Hello. Yes, i'm still here and mind blown from the epic trailer just released yesterday at noon! i mean like am i the only one here that is utterly destroyed by how amazingly epic it was?! i mean the one leaked in Spanish drew tears but it didn't have RDJ's voice so this one, i'm all like foaming at the mouth. The suits man! ahem so anyways, you didn't come here to here me want, you came here to read and see what i had in store for letter B, well... i hope this does you guys good. Personally, i think it's pretty good. Hope yall agree. So...thanks for the interest i've already gotten. thanks for the reviews, i love you all!
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oh and insert disclaimer here. :P i always forget because i repress it from my memory, like watson. :P
B: Boyfriend
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" – Taylor Swift
Set post IM- pre IM2.
Ooh, we called it off again last night. But ooh, this time I'm telling you, I'm telling you. We are never ever ever getting back together, We are never ever ever getting back together,I'm really gonna miss you picking fights. And me falling for it screaming that I'm right.
Pepper blew out a sigh of exhaustion and looked to her phone's clock, 8:31. "Oh shoot, David!" she exclaimed. She had been so consumed with creating Tony's schedule for August that she had completely forgotten about her six month-ish anniversary date with her boyfriend. She quickly called him ready to apologize endlessly for over working.
"Ginny?"
"David! Oh I'm so sorry, I was trying to get a schedule ready for Tony and-"
"Of course." David said blowing out a breath of frustration and bitterness.
Pepper immediately went on the defensive. "What's that supposed to mean?" she questioned.
"It's always about Tony: Tony this and Tony that and Tony needs this, and you don't know what he's been through, he needs me. What about what we need?! Everything is always about Tony, we've already rescheduled this date three times and every time it's always because of Tony. He's your boss Ginny, not your boyfriend, I am but it doesn't always feel that way."
"David, I told you I was sorry. Running a multi-billion dollar company is not as easy as you seem to think and Tony isn't just my boss, he's my friend. I'm the only one he talks to."
"Yeah, and you don't see anything wrong with that because you're you. He's a guy Ginny, a playboy, he's Tony Stark."
"No he's not. God I'm getting sick and tired of people calling him that. He isn't anymore; he isn't the guy the media portrays him to be." Pepper said as her voice continued to slowly escalate in annoyance and frustration.
"Look Ginny, you might not see it but he likes you, I could see it in his eyes the few times I've picked you up. He's a man, a playboy, he just wants to sleep with you and then he'll find someone else."
"Oh you mean like you?!" Pepper accused angrily bringing up their past. He was judging Tony from the three, two second, encounters; when it had taken her eleven years to finally understand who Tony really was.
"Whoa, hold on! That is so not true! When did this become about me?!" David said defensively his voice now at a shouting level.
"Oh I'm sorry, isn't everything?" Pepper scoffed in disgust. "Everything is always about how you feel, what you want to do, how you're so insecure and jealous of Tony! News flash! I've worked for him eleven years and nothing has ever happened and if you still haven't figured that out after our two previous break-up's, after I gave you a second chance, maybe we should just stay apart David!" She shouted angrily.
"Maybe we should." He replied darkly and calmly.
"Fine." Pepper shouted.
"Fine." He shouted back and hung up.
But we are never ever ever ever getting back together.
Pepper angrily jabbed end call on her screen and let out an exasperated, frustrated, groan. She grabbed the laptop she had been working on and furiously hit the keys as he fingers swiftly glided over the keyboard. It wasn't long before the anger subsided and the pain finally began to settle. Silent tears began to fall down her face for a few minutes. David at the time had been a decent guy. 5'9', white, short blond hair, engineer at Stark Industries, incredibly smart, he had a clean sense of humor, slender, and strong. The only problem was they had already broken up twice before. The first time was so stupid. He claimed things were moving too fast and that he needed space. The second time was when he had cheated on her, while drunk out of his mind, for some intern working at Stark Industries.
Tony absolutely hated the guy. He had expressed his concern multiple times and tried to warn her but then she gave him a second chance Tony never spoke a word that wasn't professional for the two weeks after that. Pepper remembered how caring Tony had been when she found out David had cheated. He had held her in his arms while she just cried and he let her vent and stain his favorite Black Sabbath T with her grief stricken tears. Pepper found herself longing for Tony to hold her but instead walked into the kitchen and grabbed her second best friend and worst enemy, chocolate cherry ice cream. She slunk back to the couch with the pint and spoon in hand. As she ate, tears and cream met and mixed with her vast array of emotions: passion, pain, indifference, relief, grief, love, hate, anger. She looked to her phone after having finished the pint and read, 9:20.
She was still at the Stark Mansion and Tony hadn't come up for food. She exhaled a shaky breath and gathered herself forcing her emotions in check and got up from the couch where her legs had been tucked underneath her and grabbed the empty carton of ice cream. Pepper discarded the pint and took a look in the fridge to see what was available. Upon seeing the bare fridge Pepper made a note to go shopping for food the following day and looked to the freezer. Inside now was an open bowl of chili, a half-eaten snickers ice cream bar, a piece of cheese covered in what looked like soy sauce, and some lumpy green thing with white spots that Pepper absolutely refused to touch. She wrinkled her nose in disgust and shook her head. She grabbed the trash can and laughed as she threw away the frozen, mutated food. She finally found a box of chicken nuggets and placed a few on a small cookie sheet and stuck it in the toaster oven, putting on the timer for eight minutes.
For eight minutes Pepper gathered her emotions, fixed her make-up, and just overall tried to erase her red eyes. When she walked down into his workshop, Pepper shook her head in disbelief. He was working on that hot-rod, again. She should have known that despite her best efforts Tony would be able to see right through her makeup mask. Once he got himself out from under the car and saw her, he immediately took the form of what she called, Teddy Bear Tony.
"Pepper, are you okay? What happened?" His eyes gave away just how much he was concerned even more so than his voice. Pepper tried to smile but one look into his eyes and she lost it. She set the plate of food down and started just crying with abandon, again, much to her chagrin. She didn't want to fall apart in front of Tony, she didn't want to seem weak and so…feminine. He embraced her in such a warm hug that she held onto him as she cried. His arms felt so comforting, better than any blanket or ice cream and strong yet so gentle. His hand rubbed her back softly as he whispered, "I got you, it's okay Pepper."
When Pepper finally cried herself dry she felt better having Tony's arms holding her together. She laughed a little through a sniffle when she noticed the large wet stain on his shoulder. "I'm sorry Tony. I didn't mean to fall apart on you."
"You don't have to apologize for that." Tony said softly with pained eyes. "Pep…what happened?"
Pepper met his eyes and looked deeply into them trying to see what he was feeling but as soon as she did it was like a wall went up somewhere inside of him. It was something Pepper hadn't ever seen before and didn't know what it was. She ignored it and sat down on the couch with Tony not taking notice of the close, intimate proximity between their bodies. Pepper took a deep breath and felt Tony slip his hand into hers and give a gentle squeeze urging her on. She smiled and felt a million times better knowing someone was there for her.
"It's…about David…we…we broke up." She stumbled sadly.
"He hurt you?!" Tony asked enraged jumping up from the couch and consequently tearing his hand from Pepper's, and ready to jump into his suit and pound David an inch before his life. "Just say the word Pepper and I can have him thrown to the lions in Africa by morning."
Pepper saw how Tony's body was tense and defensive and ready to pounce upon request. She saw anger surging powerfully as a driving force through his veins. She gave him a small smile and pulled Tony back down on the couch with her. This time her hand sought out his wanting the warmth and comfort it had brought to her the first time. With just one smile she disarmed him but his body remained tense.
"We're never getting back together, like ever. I don't know what I saw in him before; God, you were so right Tony." Pepper laughed at herself and then continued. "I can't believe I just said that, haha. Anyways…he just…he started becoming so jealous and insecure…over you of all people!" She cried in disbelief at the ridiculous notion.
Tony shifted in his seat nervously trying to recompose himself before laughing and agreeing with her. "You broke up over me? Pepper I'm so-"
"Don't…finish that sentence. We broke up because he's delusional and convinced that you're trying to-" Pepper stopped suddenly. She saw something flash through his eyes, the same thing she thought she had seen earlier. That's when it hit her like a sack of potatoes. "Oh my God." She said just above a whisper slipping her hand out from Tony's grasp. Pepper stood up and began pacing trying to process the information she had been blind to before while staring at the ground she paced, in shock.
"Pepper, what's wrong?" Tony asked getting up from where he sat on the couch with only concerned now etched in his body,
"You do, don't you!" Pepper cried hysterically.
"I do what?" Tony asked pretending to be confused as his heart hammered violently inside his chest.
Pepper let out a laugh smacking the heel of her palm to her forehead. How had she not seen it before, all the tell-tale signs were there. "You like me Tony!" She cried.
"I what?" he asked in shock.
"Don't deny it! I can see it in your eyes!" She said walking up to him as he began to back away heading for the door.
"Look Pepper, you just broke up with someone you cared about; I think your heart is playing tricks on you." Tony tried to explain while continuing to try and get away.
"Then why are you running away Tony?" She questioned continuing to stalk her prey now certain Tony liked her on more than just a friend level.
Tony scoffed. "Pssh, me? Running? I just have to go to the bathroom is all." He excused.
"Prove it." Pepper said confidently.
"Prove I have to pee?" Tony questioned.
"If you don't like me then prove it Tony, kiss me." Tony lost his balance at her demand and tripped over a table falling backwards. In the next second Pepper was hovering over him offering her hand to help him up. "Kiss me Tony."
"I don't see how that's going to prove anything, in fact, wouldn't it just be counterproductive?" Tony tried to reason, to appeal to Pepper's logical sense of mind.
"Oh, I'll be able to know, now man up and kiss me." She something inside of him flip. He was no longer trying to hide, the mask was off and she could see the pure affection he felt burning through his eyes and boring into her soul. She smiled triumphantly and then Tony man-handled her and seared his lips to hers in a fiery passionate kiss, crushing them with his almost as if his life depended on it. The way he was holding her, so strong and tightly, the passion she felt from his lips. Pepper felt something within her stir and awaken, something powerful and true; and as Tony broke away she instantly reclaimed his lips never wanting his mouth to leave hers again. Pepper's heart melted and she sank into Tony's arms, letting him hold her close. Pepper felt everything begin to click into place and she felt in her heart that this was right, that they were right for each other despite their opposite personalities. Besides, it wasn't like she was cheating on anyone, she and David were through and Tony hadn't been with a girl for months. Now she had Tony and in some way she felt as though she had always had him just not in an intimate way. As she pulled back from him breathless, she rested her hands on his chest, her forehead pressed to his, a smile encasing her face.
"Where exactly do we go from here?" Tony asked as he tried to breathe.
Pepper took his lips again for a shorter kiss, this time just wanting to taste him again and replied, "Now I wait for you to ask me on a date, that is at least what supposed to happen in a relationship." She said happily.
Tony smiled and asked, "How would you like to have a movie date with me right now?"
"I think I'd like that very much." Pepper said genuinely.
Tony kissed her briefly and sighed when he pulled away, "I'll never get used to that." He said with an affectionate smile.
Pepper smiled. "Me neither."
"I'll go get the popcorn, you can get the movie ready, anyone of your choice."
"Dangerous." Pepper said with a raised eyebrow. "Please don't burn the popcorn." Pepper said with a small smile
"Of course not." Tony replied matter of factly. Pepper laughed as he practically skipped up the stairs out of his workshop and had just sat down on the couch when her phone rang. Too lost in her overwhelming sea of emotions Pepper didn't bother to look at the caller.
Uggg... so he calls me up and he's like, "I still love you," And I'm like... "I just... I mean this is exhausting, you know, like, We are never getting back together. Like, ever"
"Go for Potts." She said cheerily.
"Hi Ginny." Pepper immediately shifted and took on a defensive demeanor even though David couldn't see her. "I'm sorry for what I said, I was acing childish. I love you Virginia, I don't want to be apart. Besides, we're better together than we are apart."
"Look David." She started off carefully and detached. "I meant what I said earlier, we are never ever ever getting back together and we are better apart, so please don't bother calling again. I'm happier now than when we were together. Goodbye David."
"You can't mean that Ginny." David said with a defying scoff of disbelief.
"Oh but I do mean it, I really am happier. So I wish you the best of luck. Goodnight David." Pepper said sincerely before hanging up the phone and releasing a breath of air of admission that they were over.
Just then Pepper saw Tony carefully walking down the stairs with a bowl of popcorn in his hands. She smiled as his eyes met hers and slid her phone back into her pocket letting go of David and beginning her journey with Tony.
"JARVIS, could you please bring up the movie Grown Ups." She said with a smile wanting to laugh with her best friend, boss, and now her boyfriend.
So that's the end of this chapter, yeah. I hope you guys all enjoyed reading it as much as i did writing it. Next up we have letter C...C...such a fun chapter...well i suppose i can give you the title...C: Cravings.
lol so a little ironic considering some of you will be craving the next chapter and in the words of Loki, "You crave subjugation." Yes i am awfully chatty today i know, so cised for IM3 is all. 57 days people!
