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Pepper Potts (Iron Man) (pepperedsnark) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2008-05-24 15:49:00

Entry tags:

invincible iron man, pepper potts, time warp plot

Who: Pepper Potts and Invincible Iron Man
What: Talking and hopefully no throwing down stairs
When: Last night
Where: Her house.. uh.. probably .. space house now
Warnings: Who the hell knows.

Pepper was pacing back and forth just as nervously as ever. Sure there was this whole thing in the future, but really she was more worried that she'd made a mistake. That he really was just Tony trying to be funny and get her to see him. She wanted to trust him, really she did, but after he'd not gone away the last time she told him and the whole stairs thing happened, she didn't know if she wanted to deal with it.

But it was too late for that now, he was on his way there. And so she waited impatiently for him to show up. She really hoped this wouldn't be as crap as the last time. She wasn't quite sure she'd handle this if it was all just a ploy.

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pepperedsnark
2008-05-25 07:53 pm UTC (link)

Slowly she nodded her head at him. He looked, a little upset maybe? Confused yes. But she couldn't really tell. "Yes, he's here.. and yes.. he's.. been.. in my house. He's been.. very kind to me.. with everything that's been going on.. I think I would've just holed myself up in here and never gone out if it weren't for him," she began to explain and finally turned around to face him.

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inextremisvivo
2008-05-25 07:59 pm UTC (link)

"So you and Doc Strange are living it up together?" Who would have thought that Doctor Strange would have eyes for someone other than his wife? And even he complained about how he had a tendency of screwing that one up. "I'm glad you have him," saying it in the present tense because if they were together, Tony wasn't going to muscle in on it. Which made him alone. That was his curse, as usual.

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	pepperedsnark 2008-05-25 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	She shook her head almost immediately, "No.. not living together.. um.. I don't.. I mean I don't have him.. he's just.." she shrugged her shoulders. "He's been nice.. and we.. he's been distracting me I guess.. I don't really know what we're doing. We're not... together." at least not really. Right? She didn't really know anymore. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	inextremisvivo 2008-05-25 08:20 pm UTC (link)
	"By distracting you you mean what exactly?" and now she'd gotten his curiosity running with this. Because Pepper Potts didn't have flings. No, she didn't, right? This place was beyond weird now. Yeah, now she could see a definite twinge of jealousy in his eyes at the thought of Pepper with a man. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pepperedsnark 2008-05-25 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	Licking her lips self consciously, she saw the look in his eyes but didn't know if he meant it. Sure, Tony Stark was always jealous when she was out with other men. "How do you think I mean?.." she rubbed the back of her neck. "Yes, we've had sex.. that doesn't make it some kind of relationship.." even if the other Tony's daughter had said so. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

inextremisvivo
2008-05-25 08:33 pm UTC (link)

"Well, I'm an expert at that one. Sex usually doesn't mean a relationship. It's just sex." Tony folded his arms across his chest as he let this information sink in. She really wasn't his Pepper after all. "Hope he was good and not a bunch of hocus pocus in the sack. I always figured him for a light show in the sack." And maybe that was why he didn't have children or keep his wife happy.

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	pepperedsnark 2008-05-25 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	Well at least he believed her about it being just sex. She frowned though, "That's something I'm not going to tell you about.. but, there was no light show.. thank you.." she didn't know why she needed to defend him, maybe she was just trying to defend her choices. "He's been nothing but.. great.. to me.. and that's what matters." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

inextremisvivo
2008-05-25 08:45 pm UTC (link)

He was actually surprised to hear Pepper give even that much insight to a trip to the bedroom. "He was a replacement, wasn't he?" he asked her bluntly. Pepper Potts did not just fall in bed with someone, even if she did know Stephen Strange. It'd taken her a while before she'd ever even ended up with Happy Hogan, rest his soul. "I just want to know why you were so angry, Pep. It takes a lot for you to get that riled up, and it's usually my fault." He knew the reason why. Because she didn't have him all to herself any more. But he wanted to hear her admit this herself.

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pepperedsnark
2008-05-25 09:18 pm UTC (link)

Her lips pressed together and it was obvious that she wasn't very happy about him being blunt like that. Or that he was asking these questions. There wasn't quite a frown there, but she was obviously annoyed, "This sort of thing is the reason you got pushed down the stairs.." she warned, and that was it really. "You know why I was angry, and if you can't figure it out then.. I'm warning you.. drop it."

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inextremisvivo
2008-05-25 09:29 pm UTC (link)

"And this is why I'm not standing on a flight of them right now. You can't push me down to the ground," at least not unless she clubbed his ass over the head with something first. This version of him was way stronger than the other. "After all this time, Pepper, and you still can't say it." He was surprised she even admitted it to herself let alone reacted the way she had.

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pepperedsnark
2008-05-25 09:38 pm UTC (link)

"Want to bet? You've still got a ways between your ass and the floor," she told him. This time she frowned at him, "Shut up okay? I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk about this. So you can either shut up and change the subject and not bring it up again, or you can get out.." ah yes this was the reason she was totally annoyed. Because he kept doing things like this.

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inextremisvivo
2008-05-25 09:52 pm UTC (link)

"That's if you can manage to put me on the floor, and I hate to break it to you, but that won't happen. But fine, if you want to ignore how you've always felt about me, then be my guest." He'd taken to leaning against a nearby chair, his arms crossed so his fingers drummed against his biceps. He also doubted she had anything that could make him leave this house except under his own volition. Future world or not, his armor was very bleeding edge technology.

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pepperedsnark
2008-05-25 10:00 pm UTC (link)

"You'll never change. No matter if you stop drinking, or what kind of armor you have on, you always think it's always about you. Yeah I want to ignore it, because it's just another reason to inflate your stupid ego. This is the same damn thing that happened last time and I'm not going through it again.. you can leave," she pointed to the door even if he was sitting down.

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inextremisvivo
2008-05-25 10:11 pm UTC (link)

"This isn't about me, Pepper, and I'm not trying to inflate my ego. What I want to know is what has gotten under your skin so much that it's taking five minutes for you to get this look on your face like you want to punch a hole in my head. If there's something you want or need to say to me, then here I am. I'm not going to leave because you pointed a finger at me to get out. Just give me a headstart to put the body suit back on so I can at least defend myself against any cannons that might drop from the ceiling to fire on me, because I'm not going anywhere until you tell me." He didn't need his ego inflated. Tony Stark was capable of that on his own, but it was like whatever approval or disapproval she had for him right now just had to be squared away or they were never going to move past this. "Just trust me to do the right thing. Is that too much to ask? I used to never have to ask you to trust me. You used to do it without a thought."

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pepperedsnark
2008-05-25 10:22 pm UTC (link)

Oh please, like she was going to believe that. "You! You get under my skin and make me this way, Jesus Christ, I told you to drop it but you never EVER listen to me do you? Every time I ask, I beg for you to not do something, or to leave something alone you just don't do it. You never do the work I set out for you, you never go to the appointments I scheduled for you, you were never on time, and now yet again when I ask you to drop something. I even asked NICELY you just won't fucking do it. God I am so fucking sick of you not listening to me. Why the hell should I trust you when you never EVER listen to me or do as I ask? I always do what you ask, but not anymore. I don't work for you. I'm done having to answer because you think it's necessary.. not about you my ass.." she turned around and walked up the stairs towards her room this time, not caring whether he came or went.

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inextremisvivo
2008-05-25 10:39 pm UTC (link)

He blinked for a moment, trying to digest every last word she'd all but spit at him. Actually, he figured she might have punctuated all of it with her spitting in his face at this point.

He'd waited until he heard a door slam upstairs before he followed her. He wasn't about to give her the chance to have a repeat performance of the stair thing. He took a deep breath and exhaled, sighing as he shook his head. When he got upstairs, he just stood outside of her room for a moment before he tested the doorknob, checking to see if she'd locked him out. When he found it open, he cracked it and poked his head inside to see where she was.

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	pepperedsnark 2008-05-25 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	Whether she had just forgotten to lock the door or whether she had just done it on purpose remained to be seen. Hearing the door open, she was sitting on her bed with her back towards him but knew it was him of course. Her fingers tightened on the sheets, "Go. Away." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	inextremisvivo 2008-05-25 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	"No," he answered flatly and entered the room fully, shutting the door behind him and pressed against it as he watched her posture. "I'm not going anywhere." He was really unsure of why he was in here other than his conscience nagging that he'd fucked up and there had to be a way to salvage this. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

pepperedsnark
2008-05-25 11:00 pm UTC (link)

Of course he wasn't going to listen to her. He never did, she didn't know why she thought a big speech would at least let him catch on and stop bugging her. She shut her eyes and slowly got up from her bed. If he wasn't going to go then she was, because she wasn't going to deal with this. She just had to figure out how to get out with him blocking the door. "Please leave? I'm asking... very nicely for you to just go." she moved slowly towards him but didn't make a move to run for it or anything, at least not yet.

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inextremisvivo
2008-05-25 11:13 pm UTC (link)

"If I leave right now, if I walk out of this house, will you ever talk to me again? Because for some reason, I have this nagging doubt you will. Like if I walk out of here then I will lose you forever, and I don't think I could take that." Tony couldn't get his legs to move, to step away from the door to give her an exit. He just leaned against it, a look in his eyes not of defiance of her request, but more like he really cared, that it hurt she was this torn up because of him.

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pepperedsnark
2008-05-25 11:22 pm UTC (link)

"See that's what you think, but you're wrong. Y'know if you just said 'okay Pepper, I understand' and then left like I asked and given me time.. eventually I'd stop being so upset.. but no.. you gotta force yourself in all the time, because you know best," she told him firmly, not exactly yelling, but not exactly nice about it either. Her eyes gazed over at the door and then back to him. "I don't know what you want from me except what I can't give you."

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inextremisvivo
2008-05-25 11:29 pm UTC (link)

"And that's where you're wrong, Pepper. You've already given me the only thing I ever wanted from you. Love and trust," he said, ticking the two items off with his fingers. He then pushed off of the door and opened it, exiting it without saying another word to her. He had to go downstairs and change back into the suit to leave, so that was what he was going to do. He'd worn out any sort of welcome he'd had here for now.

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pepperedsnark
2008-05-25 11:40 pm UTC (link)

Ugh he just had to make things impossible didn't he? She growled in frustration under her breath and ran her hand over her face. She followed him out of the room though didn't go down the stairs, "I love you.. is that what you want me to say? It doesn't matter, Tony.. you still broke my heart and left me alone.. he did.. and I can't just get over that. That's why. Is that good enough for you? You ripped my heart open and I've been trying to get over it but you keep showing up and nagging at me instead of just letting me go on."

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inextremisvivo
2008-05-26 12:01 am UTC (link)

He'd barely gotten to the bottom of the stairs before he heard those three little words, and he almost lost his footing from it. Funny how a man so graceful and lithe could almost be sent hurtling down five stairs because of that. He turned around at the bottom and stared up at her, hands gripping the railings of the staircase. "You loving me or me loving you does matter. I won't leave you, Pepper. You'll never have to be alone anymore. I'm sorry he, I, whatever broke your heart, and I know I radically suck at this 'share my feelings' thing. You were always better with that."

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pepperedsnark
2008-05-26 12:10 am UTC (link)

If it had been another time she probably would have giggled at the fact that he had lost his footing. But now she was just waiting and watching. "You say you won't.. you told me that before and then I got here and you were married.." she shook her head. "I can't do all of that again. I won't.. just sit around and wait for.. whatever. Another woman, or you moving on .. or anything else. And you can't tell me that won't ever happen because before.. I never thought it would and it did.."