Pepper was sitting on the couch watching TV when Amy walked in, wielding some sort of mysterious black device that she was talking into, almost like a high-tech walkie-talkie.

Pepper knew she had seen it on Agent Hill during the gang's S.H.E.I.L.D. excursion. She knew it was a device from some sort of government agency…so why did Amy have it? Pepper marked it as a suspicion and decided that once she was out of eyesight she'd call Tony about it.

"Oh…you're here again…" Amy said as she noticed Pepper doing her homework.

"Well I do kinda live here." Pepper said, annoyed.

"Well your dad told me that you're usually out with your little friends and not home; I don't usually expect you to be here…"

"Well I gotta come home some time."

"You know, kid, if you're a little nicer there's still time for me to reconsider shipping you off to a stupid boarding school when I really get your father wrapped around my little finger."

"You know, kid, that doesn't threaten me, and by the way, good luck with that. The day my dad takes the duration of a Kardashian marriage to make a decision is the day I break up with my boyfriend because I don't love him anymore. Oh, and for the less intelligent, that means never."

Amy scowled at Pepper. She'd had just about enough of this stupid teenager. She regretted the day she accepted the task of killing a certain FBI agent in exchange for a raise.

~…~

I suppose something needs to be explained.

In a large city such as New York, you have your gangs, your mobs, your Mafia, etc. Basically, you have secretive groups of people who have dedicated their lives to killing people they didn't like or just plain felt weren't doing any good for society. Among these gangs and mobs was a secret organization of assassins who worked for a man with large motives in the killing business and was seen as a largely important businessman, as his cover. The business's cover was an accounting business that hired out accountants to businesses that needed them. No accountants were really hired out very often at all, though. There was mostly undercover cutting and stabbing, and of course, shooting.

This company went by the name of The Accounting Company. They didn't work very hard on the title, of course, because they really didn't care about it. You'd be surprised who works there, though. They make sure that their more popular assassins had a solid cover as a good business person so they had a solid alibi if they were ever accused of murder. They worked hard on having a solid cover, just not the title of their solid cover. So don't let it deceive you.

Among this assassinating company, there was a particular assassin that the head honcho favored. He claimed that she reminded him of himself when he was in his earlier working years. However, he really just liked her because she reminded him of his first wife; his first wife only agreed to marry him because she liked to screw him. He liked that. He liked women in general. That's why he openly hired them when they applied.

But that was beside the point. The boss had had his eye out for a man who worked for the FBI that was doing them plenty of good for the government in regards to catching the bad guys. And he had been getting a little too close to the 'Accountant Company' for comfort. He wanted this man gone. He wanted to give his favorite assassin a raise—or in other words, get her closer to him, if you know what I mean—I think you can put the rest together.

So yes, basically this whole strange predicament was started by a man's need for a woman's touch.

Who's behind all these schemes? Well, I can't tell you…

~…~

Pepper got a text from Tony saying an Iron Man emergency had come up and he and Rhodey needed her at the armory. Pepper threw her books into her room and made her way over to the armory, thankful for an excuse to get away from Amy. She got to the armory and Tony and Rhodey were already out in the armors.

"Oh, good, you're here. Look, Pep I need you to look into the systems chart on the computer and see which system is failing, something's not working in the armor. We found a police report about a suspicious clanging noise in an apartment on the seedier part of town." Tony explained. Pepper went to the computer and immediately went to work, soon finding the error and sending the report to the Iron Man armor. Tony was able to immediately fix it.

As she was exiting the program, Pepper realized something. She immediately raced to the computer to look up the file of an Amy Hill on the FBI database, when she heard a shout from the armor from Tony claiming that he needed Pepper at the systems chair immediately. She had just pressed the 'enter' key on the keyboard after typing in her name. Without Pepper's knowledge, the file came up to reveal the portrait of a woman with a light shade of brown hair and green eyes. The file information said she worked for some sort of accounting company which is suspected to not be exactly that. But Pepper would never see that file, now would she?

~…~

Tony and Rhodey landed in the armory after a long and tiresome fight in the skies around a seedy apartment building. Tony got out of the armor and shuffled over to Pepper, wrapping his arms around her waist and kissing her gently.

"Sorry today was so sudden…" He mumbled.

"It's always sudden, Tony, I'm used to it." Pepper said, kissing him back. Pepper led Tony out of the armory and the three of them walked back to the Rhodes residence together. It was a Friday night, so Pepper wasn't concerned about her curfew, thank the lord, because the last thing she wanted to do was go back to Amy being all over her father.

"Are you sure it was some sort of S.H.E.I.L.D. gadget?" Tony asked.

"Tony, I know my S.H.E.I.L.D. It was definitely from there." Pepper said.

"Alright, I can't doubt obsession. But what do you think she's doing with it?"

"I don't know. I know for a fact she can't possibly work for an organization as awesome as S.H.E.I.L.D. because there's no way that her heart isn't made of complete coal and evil. And she keeps threatening to send me to boarding school when she 'marries my dad'. Yeah right, I doubt he'd ever ask her something like that. Maybe she's up to no good. I don't know, I'm worried." Tony kissed the top of her head and hugged her close to him.

"You're always worried, Pepper." He smiled. Pepper hit his arm gently and chuckled.

"Shutup, you're plenty insecure too." Pepper teased as they curled up on the couch (they were pleased to find out that Rhodey had invited Paige out to a movie that he wanted to see after Tony and Pepper said they already had a date planned for the night) and surfed the channels to watch their favorite shows.

For now, Tony seemed to make Pepper's worries go away. But would that last too long with Amy snooping into places Pepper knew she didn't belong?

Sorry to leave things hanging like this, I'm kinda on the mystery side of writing style lately. I'm liking the intrigue it brings along :3 review?