Seen it All
Tony Stark had been to a few wedding parties in his time, he always tried to hook up with the maid of honour and even this one time the mother of the bride. The father of the bride hadn't been too happy to catch them and that particular friend never called anymore, the wife had probably been involved in that decision because the groom had said he understood it, his mother in law was a total MILF.
Tony never expected to be dancing in his backyard with his own mother in law watching as his new wife chatted to their guests.
"I can practically hear you thinking Tony." Susan Potts said.
"I just never imagined myself in this situation."
Susan smiled at her daughter's husband. She genuinely liked him, sure she'd been dubious about him at first but everything he'd done since he started dating her daughter had been incredible. He seemed to be making every effort known to man to ensure that she was the happiest woman on the planet.
"Tony who is that woman sat in the corner?" She asked him.
"Mary Stane, she was Obadiah's wife. She was like a mother to me after my parents died, I never thanked her, I just thought she'd like to be here."
"She looks sad Tony, perhaps you should go talk to her." Tony smiled and escorted Pepper's mom back to her seat before walking over to Mary and asking her for a dance.
"I wasn't expecting to be at your wedding Anthony." She said
"Nobody was."
"No, I didn't mean like that. I know what happened with Obadiah at the end and I just didn't think you'd want me here." She said softly.
"You've always been there for me. I just wanted to thank you. Any issues Obie had are not yours."
"Thank you Anthony." She kissed him on the cheek and they continued to dance in silence.
It was a number of dances before Tony was able to grab his new wife for their first dance. Pepper smiled as she realised it was the song they were dancing to the night of the fire fighter's benefit.
"So you're dancing with your former boss and a party in front of all your friends and family, is it making you uncomfortable? I'm sure you remembered deodorant this time. I'm still the majority shareholder of Stark Industries, I could have you removed as CEO if that'll help."
"No Tony I don't think that's necessary. This is all perfect, not weird at all."
"Not weird at all?" He smiled, the memory of the conversation that started their romantic relationship made him smile. "You want to run that by me again?" He leant forward and kissed his wife.
The next guy who got to dance with Pepper was Rhodey. "Did you ever think you'd see that?" He asked indicating to Tony who, was currently playing with her nephews under a tree. Pepper smiled a thousand watt smile as she watched him struggle as the two boys fought the invincible Iron Man. "Jim do you mind…"
"Go on Pepper, I'll get my dance later." Rhodey let her go and watched as she walked over to Tony, whispered something to the boys who shot off to find their parents.
"I never thought I'd see the day where Tony Stark was rolling around on the grass playing with kids." Pepper smiled at him, he pulled himself off the ground and indicated to something on the tree bark.
Carved in to the tree were a tiny H&M "Your parents?" Pepper asked him.
"Yeah." He said as reached back down on to the floor and picked up a small metal rod. He began scratching at the tree.
"Tony what are you doing?" She asked, but he just grinned and kept working. When he was done she smiled as she saw that he'd carved a T&P "A 'P' Tony?"
"Nobody call's you Virginia, you'll always be Pepper to me."
"Your just full of romance today aren't you Mr Stark."
"You wouldn't have me any other way." He smiled at her.
"Aunty Ginny, Uncle Tony, it's time for speeches."
First Rhodey stood up.
"Tony's one of those guys where you don't know what's going to happen. With Tony I've been cussed out by Royalty, nearly blown up and got banned from the Bellagio, nothing this man does surprises me." There was an amused chuckle from the party. "He has surprised me though. Not only has he managed to convince Pepper to stick around for 10 years, he's convinced her to marry him. So to Tony, I'd like to raise a glass and congratulate my friend. To Pepper all I can say is good luck." There was another laugh. "To Tony and Pepper ladies and gentlemen"
"To Tony and Pepper!" The crowd called back.
More speeches followed and when the final piece of cake had been shoved in to each other's faces, Tony had ripped a garter off Pepper with his teeth and flung it were it was caught by Steve, who just looked at it and Pepper's bouquet had been tossed and caught by a confused Air Force colonel. The happy couple who had said goodbye to their final guest retired to their bedroom.
"Wedding finished." Tony smiled at his wife. "Will that be all Mrs Stark?"
Pepper grabbed his tie and pulled him down on the bed "No Mr Stark that definitely will not be all."
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Tony Stark knew at that moment he was the luckiest man on the planet. Here he was on his own private Caribbean Island with the woman he loved asleep naked on his chest. Yes Tony Stark was a lucky man, and he felt his wife beginning to stir.
"Good you're awake." He smiled
"God Tony you're insatiable." Pepper smiled and snuggled in to his chest.
"No we've got a busy day, planes to catch, exotic sights to see." He rolled on top of her "Although it's my plane, the point of having a private plane is that it doesn't leave without you."
They emerged in the afternoon and one of the Island's staff drove them to the waiting air strip where their private plane was waiting to take them.
Tony got out of the car first, ran around to Pepper's side opened her door and then covered her eyes as he led her up the steps of the jet.
"Tony I've seen the inside of the jet before it's nothing new."
"Uh huh, just go with it Virginia."
He stopped in the door and uncovered her eyes. The cabin was filled with flowers and a holographic projection of a house. "I…uh got you a wedding present." He said nervously.
Pepper played with the projection. It was a large cabin on stilts, it had a master bedroom and kitchen, lounge, balcony, boat slip "It's in Bora Bora. I thought like I said we could make it our spot. It's in a secluded little spot, in between one of the smaller islands with a view of the main Island…"
He was cut off by a kiss. "It's not ready yet you know. They're building it, or rather they'll start as soon as they get the go from you." Tony finished once Pepper and finished with his lips.
"From me?" Pepper was surprised.
"Yes Pepper, it's your house."
"Our house." She corrected him it got her a smile and another kiss.
The plane touched down in Rio de Janeiro and they then travelled to Tony's beachside apartment, whilst in Brazil Tony took her to see the Statue of Christ, Copacabana beach and they spent some time in the rainforest.
From Brazil they flew East stopping in South Africa to see Cape Town and spend a night of Safari, they went up to Egypt where they saw the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings, scuba diving in the red sea and watching Pepper float along the Dead Sea when they stopped in Jerusalem.
They travelled through Greece seeing Athens and Olympia before flying on to Naples so they could visit Pompeii and then to Rome, where they spent a few days doing all the touristy things that people did. Pepper was unsure of whether to be annoyed or amused at Tony trying to find evidence of the Da Vinci code in the Vatican.
From Rome they headed north Pepper went shopping in Milan and Tony shipped all of her new purchases home (she later apologised for going a little crazy, he was happy to see her let loose). They also lunched on top of a Cathedral and were nearly thrown out of Tony pointed out rather loudly that the Statue of St Bernard looked like Gollum and began to spout off some of his more famous lines. They stayed in a small town called Peschiera on the shore of Lake Garda where Tony nearly got them killed when he parked the boat they rented in a shipping lane and they were nearly run over by a ferry when it wouldn't start again. Then the couple spent a day walking around Verona. Tony quoting Shakespeare the whole way round, every time they stopped at sight mentioned in Romeo and Juliet he would whisper the quote on the wall in to her ear changing Romeo for Tony and Juliet for Pepper. He finally got her to Venice where they travelled via gondola and kissed as they passed under the Bridge of Sighs, Pepper dragged him round the Doge Palace where he discovered the Doge's were hugely fond of meeting rooms.
Salzburg was the next stop and he stood on a fountain in the middle of the city and sung a The Lonely Goat Herd on the fountain from the Sound of Music (Pepper's favourite film, he'd never seen it. She was horrified to hear it). They then travelled to Berlin and Paris, where Pepper again shopped till she literally dropped and Tony carried her sleeping body from the cab to the hotel overlooking the Eiffel Tower, at the top of which he kissed her and declared his love. They saw Notre Dame Cathedral with Tony humming songs from the Disney Movie the whole time, the Louvre, walked along the Champ Elise and explored some of the historic palaces.
London was next, like some places on their trip they'd been before but it was mostly boring meetings and Tony wanted back in Malibu as quick as possible. They spent one day doing the tourist thing, riding the underground to all the sights, like Parliament square, rode the London Eye, St Pauls Cathedral, Walked through Horse guard's parade St James' Park and saw the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. The new Mr and Mrs Stark spent a lot of time trying to get the guards to smile, Tony nearly succeeded, however the guard marched off to stretch his legs, although Pepper thought it was to get away from them. That night they saw a West End show and dinned in Leicester Square, TGI Friday's wasn't what she had in mind, but Tony's face lit up when he saw it.
The next day was spent at the Tower of London, they lined up to see the crown jewels.
"I could buy you better." Tony pointed out "Or I'll buy you those."
"You can't buy the Imperial State Crown Tony." Pepper laughed.
"I'm Iron Man I can do what I like." He realised they were on Tower Green, where King Henry had held most of his executions "Off with her head!" He yelled in a poor English accent that had an angry Yeoman Warder (Beefeater) yelling at him to shut up. The afternoon was spent in the museum of science and technology, Tony regressed to about the age 5 as he played with everything and tried (in vain) to explain stuff to Pepper. The last thing they did before leaving London was have afternoon tea in Harrods.
On the flight across the Atlantic to Florida (a last minute addition by Tony who was horrified Pepper had never been to Disney World) Pepper finally convinced him to watch the Sound of Music (he couldn't deny her, she'd finally let him induct her in to the mile high club). In Florida it was Pepper who'd regressed to a child not Tony. Magic Kingdom was Tony's favourite, who knew Pepper Potts was on expert on Disney Princesses? They visited the rest of the Disney Parks, during the Beauty and the Beast show Tony had whispered as Beast fell in love with Bell "You realise that's me and you right? Our love is a fairy tale." It was possibly one of the most romantic things Pepper had ever heard in her entire life. They visited the rest of the Disney Parks, Universal Studio's and the Kennedy Space Centre before returning to Magic Kingdom to have lunch with the Disney Princesses (Pepper and Tony were the only childless adults there but she didn't mind) and they saw the spectacular firework show, it was the perfect way to end their honeymoon.
On the plane back to Malibu Tony crashed out on the plane, he'd spent the last 3 months trying to make everything perfect he'd wiped himself out. Pepper snuggled up on the couch with him and promptly fell asleep.
Happy Hogan dropped them home and Tony once again carried his bride over the Threshold where Jarvis said "Welcome home Mr and Mrs Stark."
They were home and everything was perfect.
TBC…
I'm a little nervous about this chapter so you'll have to let me know what you all think. I kind of blasted through the Honeymoon I wasn't too sure how to write it and I wanted to go for something different.
The Doge Palace in Venice really is just full of meeting rooms, I thought it would be cool but it wasn't (well it was Venice of course it was cool). You can lunch on top of the cathedral in Milan, Verona is full of Romeo and Juliet quotes and the story about the boat is true. It happened to my family whilst we were there the ferry was blasting its horn and we were still trying to pull my brother back in to the boat. If you get a chance YouTube "Yeoman Warder at Tower of London Part One of Four." It's a hilarious tour done by a real beefeater I was crying with laughter.
Seriously, I'd like feedback for this chapter guys. I'm super nervous about it =)