Hey guys, sorry i didn't respond to your reviews like i normally do. My email and internet are completely messed up and i'm unable to do so. but thank you for them, and hey, we broke 300. woo. i don't think we can break four hundred though. We have two chapters left and then the epilogue. So this one took a fun twist and didn't seem to want to end but it was fun writing.
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Chapter 18: The Last Day
DAY 13 4/1/13
"So what does everyone want to do?" Pepper asked as they all sat around a table in the dining hall as they ate breakfast. Everyone answered differently simultaneously.
"Go back to the room." Tony said waggling his eyebrows at her suggestively.
"Arcade." Nelia answered with a shiver of delight.
"Sleep." Rhodey suggested with a yawn.
"Shopping!" Marissa input excitedly.
"The pool." Michelle replied.
"Well then, since we're all in agreement." Pepper bit sarcastically with a roll of her eyes. "It's our last day here together guys. We have to do something different. They're having a party tonight on the main deck. Free drinks and food. It's a luau type theme so swimming attire basically." Pepper suggested.
"Free drinks? I'm in." Rhodey cried.
"Why not?" Marissa agreed.
"Sure." Nelia and Michelle both said.
"Hey, if it gives me a chance to see you in something sexy, hell yeah I'm in." Tony said with a grin. Pepper just rolled her eyes.
"Great, it starts at six and ends around one which is when they'll be setting off fireworks." Pepper informed.
"Which is when your lips are gonna be on mine." Tony whispered.
Pepper elbowed him and caught his ribs. An, "Ow.", resounded.
"So what do we do until then?" Michelle asked.
"Attention Spring Breakers, our free movie screening of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang will begin in one hour. Doors open in fifteen minutes." An announcer said.
"Hey, there's your answer." Rhodey grinned amused.
"Is everyone up for watching a movie?" Pepper asked. There was a collective nod of heads and yes' and son they were making their way toward the ship's movie theatre.
"Hey Tony, Robert, the guy playing Harry, looks almost exactly like you." Pepper whispered nudging him.
"Eh. I look younger and I'm much richer than he is. I have an international, billion dollar Company, and the most beautiful woman on my arm. I think I have him beat." Tony said defensively.
"Shh!" Nelia reprimanded.
Pepper giggled and found his hand in the dark and laced her hand into his. After the movie ended they headed to the game hall and sat around a table playing apples to apples. Tony was the first one to judge.
"Okay the first word is masculine." Everyone quickly looked through their cards and put one down. "We have…power tools, firestorms, the grateful dead, brain surgeons, and…" Tony burst out laughing as he read the last cars. Nelia grinned knowing it was hers.
"What is it?" Rhodey asked curiously.
"Fem…feminists." Tony said through his laughter. Everyone began laughing with him at the absurdity of the card. "That card totally wins." Tony said as his laughter began to die down.
"What?! Power tolls are definitely masculine!" Rhodey cried.
"What about brain surgeons? How are they not masculine?" Pepper asked.
"I go for funny Pep, not literal. Where's the fun in that?" Tony said as he handed the green card to Nelia.
"Thank you." Nelia said as she plucked the card from his hand.
Pepper rolled her eyes and picked up the next card. "Glorious." Everyone looked at their cards; both Marissa and Tony felt confident about their cards. After a minute all the cards were in and Pepper began to read them aloud. "Okay, we have…festering wounds?"
Tony laughed while Rhodey snickered and said, "Oh totally."
"Jelly beans." Pepper continued.
"Agreed." Michelle commented with a nod of her head.
"Bottled water?" Pepper continued again looking at the card funny.
"Uh no." Marissa and Nelia both said.
"mmm, Claude Monet and my hair."
"You know that's right." Tony grinned.
"Claude Monet." Pepper said without hesitation.
"What?!" Tony cried. "Look at this!" He said pointing to his hair. "My hair is most definitely glorious. Not some French artist from the enlightenment!" He cried.
"I like art, art is glorious." Pepper defended.
"My hair is better!" Tony argued. "I don't see you running your hands through their hair moaning their name!"
"Oh god, dude, T.M.I to the max." Rhodey said his face scrunched up similarly to everyone else's at the table.
It was eighteen cards later when they had a winner. Coming in last was Tony, Pepper, and Marissa. Tony was mischievous and demanding while Pepper was dull and extreme; Marissa was glorious and tough. In third was Rhodey who was shy, loud, and realistic. Second was taken by Michelle who was puffy, woebegone, haunting, and unhealthy. And first was filled by Nelia who was masculine, easy, spooky, outrageous, horrifying, and intelligent. There were laughs with every card like Rosa Parks that had won mischievous, going to the gym for outrageous, the pyramids for loud, Saddam Hussein for demanding, the land of Oz for realistic, the Vietnam memorial for haunting, the first day of school for extreme, intellectuals for intelligent, along with the CIA, The JFK assassination, and Death Valley for unhealthy but Death Valley won out.
Everyone had enjoyed themselves and two hours passed by easily. It was lunch time and everyone decided on pizza for lunch then going up to Tony's suite to watch another movie. They all sat along the bar table in the stools, successfully taking up all of the seats. There was a different person serving them this time and he looked much younger. This guy looked to be in his early thirties, chiseled features, blonde hair, and a nice smile. He wore the same black and white striped apron. He handed everyone a menu and asked if they'd like anything to drink. Tony asked for a Pina Colada and water, Rhodey a Strawberry Lemonade, while all the girls asked for a Shirley Temple. They all talked amongst themselves trying to figure out if they should do one big 24' pizza or two large 16' pizzas. They decided on the two large pizzas so there would be some leftover and decided on splitting each pizza up into halves for different toppings. One half was peppers and pepperoni while its counter was a meat lovers. Another half was extra cheese and mushroom while the opposite side was Hawaiian. Tony insisted on paying saying to consider it as a graduation present.
Within twenty minutes their pizzas were done and everyone dug in. Tony grabbed a slice of the peppers and pepperoni along with a slice of mushroom. Pepper took a slice of peppers and pepperoni as well as one of Hawaiian. Rhodey snatched two of the meat lovers while Marissa grabbed one mushroom and one Hawaiian. Michelle took a meat lover and Hawaiian while Nelia took a meat lovers and pepperoni. When they made it back upstairs with their remaining pizza they all found a spot on the couch and chairs. Pepper snuggled into Tony while he wrapped his arm around her. Nelia and Rhodey sat close together and Rhodey kept his arm on the back of the couch close to Nelia. Tony flipped through the movies on demands and stifled a yawn as he did so.
"OOO let's watch Sherlock Holmes, that same actor from earlier is in this movie!" Pepper said excitedly.
"What actor?" Tony asked.
"Robert John Downey Jr. He played Harry Lockhart in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Little hardly remembered fact, he had only been sober for two years when he did that movie. He had been in and out of jail and rehab a lot." Pepper informed excitedly.
"Wow, so you like watching criminals?" Tony asked curiously.
"Former criminal actually. He's completely sober and has a wife now, and two sons. One is like 20 something now and the other is I think two. He split with his other wife Deborah Falconer because of his addiction and he had his first son with her. He's actually very cute and looks like his dad." Marissa corrected.
Tony rolled his eyes. "So is everyone else cool with entertaining Pepper's crush on this guy?"
"Most definitely!" Nelia cried.
"He's so…mmm." Marissa added.
"Agreed." Pepper said with a sigh.
"Welcome to my world." Michelle deadpanned.
Rhodey just chuckled and answered, "Put it on man. I loved reading the books as a kid."
"Alright then." Tony said and clicked on the movie.
Not halfway through the movie Pepper had fallen asleep curled up in a ball with her head on Tony's lap. Tony had tuned out the movie as soon as Pepper fell asleep and began running his fingers lightly through her hair and traced the features on her face. He became so engrossed that he didn't notice when everyone else fell asleep and the movie ended. Deciding he should nap Tony rest his head back against the couch and closed his eyes.
It was almost five when he woke up. Somehow he had gone from sitting on the couch to lying on the couch with Pepper curled up snugly on his chest and in his arms. Everyone else was gone but in their place was a note on the coffee table that he assumed was to inform them they had gone back to their rooms. He ignored the note and instead nuzzled his nose into Pepper's hair and began leaving kisses on any piece of exposed skin he could find. That consisted mainly of the back of her neck and her hand that rest on his shoulder. Pepper soon began to stir and opened her eyes. When she found the source of what had awakened her she stretched up and captured them with her own. The kiss quickly morphed and Pepper soon began pushing her hands under his shirt and up his chest. She quickly glanced at the time and stopped pulling away from Tony.
"What are you doing? Things were just getting interesting. I like interesting. I like it very much."
"If we want to continue this it should probably be in the bathroom in the shower so we can kill two birds with one stone. That party starts soon and we need to clean up." She said getting off of the couch.
"I can make the shower a very dirty place." Tony said with a proud smile.
"I don't believe you." Pepper replied with a playful grin.
"Then I guess I'll just have to show you to make you believe." He grinned getting off the couch and chasing after Pepper into the bathroom.
XxxxSpring BreakxxxX
By the time Pepper and Tony made it down, the party was already in full swing. Pepper had short jean shorts on, her black bikini top along with a see through white shirt that she tied just above her stomach. She still wore her ring along with a solver bracelet and necklace. She wore her brown sandals with her ankle bracelet that each of her other friends had. She wore her hair down and minimal make-up.
Tony wore a pair of khaki shorts along with his brown sandals and decided to go shirtless. His hair was styled up and he wore a grin, his ring, and polarized sunglasses. Eyes followed and heads turned as they made their way hand in hand toward the bar to get a drink. As they made their way to the back they passed several people making out, girls and guys ogling them, as well as dancers wearing grass skirts twirling fire around. It was a pretty impressive party but to Tony it was mild compared to one of his.
When they reached the bar they saw Marissa and Michelle waiting for drinks and made their way over. Marissa was wearing something similar to Pepper but she wore a bandana while Michelle just wore shorts and her bikini top.
"There you guys are. Where have you been?" Marissa asked.
"We had a wardrobe malfunction. Tony couldn't find his shorts." Pepper explained.
"Before or after you took them off?" Michelle snickered.
"Wouldn't you like to Tony." Tony grinned.
The bar tender slid drinks across the counter toward Michelle and Marissa with a small smile. "Tony, would you help Michelle take these please?" Marissa asked sweetly.
Tony looked briefly to Pepper before answering, "Sure. Get me a scotch please. Two fingers, three rocks." He said to Pepper who nodded. "Alright Burrito, lead the way." Tony said as he picked up two beers.
"So what's up?" Pepper asked.
"Well, we haven't gotten to talk much so… you and Tony."
"I know, it's a lot to take in."
"Do you want to talk about it?" Marissa asked.
"You know I do." Pepper replied.
"Okay, I think we should with the most important emotional question." Marissa said seriously as she put two of her fingers together and began to slowly move them farther apart. As she continued she widened her eyes and gave Pepper a look that said 'Are you serious'. Pepper raised an eyebrow with a devious look in her eye and Marissa continued for another second before she stopped. "Okay, now im concerned for you."
"You don't know the half of it." She replied with a grin.
"Can I get you something?" The bartender asked.
"Yes, can I get a Plymouth and Tonic as well as a Scotch, two fingers, three rocks."
"Sure thing ma'am." The bartender replied.
As soon as he left Marissa asked, "Oh my god! How are you not sore or hurt?!"
"Honestly, I've no idea." Pepper said with a laugh.
"On a scale of one to ten?"
"Nine."
"That's two better than Ben." Marissa replied amazed.
"Try three inches better." Pepper replied with a wink and Marissa's jaw went slack.
"Here you go ma'am." The bar tender said sliding the two drinks to Pepper.
"Thank you." She replied kindly taking them and turning. Marissa still stood mouth agape and almost didn't notice when Pepper began walking away.
"Holy snap. But Ben was seven!" Marissa called out to her in disbelief and began running to catch up.
Pepper just sent a smile over her shoulder and called out, "That's the point."
XxxxSpring BreakxxxX
It was almost two in the morning when Tony and Pepper made it back to the room. "That was fun."
"Mine are better." Tony replied. "But yes, it was fun. I got to dance with the prettiest girl there and keep her on my arm the whole time while I watched guys give me dirty jealous looks because you were with me and not them." Pepper smiled and placed a chaste kiss on his lips. "I can't believe it's our last night together." Tony said sadly.
"Then I guess we should make the most of it." Pepper whispered in his ear while unzipping his shorts.
"We shall indeed." Tony replied picking her up in his arms with a shriek and carried her into the bedroom.
XxxxSpring BreakxxxX
Three thirty a.m. and Pepper was still wide awake gazing at the ceiling as Tony held her in his arms and she used his chest as a pillow. She released a sad sigh and mumbled, "I don't want to leave you."
She didn't expect to hear a reply thinking that Tony had fallen asleep a while ago. "So don't." he whispered and tightened his hold on her to which she gasped in surprise.
"You're still awake?" She asked moving her head to look at him.
"Yeah, I can't sleep." He answered with a sigh.
"Me neither because I know what's coming and I don't want it to come so fast." Pepper said her voice cracking only a little. There was a minute of silence before Tony spoke.
"I'm afraid Pepper," He confessed.
"Of what?" She asked confused.
"Of me. I'm afraid as soon as you leave everything I've done will come undone and I'll go back to who I was. I don't want to be that guy anymore Pep, but I'm just so afraid."
Pepper moved so she could look him in the eye and saw there were a few tears. "Hey hey hey, don't cry baby. I'll only be a few hours away and you have Rhodey to keep you inline. You're not going to go back to the old Tony, honey." She said confidently.
"How can you be so sure?" He asked fearfully.
"Because I know how much you love me. Love that strong can overcome anything, even your egoistical playboy behavior." She said with a smile.
Tony laughed a little and replied, "I'm not egoistical, I'm…"
"Full of yourself, incorrigible, prideful, shall I go on?" Pepper asked with a playful smile.
"You wound me Potts." He said with a sniffle wiping away the stray tears.
"No…I complete you." She corrected softly kissing him. Pepper snuggled back in to Tony's arms and released a sigh of content.
"Thank you." Tony whispered.
"You're welcome Tony." She replied. She heard him release a sigh and minutes later she could tell this time he really was asleep, his fears abated, and she followed suit not long after.
So when they played apples to apples i literally got some note cards and was playing for everyone and keeping track of what cards were put down and who and everything lol, so that scene took some real life research that did take two hours XD it was fun though playing by myself as six people. My mom thought i was a little crazy haha. So i hoped you guys liked the chapter. There were a couple things i really like about this one. And sadly, i am actually the only RDJ fanatic amongst the group. but hey it worked well for the scene. So leave a review por favor. i apologize in advance for not being able to respond.
So i'll see you all relatively soon. :)