Last Christmas

Day 15

He had a doctors appointment today, so when pepper turned up at his door, she was surprised to se hi already up, dressed and ready to go. She normally was the one to got o his appointments with him , as she was the one who was by his bedside the whole time through his operation and his recovery. She took great detail in what he was doing and told him he had o change constantly, but she could never truly get through to him.

She arrived slightly early and he was there waiting for her at the door, and she immediately thought something was wrong, so when he walked over to her car she rolled down the window and started interogating him.

"are you okay? has the time changed? am I late? why are you ready so early? are you okay? are you feeling alright? Have you slept? have you eaten? "

"pepper, im fine, no, no, I woke up early, yes, yes, yes and ... yes. does that answer everything?" he asked smiling at her, thankful for her worrying.

"are yo sure, everything's alright and nothings happened?"

"pepper I ensure you I am perfectly fine, now lets go because otherwise we will be late."

She sighed in defeat and drove off, still not 100% believing tony.

they arrived at the hospital early and they were waiting outside in the waiting room for some time. Tony was trying to cheer Pepper up because she ad a to of stress working for tony stark and he did feel bad for her she had a lot of business' wanting to have a partnership with Stark industry's because of Christmas, so her normal over crowded work scheduel was 10 times worse. He needed to remember o give a large Christmas bonus.

Tony was called in and pepper followed behind, putting an comforting hand on his shoulder. They sat down in the doctors office and listened to hat she had to say.

"okay Mr Stark, I am pleased to say that your test results show that the operation was in fact successful, so we no longer have to worry about rejection, but we do need to make sure your lif style Is healthy to look after everything. So if you don't mind answering these questions."

Pepper looked at tony knowing what he was going to do. He hated hospitals so he would want o get out of here as soon as possible and he would do anything necessary ot do that. He would tell them what they wanted to hear, which wasn't the truth.

"so, lets start with your diet, is it good."

"oh yes very, salad and veg with each meal." tony said flashing his perfect set of white teeth.

"he eats crap." pepper replied and tony sent her a look and the doctor wrote down her response.

"and do you drink?"

"hardly ever, "

"he drinks all the time, like a fish." Again the doctor wrote peppers response and tony sent her a glare.

"and exercise?"

"oh yes, I'm am very sporty now."

"he hardly moves, and I should now I am his assistant."

the doctor smiled and tony was so annoyed by this point he was close to snapping.

"do you smoke?"

"yes." tony said, the doctor looked at pepper sensing his agitation and pepper shook her head.

"okay that's that then, so I am obliged to remind yo that if you do not take the recovery lan seriously, you will not be guaranteed a healthy future. This is very important Mr stark. Not everyone survives a serious operation like the one you have had, you are lucky."

"yes thank ... "

"thank you doctor, I will make sure he takes it seriously, thank you for your time." pepper  said and shook the doctors hand, toy had his mouth open to say something, but as soon as he saw the icy glare given to him by pepper, he decided to close it quickly and leave before something bad happened.

The doctor smiled and shook her head as the pair walked out, pepper could have been his mother and she found it quite amusing.