

"I am serious! I don't want to have sexual relations with you tonight."

"Fine, I'll just call Clint, I'm sure he'll-"

"Oh, that's real mature of you, Chanel!"

"Okay, sorry! Do your thing now. I don't want to be all horny in school tomorrow."She giggles.

"After I'm done with you, you won't be able to walk for a week."He laughs hoarse into her ear.

She rolls her eyes and he gets down to business.

…

She feels the desire burning in her veins. It's painful, like spears, trying to get thru her skin from the inside, making her arms, palms and stomach throb.

"James.."She moans.

"Rhodey. James makes me sound like a little child.. Do I.."He enters her slowly, but forcefully, wanting her to feel every inch of him."…Feel like a little child?"

"Please…"She whimpers, not sure if she could take it any more of his torture.

"Please what..?"He asks extremely amused, looking down on the devastated teen.

"Don't be cruel.."She pleads, opening her eyes.

"If you tell me what you want, I won't."A smile creeps upon his face.

"I beg of you, please don't make me do that. You know exactly-"

"Say it, Chanel."

His entire being just wants to hear her say those two words, more than everything right now. More than he wants to continue what he started.

"Please.."

He can see the desire burning desperately in her green orbs, how she is on the verge of losing it. How submissive she is, how tortured she is.

"Please.."She whispers distressed into his ear.

He doesn't care for a verbal confirmation, not any more at least. He could feel it, he could hear and sense it. He could smell it, taste it and see it. He pulls out of her, making her squeal in disapproval. He thrusts into her, making her moan deep, purring like a lioness. She arches her back, grinding against him. He speeds up his pace, even though his plan was to torture her as long as he could.

He supposes that this is how far he can go before losing complete control and releasing all over her. He starts to kiss her, making her cry out his name time after time. He bucks his hips harder in frenzy, forgetting all about making her pay for her mistakes. He grabs her waist, to get more resistance. The pleasure is unbearable, making him marvel over the fact that he hasn't cummed yet.

The pain mixed with pleasure becomes too much for them both, and Chanel starts screaming. He thinks that his ears will explode, but he keeps on thrusting into her, working towards full ecstasy. He prays that no one will hear them and call the police. She gasps for air as she continues to scream, scream out in excruciating pleasure.

He feels how she's tightening around him and digging her nails into his back. This was always a good sign, so he goes even faster. He feels how his inner core sends out desperate signals, signals that tells him to stop fighting the inevitable. But he fears that it will hurt more than be enjoyable. Maybe this was too much?

"RHODEY!"She yells, hugging him tighter than before."I'm- I'm- AAAHHH!"

She screams in pain-pleasure, making that wonderful face of hers. It shrivels up, and that's just the thing to push him over the edge. He buries himself deep into her, growling in pain. He pumps her full of it, it never seems to stop. Hot and sticky, it fills her up.

He collapses on top of her, panting like there was no tomorrow. She sobs a little, to his surprise. He looks up at her tear filled eyes, making him anxious.

"How are you?"He asks worriedly.

"Fine, it- it- it was just too much.. It's my damn human hormones who's messing me up."She giggles a bit, and starts to cry.

He strokes her cheek gently, just grazing her cheeks with his fingertips to dry off the tears.

"Don't worry, it was the best.."She smiles faintly, and he rolls off her.

"Sure?"

"It.. may I say, the best sex ever on this earth?"

"You may tell the truth, yes."He smiles arrogantly and smug, already recovered a little from the high.

"I don't think I'll be able to walk after this."She pats him weakly on the shoulder with her fist, attempting to punch him.

"Told you so."He smiles widely and pulls her close."I love you more than you'll ever understand."

"I love you so much that I might explode right now."

"Then you'd die a fully satisfied woman."

"True dat. Good night, baby."

"Good night, honey."

He presses her to his chest, never wanting to let her go. And he wouldn't.

Pepper wasn't really shy or dumb, but when it came to math, she rather stays in the back of the classroom, and does the math she had to for herself. Unfortunately, she was paired up with Rhodey, Tony and James, the math whizzes of the class. Tony sits down next Pepper, smiling a little. Rhodey sits down next to Tony, and James sits down on Pepper's right side, on the short side of the table.

"So, I don't know a shit about this.. so don't depend on me participating in this 'project'."Pepper sighs and opens up her math book, provided by Shield.

"I can go thru the basics quickly if you want."James says, to Pepper's surprise.

"Uhm, sure..!"She opens the book and scooches closer to him.

"Okay, volume and geometry.."

"I'm warning you, not even Tony can make me understand math!"

"That's because he's a genius. Maybe I'm more suited to help you..?"He fires away a flirty smile, and she blushes a little.

Tony gives James a warning glance and Rhodey pushes Tony in the side. He pushes too hard and Tony falls off the chair, resulting in James and Rhodey laughing, and Pepper smacking James in the back of his head. She helps Tony up and dusts off his shirt.

"Uhm… Do your thing, James."

"Okay, when you want to find out what X is, I have a few tricks.."

..

"I understand! OMG! I UNDERSTAND!"Pepper shouts surprised, sounding like she's having an epiphany-orgasm.

Tony and Rhodey wake up from their "Is-what-Shield-does-right-or-wrong?" talk-coma.

"You're welcome, I guess..!"He says and she hugs him.

"You can't leave me now!"She looks terrified."You have to teach me more!"

"I can help you at free period every Thursday, if you wanna..?"He laughs.

"Please! I am begging you!"

"I already said yes, Pepper.."

"Oh. Then Thursdays it is!"She hugs him tight again, making him gasp for air.

Tony rolls his eyes and continues on with the Shield rant.

"Singling out a student is against school policy, Mr. Hogan."Mr. Klein says and Happy's smile fades into a light frown."But he/she who has the chickenpox is being treated right now, so can you please stop bugging me about it, now Mr. Hogan?"

"Yes, sir."

"Good. I'll have to attend to a meeting with the principal, so sit here quiet and have individual studytime."

Mr. Klein closes his top drawer and leaves the room. As soon as the door closes behind everyone starts to talk to each other.

"I want to know who it is!"

"It's Debbie smartass, she's home right now!"Will sighs amused, exchanging a look with Tony.

"Ah.. Let's mess with her locker!"

"Hell yeah!"

They both leave, crashing into James and Pepper in the doorway.

"Hey!"James smiles and looks after them down the hallway.

"It's like they're in third grade again!"Pepper chuckles and takes a book from him."Thanks again for the help, James."

"No problemo!"He says and sits down next to her.

Tony looks up from his advanced schematics for a laserbeam.

"And would you mind terribly helping me with my physics homework?"She says with a british accent.

"Not at all, my dear Watson."

"Sherlock Holmes..? Reeealllyy?"She smiles widely."You saw it yesterday, didn't you? I knew it!"

"Shh! Open the goddamn book now, redhead."

"You sound just like Tony."

"Good god, how does he stand being round you so much? I would go crazy!"

"You get used to it."Tony chuckles.

"I mean.. HOW?"He looks fake terrified at Tony.

"I dunno, you just do."

"But she can't keep her trap shut!"He stage-whispers and Pepper pushes James off the chair.

He breaks the fall by landing on his feet and he bounces up immediately.

"Stop push-"

A big chunk of the wall facing the street falls down and Titanium man stands in the hole.

"-IIIING..!"James screams the last part.

Tony grasps after the backpack under his labtable, ready to kick Justin's ass.

"Justin..!"Pepper whispers loud."What the hell are you doing here?"

"I am here to kill Tony! He's a fucking idiot and deserves whatever may come to him!"

"Whoa-whoa-whoa!"Tony smiles."This isn't fair, is it?"

"Stop smiling, idiot."

"No can do, Hammer."Tony's smiles stretches across his face and an amused chuckle slips out.

"You asshole."He says and grabs Pepper's arm. Rough.

"Stop taking the girl as prisoner! It's sooo cliché!"Pepper whines, resulting in him tightening his grip."Aouch! AOUCH!"

"Stop whining, idiot."

"Hey-hey-hey!"Tony's smile gets replaced by an irritated look."Let her go."

"No can do, Stark."

"Let her go."

"No. Can. Do. Stark."

"Let. Her. Go."

"Everyone just shut the fuck up!"Iron Man says suddenly, which makes Tony jump.

"Iron..?"Tony says surprised.

"Let her go or I can visit your girlfriend, huh?"Rhodey says inside of the suit.

"I am so scared."

"I can go right now!"Iron Man says and bursts out of hole in the wall, flying towards the scycrapers.

"Oh come on!"Justin growls and flies after him, with Pepper still in grip.

"MYY ARRRRMMM!"She yells in pain as she disappears.

"Crap."Tony sighs.

He was not in the mood for this.

He ducks for Unicorns beams, trying again to knock him out with a uni-beam. Not that he was any hard to defeat, but when you got your mind set on the girl hanging on a metal branch from a pretty much destroyed Chrysler Building top, 700 ft up in the air, it's pretty hard.

"LET GO PEPPER!"Justin yells.

"Jarvis, hack into Titanium man's com. system and isolate my frequency, so he can't track me down after this."

"Of course, sir. Hacking complete."

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING? LET GO PEPPER? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?"

"I am trying to protect my worst enemy's girlfriend!"

"But your way of saving people is fucking crazy!"

"Fuck you, I got better stuff to do."

"You fucker!"Tony attacks Justin.

*Zooming into Pepper in the background, screaming her lungs out.*

"I'm going to die here. I am going to die..!"She murmurs for herself.

She feels how, one after one, her fingers snaps off the edge. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine… She can't hold any more.

She didn't realize she was falling until she felt the wind blowing thru her hair. Then she starts to scream.

*Zooming in at Tony and Justin.*

"AAAAAAAHHHH HEEEEEEEELPPP!"She falls like a spear, fast and hard.

"PEPPER!"Tony and Justin yells.

Tony lets go of Justin and bolts towards her. Justin grabs him, and slams him behind him.

"NO!"Tony yells and tries to reach for her, even though she's far away.

Fear strikes his heart as he become conscious of the fact that he won't make it in time. But that doesn't stop him from trying. He fires off a metal-seeking bomb, which attaches to Justin's suit.

"What the-"He says before the bomb detonates.

Tony bolts even faster towards her, just two seconds passed, but he still needed more time. He realizes Pepper will die. But someone, or maybe a grey blur, grabs her and darts down the street, over 190 mph. It cuts thru the air, leaving a strong wind and a ear-breaking sound after it.

"Rhodey..? Rhodey! YES! RHODEY!"Tony sounds relieved, or even excited.

He looks around- No sight of Hammer. Damn. He tracks down the War Machine, who's standing on the World Apparel Building. He flies there in less than a minute, and sees Clint, Wasp and Chanel to his surprise.

"Where's Pepper?"He asks anxiously.

"I am here, jackass. I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU PUT ME IN THAT KIND OF DANGER BECAUSE OF YOU TWO TRYING TO BE MACHO!"She yells and bangs on his armored chest."Aouw-aouw-aouw!"

He grabs her wrists and retracts his whole helmet. He looks half amused, half relieved at her. His eyes looks at her with admiration, love and delight. The fact that the red head is so angry with him makes him overwhelmed with happiness, to see her so alive.

"What the hell is wrong with you?"She asks angrily.

"I love you."He smiles and kisses her.

He cups her face, pulling her closer. She gives in a little, letting him run his course.

"I thought you were going to die today, Pepper."He whispers into her ear."And I'll stop fighting with Justin."

"Thank you."She sighs irritated.

"Thanks man."Tony says to Rhodey."I owe you one."

"If you say so, but she's my friend too you know? I kinda wanted to save her, it's not really a choice."

"Okay, so you don't want a favor..?"He smiles amused.

"Forgot what I said, I totally felt forced to save her against my will."

"I hate to ruin your reunion, but I really wonder what happened to Hammer."Wasp says bitterly.

"Aww, you jelly?"Tony sticks out his tongue and wraps his arm around Pepper, still afraid of letting her go.

"I HAVEN'T HAD SEX IN SIX MONTHS! OKAY? OF COURSE I'M JEALOUS! CHERISE WHAT YOU HAVE, GOOD GOD!"She storms off, flying down towards the street, and then disappearing.

"I'll take care of that."Clint sighs amused, making the others laugh."I'm a god when it comes to that."

Rhodey and Chanel exchanges looks, remembering last night perfectly.

"I have to disagree, Mr. Barton."Chanel smiles wide.

She really knows how to make Rhodey feel like a real man.

"Oh, is that so?"He replies amused."I highly doubt that."

"Let me tell you a story, which begins with a-"She says as the two of the walks down the stairs down to the top floor.