Pepper sighed. The board meeting was so boring. A quite unimportant assistant of a quite unimportant board member hold a completly boring and unimportant talk about coffeemakers. Coffeemakers!
In moments like this Pepper wished she would be more like Tony. If a meeting was that boring, he just took his smartphone out and started playing. Or he decided not to come at all. Like today. But Pepper was Pepper. The responsible person here. The CEO. The leader of the company. She had to be here. And she had to act like she enjoyed it. At least she had to listen.
Suddenly, her phone rang. A short look told her it was Tony. She politly excused herself and fled to another room.
„Hey, Tony. Do you realize that I just was in a board meeting you should by the way have been in too?"
„Hey Pep. Don't act like you're angry. Today is Harvardboys talk. You wouldn't be there if you musn't."
„His name is Thomson. George Thomson. But yes, it was him."
„Good. Because I need you here."
„Why?"
„I need your advice."
Pepper glanced at her watch. Knowing 'Harvardboy', like Tony loved to call him, he would talk the next two hours. And Tonys silent offer to get her out of this way just too tempting.
„Okay. I'll be there in five."
Quickly, she told Kathy, one of her secretarys, to excuse her from anything in the next two hours, then she went into the elevator and got up. That was the advantage of living in the Stark/Avengers Tower: She was in the office in less then five minutes and the other way round.
When she enter the livingroom, she found Tony, Clint and Bruce sitting on the couch. Tony and Clint were discussing something and pointing on a tabloid Tony held, while Bruce read a book.
„What … ?"
„Ah, perfect, you're here. Look, we're trying to find a girl we can set up on a date with Steve."
„Tony and Clint are trying. I just try to read a book!" Bruce defended himself before Pepper could say anything.
„Anyway, this is the list till now."
When she looked at the screen of Tony's tabloid, where you could see a few pictures of young woman, Pepper played with the thought of telling the two men that Steve was right now at an art exhibition with Maria. But then she saw something more important.
„Is that my secretary on that list?"
AN: This bases on a suggestion Mushroomking98 made. What do you think?