Iron Woman - (Fem Iron man X Pepper)

Chapter 33 - Big Brain

I sit alone in my workshop and decide to call Happy, I look to see his forehead as he answers, "Hello?"

"Is this forehead of Security?" I ask.

"What? You know, look, I got a real job. What do you want? I'm working, I got something going on here." He points the camera down.

"What? Harassing interns?" I ask.

"Let me tell you something, you know what happened when I told people I was Iron Woman's body guard? They would laugh in my face." I laugh as he says this. "I had to leave while I still had a shred of dignity. Now I got a real job, I'm watching Pepper."

"What's going on? Fill me in." I nod.

"For real?"

"Yeah." I nod.

"Alright, so she's meeting up with this scientist. Rich guy, handsome."

"Right." I nod.

"I couldn't make his face at first, right? You know I'm good with faces."

"Oh, Yeah, yeah. You're the best." I chuckle.

"Yeah. Well, so I run his credentials, I make him Aldrich Killian. We actually met the guy back in... where were we in '99? The science conference?" He asks.

"Um...Switzerland." I nod.

"Right, right, exactly."

"Killian? No, I don't remember that guy." I shake my head.

"Of course you don't. He's not a blond with a big rack." I laugh at Happy. "At first it was fine, they were talking business, but now it's like getting weird. He's showing her a big brain."

"His what?" I ask.

"Big brain, and she likes it. Here, let me show you. Hold on. See?"

"Look at what? You watching them? Flip the screen and then we can get started." I sigh.

"I'm not a tech genius like you. Just...just trust me, get down down here."

"Flip the screen, then I can see what they're doing." I roll eyes.

"I can't! I don't know how to flip the screen! Don't talk to me like that anymore. You're not my boss." I look down and search up this guy. "Alright, I don't work for you. Now I don't trust this guy. He's got another guy with him, he's shifty."

"Relax." I sigh.

"Seriously?"

"I'm just asking you to secure the perimeter. Tell him to go out for a drink or something?" I ask.

"You know what? You should take more of an interest in what's going on here. This woman... this woman's the best thing that ever happened to you, and you...you're just ignoring her."

"A giant brain?" I ask.

"Yeah, there's a giant brain, there's a shifty character. I'm gonna follow this guy. I'm gonna run his plates and if it gets rough, so be it."

"I miss you, Happy." I smile as I get up.

"Yeah, I miss you too. But the way it used to be. Now you're off with the 'superfriends', I don't know what's going on with you anymore. The world's getting weird..."

"Hey, I...I'd hate to cut you off. Do you have your taser on you?" I ask.

"Why?"

"I think there's a gal in HR who's trying to steal some printer ink, you should probably go over there and zap her." I smile as I place the tablet in the wine fridge and close the door.