Thanks to inque28 for the ideas behind this chapter! Hope you enjoyed the last chapter (as random as it was…And as random as this whole story is!) and I hope that you enjoy this new instalment!

Cat Vs Cord

Tony was woken by the sunlight spilling into the room through the large windows of the master bedroom and he yawned before opening his eyes and looking around to see Pepper fast asleep still. Not surprising since he had kept her awake half the night by constantly fidgeting and running around, pouncing on spots of light that had been reflected off various surfaces. He sat on the bed for a while just watching Pepper sleep, thinking of how lucky he was that she had stuck by his side and hadn't run off the moment she found out he had been turned into a tiger. That was until his stomach growled and he suddenly felt very hungry. Of course being a tiger and in the middle of New York he can't exactly go and find some food on his own and he couldn't exactly open any cupboards since he had found out that he couldn't reach the handles to open them. He nudged Peppers arm a few times and when she didn't wake up he decided he needed to do something to wake her as his stomach growled again so he simply jumped up onto her and tried to roar a few times. This woke her up.

Bad move, Stark…

He looked at Pepper as she sat up and glared at him for waking her, decided it would be better to retreat and turned tail to run off the bed and leap onto the floor. "TONY!" she climb out of bed, pulling her robe on and storming out of the room after the little blur of orange and black. He ran as fast as he could, tumbling into one of the kitchen cabinets as he skidded across the floor.

"Anthony Edward Stark! You get your little fury behind back here right now!"

She followed him into the kitchen and picked him up by the scruff of his neck and giving him the signature "Pepper glare" that he knew too well. "Why did you wake me up?!" The only response she got was the sound of his stomach growling again and she sighed, putting him down on the floor and rubbing her eyes and taking out another can of tuna from the cupboards and putting it onto a plate for him. However, when she turned around to place the plate on the floor for him, he was gone so she placed the pate on the counter and went in search. He can't have gone far…one, he's lazy and two, he can't open any of the doors so he can't have gone to the workshop

She was right, he hadn't gone far. In fact he'd gotten as far as the couch and had found a pair of trainers which he had spotted on his way towards the kitchen. The one thing that he had noticed in particular was the laces. When Pepper found him he was chewing on one of the shoe laces and playing tug of war with the shoe and she simply laughed "Oh dear…" she picked up the shoe and tried to take it from him to witch he simply tugged hard. "I swear you're turning into a cat or something!" she giggled and tugged a bit harder "Let go! I need that if you're going to want more food!"

Despite the mention of food, he continued to tug and swipe at the cord, trying to tug it from Pepper's hand. She did actually need her shoe and if Tony the tiger wouldn't let go then she would have to find a way to distract him away from the cord so she let go of the shoe and watched him play.

About half an hour later and he was now running around with the shoe lace in his mouth, having managed to pull it free of the shoe and run off as Pepper started to yell at him to drop the shoe lace. Thanks to Jarvis, Pepper had finally found something to distract him from the shoe lace. She clicked the button on the laser pointer, shining it on the ground just in front of the little tiger that dropped the shoe lace and stared at the red spot on the ground. She grinned, seeing that her plan had worked and moved to point it on the ground a bit further away to witch Tony pounced on it, trying to catch it in his front paws only to see that the red spot was now in fact on his paws. He began putting one paw on top of the other, trying to cover the red spot and catch it, causing Pepper to laugh "For a genius you are not that clever at times" she giggled, picking up the lace now that he had lost interest, teasing him by moving the light around and watching him run after it and try to climb up the wall.