Three: Hot Date Part 1

"We haven't seen Pen-Pen in a while." Pepper looked up from her I-phone towards Tony who was dazing off in front of the fire. "I hope everything is ok. I haven't seen her in weeks."

Tony woke up at the mention of Pepper's voice. "Who the hell is Pen-Pen? Do you mean, Penny? She's not a chihuahua, Pepper. Don't give her cutesy nicknames."

Pepper looked slightly annoyed as she looked for her coffee cup. "Penny doesn't mind when I call her that. Besides you didn't answer me, we haven't seen her in weeks. Any idea why?" The holidays had just passed and him and Pepper had been in Holland for most of them. Besides a Merry Christmas text from Penny and May a few weeks ago, Tony had not heard anything since then.

Tony frowned that wasn't like her at all. Usually Penny drove him crazy with her constant calling and texting. He hoped that everything was all right. He checked his phone to make sure that he hadn't missed anything, but he only saw the Merry Christmas text from two weeks ago.

He hoped that she wasn't getting sick again. He dialed Happy's number and Happy answered with a sleepy hello. "Don't tell me I woke you up." Tony sounded amused. "It's 8:30 at night."

"It's Sunday," Happy replied irritably. "I can do whatever I want with my Sunday night. My week doesn't officially start until tomorrow."

"Ouch, don't be so grouchy." Tony joked, enjoying this. "I won't take any more of your time, Sleeping Beauty. Quick question any word from Penny that you forgot to forward to me."

"Nope," Happy yawned. "Everything is quiet on my end, she has your personal phone number. She usually bothers you, I only got a Happy Holiday text from her." He perked out. "Why? Is something wrong?"

"Nope G.I. Joe. I'll handle it. She's probably hanging out her with her dorky friends and sexy aunt. Night night." Tony turned to Pepper. "Happy hasn't heard from her either."

Pepper took a sip of her coffee. "I didn't mean to worry you, Honey. I was just wondering. Perhaps Penny is just out with her friends."

"Or lying in a ditch somewhere." Tony mumbled under his breath. He checked to see if there was any news regarding Spider Woman, but he found out nothing. He dialed May's number and May answered right away.

"Hello, Tony this is a surprise."

He cleared his throat. "Hi May, how were your holidays?" May gave the usual response. "Hey, can I speak to Penny for a minute? I want to wish you a happy holiday and what not. She's been MIA recently no doubt hanging out with her dorky friends."

May sounded confused. "Didn't Penny tell you? I had to leave for Wisconsin two days ago. My great Aunt Milda got sick and I came for a few days to take care of her. Since Penny is back in school I couldn't bring her along."

Tony's head started spinning. Penny was definitely lying in a ditch somewhere. "It must have slipped her mind. Thanks, May. I hope Aunt Milda feels better." He hung up the phone and called Penny's cell phone and the house phone, but no answer. "Friday, can you track down Penny's location? Is she wearing the suit?"

"She is not, Mr. Stark. The suit is in her backpack." Friday said. "She is in Queens in the Parkview Apartment buildings." Tony nodded as he grabbed his sneakers.

Pepper frowned. "Tony, aren't you blowing this a little out of proportion? Penny is a good girl, I'm sure that she is not doing anything that is going to do her any harm."

Tony snorted, trying to hide his nervousness. "Well, better safe than sorry."

Penny felt as Aaron Thomas pressed his hand against her thigh and slightly under her uniform skirt. She felt a chill go down her spine as she let out a nervous giggle. She couldn't actually believe she was in Aaron Thomas's room. She had, had a crush on him for the longest time and she was actually in his room. Hallelujah.

Sure they were supposed to be studying for a Biology test together, but those were just details. It was great that May was out of the state right now, otherwise she would have a coronary. May had two rules, 1) No stupid things that could end up with her being hurt and 2) No boys without adult supervision.

"You're very cute." Aaron said smoothly. They were sitting down on Aaron's bed while Penny was trying not to burst into nervous giggles.

"Thank you, I wasn't even sure that you noticed me-" Penny's sentence was left uncomplete as Aaron gave her a kiss with his hands resting on her waist. His hands rummaged around her Midtown sweatshirt.

Penny couldn't believe that she was doing this, kissing a boy while his hands rummaged under her Save the Planet T-shirt. It was so un-Penny like it was enough to make her sick.

Penny and Aaron were kissing when suddenly they each heard a loud bang and they both flinched as the banging got louder. "What's that the door?" Aaron screeched. "My parents are going to kill me! Who the fuck did that?"

Penny quickly smoothed down her skirt as both she and Aaron went outside where they saw the 6ft statue of Iron Man staring them down. "Mr. Stark," she managed to say. What the hell was he doing here?

The helmet opened and Tony stared her down, not looking the least bit pleased. "Are you hurt? Why haven't you answered the phone?" he stared at Aaron. "And who is this midget here?"

"Aaron. He's my friend. My phone died." She blurted out one lie after the other. She hoped that she didn't have "sex hair" even though she hadn't even had sex.

There was an awkward silence until Tony said in a scarily calm voice. "Penny, get your stuff. We're leaving."

Neither of them had said much as Tony parked his car in front of HQ as both of them kept fuming. "What the hell were you thinking?" Tony finally snapped, breaking the silence.

"What were you even doing there?" Penny snarked back. "No one called you, it was absolutely none of your business-"

"Watch it, young lady." He snapped. "Chasing you down isn't exactly my idea of a fun time either, especially when I just found out that May has been out of town for the past few days. Does your lovely aunt know you've been hanging out with Jason?"

"Aaron." She snapped, feeling annoyed. Honestly, Tony was treating her like she was selling drugs at the local park. "And we were just studying. We're friends."

"You're a fifteen year old hanging out with a horny fifteen year old on a weekend night with no parental supervision," each word that Tony spoke was basically dripping with sarcasm. "And you're telling me that nothing was going on besides good ol' fashion studying."

Penny's cheeks felt hot with embarrassment. "Think whatever the hell you want, I don't care-"

"Penelope-"

Penny answered with slamming the door as she went inside HQ. She nearly bumped into Steve who was sipping coffee. "Pen, what are you doing here?"

Penny didn't answer as she angrily continued going to her room.

-End of Chapter Three-

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