i_onlyhaveyou (i_onlyhaveyou) wrote in we_coexist, @ 2008-07-23 21:20:00 |
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Home Is Where The Heart Is (Tony) - COMPLETED
Early morning light spilling down across her bed and over her closed eyes was what first began to rouse Pepper from her drowsy state that morning.
She shifted around in her bed, face buried deep into her pillow against the intruding brightness. All too soon her alarm clock would be going off and she'd be forced to drag herself out of bed. Force herself to get up and greet a brand new day of mind-numbing work and having to deal with whatever new and ingenious way Tony managed to get himself into trouble today. Force herself to go into her office, only to find a stack of papers at least three feet high, all with headliners on "Iron Man" emblazoned across their black and white pages.
Soon enough she'd be forced to deal with all of that...but for right now, she just wanted a few more minutes of sleep. Just a few more minutes to snuggle deep down into her silk sheets and smell the sweet lavender perfume of her pillow.
Wait a minute. Silk sheets...lavender...?
Outside she could hear the sweet, melodic chirping of birds and something that faintly sounded like the pleasant tinkling of wind chimes blowing in the breeze on a nice, summer day.
Wind chimes..? I don't own any windchimes!
Bright blue eyes snapped open wide and Pepper gave a startled cry as she sat bolt upright in her bed.
No...not her bed...a bed.
"Good morning, Miss Potts," the droll voice that could only belong to Tony's A.I., Jarvis, spoke suddenly, earning him a startled cry from her as she jerked the sheets up around her body in reflex. "I trust you slept well."
Pepper gaped, looking around the unfamiliar room with rising anxiety. Sure, she'd had just a little bit to drink last night...but nothing more than her usual nightcap before going to bed! How could she have possibly come to be in a foreign bed...and with Jarvis?
"J...Jarvis? What...what on earth is going on? Where the hell am I?"
"It seems, Miss Potts, that during the course of the night, something rather odd has taken place. I advise you to look out your window."
The blinds that covered each individual window slowly parted as Pepper eased herself out of the bed, wrapping the silk sheet around her body as she moved and padded over to the glass. Her eyes widened at the sight that greeted her and her jaw dropped at the same rate as her stomach.
All around, she had a full, panoramic view of a vast, magnificent City.