Chapter 4
The prom rages on
Pepper hid in her spot under the bleachers watching every move tony made. She watched every piece of the gym walls fly when the fight crashed to the ground. "oh tony, please beat him" she whispered to herself. Tony got smacked to the ground and was under the pressure of defeat.
"IRON MAN GET UP, COME ON YOU CAN DO IT!" she screamed from her spot. He could tell who it was, and remembered how he promised he would be ok. "get…off……NOW!" he pushed himself free with the uni-bean and defeated the villan.
"ok, you can all come out now." Then he realized that everyone went home.
"everyone is just me. I hope that's ok" pepper stepped out of the bleachers and came twords tony and hugged him.
"thanks for keeping your promise, tony." Pepper smiled and held on tighter to the armor that had just saved her life.
The armor's com systems were down, so it was just the two of them, alone in a damaged gym. There was music playing faintly in the background. "so…no use waisting a good prom like this. Want to dance?" he held his hand out and opened his face plate revealing a smile that Pepper knew said he was serious.
"tony…..oh tony….of course I do." She softly grabbed his hand and they went into a slow dance.
"this is nice…" he tried avoiding the subject.
Time to spill your guts, pepper.
"tony……the truth is……i….like you." The pair blushed.
"uuhh…..i-well i-sorta… like you….too…." he looked deep into her eyes and she looked even deeper into his.
"ive been waiting for this day ever since I saw you first…I was just afraid that if I told you it would ruin our friendship." She admitted what she was scared of.
"pepper, you know I'd never let that happen. I don't want to lose you, either." They smiled and the moon came out and started to shine onto tony's already sparkling eyes and made him look beautiful.
By this point, the com systems came back on, but tony never noticed. Rhodey didn't dare interrupt them, so he just watched, knowing this would happen, smiling.
Pepper started leaning in and soon the pair were touching lips. The song 'My Hero' (by paramore) was playing while they locked lips. Pepper felt the sudden rush of emotion and the fireworks, and they stopped.
"come on. We should get home." Tony picked her up by the waiste and that moment became just like the night when pepper found out about iron man. But this time, tony slipped a smile at the sight of her face, how beautiful it was and started to wonder why he hadn't done that a long time ago.
"tony? i love you…." Pepper admitted.
"i..love you too." They continued their flight home in peace, and love.
"I knew it all along, man." Rhodey said quietly to himself.
Attention reader: the story will now take place from Pepper's and sometimes Tony's point of view. Enjoy!
The next day, they all returned to school. Luckily, only the gym was destroyed. So that meant no one was allowed in the gym until further notice of repair. Tony and i were embracing our newfound love on the roof, for free period. We sat there, next to each other, holding hands. "So maybe you should make the armor another color now. Ooh, maybe purple. Or green. Or white! Ooh, that would look sooooo cool. Can you change its color? Or maybe I can use it!! Oooh, can I? That would be awesome!" tony interrupted while he could.
"Pepper! Is there ever a way to get you to stop talking?" he laughed.
"hey!!i can stop talking whenever I want." I smirked.
"that's what they all say, pepper." He smiled and kept his hand in mine. I rested my head on his shoulder. He smiled at me, but still looked worried.
"Tony? What's wrong? You look worried." I looked up at him.
"its just that….the attack last night….it's not over. I didn't really beat him yet." I got worried too. Then, a mass of panicking city workers ran past school in terror. Someone had screamed "where's iron man!" another, "help!!! Help me!!" tony got wide eyed and got up and ran to the armory, never letting go of my hand.
"why do I have to go?" I complained.
"because I need you to take this and go back to school!" he handed me the portable communicator so I could give it to rhodey. "ok! Be careful! I love you!" I exclaimed. He said, " I love you " then I rushed back to school and gave rhodey what I was sent to give him, got mine out and we rushed to the roof so no one would hear us talking to iron man. "tony! Tony what happened?" rhodey asked in panic.
"I heard an attack, I went to go see what's happening." He said while he attacked the villain he knew was coming back.
I started to talk. "ooh what's happening!"
"I told you I wasn't done with him last night, pepper!" he said in a starting panic.
"aah, while we're on the topic of last night…." Rhodey trailed off.
"What? What are you talking about?" tony asked, confused now.
" what you did? I saw that. Its com system, I can still see what youre doing. Duhh." He said, acting smarter than everyone else.
"oh….that…..right. listen, umm…." Tony started to tell him about what happened.
"and now im being attacked again. But hes still weak, in the same condition that I left him. Which means all I have to do is one thing and hes done for." Tony said, being the genius that he is. He made his move and saved the day.
"there. Now its over." Tony returned the armor and came back to school and went to his classes.
-LATER-
"Tony? There's one thing you're forgetting." I started off.
"and what is that?" he said, smiling.
"you promised me that if I went to go hide, you'd do something for me."
"Oooh. That. Well what do you want me to do?"
"Bring me somewhere. Somewhere that I'll like. Since you know me so well, im gonna trust you to know where." I challenged him.
"Ok. You're on. Let's go" he accepted my challenge and held my hand. When we got where we were going, we were at an empty restaurant, my favorite one.
"how did you know?" I said, sweetly.
"because I know you. Duh." He said, and we kissed and sat down to enjoy the envornment.
The end
