"What do I want?" She was actually crying now...and part of her anger at herself for letting that happen was what drove her to strike his chest with her curled up fist angrily. "What do I want? I want you to show me for once that you actually give a damn about me! Show me that I mean more to you then just a potential fuck or your personal assistant to order around! Show me that somehow...somewhere...you actually care about me!"
Her hand hit him again, harder now but certainly lacking in any real pain to him, considering his considerable strength advantage. "I want for you to prove to me that all of your promises and words have not just been lies!" Another hit, another punch...tears rolling down her face as she did everything in her power just to show him a small fragment of the way he'd hurt her...taking out her aggression and pain with every blow that fell upon him. "That when you said I was the 'all you had' - that you meant it! Not...not me and Cameron...or me and Everhart or me and...you can fill in the damn blank yourself! Just me. That I actually meant something to you."
She struck him again...only this time her hands remained hard against his chest as a sob racked itself from her trembling body. She shook her head, anger and hurt and betrayal and fear broadcasting through that deep bond they seemed to share. She lifted her hand and hit him again...before a low whimper fell from her lips and she whispered, "What do I want? The only thing I ever wanted. Just for you to love me."
And with that, the powerful crumbled. Pepper Potts - the confident, cool, sarcastic, clever, independent woman - broke.
Her hands curled against his chest and she ducked her head down, collapsing against him with trembling sobs that shook her entire form. Her head tucked neatly just underneath his chin as her forehead came to rest against his chest as she bitterly wept, her tears falling to dot the front of his t-shirt as her hands clung hard to him now.