Hey, welcome to the third chapter of Pain Of Love. Enjoy! :)
Pepper came home that night exhausted! First, she had to save Tony from being shot, which happened about 6 or 7 times. Then the Ghost went for Rhodey about 5 or 4 times. Lastly, the Ghost went for Gene 2 or 3 times. He never went for her though. 'Strange...' Pepper thought. She collapsed on her bed, and as soon as her head hit the pillow she fell asleep.
Pepper's Dream...
Pepper stood in a room of completely white, like were they would keep crazy people. 'Have I gone crazy or what?' Pepper thought.
"What should we do with her?" A man's voice asked.
"I'm not sure..." A womans voice said.
"Hello? Someone there?" Pepper asked into the white nothingness.
"She has heard us!!" The womans voice cried.
"Back child! Back! Back!!" The mans voice said.
"What did I do wrong?" Pepper asked.
"Everything" The mans voice hissed.
"What the fuck are you guys talking about?!" Pepper said. She received no answer.
"See, she has gone crazy, Mr. Potts she's talking to no one." The same mans voice said.
"I guess were just gonna have to keep her here..." Mr. Potts said, sadly to see his daughter gone crazy.
"What?" Pepper whispered. "I'm Not Crazy!!"
"See, she's in denial." The womans voice said.
"Come with us sir, this must be a sad sight for you." The mans voice said. Then Pepper heard two gun-shots a few minutes afterwards.
"Dad? Dad?! DAD?!" Pepper yelled.
"There's no one to hear you..." A familiar voice said.
"Tony!" Pepper said as she turned around to face the teen.
"Pepper, be careful, they're gonna kill you!" Tony whispered.
"But there after you!" Pepper said.
"No, he's after you" Tony said before he pulled out a gun...
Pepper woke up screaming, and her dad rushed in to see if she was okay.
"Pepper! It's okay it's just a nightmare!" Pepper's dad soothed her.
"Dad! You're alive!" Pepper exclaimed, before she pulled him into a tight hug.
"Okay, Pepper it might have been your dream." Mr. Potts said.
"Sorry..." Pepper said.
"Don't strain your left arm to much okay. Night." Mr. Potts said before he closed the door. Pepper laid back down and fell into a dreamless oblivion.
Pepper entered the Tomorrow Academy, the next day.
"Hey Pepper" Tony said.
"Do you own a gun?" Pepper asked, randomly
"No, why would I own a gun?" Tony said.
"If you owned a gun would you shoot me?" Pepper asked.
"No." Tony said.
"Okay." Pepper said.
"What's with those questions?" Tony asked.
"I had a dream that you about to kill me." Pepper said.
"You do know that dreams are images of what you want?" Rhodey asked.
"Oh! Shut up. Why would I ever want that?" Pepper asked.
"I don't know people have weird desires." Rhodey said. Pepper responded with a glare.
"Sorry, I yelled at you yesterday." Tony said.
"It's okay I would probably to the same thing if someone was out to kill me." Pepper said.
Pepper and Tony were waiting for Rhodey outside the school.
"Who argues with their history professer about history?" Tony asked.
"Rhodey loves history maybe he'll marry it." Pepper said as she looked through her phone.
'It's Automatic, Everywhere in your letter, A lie that makes me bleed. It's Automatic' Pepper's phone rang. It was text from Rhodey.
'I have to stay after school to finish an essay. Go ahead and leave I might have to stay a while.' She read.
She responded. 'Are you sure that your not being kidnapped or something?'
He Responded. 'Are you crazy?! you really think that I'm being kidnapped?!
She responded. 'Fine. We'll leave, :P
"Rhodey has to stay to finish an essay, and told me that we can leave without him" Pepper said.
"Okay." Tony said.
"Hey, let's go to the park!" Pepper said.
"Sure" Tony said.
Tony and Pepper sat on the park bench watching the birds.
"Hey, that ring tone you had..." Tony said.
"Automatic? What about it?" Pepper asked.
"I didn't know you liked Tokio Hotel." Tony said.
"You've heard of them?!" Pepper asked.
"Yeah. They're one of my favorite bands." Tony said. Pepper's mouth dropped open.
"What?" Tony asked.
"Tokio Hotel is my favorite band, I totally love Bill Kaulitz!!" Pepper said.
"Now your starting to seem normal." Tony said.
"Shut up! You're the one who sticks out the most!" Pepper said, hitting him playfully on the arm, while he laughed.
"You know the things that there teaching you too!" Tony said.
"Yeah, but I don't the whole damn school about it." Pepper said.
"So what's your favorite song from their new album?" Tony asked changing the subject.
"Pain Of Love, you?" Pepper replied.
"Screamin'" Tony said.
"Nice, but I think Alien fits you better." Pepper said.
"Shut up..." Tony said.
Tony entered the lab, he saw Rhodey sitting at the communication center.
"I thought you were at school." Tony said.
"I was. I came here after I looked for you, it was a shock not to find you here." Rhodey said.
"Yeah. I was with Pepper." Tony said.
"Dude, your getting attached. What happens when the jobs over?" Rhodey said.
"I don't know." Tony mummbled. He put on his iPod.
I'm screamin' from the top of the world
Can you hear me
I'm screamin' from the top
of the world
Can you hear me
The song started off where it was stopped.
"Nice choice. What happened to your Alesana, and Atreyu?" Rhodey asked.
"Still here. I just felt like listening to Tokio Hotel..." Tony whispered.
"Pepper has heard of them hasn't she?" Rhodey said.
"Yeah. She likes Bill..." Tony said.
"Okay, Tony will you ever tell her that your Iron Man?." Rhodey said.
"Don't worry, Alesana and Atreyu will come back." Tony said, not answering his question at all. (A/N: If you haven't heard of these 2 bands, their really heavy and screamio. Alesana is falsletto, and Atreyu is false cord.)
Pepper ran up to her room, and quickly put her iPod on.
The pain of love, won't break us up,
We don't need your salvation.
The pain of love, will never stop,
We are our own creation.
The pain of love, is in our hearts,
It's deeper than the ocean.
The Song started. Pepper thought about everything, the Ghost, Tony, Bill Kaulitz, Screamin', Tokio Hotel, the Pain Of Love. She stopped at that. Does love really bring that much pain? If it does, why do people never what to let it go? How does it feel like being love? Can you fall for someone without knowing it? Why where all this these questions all of sudden popping into her head like that? She heard footsteps up the steps of her house. Must be dad... she thought. When the door burst open, to see that figure in the doorway, shocked her. Then she really looked at the person. It was just Gene.
"Hey Gene." Pepper said.
"Hey gorgeous." Gene said.
"Whats up?" Pepper asked.
"Nothing much. Been bored though, without you there at school." Gene said laying on his back. "You?"
"Thinking about love-I mean thinking the Ghost." Pepper said.
"What?" Gene sat up. "You said you were thinking about love!!"
"No I didn't" Pepper denied.
"Liar! You said 'Thinking about love'!!!" Gene said.
"So what if I did?" Pepper said.
"So you fell for boy genuis huh?" Gene said picking at his fingernails.
"NO! We were just talking and I found out that he likes Tokio Hotel." Pepper muttered.
"Okay." Gene said.
"I also like that warm smile of his...and that twinkle in his eyes when he finds something intersting...and his protective nature..." Pepper said with a hazed look in her eyes.
"Oh yeah, girl. You're in L.O.V.E." Gene said.
"I'm not..." Pepper whispered.
"Yes you are." Gene said.
"No." Pepper said.
"Yes" Gene said.
"No." Pepper said.
"Yes." Gene said.
"No." Pepper said.
"Yes." Gene said.
"No." Pepper said.
"No." Gene said.
"Yes." Pepper said. Gene burst out laughing and pointing at her.
"You fell for that!! Loser!!" Gene said in between laughs.
"Ha. Ha." Pepper said, as she threw a pillow at him.
Pepper entered the Tomorrow Academy, the next day. Thinking about how Gene said she was in love with Tony Stark. She was assigned to protect him, and that's it. But last night she just couldn't stop listening to Screamin', Tony's favorite Tokio Hotel song. And kept wondering what was he doing. Could she really be in love with Tony? Pepper turned the corner of the hall. To see Tony talking to a blonde in a long sleeved red shirt, a skirt that came to her knees and black high heels. She would certainly hate wearing that. She then realised that the person who Tony was talking to was Whitney Stane. Pepper felt a ping of anger in her heart. Jealousy? What was unexpected to see was the blonde had crushed her lips against his. The first thing Pepper did was run. She ran and ran. Past the entering Rhodey. Past Ski Academy down the road. Past the park bench. And entered the nearest beach, into the water.
That's it! Hope you enjoyed it! I know that's a little rushed and everything but I don't care! I think its a little short but oh well, a chapter is a chapter. Um, I usually will update this story and A Great Fire at the same time. So you'll get to read two new chapters. Maybe, sometimes. Reveiw please!