Domme Smut ahead. You have been warned.

This smut scenario was an idea from 'igotyoufirst' way back in the third adventure, City of Carinthia, "it would be interesting if tony and pepper like...took care of each other's post-battle wounds"


Climb on board

We'll go slow and high tempo

Light and dark

Hold me hard and mellow

I'm seeing the pain, seeing the pleasure

Nobody but you, 'body but me

- Come on, everyone knows this song.

When they had finally reached the Keep, Jarvis and Happy had taken Tony up the stairs to his room. He had been able to walk slowly but needed help in staying upright, so Happy and Jarvis had supported him on either side while Magdalene prepared a healing poultice for his chest and back.

Tony had insisted on lying down and hardly had they lain him on the bed, that he promptly fainted from pain and exhaustion. Jarvis had insisted he would take care of Lord Stark but Pepper had stood firm and together, they had cut away his bloodied tattered clothing.

Then Pepper had finally listened to Jarvis as Magdalene came with a warm comfrey poultice and she had finally retired to her room, to tend to her own wounds. She had some bruises and some scratches from the Mugermatch's spikes but nothing serious.

Pepper sat down quietly by her room's window, wondering of the horror of the battle she had just taken part in.

The Black Knight... what manner of beast was he? He definitely was not human! That black goo...

She shivered as she remembered the way he had squeezed her throat, how her blood had pounded and she had thrashed around, desperate to stop him.

Then she heard a knock on the door and Magdalene poked her head in. "His lordship has awoken and is desperate to see you, Pepper."

She giggled at the older woman's comical expression of irritation.

Pepper stood up and went to Tony's room. As usual, Lord Stark was determined to be a difficult patient. He was grumbling to himself, over the amount of the bandages and rags on his chest and instead of lying down, he was sitting on the very edge of his bed, feet firmly on the floor.

Then he saw Pepper and tried to stand up, tottering weakly on his legs. Pepper rushed to him and gently pushed him back down, tsking at him. "Tony," she said exasperatedly, "You are supposed to be resting!"

Tony looked at her urgently, deep lines of worry around his swollen jaw. "Pepper, how hurt are you!?"

She sighed. "I have some bruises but nothing major. Rest assured, Tony, I will heal."

He shook his head mulishly. "Show me. I must see for myself."

"What?! Tony?!"

"Pepper, take off your shirt and your pants. Please show me your injuries! I want to see if you are okay!"

She sighed, knowing Tony would not let up and she did not want him to strain himself further. She glanced quickly at the door but Magdalene had left, shutting it behind her.

Pepper glanced back at the bed where Tony was sitting up slightly, legs spread over its edges. She stepped between his legs and took her shirt off, wincing slightly as the bruise on her ribs throbbed.

He tried to push himself up but before he could, she sat down next to him and turned towards Tony. He tenderly rubbed the bruise with his fingers, feeling its slightly swollen edge.

"Your gambeson protected me... as did your armor of course." she smiled but he kept frowning.

"Pants also, take off your pants, Pepper."

"Tony..."

"I saw that rolling thing shoot at you... Please, Pepper."

He seemed so worried that she pushed her pants off, standing before him in her braies.

Tony bent and gasped loudly as the painful bruise on his ribs, objected to his movement. She gently pushed him upright and lifted her leg on the bed, so that he could take a closer look at the scratches on her leg.

"Tony, you will get salve all over your fingers." she murmured but he clearly wasn't listening to her.

He kept touching her, muttering angrily to himself under his breath and she cupped his jaw, urging him gently to look up at her.

"Tony, they are just small gashes, I am perfectly alright..."

He slowly took her hand and kissed her fingers softly, whispering, "I hate it when you get hurt, Pepper... I hate it..."

She ruffled his hair gently, saying equally softly, "Well, I do not like you getting hurt either, Tony, but you never listen to me, you are always getting bruised and bloodied..."

Then Pepper gasped loudly as she felt a large, moist spot of mottled blood at the back of Tony's head.

"Tony! You are bleeding over here!"

She touched the spot with her fingers. "Good lord! Why didn't you tell me?"

He sheepishly shrugged. "I must not have realized it. Come to think of it... I was knocked out in the forest. Hey, where are you going?"

She had pushed herself off the bed and stepped to the sideboard to pick up some salve. Pepper took the entire jar, sat back down on the bed and cradled his head gently, to reach the wound. She applied some salve, smoothing down his hair, wincing at the bloodied spot.

"Tony... you idiot," she said softly, "how do you always get in trouble..."

He murmured, "Trouble comes to me, I suppose."

She looked at him, dark purplish bruises all over his chest and his bruised face with his swollen lip and his black eye. "Tony... lie down and go to sleep."

He caught her hands tightly and said, "Pepper, just lie down with me for a while please... please..."

She lay down alongside him and gently reapplied the salve on one of the bruises on his chest. He trembled underneath her fingers but lay perfectly still. Then, because she was so particularly fond of his torso, she couldn't resist touching his warm, hard flesh.

Pepper slowly touched his Arc and then massaged the flesh around it with her fingers. She then traced the outline of his pectoral muscle, feeling his skin tighten under her finger. Tony's breathing started to deepen but he didn't say a word, he just lay there with his eyes closed.

So she grew bolder and moved her hand to his stomach. Firm, hard, flat and so responsive to my touch, she thought as his abdomen rippled under her fingers. She touched his tiny belly button and Tony let out a small moan.

Pepper withdrew her hand, suddenly remembering he was injured. "Tony, I am sorry, does your chest hurt?"

He had closed his eyes tightly but opened one dark eye to give her such a look of lust that she flushed.

"Pepper," he said tightly, "please keep doing what you are doing...please..."

"But Tony, you are injured. You need to rest." she told him. "You should lie perfectly still and sleep. I will leave you alone."

She was going to push herself off the bed when he caught her hand and said pleadingly, "Pepper, please... please don't leave me tonight... Please... stay with me..."

She was caught between letting Tony rest and providing him comfort which he seemed to want.

Truth be told, I want to hold him, I want to love him... I want to banish the wounds and blows that the monster made on his body...

She lay back down again and slipped off her braies. Then she whispered slowly, "My lord, I will touch you but..." she caught his chin firmly and he gulped, "you are not going to lift a finger, you are going to lie back and let me take care of you... is that clear, Anthony?"

He nodded, a gleam in his eyes and she recognized that gleam, from the one night, where she had tied him up and touched him.

He wants me to take charge... and take care of him... and I am going to do just that.

"Anthony... raise your hands above your head." He did so and she held them in place with her hand.

She looked down into his molten whiskey eyes, fixated on her. Pepper said firmly, "You are not going to move them until I tell you to...Is that clear?"

He nodded eagerly and then she bent down and nibbled gently at his lips, making him moan.

She whispered against them, "I want to hear you moan, Anthony, long and hard... do you understand me? Don't be shy."

"Yes, goddess..." he whispered back reverently.

"Good boy. Now lie perfectly still while I touch you..."

Still holding his hands in her hand, she pressed her lips to his chin, kissing his jaw. Then she moved downwards, kissing his strong neck, feeling the skin under her lips shiver. She nipped the flesh that connected his neck to his muscular shoulder and he cried out.

"Hush my sweet, hush..." she pulled the flesh there between her teeth and then licked at it, to soothe the bite.

Tony was muttering nonsense, so she said, "Say my name, Anthony, I want to hear it on your lips."

As she kept kissing downwards, Tony started to whisper her name endlessly and his ragged desperate tone turned her on even more.

She kissed his firm, musky flesh, so hard and so warm under her lips. Then Pepper laved his coppery taut nipple and Tony bucked under her hands, saying her name as a plea.

She raised her head, mentally chiding herself for forgetting he was wounded.

"Anthony... are you alright?"

He nodded silently and she relaxed. Then she placed her hand firmly on his Arc, so he wouldn't buck. She went back to the nipple, licking it, blowing cool air on it, feeling it against her tongue. Pepper took it between her lips and sucked on it gently.

Tony moaned long and hard and she laughed, suddenly feeling very powerful by the way he was reacting to her.

"You are so sensitive here, my sweet..." she rubbed the back of her thumb against the little nubbin that was erect and tight.

"So delicious, I can't get enough of you, Anthony..." She kissed the flesh around it and then bit it tenderly.

Pepper pushed herself up and looked down at her conquered hero. She had let go of Tony's hands but he very obediently, had kept them above his head, still in place, eyes closed tightly, head thrown back.

She kissed his Arc tenderly and then gently caressed his bruised ribs. Then she made her way down to his stomach, feeling his flesh flex and bunch under her lips.

Pepper slowly made love to his abdomen, taking her time with her mouth, making little nibbles and bites as she pleased. Tony simply lay there and shuddered with each touch of her lips. She licked around his belly button and he moaned out her name loudly.

Pepper giggled and moved back up to his face, placing her finger against his lips. "Sweetheart, not so loud, Magdalene will wonder what I am doing to you..."

He nodded silently, eyes dark brown pools of arousal and Pepper kissed him hard, taking his tongue roughly. She felt his bloodied lip and then let go, caressing the bruised lip with her fingers.

"Did I hurt you?" she asked worriedly.

"Never, my lady, never..." he whispered back raggedly and raised his head to take her lips.

She kissed him for a moment and then gently but firmly pushed him back against the pillows.

He swallowed hard as she licked her lips and said sternly, "Anthony... what did I tell you to do?"

"You told me to lie still..."

"Yes and where are your hands?"

He had moved them to his sides and Tony quickly raised them back up over his head.

She lowered her face to his. As she stroked his jaw, he swallowed hard and she whispered throatily against his lips. "For that transgression, I am going to have to punish you, sweetheart."

The minute she said that, Pepper thought she had gone too far but Tony whispered back raggedly, "I am yours to do as you please, Goddess..."

She kissed him again, delighted with his response. Then Pepper raised herself and looked down at his bruised body. She wanted to touch his back, so she gently said, "Anthony, lie on your good uninjured side please..."

He lay on his side and she stretched out behind him, sighing with pleasure at the sight of Tony's bare, muscled back. She urged him to raise one arm upwards and gently touched his back muscles, stretched beautifully. He shivered but didn't move and she kissed the nape of his neck.

"Very good, Anthony, you please me greatly with your restraint..."

He whispered slowly, "Do you like what you see, Goddess?"

She bit the back of his shoulder blade and as he exhaled with pleasure, she whispered in his ear, pressing her bare self against him. "I love what I see, I love every part of you, Anthony... and it is all mine."

Suiting action to word, she kissed the back of his neck, bit his shoulder blades hard and then worked her way down his back, biting and licking every gloriously taut inch of Tony's back. He kept trembling under her mouth, especially when she licked the small of his back, lingering over the dimpled hollow of flesh.

"Anthony, Anthony, Anthony," she sang against the hollow, blowing over his flesh, "hold still now... while I go lower..."

He tensed because Pepper pushed away the covering around his hips and started to touch his bubble butt. Tony gasped and pushed backwards into her touch. She massaged the pert flesh, grinning to herself.

"I just can't decide... do I like your tiny nipples?" she looped one hand around him to feel one nipple between her fingers. "Or... do I like your firm butt?" She squeezed one cheek gently and Tony hung his head back, breathing raggedly.

"Pepper..." he moaned and she tightened her fingers around his nipple.

"I think you should call me Goddess... l like the way the word rolls off your tongue..."

"Goddesss..." he moaned again as she dug her fingers right into the meatiest part of his butt.

Pepper did not know what this persona of hers was but all she wanted to do was make Tony moan and touch every part of him, while he held still.

So she tried a triple assault. She kept teasing his nipple with one hand and kept massaging his cute butt with the other but she used her teeth to lightly graze Tony's shoulder.

The effect was impressive, he shuddered violently and pushed back hard against her fingers. "Goddess... please... please!"

"What is you want, Anthony? Do you want me to stop?"

And she let go of his nipple but not of his butt, she wouldn't do that.

"No," he moaned rather helplessly, "Please don't stop but... please touch me... touch me..."

Pepper was confused for a moment and then she mentally smacked herself.

She kept one hand on Tony's butt, firmly cupping and squeezing it. The other, she moved to his front, to his very hard cock, which practically pushed itself into her fingers.

Pepper raised herself slightly, to look at him.

"Anthony... you have gotten so damn big..." she whispered, actually awed by how erect his member was, the huge nearly purple column throbbing against her fingers.

She slowly squeezed it and he groaned again. "Goddess, please..."

She said firmly, determined to prolong the pleasure, "Uh uh Anthony, your punishment, you can't come unless I tell you to..."

He moaned pleadingly and she squeezed his ass again in warning. "No letting go until I say so... control yourself, my love..." she nibbled on his ear as his cock pulsed in her hand, "I going to keep touching you and you need to hold back just a little longer..."

"Goddesss" he said raggedly, "what are you doing to me?"

"Just trying to give you pleasure, my lord... just trying to do that..."

As she kept dragging her fingers lightly over his cock, Tony leaned back and whispered, "Goddess, permission to turn towards you..."

She said, "You don't turn, let me..." and Pepper lifted herself over Tony to face him, lying on her side.

She immediately went back to touching Tony's cock, delighting in its contrasting satiny texture and stiff turgid length. Tony was breathing in huffs now and he whispered raggedly at her, "Goddess, one more request."

"Tell me, Tony." she said, concentrating on seeing if she could make him even harder with her efforts.

"Goddess, can I touch you please... please..."

Pepper raised her eyes to Tony's pleading ones, a look she couldn't resist. Besides, she was feeling a very familiar tightness herself and wanted his fingers. "Alright, Anthony..."

Tony lowered one of his hands and as if he knew exactly what she was thinking, he moved towards her core, gently playing with her curls.

Pepper bit her lip but controlled herself as she focused on her hand on his cock. Tony seemed determined to fluster her and moved his clever fingers lower, feeling her intimately but not penetrating her.

She sighed and then kept still as he tenderly moved his fingers all over her womanhood, stroking her and touching her softly. "Do you like what I am doing?" He asked slowly and she quickly took his lips, kissing him feverishly as he kept stroking her.

When they parted, Pepper realized she was mewling from his clever fingers stroking her passionately. She couldn't speak with the intense sensation but she felt slick and swollen down there.

Finally his fingers slowly penetrated her and he felt her wetness. Tony looked down at his fingers and then growled out, "I will take that as a yes..."

She begged on a moan, "Tony... Tony... don't stop please... please don't stop... ooooohhh Tony, don't stop..."

His answer was to thrust his fingers harder into her and she began to push against them.

Pepper closed her eyes and then snapped them open as she remembered what she was doing before he touched her.

"Anthony!" she started harshly but ended on a moan as his fingers moved deliciously inside her, in a powerful rhythm, "Anthony! I supposed to be pleasuring you, not the other way around!"

He looked at her absently, fingers still moving inside her. "Okay... you keep touching me and I will keep touching you and we will see who can hold out the longest."

"A competition, I like that!"

She moved both her hands back to his cock, stroking it eagerly. Tony jerked, huffed and thrust his fingers with more force against her.

"Pepper!" he groaned, "Pepper!" She could feel his cock tighten and then to send him over the edge, Pepper moved one hand to his balls and gently squeezed one.

Still he held back, gritting his teeth with control and she gently whispered, "You can come, Anthony, you have my permission."

Then Tony released himself all over her hands, crying out her name passionately, his eyes closed tightly.

She let him ride out his release, working his cock with her hands till he had completely spent himself and then patted him gently.

Tony's eyes were closed and she thought he had fallen asleep but then he moved his fingers within her and touched a part of her she never knew existed. Pepper gasped and turned onto her back.

Tony moved closer to her, hand still within her, feeling and moving over her intimately. She pushed her head back hard against the sheet, feeling the world spin.

"God! Tony! What are you doing!"

He chuckled slowly. "Doing onto you as you do onto me, Goddess."

He moved his fingers against that wondrous part of her, pinching it lightly and she closed her eyes and cried out, nearly arching off the bed. She was mewling desperately now as Tony kept touching her there, stroking her and then pressing against the spot hard.

Pepper caught the bed sheet hard in her fists and writhed as he inserted one more finger into her and touched something else entirely, this time hooking his finger upwards into her intimately. She pushed down hard on his hand and began to chant his name loudly, knowing only he could release her from this exquisite torment.

Tony said softly, "Pepper, let go... let go, sweetheart..."

"Let go of what?!" she exclaimed right back and then she stopped thinking as his fingers curved against that one spot and his rough thumb pressed against the other spot together, in one singular motion.

Pepper shook as her release went through her in waves, each wave making her cry out as she shuddered with the force of the wave. She felt a gush of wetness between her legs and she closed her eyes, adrift on a sea of sensation.

She tightened her legs against Tony's hand, still thrusting in her and rocked against it hard, trying to prolong the feelings going through her. She dimly realized he had pushed her hair off her face and was murmuring soothing words to her.

Finally her heartbeat slowed and Pepper could open her eyes, still feeling very sensitive. Tony was gently moving his fingers and she moaned out his name, the last ripples of her release leaving her.

"Tony... Tony... that was..."

He gently kissed the side of her head, smiling at her as his hand lightly stroked her curls. She sighed and turned into him, nuzzling his neck.

"Pep, between you and me, we have made quite a mess of the bed."

She giggled at his matter-of-fact statement and then cuddled him close to her, taking care not to jostle him too much.

They lay there quietly in blissful silence, Pepper contentedly snuggled up to him. Tony was lightly touching her neck and Pepper felt his fingers tense on her.

She looked up at him. He was clenching his jaw and his eyes were a dark focused brown.

"Tony, what is it?"

"The dammed Knight... his finger marks are around your throat..."

She said soothingly, "Tony, it is alright, we are both safe now... what did he want but? Why had he taken you?"

Tony looked away and shrugged.

Then Pepper remembered the Knight's words to her. "Wait!"

She sat up. "They have come from Stane! He said he was Stane's Black Knight..."

Tony glanced up at her, worry all over his face and she lay back down. Then she whispered with a false bravado. "We can handle whatever Stane throws at us... you and me together."

I am as scared as Tony... What does Stane want? And what if he stops sending minions and comes himself? Can we truly face him?

She heard Tony wince in pain as his chest tightened and she realized she had to calm him down.

So Pepper looked deep into his eyes and cradled his jaw in her hand. "It is alright Tony, we can face this, whatever it is..."

Then she kissed him deeply and murmured against his face. "I love you, Tony."

He kissed her nose lightly and whispered back, I love you too, Pepper... Stay with me... please."

She knew Tony was shaken by the battle and didn't want to leave him. "Alright Tony, I will stay with you..."

He raised himself slightly. "Let me get this stained sheet off the bed."

Pepper glared at him and he hastily amended, "Or you could help me take it off, I won't get up..."

She left the bed, pulled off his stained sheet and tossed it in the hamper. Then Pepper got a fresh sheet and handed it to Tony, who wrapped it around his hips.

She lay back down beside him and curled into him, keeping her hand on his Arc, feeling the Fire surge beneath her fingers.

"Go to sleep, Tony." she said firmly.

"Yes, Goddess." he said obediently and she smiled.