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Tony Stark (torsolitebrite) wrote in syncraticsd,
@ 2008-12-23 11:37:00

Entry tags:

pepper potts, tony stark

Who: Tony and Pepper
Where: Tony's mansion
When: Middle of the night, Christmas Eve
Why: For cuteness
Rating: TBD

Tony was having a having a hard time trying to balance a puppy, a coat, and a briefcase as he struggled to get in the house. Pepper's car was in the driveway, so he knew at least she was in the house, and he was sure she probably hadn't left Matt behind.Trying to be as quiet as possible, he ended up dropping the coat and briefcase on the floor because the puppy wouldn't keep still. Tony had paid the owner of the kennel a lot to get up in the middle of the night and open so he could fetch the little guy. He had wanted him home as soon as Matt and Pepper were there just in case they weren't there when he arrived tonight because he was definitely passing out soon. He was exhausted and jus wanted to sleep, but he would hold out long enough to see them.

Now if he could just get upstairs without the puppy waking them up.

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alwaysspicy
2008-12-23 11:45 pm UTC (link)

Taking the second package, she went and opened it up. "Oh nice. I'm actually kind of surprised you have this good taste in women's things.." though maybe she shouldn't have been so surprised. She carefully took her jewelry and put them into the box. "They're gorgeous, I can't wait to wear them some place nice when I can. Thank you.." she moved over to him and then kissed him soundly on the lips.

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torsolitebrite
2008-12-24 12:44 am UTC (link)

"Hey, I'm not completely inept in womanly things..." though he ran his hand over the back of his neck, "I kind of got the sales woman's help though," he shyly admitted. "I picked the color. Sort of," Yeah he was horrible at that kind of thing. It was a wonder he dressed himself at times. Kissing her back just as firmly, he pulled her close to him and hugged her in his arms. "Merry Christmas, Pepper."

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alwaysspicy
2008-12-24 12:58 am UTC (link)

She just grinned at him, "Whatever way you picked it out, it was the right choice." her arms wrapped around him tightly, hugging him. She kissed him again and then let him go a little, "Merry Christmas, Tony. You have to open your presents. And we have to name the puppy.." Because meanwhile Matt had pretty much gone and started to open up his other presents that he could tell were his cause he could read his name.

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torsolitebrite
2008-12-24 01:16 am UTC (link)

"I don't know what name him," he said as he leaned down and picked up the puppy, scratching behind its ears. His little back leg kicked as Tony found its ticklish spot, and he couldn't help but laugh as the little paw fidgeted. "Aw, looks like we have something in common." Because if he was hit in just the right place, his leg twitched, too. "So. I have presents?"

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alwaysspicy
2008-12-24 01:23 am UTC (link)

She grinned again cause the leg twitching thing was cute. "Aww.. that's so cute.." she reached up and scratched Tony behind the ears too to see if he was going to have a leg twitch too. "Oh right, presents.." she got up and went under the tree and grabbed the boxes and handed them over for him to open. They were nice things that she thought he'd like but since Pepper's player sucks at picking out presents, just pretend they're awesome.

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torsolitebrite
2008-12-24 01:42 am UTC (link)

Tony's head tilted more into her fingers scratching behind his ear. He twitched but not in the leg anyway, but he did like the feeling, so he wasn't going to tell her to stop. Setting the puppy down on the floor to run around, he started opening his gifts one at a time. "Well, that's...quirky," he said as he lifted the shirt out of the box that already had a hole made in it just for his arc reactor. "That's weird enough for me to like it." In it he also found a variety of little things that were just quirky enough that Tony liked them a lot. Then there was the picture of Tony drawn as Iron man that Matt had done and gave him. "Thank you.." he said, kissing Pepper then moving to ruffle his hand through Matt's hair.

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alwaysspicy
2008-12-24 01:55 am UTC (link)

Watching as Tony opened his presents, she was glad that he liked what she got for him. "I just thought it was easier.. or something.." she blushed some and kissed him in return. "All right so what shall we name this puppy, huh Matt? Do you wanna name him?"

Matt looked up from whatever he was doing and wandered over to the two of them and the dog. "Name him Tony!" he announced. Pepper laughed, "But Tony's name is Tony.. can't call him Tony, we'd get them confused."

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torsolitebrite
2008-12-24 02:07 am UTC (link)

"I've cut holes in some of my shirts already, but you're right, it is easier when they don't snag." But he did love everything they'd given him. He couldn't remember the last time he had really thoughtful gifts given to him or him giving anything to someone that wasn't something standard like a fruit basket. He was having a real Christmas for the first time in over ten years.

"Yeah, let's not do that. I know it's hard to tell the difference between two slobbering hounds as it is," he joked. "Let's try again."

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	alwaysspicy 2008-12-24 02:19 am UTC (link)
	Matt looked a little put out but quickly rebounded. He looked quite in thought about what to name the dog. "We name him baby.." Pepper looked at him "Baby. You want to name him baby?" She just looked over at Tony, trying not to giggle so bad. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

torsolitebrite
2008-12-24 02:33 am UTC (link)

Tony cocked an eyebrow. "See? We ended up with a baby. A hotdog shaped baby. I feel like a single parent now," he said as he pursed his lips. He cut his eyes over to Pepper, who was fighting the urge to laugh at the predicament. "God, give me a weapon or project to name and I'm fine, but naming a warm-blooded animal and I suck at it." He propped his head in his hand and looked at the puppy which was giving him those eyes. "What about something like Nero or Archimedes or something?" Then again, Matt couldn't pronounce half of that.

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alwaysspicy
2008-12-24 02:51 am UTC (link)

"A single parent? Jeeze.." she couldn't help stick her tongue out at him. But the fact that they couldn't name this poor dog was just too funny. So she decided to put her brain to work. "Um no. He doesn't know and won't remember that. How about we name the puppy..." she paused, thinking through all the names she could think of. "Ketchup? Since he's a hotdog. Or maybe Rhodey." What? It wasn't like there was actually one around.

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torsolitebrite
2008-12-24 02:57 am UTC (link)

He'd only been teasing her. It wasn't like she was going to leave him defenseless to take care of the puppy. He knew they'd be over as often as possible. "Ketchup is cute. We've got a condiment theme going on here, Pepper," he said, putting emphasis on her nickname. "My two favorite condiments. "So let's call him Ketchup. That poor dog. We're going to scar him for life." Hopping up on the couch, he stretched his legs out and picked up the puppy, who immediately went for trying to chew at the corner of the arc reactor through Tony's shirt. Matt ran up and hugged Tony's neck where he just pulled the kid on up to sit in his lap to play with the puppy.

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alwaysspicy
2008-12-24 03:14 am UTC (link)

No she wouldn't do that to the poor dog. If she had left Tony to his own devices the poor dog would be.. she didn't know, but it would be bad. "Yeah, condiments are good.." she smirked at him. He was the only person allowed to call her Pepper. "And I'm pretty sure that the dog doesn't care what his name is and won't have any emotional scarring as long as we don't laugh at the poor guy.." she said, smiling. When Matt got in Tony's lap she went over to pet the dog too since she didn't want to be left out. "Ketchup it is."

"Ketsup.." Matt declared. Close enough.

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	torsolitebrite 2008-12-24 03:31 am UTC (link)
	"Might as well get up here, too. I'm really feeling the love here. Obviously, I was missed while I was gone." Which he was joking because he knew the two of him loved and missed him when he'd been away, but it was so cute to have them all bundled up on the couch with him. "Tony, Pepper, Matt and Ketchup." That had to be the weirdest names for a family ever. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

alwaysspicy
2008-12-24 03:42 am UTC (link)

So Pepper climbed up on the couch next to the rest of them. "Let's hope he doesn't pee on the couch." really they were going to have to start training him right away. "I'm now really the only girl surrounded by boys, what ever shall I do?" she gave Ketchup's tummy a little rub. She wondered if the dog was going to like her best too since it was clear she was a favorite amongst the other two boys.

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torsolitebrite
2008-12-24 04:03 am UTC (link)

He'll be alright for the moment. I haven't given him any water since I got here." Well Tony knew he liked when she rubbed his tummy so how could the puppy not fall in love with her like the rest of them? Then he gave her the same puppy expression. "I don't get my tummy rubbed? I was the one gone for two days with no one to tuck me in." Though the corner of his mouth quirked because he was clearly kidding. "I think it's time we all went back to bed. I've had a long day and I'm tired. In the morning, we can go out for breakfast or something and play with Santa's presents when we get back."

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alwaysspicy
2008-12-24 01:41 pm UTC (link)

"Aww, I'll rub your tummy when I tuck you in then, how's that.." she winked at him. No rubbing tummy's in front of the children apparently. Then Matt would want to rub Tony's tummy and that would be just weird. Matt started to pout about having to go back to bed, but Pepper gave him a Look. "You can bring a toy up to bed, just none of the messy ones.."

Matt hm'd some "I has Ketsup?" he asked.

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torsolitebrite
2008-12-24 01:52 pm UTC (link)

Tony mmm'ed at that idea. "I think I can wait." He liked when she did that. Usually put him to sleep. "You can take him to your room. Better put his food and stuff in there, too." Tony had made a little set of doggie steps to put on the end of the bed so the puppy could climb up and down from it when he had to go to the bathroom and such since his legs were so short he probably couldn't jump without hurting himself.

"I'm comfortable here and don't want to move," Tony whined, but he supposed he'd have to get up and move the puppy's stuff into Matt's room. "Ugh, okay. Let's get Ketchup's stuff as he passed the puppy over to Matt to hold so he could get up off the couch.

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alwaysspicy
2008-12-24 02:08 pm UTC (link)

"Did you buy any of those pad things to put down for him to pee on?" Cause it wasn't like Matt could get up and take him outside or anything. And the poor dog had to be trained for that. She figured there was something down there that the dog could pee on. In any case, she grinned and got up off the couch.

Making sure that Matt was holding the puppy the right way, she ushered him upstairs. Matt took forever it seemed on the stairs because he had his hands full but eventually made it up and into his room. She just hoped the dog was going to let him get some rest.

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torsolitebrite
2008-12-24 02:59 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, I got everything we need for him. They asked if he was going to be house trained so...they loaded me down with whatever I needed." As the two carried the puppy upstairs, Tony went ahead and grabbed a fresh pad and the little stairs and food and water bowls and took them to Matt's room and set everything up for him. Even if the puppy didn't pee on the pad and just on the carpet, it wasn't like he couldn't have it replaced or cleaned. But training a dog was going to be difficult when the poor thing had three masters. Maybe it'd listen to him more since he was the one staying with him the most.

"There we go. He's probably thirsty so let him get some water, Matt," he said as he dragged a puppy bed over toward his own and put the little stuffed toy with his mom's scent on it inside. "You should probably let him sleep in his bed until he's used to going to the pad. You know, so he doesn't pee on you."

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alwaysspicy
2008-12-24 03:08 pm UTC (link)

Matt didn't want to leave the puppy in his own bed but he didn't want to be peed on either so he just nodded, "Okies.." he said and then climbed up into his own bed. While Tony dealt with the puppy, Pepper went and tucked Matt into bed again, pulling the covers up over him and kissed his head. "Night.. Merry Christmas Matty."

"Mewwy Cwimmus Peppy" he beamed back. Then she turned to make sure that Tony was all right with the dog. "Goodnight you two.." she said to both the dog and her brother and then took Tony's hand so they could go to their own room.

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torsolitebrite
2008-12-24 04:04 pm UTC (link)

After Tony had taken a blanket and bundled it up around the puppy, he bent down and kissed Matt on the head before Pepper took his hand. "Good night, Matt," he said, switching off the light and closed the door so the puppy wouldn't wander out in the middle of the night. "Now can I have my belly rub?" he murmured as he wrapped his arms around her, following her close as they stepped into their bedroom.

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