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Pepper had been at meetings all day when she finally got home. As she made her way through the kitchen and placed her bag on the counter she realized it was too quiet. Tony should have been home with his music blasted. To keep herself from worry, she decided to ask JARVIS of Tony's whereabouts.

"JARVIS, where is Tony?" Pepper asked. There was no answer. Suddenly she began to worry. JARVIS always answered her. Normally nothing would stop that. Starting to panic, she ran across the cold floor to JARVIS' control board. Her heart skipped a beat when it was completely cracked. Someone had completely destroyed it. Her eyes widened with panic. She ran down to Tony's lab and punched in her code as fast as she could with her shaking fingers. She let out a cry when she saw Tony. She ran over to his limp body on the floor. His arc reactor was completely ripped out as well as the magnet. Pepper held him close and let out a strangled cry. Her baby would grow up without a father. Suddenly through her tears and heartbreak, she heard someone say her name. She looked at Tony confused and heard it again. It was definitely him but his body was motionless. That's when everything went blurry...

"Pepper!" a voice said sounding alarmed.

Her eyes fluttered open and she saw Tony laying next to her. "Tony!" she cried, hugging him close.

"Pepper, what happened," Tony said alarmed. He started rubbing her back. "You were screaming so much."

"I had a nightmare," she said crying.

"Shhhh it's ok. Do you want to tell me about it?"

"I just lost you in it forever," she said.

"I'm right here Pepper," he said trying to comfort her. "You can go back to sleep."

Pepper nodded and slowly drifted off to sleep again.

In the morning, Tony and Pepper made their way to the kitchen. She looked energetic while he looked absolutely exhausted. The guys all laughed.

"Out partying again Tony?" Darcy said.

"Actually no," he replied. He yawned and reached for the orange juice. Pepper laughed as he missed the glass and poured it on the floor.

"Tony go to bed. I'll clean it up," Pepper said. He nodded and left the room.

"I haven't seen him this exhausted since we fought Loki," Natasha said.

"I couldn't sleep last night so he stayed up most of the night to make sure I was ok," Pepper said smiling at that. She started to clean up the orange juice with some paper-towel and began to laugh.

"What's so funny Pepper?" Steve asked confused.

She looked down and her small bump and said," It won't be long until I can't do that anymore."

Thor smiled. "It is a most amazing thing. Cherish it Lady Pepper. This is a moment of great joy for you and . We will be around to aid you in the cleaning."

"So polite," Jane said kissing his cheek.

Pepper smiled. "I love my family. Girls do you want to go out for the day? We can do some shopping and then have a girls night?" she asked hopefully.

Natasha sighed. "I have training until 11 p.m, but I can join you after that," she replied.

"I would love to," Darcy replied.

"I'm in," Jane said eagerly.

"Super!" Pepper said excitedly.

The girls were all in the car on the way to the mall when they decided to turn the radio on. To Happy's annoyance, they began to all sing along and dance as much as they could with the restriction of their seat belts.

"Where are you going first?" Happy said sighing.

"To the shoe store down the street," Pepper said excitedly.

"Alright," he said unhappily as he pulled up the to store.

The girls ran into the store excitedly.

"I'm going this way girls. I need to get flats. My heels will hurt too much," Pepper said laughing.

"Jane and I are going to get some heels," Darcy said.

"You know I can't walk in those right?" Jane said smiling.

"You do now," Darcy replied. Pepper sighed and followed her.

After a long day Pepper received a call from Tony.

"Pepper come home," Tony said.

"Nice to hear from you sleepy-head," Pepper replied.

"I want to see you."

"You will."

"Come home now."

"Tony, I will be home soon." Pepper hung up the phone laughing. "Time to go home girls. It's movie time."

The girls shrieked excitedly.

Before the girls had even put their stuff down Tony ran over and hugged Pepper.

"Tony are you ok?" Pepper asked.

"That depends. Can I watch a movie with all of you?" he asked hopefully.

"No," Pepper said. Tony sighed. "We brought presents though."

That caught everyone's attention.

"We've been working on this for a while. We wanted to get everyone t-shirts," Jane said.

Darcy handed the first one to Steve. It was blue and read "Bringing awesome back since 1922." Steve smiled.

"Thank you," he said.

"This one's mine," Darcy said smiling. She unzipped her sweater and the t-shirt read "my purse is fully loaded." "It's because everyone is always afraid of what I have in my purse," she said laughing.

"Hey you did tazer Thor once," Pepper said laughing.

"Lady Pepper speaks the truth," Thor said smiling.

Jane handed Thor a t-shirt. His read" I love my foster family." She showed him hers that read "my boyfriend is out of this world." Everyone laughed.

They handed Clint his and Natasha's t-shirts. Clint's read "take an arrow to the knee." Natasha's read "I kick but."

Next, dummy handed Bruce his. It read "It's not easy being green." Even he laughed at that.

Next Pepper handed Tony his. It read "I'm a genius. Your argument is invalid." Everyone laughed. Pepper showed hers off next. It read "FeMale." Tony laughed.

"Can you please explain?" Darcy asked.

"Fe is Iron, male is man, therefore I am IronMan. Tony can't use IronMan as an excuse anymore," Pepper said laughing.

After an hour of laughter the guys went down to the lab so the girls could have their movie night. Before heading downstairs Tony turned and walked back to Pepper. He gave her a kiss.

"I love you Pep," Tony said.

"I love you too," she replied as he ran off with the guys. "I'm a lucky girl," she thought to herself.