SMUT warning...


Tony then let Pepper go but held on to her hand, looking at her with happiness.

She said firmly, "So, Lord Stark, your first duty as a Knight of Cumbria, is to dance with your Queen."

He bent over her hand and kissed her fingers reverently, his eyes never leaving hers. "It would be an honor, my Queen."

Tony straightened and she stepped into the circle of his arms, placing one hand on his shoulder and the other clasping his. He placed his broad warm hand on her hip and the other squeezed hers.

"We have no music but that's never stopped old dancing partners such as you and I before." He whispered to her, brown eyes darkening as they gazed into hers.

Before she could reply, Tony twirled her quickly, making her gasp with joy. He moved her slowly and gently as the moonlight shone down on the ruins, illuminating the stone floor in silvery ethereal light.

Pepper smiled as they danced silently over the gleaming stone floor, over the shadows cast through the stone windows, moving down the length of the hall, away from the fire.

But there was a burning question at the back of her mind that just wouldn't go away, so she cleared her throat and asked lightly, "So Lord Stark," trying to be as casual as possible, "just how many Queens have you danced with?"

He chuckled and whispered against her ear, "Only you, my Queen, only you and that is the way it shall remain till the end of my days."

Pepper wouldn't have admitted it to anyone but she was pleased to no end, with his answer.

She looked at him from beneath her lashes.

"I just..." she whispered, feeling conscious about what she was going to say, "I just asked because... I know you have spent more time in a royal court than I have and you must have danced with countless worldly noblewomen, so I was just... curious, I suppose..."

Tony's response was to pull her closer against him, his hand moving from her hip to the small of her back. Pepper looked up at him, feeling so comforted by his warm hard body against hers.

He whispered, "Pepper, yes, I have danced with a lot of, as you put it, worldly noblewomen in courts across the land but..."

Tony touched his lips to her forehead. "All pale in comparison to you, my love... trust me, Pepper... you are unlike any other woman I have ever known... and I am blessed to have you..."

She felt her eyes moisten at his soft words and Tony grinned widely at her.

"Hey now, no tears, Potts!"

He twirled her once again, making her shriek with glee, tears forgotten.

"I love it when you do that, Tony!" She exclaimed as he masterfully guided her into a neat turn, by the corner of the hall.

"I know Pepper, do you like it if I do this?" He asked and quickly caught her by the waist and lifted her, raising her towards the sky.

She clutched his shoulders and closed her eyes, the bright light from the Moon, shining beneath her closed lids.

Then Pepper felt Tony lower her and she bent her head to brush his lips with hers as she descended back to the floor. She felt her feet touch the floor but didn't let go of the intoxicating man in her arms, kissing her so tenderly with his firm warm lips, his woodsy scent filling her senses and his strong firm body pressed to hers.

She wound her fingers in his hair and touched her tongue to his, feeling his body tremble at her touch. They kissed for a wonderfully long moment, lips moving each other passionately.

Tony finally pulled back, gasping for air and Pepper smiled, touching her own lips with wonder.

"To answer your question, Lord Stark, yes, yes, a thousand times, yes! I love it when you lift me to the stars!"

She soothed his ruffled hair back into place as he caught his breath.

They gazed into each other's eyes, Tony lifting Pepper's hand to his mouth, to kiss it. Then a loud popping sound disturbed them and they turned quickly to look at the fireplace.

Pepper giggled as Tony tensed and pushed her behind him quickly.

"What the hell! Pepper, get behind me!"

"Tony..." she said, now laughing as he looked around suspiciously, fists raised defensively, "It is just the potatoes, my lord. A potato burst on the fire."

He glanced back at her and she took his hand and pulled him towards the fire.

"Yes, Tony, it is that. I think the potatoes are overheated. We should eat now. Come on."

They walked back to the fire, hand in hand. Just as she suspected, the potatoes were bursting from their skins but the chicken had cooked right.

So she lifted one wooden skewer of chicken from the fire and handed it to Tony. He sat down with it but waited for her to move the potatoes to a tin plate. Then Pepper picked up her own skewer and sat down, on the stool next to him.

They ate silently with gusto as the chicken was juicy and tender and they were both damn hungry. Pepper divided the potatoes equally and they ate them as well.

Tony finished before her because he had gobbled his food up as usual. He stood up and set about cleaning up and preparing their bedding.

Pepper finished eating as well and added some more wood to the fire. She sat contentedly in front of the burning fire, smiling to herself. Tony finished his work and sat down beside her. He put his arm around her shoulder and she leaned on him happily.

Then Pepper decided to tease him. She mischievously said, "By the way, my lord, for our wedding dance, I thought I would ask Magdalene to sing."

As she expected, Tony shifted abruptly, turning to stare point-blank at her. "Pepper, sweeting, you can't be serious!" He said incredulously.

"Why not, Tony?" she said innocently. "Maggie sings well. We have heard her sing before, at the Town Hall, remember... for our engagement."

He opened and shut his mouth and then said slowly, "Pepper, she was sloshed beyond measure. And you, sweetheart, were so tipsy, that you have mistaken her drunken warbling for tuneful singing."

Pepper nearly fell off her stool with laughter at Tony's words and chagrined expression.

Trying to catch her breath, she said, "Oh Tony! I am so going to tell Maggie, you said that about her singing, when we see her again!"

He shook his head in horror. "Then my sweet, there will be a wedding instead of a funeral. And she will definitely, sing at my funeral."

Pepper giggled and caught his jaw, pulling him closer to kiss him tenderly. She whispered against his lips, "Everyone adores you, my lord. Especially Magdalene. After all, you were the Village's most eligible bachelor until I claimed you for my own."

Then she gasped as Tony nibbled on her bottom lip, making sure to rub his beard against her sensitive skin.

"Pepper," he murmured as his lips grazed her cheek and then moved to her ear, "My queen, I am utterly and completely yours."

He took her hand and placed it on his Arc, kissing her ear as she feverishly moved against him.

"Take me, love me, my knight." She cried out as he took her earlobe between his teeth and bit it gently.

Tony lifted his head, his molasses brown eyes dark with passion, gazing into hers hotly. She moistened her lips and he lowered his gaze to them, growling low in his throat.

"Yes, my queen." He whispered and quickly pulled her onto his lap. She wound her legs around his waist, her fingers playing with his hair as she tilted his head slightly and took his lips hard, her tongue mating wildly with his.

Tony wrapped his arms around her, holding her to him tightly, pressing his muscular warm body against her.

Pepper kept kissing him passionately, dimly aware that his hand was moving over her chest. She let his lips go, leaning her forehead against his, breathing hard as she watched him unbutton her shirt.

He gently tugged it out of her trousers and pushed it off her shoulders. She moved her hands behind her to help him take it off. But instead of pulling it off her completely, Tony pushed the material down to her elbows.

Pepper looked at him curiously and then felt a slow warmth seep through her veins at his heavy-lidded look of passion. His eyes searched hers and she shuddered with excitement at what he was silently asking for.

She nodded eagerly, aware that her arms were locked behind her, thanks to the shirt's sleeves stuck at her elbows. This meant her chest was exposed to him completely and she couldn't touch him in return.

Tony clasped her by the arms, holding her upright and Pepper flushed with arousal and shyness as his glittering eyes raked her bared breasts slowly, his jaw clenching as she felt her nipples tighten under his sensual gaze. He lowered his eyes to her stomach and with one finger, lazily stroked her belly button.

She moaned and wriggled, so he cupped her cheek with one hand, the other still supporting her back. He used his thumb to rub her bottom lip softly.

Pepper licked his finger and felt his body harden against her. He let go of her lips and moved his hands around her back, standing up swiftly.

Her legs were wrapped around his hips and Tony hugged her to him as he carried her to their bedding and lowered her gently down onto the soft blanket.

Pepper sat cross-legged, arms behind her and watched as Tony slowly took off his own shirt. He then pulled off his trousers and bries, sitting down cross-legged before her, completely naked.

Her fingers itched to touch the muscular taut male body before her, glistening golden from the light of the fire. Tony grinned at her and then bent forward and undid her trousers, pulling them off her.

Then he gently lifted her back onto his lap. He moved his hands behind her to massage her elbows and asked with concern, "Pepper, are your arms numb, should I take this shirt off?"

She shook her head quickly and rubbed her chest roughly against his, her pointed nipples brushing his tiny male ones. Tony groaned loudly and clasped her arms tightly.

"Sweetheart," he whispered raggedly, "slow down..." he bent his head to kiss her neck and she trembled as his teeth grazed her soft flesh.

"Besides," Pepper heard him softly, "Who is claiming whom here?"

"You are, my lord, you are claiming me..." she whispered tightly, closing her eyes as his lips moved down her throat to her collarbone and nibbled on it.

She felt him smile against her skin and then Tony tilted her back slightly, so that he could kiss her breast bone. She opened her eyes when she felt his warm hand cup one of her breasts and squeeze it softly.

Pepper looked down at Tony's bronzed fingers around the pale globe of flesh, his thumb rubbing her nipple. She trembled again and he whispered darkly, "So soft and fits my palm so rightly."

He tightened his grip and she gasped. Tony kissed her cheek softly as his hand kept playing with her breast.

Pepper whispered, "Please, my lord, please..."

"Do you want more?" He whispered against the corner of her mouth as he pressed his thumb against her nipple. She nodded blindly and he gently moved his hands to the middle of her back, supporting her as she tilted backwards.

Pepper sighed loudly as Tony lowered his head to one of her breasts and took her nipple in his mouth. He sucked it hard and she cried out at the feel of his wet hot mouth on her flesh. Then he bit it gently and licked the hurt with his tongue, whispering her name.

He transferred to his attention to the other breast and Pepper shivered as she felt his tongue lave at her other nipple and then tease the tip until it was painfully erect. He then nibbled around it, making small bites on the sensitive flesh, so she moaned loudly.

Pepper felt herself being lowered backwards even more as Tony made love to her breasts, teasing her mercilessly with his warm agile tongue. His warm mouth moved downwards to her abdomen and she felt him kiss her belly button.

Then he slowly traced its outline with his tongue, dragging the tip along her taut stomach and she pushed her head hard against the floor and writhed against him.

"My lord!" she gasped out as his warm lips grazed her stomach, her flesh clenching with the sensation. His hands were holding her hips and he dug his fingers into her buttocks, holding her against his mouth.

"God's teeth, Pepper!" Tony whispered hotly against her skin as he nipped her gently, bent over to reach her stomach. "You could tempt an angel into sin with your lush body and passion..."

Then she felt him grin against her flesh. "But I am no angel, sweetheart..."

Pepper felt Tony gently lay her down, such that her head and the top of her body was lying on the blanket below. Then he raised her lower half.

She watched, her heart racing as he loomed above her. Tony hoisted her legs onto his shoulder and then, with his hands cupping her butt, lifted her hips to his face.

His beard brushed against the sensitive skin of her inner thighs and Pepper murmured incoherently at the multiple prickles of sensation moving through her body.

Tony, sensing her turmoil, purposefully rubbed his jaw against one thigh and she cried out loudly.

"Easy, sweeting, easy..." she heard his whisper and then Pepper lost all train of thought as she felt the hot moist tip of his tongue press slowly against her clit.

"Tony! My lord!" She amended quickly, writhing against his hands as his tongue licked her clit slowly. "Please!"

She twisted her fingers in the shirt fabric as Tony lowered her hips slightly to nibble on her mound, pulling her nether hair gently between his teeth. He then swiped his tongue across her clit again and Pepper saw stars.

"My queen, do remember you can't come until I say so..." She heard him say from far away.

The next few minutes passed in a sensual blur as Tony licked her clit raw, using long slow licks and short, hard presses, with his tongue. She could do nothing but feel and cry out as her hands were beneath her, immobilized and he had her by the hips.

Tony kissed her clit and then gently drew it into his mouth, sucking on it slowly. Pepper bucked her hips against him, gasping and he tightened his grip on her hips, to lick her core intimately.

Now Pepper was so wet and swollen with need that even the slightest caress could send her over the edge. As if to prove her right, Tony gently blew onto her womanhood, making every nerve tighten in response and she whispered raggedly, "My lord... please! Have mercy on me... I can't take it... "

Tony gently kissed her left thigh and said softly, "I love you, Pepper... I will not torture you any more, you may come."

She was going to say she could control herself a little longer, when she felt his tongue lap at her and then, flick her clit hard. Pepper let herself go, Tony holding her shaking hips as her release swept through her powerfully, making her shudder wildly with its force.

She closed her eyes and kept saying his name, feeling his strong hands steady her as she came apart, with his head between her legs.

Pepper felt herself being lowered to the blanket, her body soft and pliant, nearly boneless from her spent passion. She slowly opened one eye to see Tony smiling at her, as he stroked her thigh with one hand.

Pepper lowered her gaze to his hips, where his other hand was slowly touching himself. She moistened her lips, whispering, "May I do that, my lord?"

"No, Pepper," he whispered back, "You are just going to watch me."

She was confused by his words. Tony just grinned at her and moved forward towards her. He pulled the shirt off her elbows and then down her hands, freeing her. Then he gently brought her hands to her stomach and began to massage her elbows.

Pepper sighed with pleasure as his fingers tenderly rubbed her flesh, reducing the stiffness in her arms.

"Tell me where it hurts, Pepper." he asked with concern.

"It is just a little stiff, my lord"

Tony huffed with annoyance. "I am sorry, I shouldn't have left them behind you for so long... It was thoughtless of me..."

She raised one hand to caress his jaw. Pepper looked deep into his eyes and whispered, "The stiffness is minimal and well worth the pleasure you give me, my lord... and the regard you have for me..."

His eyes darkened as her hand stroked his beard, her thumb moving over his hair softly.

"You are all I have, Pepper... and your love means a lot to me too."

Then he tensed as she rubbed her knuckles over his jaw slowly, feeling his beard hair prickle against her skin. Tony caught her hand and kissed her palm fervently. She gasped as his tongue lazily licked her fingers.

Pepper closed her eyes, a smile growing on her face as he slowly took one of her fingers into his mouth and bit on it gently.

Then she felt her hand leave his mouth and opened her eyes. Tony held her arms straight by her wrists and gently pushed them back, arranging them over her head, stretched out.

He firmed his grip on her wrists and looked down at her. "You are going to keep these there, until I say so."

She nodded, her pulse quickening as he moved back to sit on his knees, between her legs. He held his semi-erect cock in one hand.

"My lord, why are you touching yourself, when I can..."

Tony pursed his lips, trying unsuccessfully to hide his smile. "Oh, I am not touching myself, my inquisitive Queen, I am going to touch you..."

Then he slowly hovered over her, making sure to rest his member on her stomach. She clenched herself at the feel of its warm firm length on her skin, twitching slightly against her soft flesh.

Tony moved forward, rubbing himself against her abdomen and Pepper gasped with pleasure at the sensation.

"It feels so good..."

"No, sweetheart," he growled out and moved back slowly, dragging his cock backwards, "you feel so good."

Tony began to move back and forth like that, rubbing himself against her stomach. She could feel his cock harden slowly with each forward and backward moment, her flesh branded by its excruciatingly slow caress against her.

He had closed his eyes as he moved back and forth, his mouth slightly open, breathing hard and whispering her name.

Then Tony quickened his rocking and she pushed her hips upwards trying to increase the pleasure from his movements. Her blood pooled in her stomach and she felt the aching tightness grow in her core as his throbbing member moved against her skin.

He moved away from her and she made a little noise in her throat. Then Pepper moistened her lips as she watched Tony put his linen sheath on his turgid cock, hissing slightly as he did so.

She shuddered as she felt his broad hands cup her backside and raise her hips. Pepper moaned as Tony slowly sheathed himself within her, filling her inch by inch.

She raised her hands to move them towards him but controlled herself in time and held on the blanket beneath her. Tony grinned at her and whispered, "Good girl..."

Then he withdrew himself and thrust into her heavily again, making her moan anew. He closed his eyes, rocking his hips against her in hard powerful thrusts, his hands holding her against him.

Pepper could feel his muscular hairy thighs beneath her soft ones, creating a delicious friction between their bodies as he moved himself within her. This added to the tension building within her.

Just as she was managing to control herself, Tony shifted and whispered, "Sweeting, wrap your legs around me, please."

She did as he said, gasping as he moved over her, the change in position thrusting him even deeper into her. Pepper was mewling now as Tony's hips pounded hers relentlessly.

"My lord... please!" She pleaded and his eyes locked gazes with hers.

Tony clenched his jaw and shuddered as he stopped moving. He bent, touching his forehead to hers and whispered raggedly, "Pepper, my queen... I thank all the gods that you have blessed me with your love... My heart is forever yours, in this life and the next..."

His tender words made her tighten herself around him and he kissed her nose, his body shuddering against her.

"Let go and join me in the stars, my love"... he whispered as he took her lips hard and thrust inside her heavily.

Pepper closed her eyes, her heart racing as she let herself go, her hands feverishly moving over Tony's back. She tugged his hair lightly as her release racked her in one powerful wave after the other. Tony groaned loudly, his lips still touching hers and shuddered under her hands.

Then she came back to Earth, looking up at the numerous twinkling pinpricks of light above her, the stillness of the night, making her heartbeat sound so loud. As she stared, the pinpricks sharpened into stars in the inky black night sky.

Tony rolled over and lay down beside her, his hand stroking her forehead. He pushed her hair back and kissed her temple. She turned into him and nestled herself in the crook of his arm, one hand possessively placed on his Arc.

Pepper whispered, "Death may be before us tomorrow but we have tonight and we have each other and our dreams."

She looked into her knight's soulful dark brown eyes and smiled, knowing this to be true.

And so the lovers slept under a blanket of stars, unafraid of what tomorrow may bring.


I love it when they dance... and I love writing them dance... *sigh* but sadly, this is going to be their last dance for a while.

No uploads next week, sorry, I have to work on the weekend :(