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Well as some of you wished I tell what happened in the bathroom. Not in much detail, 'cause this chapter is not about sex. It's about how your world could turn in less than 2 hours.

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Upside-down

She woke up the in morning at nine o'clock and noticed Tony wasn't next to her and she was naked. Not that she was complaining, last night was pretty fun and hot and passionate. She sat up and looked around the room. Furniture was tossed over and the sheets were on the floor along the pillows. Flashbacks popped up in her mind and she smiled as she thought of them.

After he had took her in the bathroom he had placed soft gentle kisses along her legs before he had lifted her into the tube and climbed in behind her. He kissed her hard and slid his hands between her legs again while she clutched him against her chest and kissed him hard. He kissed her stomach and breasts, ran his hands through her hair and up her legs, laced their finger as he easily slipped into her wet heat and reassured her that he loved her. 'Yes, I'm totally doing this tomorrow.' He thought as he kissed her. It was slow, gentle and intimate this time, not fast, hard and needy like an hour before. They climaxed together and she relaxed against the edge of the tube while he shifted closer to her and wrapped himself around her like he was afraid to let her go, cause his life depends on her. All his life laid in her hands.

He eventually went to get a bottle wine, or two or three for them and they talked about random stuff and emptied the first very fast. The same happened to the next one and the third. Her visions were like a puzzle play and she could barely remember how she got in their bedroom or what had happened after. She hadn't a hangover and she praised the lord that she could drink very much without consequences the next day like headaches or sickness.

She remembered how they made out against the frame and that she fell off the bed with him on top of her. That's all she could remember, rather clear or not, the rest was a snarl of red and brown hair, his hands all over her and her mouth and hands all over him.

Yes, Pepper Potts was genuine happy and smiled. This was going to be a good day.

She thought Tony might be in the kitchen preparing breakfast for the two of them, but she didn't hear a thing and after an hour she wondered where he was.

"Jarvis?" she asked the AI.

"Yes, Miss Potts?" The AI repeated in no time.

"Where is Tony? Is he in the mansion or on a mission?"

"Neither, Ma'am. Mr Stark had left an hour before you woke up."

"Oh." She wondered why he even hadn't left a note for her. "Call him please."

"As you wish." The calling noise filled the room and Pepper waited anxiously for him to pick up. After five beeps the voicemail answered and she sighed and told him, if he heard that he should re-call her.

She went to take a shower, and chose casual clothes, since it was her day off. A dark washed jeans and a dark red tank top was her choice of cloth and she went barefoot down to take a mug of coffee. It was until now when JARVIS told her Tony called.

"Hey Honey. Where are you? I've missed this morning."

"Um… Pepper, look I want to do this right. We need to talk. I – " He stumbled into his phone and she cut him off.

"Tony, what's wrong? 'We need to talk' is not such a good sentence to start a conversation to your girlfriend. Normally it means something is wrong." She was curious but in not a good way. Afraid was the better word to describe her feeling, his tone and statement gave her.

"Yeah, sort of. I want to talk to you later, eye to eye. But for now it's just, I don't know how to say it."

"Tony, just spill it out. You scare the hell out of me right now. If you want to end this, us …" He heard her sob and could swear she already cried. He hated it when she cried and he hated it even more when she cried because of him. "… just say it and make it quick, like a patch." Her breath stuck in her throat and tears streamed down her eyes, but she gathered herself together and stopped crying. 'No, you don't cry now. Not when he's the jerk. He will not see you cry.' She thought and wiped her tears away.

"No, it's not I want to end this – us. I just don't … Please wait till I'm home. I want to explain this properly. I don't want you as my girlfriend anymore, I want you – "

"I get it Tony. Good bye." She said and hung up.

"No, Pepper, please. Shit." He pressed the call button again, but she didn't answer. "Jarvis, put me on the speakers, I need to talk to her. And no word to what I'm up to, I will make it through now!"

"Sir, you might tell her, otherwise you might lose Miss Potts." The AI required.

"No, I just need 20 minutes. Lock the place down and don't let her escape. 20 minutes, Jarvis."

"Yes, sir." If JARVIS could lay emotions in his voice he would have sound disappointed, Tony was sure of that. "You're connected and can talk now through the house speakers."

"Pepper listen, please."

"No Tony." Her voice strong, but he could tell she was angry and hurt. "Let me out." Her tone was so soft and calm it was just like a cut through his heart and body.

"No, I have something for you and I want you to see it. Pepper what I meant was – " He stared, but was cut off again.

She yelled at him now, yelling Pepper was even worse than calm and dangerous Pepper. "You meant what Tony? That your fucking ego can't put up with me? That the playboy can't be with one woman? That I'm not some blonde – " now she was crying and sobbing heavily "- Bimbo you can fuck and throw away? I knew it would end like this! You are cold as ice, a liar and I knew you would hurt me, AGAIN!"

Five minutes, he only needed five more minutes to approach her, to tell her and explain to her.

"Pepper, would you please listen?" He asked and regretted his plan to it this way. He should have done it normal.

"No, you damn bastard. You broke up with me over the phone, the fucking phone, Tony! And you locked me at your place, because you have a bad conscience? No way Antony Edward Stark, will I listen to you! Before I'll listen to you, pigs learn how to fly!"

Yes, he had made it. He jumped out of his car and ran to his front door, the small box in his hands. He opened it and Pepper stormed towards him her purse in her hands and tried to get out of the door. He got to catch her and she struggled against his grip. "No. Put your hands away. Leave me alone! Let me be. Release me."

"Pepper would you please listen to me!" He literally begged her now.

"What do you have to say? You told me you don't want me as your girlfriend anymore, so I get it and I – " Now it was his turn to interrupt her.

"Yes, I said that, but you never let me finish, Pepper." He shook her and finally she stopped trying to run and calmed a bit down, he released his grip on her, shut the door and stood in front of her. He took the box out of his pocket and opened it. On the inside was a dark silver ring with a big shining blue stone in the middle, framed by two white half carat diamonds. His vioce was soft and full of love now. "Pepper, this is a ring I made for you, well I let it made for you. It is made of the shrapnel's Yinsen took out of my chest in this cave nearly 2 years ago. That was when I realized I love you. This diamonds are white and simple and wonderfully beautiful, just like you. The blue stone in the middle is a combination of a natural diamond with my new element that keeps my arc-reactor running. It has the same color as your eyes. I realized it as I made it. It was when I found this new element, that I knew that I need you and that I can't stand a day without you by my side. I knew it in my heart from the first day I saw you that it was you. It has always been you."

Somewhere along those lines she had started crying, so he continued. "You once gave me the arc as 'Prove that Tony Stark has a heart' and you saved me. Not only my life because I used it as Obi took the other one, but you saved my lonely ass from drowning. Well, actually this was not the proof that I have a heart, it tried to kill me. The proof that I have a heart is this, all here in this ring. It's you. Simply you. So yes, I don't want you to be my girlfriend anymore I'd rather want you as my wife." She gasped at those words. "You were always more than just my PA or girlfriend. You are my heart. So I'm not going to ask you a question and I won't go down to one knee, but Virginia Anne 'Pepper' Potts you are the love of my live and I want to spend the rest of my life with you, as my wife."

Her hand covered her mouth and she let her tears free-falling now. She didn't know what to think or what to feel. In one hour they got from nearly breaking up to a proposal. She was confused. She was angry and sad and within ten minutes he turned her world all over, again. Everything spun around and was turned upside-down, over and over again, till everything eventually fell in place. And that was why she hated him on the one hand, but was head over heels in love with this man right in front of. Being away from him scared the hell out of her and she hadn't known how she could move on without him.

He was scared that he had upset her so much that she would eventually broke up with him. Her hand still covered he mouth and tears were running down her cheeks. He gently removed her hand from her mouth and kissed it. "Pepper, please say something." He begged.

She finally got herself together and answered, "I want to spend the rest of my life with you, too, as your wife." He smiled and slid the ring on her finger. It fitted perfectly. As the ring was placed he wrapped his hands around her waist.

Leaning forward to kiss her he whispered, "Why are you still crying? Am I that bad? And where is this flying pig?"

"Happy tears, Tony." She beamed at him. "But do that ever, ever to me again and I'll kick your ass and kill you." He smiled, she smiled, he leaned further in, she walked the mile and closed the space between them. As his lips met hers, the world seemed to explode. It was a kiss they never shared before. Pure emotions and love and affection. Her hands made their way into his hair as his arms tightened around her waist, lifted her and spun her around while they were still kissing. As he sat her feet back to the floor they were still kissing, smiling against each other's lips.

"Are you hungry? I hadn't breakfast yet. I was out to get the ring from Cartier." He said as he rested his forehead against hers, his eyes still close and the smile still on his lips.

"Yes, I hadn't breakfast, too. I was too busy being angry." She chuckled.

"I'm sorry. So what do you think? I take you out for breakfast, you can show your ring and I can boast with my wonderful, smart, beautiful fiancé. Doesn't it sound good?"

Yes, Pepper Potts was genuine happy and this was going to be a very VERY good day.

"Yes, it sounds good. Will that be all Mr Stark?" He kissed her and took her to his Audi R8.

"That will be all soon-to-be-Mrs-Stark."

Well I was crying, when I wrote it. You too? Reviews! :)