Sophia Warren (twostepsahead) wrote in doorslogs, @ 2012-05-10 22:44:00 |
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Entry tags: | door: marvel comics, pepper potts |
WHO Pepper
WHAT Discovering her sitting room
WHEN Vaguely recent, after Tuesday.
WHERE Stark Tower
WARNINGS Loki getting inside Pepper's head?
She would have stayed in Malibu if not for the fact that there was a very important document in her office at Stark Tower. It couldn’t wait and quite frankly, she wasn’t going to let his pettiness get in the way of her work when all she was trying to do was help him. Why was it that they could take a step forward and then end up going three steps back over something so ridiculous? Maybe Loki was right. That was a dark path to go down and Pepper tried to push it away. She steeled herself before slipping back into Passages and then into her office as Stark Tower. Her purse went on the edge of the desk as she took her seat, rifling through the drawers for the file she needed. It wasn’t where she thought it was and her brow furrowed as she tried to think of where it could be. There were more files on the conference table and in her haste to get to them, she knocked over her purse, the contents of it scattering on the floor. Pepper didn’t give it a second thought as she flipped through the files. “Finally,” she murmured, upon finding the file. She returned to her desk and set the file down as she began picking up the items on the floor. The last thing she picked up was the key card that had been inside her birthday card. Her gaze flicked to the floral, impersonal card and she frowned. Where did it lead? She hadn’t asked, but as she turned it over in her hands she recognized it as an access card for the elevator. He’d told her to stay to the lower floors but she didn’t quite care at the moment. She wanted to know what his idea of a birthday present was. Leaving her things behind, Pepper made her way to the elevator and slipped the card into the slot above the buttons. The elevator moved upward, to where he spent all his time. Her brow furrowed again, this time wondering exactly what he was up to. The doors opened to a sitting room of some kind and while it wasn’t exactly her, it wasn’t him. Her eyes found the colorful desk ornament on the low glass table and she stepped toward it, a smile forming despite her best efforts to stay mad at him. He was being childish and she wasn’t going to indulge it. End of story. Pepper reached out to set it into motion, the multicolored balls soothing her anger for a brief moment. He knew her, when he bothered to try. It would be so much easier if they were both from the same time, but...maybe it was a good thing. Maybe it was a sign that whatever it was that might have been, wouldn’t work. “Damn him,” she muttered, her gaze catching the elephant pencil cup. He was her weakness. Loki was right. If he ever needed a way to get to Tony, she wasn’t it. He would rescue her, that was what he did, but was it out of a sense of what was right? Or did he really care? She didn’t know and she didn’t think he would ever discuss it, least of all with her. But she’d laid her cards on the table, hadn’t she? Loki knew how she felt about Tony. Captain Rogers knew. Thor knew more than all of them, considering her Tony’s wife. And yet, the man in question was oblivious. Completely, utterly, and hopelessly oblivious. Or maybe he knew how she felt and purposefully kept her at arm's length, as Loki suggested. “So much for not going there, Potts.” She would have left the key card but it didn’t seem worth it. The perpetual motion device would be sign enough that she’d been there. Pepper left, back down the elevator. She collected the file from her office and returned to Malibu. Distance would help and thankfully, she had a great deal of work that she could bury herself in. Or...Given Felicia’s latest conversation with her sisters, perhaps she could do with more time in Las Vegas. It would mean more work while she was actually through the door, but how was that a downside? It meant less time to be distracted and Felicia would appreciate the time. Question it, probably, but appreciate it all the same. Tony was so oblivious, she doubted he would even notice. First though, she needed to talk to Thor about the myth he dangled in front of her. |