It's been one year since Mr. Stark saved Hermione from Ron, and she have been working for him ever since. The building is finally finished and they are celebrating. Both Mr Stark and Pepper know that she is a witch and have both helped keep it a secret. Though sometimes Tony likes to joke about it.
Right now Mr Stark out in the Atlantic Ocean, in his Iron-man suit and is cutting into a pipeline transport and places a STARK energy reacter. He then rockets out the water and flies towards STARK tower.
"You're good on this end. The rest is up to up" Mr. Stark says on the phone.
"You disconnected the transition lines? Are we off the grid?" Hermione asks.
"Stark Tower is about to become a beacon of self-sustaining clean energy." Mr. Stark says.
"Wow. So maybe our reactor takes over and it actually works?" Pepper hopes.
"I assume. Light her up." Mr. Stark says as he flies to the STARK Tower. Hermione turns on the power and the STARK sign lights up.
"How does it look?" Hermione asks.
"Like Christmas, but with more... me." Tony says, and Hermione rolls her eyes.
"Gotta go wider on the public awareness campaign. You need to do some press. I can do some more tomorrow. I'm working on the zoning for the next billboards." Pepper quickly says, already thinking about business.
"Pepper, you're killing me. Remember? Enjoy the moment." Tony says.
"Then get in here and I will" Pepper says and Tony arrives at his skyscraper penthouse and goes through the process of taking off his Iron-man suit through a hi-tech gauntlet of gadgets just by walking and into the building. When he walks in, he sees Pepper and Hermione staring at the monitors of the reactor device.
"Levels are holding steady.. I think" Pepper says, bitting her lip.
"Of course they are, I was directly involved. Which brings me to my next question: How does it feel to be a genius?" Tony asks Pepper.
"Well, ha, I really wouldn't know now, would I?" Pepper asks.
"What do you mean? All this came from you" Tony says.
"No. All this came from that" Pepper says, pointing to the energy in his chest plate.
"Yeah, I didn't help at all" Mia says sarcastically.
"Mia, you know you have 10% credit, I asked you and you said it was ok. Give yourself some credit, please. Stark Tower is your baby. Give yourself.. 12% of the credit" Tony says to Pepper for the last bit and Hermione walk over to the couch.
"12%?" Pepper asks.
"An argument can be made for 15" Tony says.
"12%? For my baby?" Pepper asks, walking over to Hermione.
"Well, I did all the heavy lifting. Literally, I lifted the heavy things. And sorry, but security snafu? That was on you." Tony says.
"Oooooh." Was all Pepper says.
"My private elevator..." He gets cut off by Pepper.
"You mean OUR elevator?" She asks.
"...was teeming with sweaty workmen. I'm going to pay for that comment about percentages in some subtle way later, aren't I?" Tony asks. And Hermione pours herself, Pepper and Tony a glass of champagne.
"Not gonna be that subtle" Pepper states, and Hermione walks over to the monitors of the reactor device and looks them over again.
"I'll tell you what. Next building's gonna say 'Potts' on the Tower." Tony says.
"On the lease" Pepper says.
"... Call your mum, can you bunk over?" Tony jokes, and Hermione laughs a little.
"Sir, the telephone. I'm afraid my protocols are being overwritten." Jarvis say.
"Stark, we need to talk." Agent Phil Coulson says, with his face showing up on the phone. And tony picks up the phone and looks at Coulson.
"You have reached the life model decoy of Tomh Stark, please leave a message" Tony stats to the phone and I laugh a little more.
"This is urgent" Agent Coulson says.
"Then leave it urgently" At the the elevator door opens and Coulson appears.
"Security breach!" Points to Pepper "That's on you"
"Mr. Stark" Phil says.
"Phil! Come in." Pepper says.
"Phil? Uh, his first name is Agent" Tony says.
"Come on in, we're celebrating" Hermione says.
"Which is why he can't stay" Tony mutters.
"We need you and Miss Granger to look over this. Phil says, holding out a file towards Tony. And Hermione comes over. "Soon as possible".
"Me? How come?" Hermione comes over and takes the file.
"Official consulting hours are between eight and five very other Thursday" Tony says, and Hermione drags him over to the desk to look over the file.
"This isn't a consultantion. And we have reason to believe that you Miss Granger can help Dr. Banner in finding the Tesseract." Phil says.
"The Dr. Banner? Are you serious? No joking?" Hermione asks, going into geek mode.
"No joking" Phil smiles.
"Is this about The Avengers? Which I... I know nothing about" Pepper quickly says.
"The Avengers Initiative was scrapped, I thought. And I didn't even qualify," Tony says.
"I didn't know that either" Pepper adds.
"Yeah, apparently I'm volatile, self-obsessed, don't play well with others" Tony says.
"That I did know" Pepper says.
"This isn't about personality profiles anymore" Phil says
"Whatever. Miss Potts, got a minute?" Tony asks. And Pepper walks over to Tony and Hermione.
"You know, I thought we were having a moment." Tony says, watching Hermione as she uploads the file into the database.
"I was having 12% of a moment. This serious, Phil's pretty shaken" Pepper says quietly.
"Hos did you notice? Why is he Phil?" Tony asks.
"What is all this?" Pepper asks.
"This is, uh..." Hermione cuts in and expands her arms and different profiles appear in holographic form floating in the air in from of them. "This" Hermione finishes. Screens appear of Captain America in action, the Hulk roaring as he attacks the army at Culver University, Thor fighting the Destroyer and another is of Loki and the Tesseract, to which they all look on in awe.
"I'm going to take the jet to D.C. tonight." Pepper says to Tony.
"Tomorrow" Tony says straight away.
"You both got homework, you've got a lot of homework" Pepper says.
"Well, what if I didn't?" Tony asks.
"If you didn't?" Pepper asks.
"Yeah" Tony says,
"You mean if you finished?" Pepper asks and Tony nods his head. "Well, um.. then.." She whispers something in his ear and Tony gasps. Phil looks away in embarrassment, and Hermione all to familiar with it just keeps working and looking over the notes.
"Square deal. It's a date" Tony says and Pepper kisses him and hugs Hermione bye.
"Work hard" Pepper says, leaving with Agent Coulson. Tony grabs the Tesseract in holograph form, worried.
"Don't worry, we will get this done before you know it" Hermione says, putting the holographic Tesseract back in its place and gets back to work with Tony working next to her.