Proposal no Answer

I wasn't sure how to end this, and forgive the shortness but since I came back from seeing IM2 I'm too dumb to write… Ok it's a big fat lie; I've been working too much for my own liking. But we'll see.

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He was smiling.

Alright, no he was grinning.

He was grinning like and idiot and he couldn't help it. It pulled on its own too, he wasn't suppose to grin so ridiculously! His cheeks were hurting and all. Pepper was staring at him, eyes wide and blushing; he words still ringing pleasantly in his ears, as sweet as when his fine scotch was poured into his favorite glass.

Or sweeter.

"And it wasn't supposed to happen." Even in negative response he couldn't stop grinning. "I'm not the type of girl to do that, I just… I'm too simple for this. I get tangled up if you ask me, and so I would rather be home sipping tea or eating a pint of Ben and Jerry's…"

"The chocolate one?"

"Yeah."

"I love chocolate."

"I know, we share that."

"Would you like to bathe me in chocolate and lick it off too?"

To this Pepper stared at him, slightly annoyed. But didn't answer a "As I was saying; What we did was wrong and I have to stop feeling this way for the sake of the company."

"I couldn't' care less for the company."

"Don't you dare repeat that." And still grinning Tony zipped his mouth with his fingers. He was grinning like and idiot.

"As I was saying I should be home sipping tea or eating good ice cream, even when I know I shouldn't because then I wouldn't fit in this dress and my feet would get cramped come Monday because of the sugar and the walking around finding a new job. And besides! I'm not the type of girl a rich boy, like you would go for; I'm too simple! You are an MIT engineer, one of the most brilliant minds in this world and I'm just a PA, a very bright one too…"

He kissed her then. Just pulled her into his arms and locked lips with hers. She suddenly wrapped around him, clinging tightly to his arms as he deepen the sweetest kiss he'd ever tasted… As cliché as it sounded, yes it was the best in his whole life, probably because it was pepper and she was talking forbidden, or maybe because it was a way of showing her he wasn't kidding when he meant what he said… No it was because it was simply simple Pepper. And she tasted like chocolate, and tea, and Pepper and all those warm things he'd read in novels during college. Now he understood why writers were so passionate about poetry, and romance, and love… It wasn't hard science, but itw as perfectly balanced, synchronized and even explainable. In it's own unexplainable way. Air forced them apart and as soon as she gathered air a moan escaped her lips and Tony pulled her for another kiss, quick this time, and pressed even closer to her. He took another kiss, and pressed his foreheads together. Still grinning.

"Marry me." Pepper asked (yes, Pepper) as she gathered air eyes closed and impossibly close to his. Tony smiled, taking yet another kiss, and smelled her. "Is that a yes?"

"It's a we'll see."

"Don't you want to marry me?" Her words were a mixture of surprise, breathlessness and pain. Her eyes full of something he could read but not name.

"Hmm," He produced, charm been utilized full force, dizzying Pepper slightly. "It's a tricky question; Do I want to marry the woman I love? Hmm, I'll have to sleep on it."

"Wha..?"

"Let's go home, alright?"

"But you haven't answered…"

"It's alright, come on, let's go."

"But we just got here." And they had her dirty, dirty martini was sitting over the bar, waiting for her to be taken; the party full force happening around them and probably someone got a good picture of them kissing, or at least talking, but Tony didn't care. He'll probably frame the picture when published. Oh how he hoped it was glossed paper and not a newspaper article.

"We can blow this party, quite literally, besides I called it, you arranged it." Here he stole another kiss, picked her drink and drank it. He'll need it more than she did. Besides he didn't want Pepper drunk.

Alright, not too drunk.

"Tony we planned this party for two months. Not we I planned this party for two months!" They had moved through the dancing floor down to the hallway and when they reached the shadows, as soon as she finished her sentence, Tony pushed her to the nearest corner, that happened to be against a glass panel, and kissed her senseless. His hands holding the sides of her face, his legs pressing between hers… And that dress of hers moved, allowing the invasion.

"I want to celebrate life Pepper." He said, halting the kiss to squeeze her sides. "I want you to want to celebrate life."

"Life…" She moaned softly, feeling with every inch of her body Tony's body.

Oh she was all up to celebrate life.

"But first."

"First?"

"What was it that brought this on?" Pepper just stared at him, a little lost… "You know, what was it that you said at the beginning of the conversation?"

"That this isn't supposed to happen?"

"Before that."

"That I'm too simple for you?"

"You said that afterwards, what was it that you said before that?" Pepper let out a soft chuckle, a little lost. And then remembered what she'd said that started this whole thing…

"That I love you?"

"Do you?"

"Yes."

"Then let's go home so I can think about marrying the love of my life, eh?"