Natasha Romanoff. Probably the sexiest woman the male Avengers ever seen. To Chanel's and Pepper's disapproval, of course. Comments from Rhodey was usually single words or short sentences, like "Damn!" or "Why don't we fight criminals with that fine ass?". Tony and Clint nods and agrees, often not saying a word.

"What more can a guy ask for? Hot, bendy and a martial arts specialist!"Rhodey looks at her fighting off some Hammerbots."Talking about Hammer, where's Pepper?"

"She's out working, but she should be-"

"There she is- YOWSA!"Clint looks surprised."Turn around, Tony-boy."

"What is it- Wooow..!"Tony's eyes grows twice their size as he sees the other red head in a catsuit.

"Stop this right now!"Pepper yells angrily and tries to roundhouse kick her.

"Not until I have the specs of the Iron Man suit!"

"In your dreams, bitch."

Their fight looks like a perfectly coordinated dance, both bodies in total sync. Dodging, kicking and spinning. Natasha aims with her bracelet-repulsor. She raises her hands quickly, surrendering.

"Okay, let's take it easy now.. You know we red heads has to stick together, right?"

"Hand me the specs."

"No can do, Romanoff. Dejavu huh?"She laughs nervously."I know I should have brought the gun."

"Give it to me."

"Don't think so."

"You wanna die, kid?"

"The fact that you're just two years older than me doesn't make me a kid."Pepper narrows her eyes as she smile determined.

"What are you up to?"Natasha asks suspiciously.

"Three.. two.."She counts down with her fingers.

"ONE!"Clint shoots an arrow at her.

It sprays something that makes her faint instantly. Pepper steps out of the cloud, tears falling from her red eyes.

"Damn that's strong!"She coughs like she just smoked a cigarette for the first time."And no one steals Iron Man's stuff, except me. And Justin Hammer, cuz he got away with it."

"Stop talking and turn around!"Clint complains.

"Ehm.. okay?"She turns around two-three times.

"Nice! Now bend over."He chuckles.

"Dude!"Tony slaps the back off Clint's head."Back off."

"I'm just trying to see how far she would go!"

"DAMN! Widow's gone!"Pepper grunts."First she lures me in her little web of lies, and when I finally got her, she ran!"

"It's okay, we'll catch her next time…"

"Stupid ass men.. all they think with is their penises… all they care about is sex.. maybe if you stopped thinking with your penises, you'd get more done!"Pepper yells to the guys and storms out of the crimescene.

Pepper stuffs her books further down her backpack as Whitney approaches.

"Pepper?"She asks with a soft voice.

"What is it, Stane?"

Hah. Tony and Pepper shares the same nickname for their arch enemies. Only that he likes Whitney, and she doesn't like any of the Stanes.

"I think we need some closure on this 'arch-enemy' thing."She surprises her."I don't want to fight with you anymore, and I hope we can at least try to be friends. It tires me out fighting with you."

Tony's jaw drops. Rhodey's jaw drops. Chanel's jaw drops. Happy's jaw drops. And pretty much everyone else's in ear-shot.

"Oh.. that would be great."Pepper still faces away, looking as shocked as the others."I'm getting tired of fighting with you too. I mean, I bet you're awesome when I get to know you better."

"I hope you will think so."

Pepper spins around, looking questioning at Whitney, believing that she was kidding her. But no. Whitney smiled trying, looking genuine.

"I hope you'll enjoy your stay at chateau Pepper. It's gonna rock."Pepper smiles towards her.

Whitney chuckles a little as she follows Pepper out of the classroom. Tony breaks the ice.

"What the hell is going on?"

"I think your favorite girls made up. Congrats my friend."Rhodey tries to shake off the shock."I still can't believe it though."

After smoothing things over with Whitney, Pepper was very occupied the last two week of October and the first two weeks of November. Almost a month spent on preserve her new friendship, or at least the start of one, and Shield field work. Tony was happy that Whitney wasn't alone anymore, but after a while he missed his girlfriend. Like a lot.

If you all know what I mean.

And that got kind of annoying, since they barely saw each other anymore. And it wasn't just that he missed being with her, he missed being with her, if you know what I'm getting at. And missing her in more ways than one made him easily angered and/or extremely amused, for no reason.

More than once Clint pointed out that Pepper was out of his grip.

"You need to show her her place! You're letting her go around doing what she wants! Be a fucking man!"

"Dude, I really don't want or need your advice. You're a man-whore, remember?"Tony shots a pleased look towards Hawkeye.

"It's called a player, and not too long ago, you were one as well."

"You don't get laid like that when you're fifteen, Barton."Tony chuckles and tightens a bolt on his Space suit.

"You didn't get laid at all, Stark."

Tony can picture the self-righteous smile spreading across the blonde's face. He looks up into the wall infront of him, irritated.

"You're a douche, you know that, right?"He says and spins his chair around, putting down the monkey-wrench next to the suit.

As Tony foresaw, Clint sits laid-back in the armchair, smiling amused. Tony sighs in annoyance, admitting defeat. For now. He turns back to his suit and starts to work on the brakeage-flaps. They got fried last time he fought in.. well space, duh'!

"So.. How is she?"

Tony' eyes springs wide-open and he turns around again, this time more violently.

"Is this all we can talk about?"He asks, irritation mixed with surprise.

"Dude, I'm a man-whore, remember? What do you think my life revolves around?"He smiles pleased at the black-haired teen's reaction."So, are you gonna answer the question?"

"NO!"Tony looks in disbelief at Clint."Jeezuz man!"

Pepper sits down in her sofa, flipping thru the magazine her dad's girlfriend left here. God, she didn't like her. And Alexandra -yeah, she got a name!- didn't like her either. But since she had avoided her for over a month now, she hadn't gotten in so much trouble with her dad.

So she finally made peace with Whitney, and they started to enjoy each others company too. They went shopping (Pepper on Tony's Platinum-card of course, haha), ate nice together and executed activities outdoors; like jogging, walking in parks/woods nearby and swim.

They even got to the point of switching numbers. She feels good being Whitney's friend, and actually apologized for stealing Tony away from her. Whitney told her it was okay, and she felt it necessary to be with Tony because she saw and felt how much Tony liked Pepper. And then she apologized. And they made up, putting all the anger behind and hoped for a bright future.

Chanel started to accept the fact that Whitney was okay, and so she started to hang out with Whitney and her rich friends. Whitney was nice and funny, but the others were weird and had no humor at all. It all ended up with Chanel dragging Pepper and Whitney out of the mall, and forced them to play laser-tag with her, to shake off the snob-feeling.

Pepper and Whitney sat together in school, shared answers and so on. Whitney really had a reason to go to school now. She wanted to hang out with her friends; Tony, Rhodey, Will, James, Chanel and Pepper.

"Got stood up again? I told you that rich kid was trouble from the start."Her dad says, standing in the doorway with Alexandra.

Pepper started to lie lately why she was home so much, and blamed it on Tony who "stood her up" every night she wanted to be at home. Why would she lie, you may ask? Because her dad forced her out of the house when Alexandra was over, but Pepper didn't budge, Alexandra isn't going to win.

"Uhm, yeah.."Pepper says, faking the uneasy tone.

"I'm sorry for you, Patricia. Maybe you should have a better taste in men?"Alexandra says with a nice tone, but shoots evil looks at her.

"Tony's fine, he's probably up inventing like always."Pepper fake smiles towards her.

"A nice man puts his girl in the first room, and a nice girl shouldn't put up with that kind of behavior that Tony guy has."

Is she trying to split me and Tony up?

"FYI, its Tony Stark, and he's putting me in the first room! I maybe want to give him some space, huh?"She looks meaningly at Alexandra.

"Just be careful, okay? Most men are jerks, and all they want is sex."

Alexandra's eyes turn black and she smiles a little evil.

"Have you two had sex yet?"

Virgil sticks his head into the room, looking angrily and questioning at Pepper.

"No! I'm-"

"Are you sure…?"Alexandra turns into a witch in her eyes."I mean, all boys wants is sex when they're in this age."

"I am sure! Tony and I-"

"If I hear a word about you and Tony engaging those kind of things, I'll personally kick your ass."Virgil warns."Can't you call Whitney or Chanel, see if you all can go out and do something? Maybe shop?"

"Doesn't she max out your card?"Alexandra asks.

"No, apparently her boyfriend let's her use his. Apparently he's the richest guy on this planet today."

"Oh god!"Alexandra looks surprised.

"Yup."Pepper smiles confident."Bye then. Virgil. Alexandra."

"Ms. Potts calling."Jarvis announces.

"Put her through to my ear piece."Tony says and puts in the headset."Pepper?"

"OH! She's done it this time!"Pepper yells, making the teens in the background laugh.

"Christ, tone it down, Pepper!"Tony says and holds the ear piece in his hand instead, in case of another scream-attack.

He put her out in the speakers instead, making her angry voice pound thru the big livingroom over at Stane's.

"You're so cute when you're angry, Pep."Clint teases laughing.

"Shut up or I'll kick you in the nuts!"She yells."Where the hell are y'all?"

"Over at Whitney's, rude-girl."Chanel says, looking up from a Vogue magazine.

"Oh, FYI, Stane made a deal with Killer Shrike and Unicorn about the laser from the Earth mover. You're all in deep shit."Pepper sighs and a cab-door closes behind her.

"Fuck."Tony groans.

"Sorry.."Whitney sounds sad.

"Don't blame yourself for what your stupid ass dad did, Whit. You're awesome, and he's evil."Pepper drowns Tony's try to comfort.

"Okay, I'll try."A smile spreads over her face.

"My sources says-"Pepper begins.

"You mean Shield?"Clint asks amused.

"Anyways, my sources tells me that Killer Shrike and Unicorn aren't the original customers, just the stackers, probably going to guard the shit until the real client arrives. Flynn, a guy at the bugging department said that the client was very clear about not wanting to meet eye to eye. And Obadiah didn't care of course, just as long as he got his money."Pepper says in one breath.

"Smug bastard."Tony growls, opening up a new window on his 3D desktop.

"Isn't this cool? We got a new enemy!"Pepper says exited.

"I think we got enough as it is."

"But Flynn said that the client probably is a lady!"

"Finally!"Clint and Rhodey exclaims.

"I didn't say she was hot."

"Daaww…"

"Now, to a more serious subject.."Pepper says.

"How Tony is in a dry-spell right now?"Clint laughs.

Tony throws a book in the blonde's head.

"Continue."Tony says, focusing on his dashboard.

"MY DAD'S GIRLFRIEND THINKS THAT SHE'S FUCKING ALL MIGHTY! She almost got me in trouble again!"

"What did she do now?"Janet asks tiredly.

"She accused me for having sex! With Tony!"Pepper throws her backpack around.

"Jeezuz, what a crime!"Tony says smiling, still focusing on his dashboard.

"My dad is going to kick my ass! Not Tony's, but mine! What the hell is that?"Pepper almost yells.

"My respect for your dad just increased by 17%."

"AAGGHH! I HATE HIM I HATE HIM I HATE HIM!"Pepper yells and walks around.

Tony grabs her arm as she walks by him. He pulls her close and smiles to her.

"Take it easy, Pep. She'll leave you alone soon enough."

"Easy for you to believe! She's not luring your dad to hell!"

"Shh…"He chuckles and plants his lips on hers.

"Dude? That dashboard might be colorful, but not solid. I can pretty much see your mushy love."Clint complains.