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Word Count - 509


You're It For Me


"Is this seat taken?"

Their relationship had started so simply. So easily. A seat beside a beautiful woman, and a smile in return.

Tony didn't know then that Pepper Potts would be the making of him. And the breaking of him. They didn't get together immediately. It turned out, she was waiting to be interviews to be his PA.

She was scarily competent and unafraid to put him in his place.

"You know what I like about you?" he asked her.

"That I won't take your shit?" she'd guessed, a smile on her face.

Which pretty much summed them up in a nutshell.

"I love you."

She curled into his side. "I love you too."

"Tony… I can't be Iron Man's girlfriend. I wasn't… made for this. It's too much. Everytime you get called out, I have to wait and hope that you're going to come home and be okay and it's too much."

"Pep—"

He had no argument, because he was Iron Man, and there was nothing that could change that now. He couldn't stop… he hadn't earned the right.

She sent him to visit the Japanese warehouses, and arrived on his second day there.

The sweat was still cooling on their skin when she cried, quiet tears and regrets that, "we can't do this again. It's not fair, Tony. To either of us."

She was at his bedside when he woke up after Siberia.

"I was so scared that you were going to die," she whispered, clutching tightly at his hand.

"It'll take more than that to kill me, Miss Potts," he replied.

"I… thought it would be better. Not being so close to the situation, but it's not. It's still… it's still terrifying and I don't know what to do."

"I'm sorry."

"I love you."

She curled into his side. "I love you too."

Her face when he stepped into the portal told him that he'd be in trouble when he got home. If only he'd known that he might not ever make it home, he might have thought twice about leaving.

His helmet flickered pathetically in front of him, and he ran a hand through his already untidy hair.

"I'm sorry, Pep. I really am. I've messed up so many times in our relationship, but this might be the worst. I'm floating around space and… I'm pretty sure that I'm not coming home. Not alive, anyway. I should have been better for you. I should have gave you flowers and held your hand and hugged and kissed you more and just… been better. I should have been better. And now… now I don't think I'm going to get the chance to show you how much I love you."

He sighed, and wiped away the tear streaming down his cheek.

"I love you Pep. You've always been it for me. I love you."

She was waiting for him when he stepped off the spaceship.

"You're in so much trouble."

"I know. I love you."

"I love you too."


Written for;

Auction - I should have gave you flowers and held your hand.

Gym - Level 1 - Glute Bridge - Use the dialogue - "Is this seat taken."

365 - 94. Visit

1000 - 265. "You know what I like about you?"