Truth is... I'm a Stark

A feeling you can't trace

2 months later and Pepper (yes, the name had stuck, much to her chagrin) was still working as Tony Stark's PA. This came as a surprise to Happy, who Pepper had since reconciled with on the account that she would no longer bring her pepper spray into work, Colonel Rhodes, whom Tony insisted on calling Rhodey and even Tony himself, seeing as PA's 1-6 had all quit within weeks, giving Pepper a lead by a solid month. 'Lucky PA number 7' Tony claimed. Pepper was also surprised she had managed to put up with Stark for so long because, well, that man was infuriating. Every time she was in the same room as him she felt pure unbridled rage, well that, and a feeling she couldn't trace.

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Tony Stark was fully aware that many people found him annoying, it was part of his act. The young genius was proud to say, he had perfected the loveable jerk routine: enough snarky comments and one night stands for people to assume he was kind of a douchebag but enough charity work for people to believe he had a heart. The perfect act so no one would look deeper and suspect he was anything more than your average genius, billionaire, play-boy, philanthropist. Very few people had managed to break down the walls and he liked it that way. He didn't like a lot of people and a lot of people didn't like him. So if you had told him a few months ago that he would like {Read: be infatuated with} his personal assistant, he would've laughed in your face. But Pepper, Pepper was different; she rejected all his advances to a point where Tony had stopped trying, she was independent, graceful and unwilling to put up with all of Tony's antics, unlike poor PA number 4 who had no backbone whatsoever. Tony respected her, she reminded him of his beloved Aunt Peggy. Every time Pepper was in the same room as Tony, he felt entertained watching her try to hide her annoyance at his behaviour: from the flaring of her nostrils to the twitch of her right eyebrow. Tony felt amused while trying to break his assistant's composure, well that and a feeling he couldn't trace.
                     
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Pepper had been trying to convince Tony to leave his lab for the last 46 minutes and 32 seconds (yes, she was counting). Excuses of '5 more minutes' or 'I just need to finish this final part' had long since been forgotten and now the mechanic was blatantly ignoring the woman, while she glared daggers at his head from behind. Tony was working his assistant's last nerve and he knew it; the eyebrow twitching was a lot more noticeable. But Tony Stark never did well in silence, so when he decided that he had enough, he got up
and stood in front of her, looking into her eyes. "Am I bothering you Ms Potts?" he asked, though he already knew the answer. However, this time, gazing into Pepper's eyes, he didn't feel amused while trying to annoy her; that other feeling was back.
Tony Stark was no shy man, so when he felt overcome with this emotion he made his move. He kissed Pepper.
Now Pepper Potts was not one for romance: she had more important things to focus on, like her family and her career. But when she stared into her boss's dark brown eyes, she was finally able to trace what she was feeling. It was love. So when Tony kissed her, instead of slapping him, or running away like many would expect her too. She kissed him back, then she kissed him and kissed him and kissed him.
{AN: so how was this chapter? Please comment and vote! Sorry if the romance is cringey}