Pepper left the house and started walk down the street to the shop. Luckily in their new house she no longer had to take the car to the shop. Their new house wasn't as nice but they still had a swimming pool and 3 floors. Everything seemed to be perfect for once. Tony was no longer trying to save the world which meant they weren't in hardly any danger now. The only dangers that really effected them were the dangers that everybody faces in everyday life.
The only problem that she had at the moment though was that she didn't have a clue what had gotten in to Tony and that worried her more than anything. There didn't seem to be anything that could of brought it on. Yes, Tony has had trouble sleeping in the past and he always wanted to protect Pepper but this was different. He was lying about being hungry now.
Pepper knew that one of the reasons he could be acting like this was because he had lost his suits. At Christmas Tony had destroyed his suits for Pepper despite the fact that he had always insisted that his suits were part of him so to lose them would be to lose himself. Tony wouldn't tell her that it was because of that though. He most likely wouldn't even tell her that there was anything wrong despite the fact that there obviously was something wrong.
He hadn't been acting like himself for ages now. He could rarely be bothered to do anything and if he did finally decide to do something then Pepper wasn't allowed to help him even in the slightest. Only earlier that week Pepper had made him a mug of coffee and he had freaked out saying that he could make one himself. He rarely ate or drink anything either. She just didn't know what to do anymore. She knew he would refuse to tell her what was wrong. Maybe there was some way she could trick him into going to a therapist? He would probably hate going to therapy though and would give it up after the first session. Pepper felt like there was actually nothing she could do to help him now.
As pepper carried on to walk down the street,she noticed a car that seemed to slowed down beside her. It had pulled out just has she had started to walk down the street. She ignored it at the time though as she thought that it was probably just a coincidence. She was starting to get more worried now. It must have been following her all the way from the house. She looked around to see if was possible that it was about to pull over but there was no parking spaces on this road. She also noticed that there were 7 people all dressed up in a stripy suit with a cobra on their tie. They all seemed to be paying particular attention to Pepper too. She tried to convince her that nothing bad was going to happen and that they were probably looking at something behind her but she couldn't. She was the wife of Tony Stark after all and for all she know there could be people still out to get them both. Pepper started to walk faster, desperately hoping that nothing terrible would happen.
At first she though of calling Tony for help but nothing bad had happened yet. Also it would just worry Tony too much and that could cause him to get worse. She would walk down the main road instead of going down the alley way this time though. It would probably be safer.
As she continued to walk down the road though she became more and more concerned that the car was following her and so were all the people in the suits. The car was driving a bit faster now but it seemed to always wait until she turned round a corner before it would turn round the corner itself. It was almost as if it needed to check which way she was going. Also all the people in the suits were still somewhere near her. Most of them were across the street but 1 seemed to just trail very slowly behind.
Pepper started to panicked. She though that she was finally safe but this was telling her otherwise. She constantly tried to convince her self that they weren't after her or anything.
When she finally got to the shop, they had all seemed to disappear which was a huge relief for Pepper. She still kept an eye out though. Just in case they had managed to hid somewhere in the shop so that she couldn't see them any more.
She did wonder who they were though. I mean she had never seen 7 people all dressed in the exact same stripy suit with a tie with a cobra on before. Maybe they were all part of a gang called the cobra?
When she had finally finished all the shopping, she had a quick check around to see if she could see any of the men in the stripy suits but there was no longer any sign of them. She decided that it was probably safe to take the alleyway home now. She was wrong though.
As she began to walk down the alleyway a man wearing a t-shirt and some old jeans came up to her.
" You're Pepper Potts right?" the man asked. She wasn't sure whether she should answer him or not. He could be anybody for all she knew.
"yeah but who are you?" She replied. Sadly that was the last thing she remembered from her shopping trip.
Hey sorry I feel like I kinda rambled on in this chapter and it is a bit rushed but I just didn't want to leave you all on that cliff hanger for too long. I just thought I'd leave on this one instead. Thank-you to everyone who has reviewed this so far! I will try and get the next chapter out as soon as possible.