Falling - A Stony, Avengers FanFic

4. New York (is a Bitch)

Hey guys, so all of this so far has been written in the stage of what...? -Beautiful_lies_

Three days, I think, probably, idk -Abbeynessful

Wow, sounding real intellectual there, Abbeynessful. Anyways, we may have perhaps entered ourselves as characters. Props if you noticed. I'm Beth :) -Beautiful_lies_

And of course you dummies I'm abbey. - Abbeynessful

You can't call our readers dummies. Besides, your lack of capitals pains me. -Beautiful_lies_

Mah name, mah rulse! That's why you're the editor because I'll pro ably just l leave misstates. :)-Abbeynessful l

That's disgraceful. On with the story. -Beautiful_lies_


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The Avengers were seated in the meeting room, still. It had been three hours since Fury claimed he would 'be right back.' Natasha had started doodling pictures of herself killing him on the table, while Clint sniggered at the drawings. Thor was drumming on the table with his fingers, making it shake violently. Bruce and Tony snacked on some food they'd gotten from God knows where and Steve attempted to get them all under control before giving up and slumping in the seat.

"Guys," he whined. "Stop mucking about, Nick'll be back soon and-"

"That's not fair." Clint interrupted.

Steve shot him a very confused look, so he elaborated.

"It's not fair that you're allowed to call him Nick not Fury, or, or that you can call Natasha 'Nat' because she threatened to kill me when I called her that." he frowned.

Natasha rolled her eyes, "Yeah, but Steve's Captain America. He can get away with anything, look at that face. Look at it."

Steve blushed bright red. "Uh... Thank you Nat..?" he asked, "Can you stop, um, drawing that your killing Nick on the table?"

Natasha stopped immediately, Clint let out a noise of discontent just as Fury walked in.

"Avengers assemble." Steve snapped to attention but Tony barely glanced up from his food.

"Sir," Steve greeted.

"Avengers, board the Quinjet, you're going back to New York. Tonight."

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Natasha stared bleary-eyed at the screen.

"Come on," Steve said pulling her away from the wheel, "You need to sleep, you haven't slept properly in ages. Clint said you didn't sleep last night either."

Natasha nodded and stood up, making her way over to the couch as the rest of the Avengers stared in shock. In a matter of seconds, Steve had managed to do what they had tried to in the past few hours. Tony scooted up on the couch to make room for the former assassin, and she curled up in a tight ball, falling asleep almost instantly.

"Jesus," Tony said looking at her, "She must have been so tired."

Steve nodded, "She'd run herself to the ground before she'd admit though."

Tony got up from the couch and checked the screens. "10 minutes away from NYC." he told the group.

The Avengers nodded sleepily. All of this fighting had really taken its toll on the group.

As the Quinjet landed, all of the Avengers were woken up from their slumbers and stumbled off board. "God," Steve yawned, "I'm so tired."

Tony smirked, "Weak." he joked, "I haven't slept in, what, 74 hours? I'm fine."

Steve stared wide eyed at him, "What? How? When?" he stumbled out.

"I do it all the time," Tony told him.

The Avengers walked over to the sleek black car where Happy was waiting. Natasha was wrapped up tightly in a fluffy blanket and Tony didn't know if he should laugh or 'aww' her. He did neither.
Happy said nothing as they drove to Stark Industries Tower, where they all lived, but he kept throwing almost nervous like glances in Tony's direction.

The car finally arrived in the spacious underground car park and parked right near the lift.

"Thanks for the lift happy." Steve thanked.

"My pleasure and job," Happy replied.
"Ah, Tony? I think pepper in the middle of a proposal right now, I don't think she'll want to be disturbed." Happy added on.

"I'll be fine, she loves me anyway. A nice surprise." Tony said a bit too joyfully.

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"I'll leave you guys to go to your rooms, you know where they are. I'm gonna go surprise peppers." Tony told the team.

"You're a lovely host." Clint said sarcastically.

"Thanks." Tony said without actually noticing the sarcasm because he was to busy typing something on the wall panel then started jogging up the stairs.

Tony bounded up the stairs, jumping about five at a time. Since he and Pepper had gotten together he had been completely, shockingly, faithful and in love with her. Having not seen her for two weeks had almost been impossible for him and he could barely contain his excitement as he rounded the corner to her office he let out a tiny puff of air.
Tony put his hand on the door but was stopped short when he heard voices inside the room. Huh, he thought, I guess Pepper really is in a meeting.
He considered turning away, before realizing that he ran the company and what could Pepper be in a meeting about that he couldn't know?
He turned the almost silent doorknob and the muffled voices became clear.

"Oh?" Pepper's voice was light, and if Tony hadn't known better, he would have said flirty.

"Yeah," Tony could see the man's shadow lean uncomfortably close to Pepper through the nearly transparent glass.

Pepper laughed, but didn't seem to be moving away from him. "What a lovely surprise." she told the man, almost in a purr.

Tony was frozen solid against the door, unable to move away, or move inside.

The guy leaned incredibly close to her, his lips almost on hers, and Tony accidentally stumbled through the door.

"Oh," Pepper's voice was abrupt as she pulled away from the man. "Hello, Tony."

Her voice held none of the familiar warmth in it, and instead a cool statement. As though they were that of business partners, meeting for the first time.

The man, who had looked like he wanted to kiss Pepper, looked halfway
torn between annoyance and worry.

"What's going on?" Tony asked, deadpan, free of emotion.

For the first time in his life; Tony heard Pepper stumble over her words.

"Oh, um, it's nothing, business partners." she said at the exact same time that the man replied;

"Oh, we're just childhood friends, catching up."

They glanced desperately at one another as Tony's mouth set in a hard line.

"You know, Pepper," he said, struggling to keep his voice from breaking, "If you were cheating on me, you at least should have the common decency to tell me."

To her credit, Pepper flushed. "I'm sorry, Tony." she said quietly, confirming his worst fears.

Tony nodded slowly. "I need to go the lab." he said.

Pepper called after him but Tony refused to turn around, refused to show her his face, refused to show her his tears. He climbed slowly, painfully, down the stairs, head hung low, and into his lab.
Tony swung the door shut behind him, with an angry force that sent it rattling on his hinges. He muttered curses, with tears streaming down his face.
There was a clicking noise as Dummy came to rest by his shoulder, gesturing with it's claw to a sofa. Tony slumped face down into it, muffling a sob as the lab door swung open again.

"Hi Tony. Umm I'm just wondering what does frontal error mean?" Steve asked as he held up a tablet flashing yellow.

Tony paused, and raised his head, tears staining his cheeks. "I don't know," he said, "Come over here, I'll take a look."

Steve started walking over then suddenly realised Tony had been crying. He stopped of a few steps away.

"What is it Steve?" Tony tried so hard to say strongly but Steve heard how weak it was. He left the tablet on a workbench and gently sat down closely to Tony.

"Tony. Are you alright?" He asked sweetly.

"I'm fine, I've got hay fever somehow." Tony lied.

"I don't believe that one bit," Steve said strangely sounding like a mother while Tony gave out a very small 'hm'.

"Is it Pepper?" At the mention of her name Tony bursted into tears.

Steve looked horrified at the fact that he'd made Tony cry. He moved closer next to him on the couch with a worried frown creasing his forehead.

"Tony?" he asked softly.

The aforementioned superhero rolled into Steve's arms with a sob, clinging to him.

"Pepper... She..." he broke off in sobs before retrying. "Pepper cheated on me."

"It's going to be okay," Steve comforted as he rubbed Tony's back still remember where the bruises and avoiding them. "I'm here whenever you need me."

"How could she do this to me?" he asked, almost calmly. "Am I so undesirable?" he frowned, tears spilling over, but his voice calm. "First my dad, now this, does everyone I care about hate me?" he bit his lip, eyes downcast.

"You care about me, yes?" Steve asked selflessly.

"Of course, you're amazing." Tony answered worrying.

"So I'm someone who you care about and loves you back. Also I bet the team loves you as well."


Tony's lips barely pull up at the edges, but his eyes sparkled with gratefulness at Steve's words. Tony leaned close to him, tilting his head up.

The lab door swung open and the two pulled away quickly.

Pepper walked in, heels clicking against the steel floor.

"Tony, I'm truly so sorry. I don't have any reason. I never meant to hurt you." Pepper 'innocently' said.

"Bitch." Steve said. Everyone was in shock. Did captain America just cuss?

"Excuse me?" Pepper sharply asked.

"You heard him! You're a bitch! If you didn't want to hurt why THE FUCK did you even think to cheat, bitch." Tony said so loudly it echoed.

Pepper rolled her eyes, with an air of 'Too cool for you' that belonged to a popular seventeen-year-old cheerleader at high school. She huffed out a breath of air.

"I apologize." she told him, with a tiny bit more sincerity, but still not enough.

Her demeanor suddenly melted and she shifted uncomfortably, rolled her head to the side and makes a noise of discontent, as though trying to find words that don't exist. She clicked her tongue and turned on her heel, walking out of the room with a glare at Steve.


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((Entered the devil)))
((Oh hi pepper))
((Me? Knowing how other people feel from my bad actions? Never! Said pepper inner monologue))
FYI these things are things I've sent as we were writing this via kik. Aren't I funny. Ah, funny bunny.
-abbeynessful

Nobody reads this anyway, it's always Beth instead, just because it's link is sent everywhere and it's better edited doesn't mean mine is pointless, does it?
Lol I don't care