Friends With Benefits

Mistakes can be a beautiful thing.

The next day was the first day of summer vacation. Tony and Maya were both invited to a bonfire by the beach. They were in his living room, sitting on the couch, spending the day together. Tony's arms were wrapped around her and Maya rested her head on his shoulder. They started getting into a heavy make out session when the door bell rang. Tony got up to get the door. He opened it and Pepper Potts was at his doorstep.

"Hey." she said casually.

"Um.. Hi." Tony just stared at her and she gave him a weird look, wondering why he was staring. Their eye contact was intense until a certain voice ruined the 'moment'.

"Baby, who is that?" Maya shouted from the living room. Tony turned around and saw Maya walking towards him.

"It's just Pepper. What do you need?"

"Tony, can I talk to you for a second... alone?" Tony looked confused but nodded. Before Tony was able

to respond, Maya spoke up.

"Oh it's okay. I have to go get ready for tonight so I'll just leave you two to talk. I'll see you later, Tony." Maya suddenly pulled him in for a deep kiss. It was meant as a message for Pepper saying to not try anything. Maya glared at her on her way out. Pepper rolled her eyes and looked at Tony.

"Can I come in?"

"Oh, yea." he closed the door and they walked towards the couch, both of them sitting down.

"Tony.. I came here because I thought you should know that..we can't be friends anymore." Tony's eyes went wide, his face filled with disbelief.

"What? Why?" she sighed.

"Because Michael doesn't want me to be around you or talk to you. He thinks that you get in the way and that you have a thing for me. Which you do, but I didn't tell him that."

"No no no... no way. He can't do that. More importantly, what did YOU say about it?" he asked, pissed.

"I told him I was fine with it. I didn't want him to think I was in love with you." Pepper was a very gifted liar. Of course she was in love with Tony.. but once again her conscious got the best of her.

"You know what, I won't allow this. I'm about to do something that I know we both want, but you don't want to bring yourself to admit it."

"What are you-" Tony cut her off by pulling her to him and pressing his lips to hers. At first she tried to pull away and didn't kiss back, but she eventually gave up due to his amazingly soft lips and strong grip around her waist. She wrapped her arms around his neck, tugging at the hair at the back of his neck. Tony wrapped her legs around his waist and stood up, walking to his bedroom. Pieces of clothing were scattered all over the staircases and by the time they had reached his room, both of them had no clothes on whatsoever. The feeling of skin on skin made them both go crazy. Their breaths were getting heavy and their patience was wearing thin, desperate to be inside of each other. He threw her onto the bed and kissed every inch of her body, working his way up to her lips.

"You're so beautiful." a streak of red appeared on her cheeks, satisfying Tony. They couldn't wait any longer so he thrusted into her hard, Pepper crying out his name in pleasure. It had been so long since they've had any intimate contact, they were breaking all of the sexual tension. It was torturous yet amazing at the same time... the way he rode her and the way she cried out his name every time he went deeper inside of her, hitting all the right spots, was perfection. Pepper had never been intimate with Michael, she couldn't bring herself to do it. But even the little things... the way Michael kissed her, held her.... was nothing compared to the way Tony did. He was so gentle, but excitingly rough at the same time.

A few more thrusts and they both climaxed, filling himself inside of her and her around him. They were both breathing heavily, Tony's head resting on Pepper's shoulder. She had left various claw marks on Tony's back, and he left a few light hickeys on her neck. But that didn't matter. Nothing else mattered, because when they were together... Tony only had eyes for Pepper, and Pepper only had eyes for Tony. He slowly pulled out of her, making Pepper feel empty. They both caught their breath and Tony climbed on top of her again, attacking her neck with kisses. She started laughing. After a few seconds, he looked up and they made eye contact.

"What did we just do.." she whispered.

"Well ya see, when two people love each other very much-" Pepper kissed him to shut his smartass up.

"I'm serious Tony.." she said sternly, but softly.

"Well.. we just made love. Yes, love. Not sex. I don't regret anything though..." Tony got up from on top of her and laid next to her, lacing her fingers with his. They were both looking up at the ceiling, a thin sheet covering them from the waist down.

"I'm not going to lie to you.. I missed this, I really did. But I feel so guilty right now." she sighed and rubbed her free hand on her face.

"I'm sorry. I really shouldn't have done that. This was all my fault. I don't know what came over me." Tony really didn't mean it though. He wasn't sorry, because he liked it... and so did she.

"What's actually concerning me is the fact that I'm not yelling at you or beating you to a pulp due to the fact that you just fucked my brains out. And I should be mad... but I'm not." They both faced each other, her admiring his chocolate brown eyes and him melting over her ocean blue ones. He was about to take a risk asking this question, but was feeling overly confident due to the amazing sex he just had.

"Friends with Benefits?"

"Friends with Benefits."

But it wasn't just sex... it was love.

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here's chapter 3!

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