Heart •IronMan 1+2

Part Two

A/N:

Aw, Yeah! Iron Man two ladies and gents! I love this movie lol!

Enjoy!

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Arabella Laker scrunched up her face yanking her tennis shoes off. "Tony! I'm back!"

"In here!" He shouted back. She grinned before heading into the living room. Her fingers pulled on her ponytail letting her hair tumble down the back of her scrubs. Tony looked up as she walked in, instantly holding out a hand towards her. "Hey, babe."

"Hi," Bella blushed. She still wasn't entirely used to being back together with him. "How'd the trial go? I didn't get to see it."

Tony shrugged and pressed a kiss to the side of her head. "I think it went pretty well."

"I'll ask Pepper. Your blood toxicity levels still going up?" Tony let out a deep breath he didn't know he'd been holding in and looked away. "They are, aren't they? Tony, you need to go to a hospital. Get that thing removed," she tapped the arc reactor in his chest, "chlorophyll won't work forever."

It was quiet for a moment. Nothing but static between the couple.

"I made Pepper CEO," Tony stated out of the blue. Bella blinked for a moment, staring at him.

"You did? Damn."

"Move in with me." Tony grabbed her hand and tugged her closer. His fingers laced through her's and squeezed.

Bella frowned glancing over the glass coffee table. "Tony, have you been drinking?"

"What? No, no, I'm being serious. Move in with me," Tony laughed shaking his head. "You're already here all the time it would just be bringing your clothes over."

"And all of my books, and baggage, and all the shit that comes with living together," Bella panicked. Tony quickly catches her hands in his and presses a kiss to her lips.

"And that's okay," he soothed brushing his fingers through her hair. "So what do you think?"

Bella let out a deep sigh feeling his hands come up to cup her jaw. Her blue eyes flickered over his face. Watching for anything that would tell her he was kidding. Instead she got a slight quirk of the lips and a flash of sadness. "Okay," she breathed.

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Bella glanced up every once in awhile carefully lifeguarding the sparring match between Tony and Happy. Her book was far more interesting but she was the doctor and she had agreed. It wasn't her favorite way to spend her day off but she couldn't really complain.

"The notary's here!" Pepper bustled in casting a bright-eyed look across the room. "Can you please sign the transfer paperwork?"

Tony barely payed her a glance. "I'm on Happy time." He spun around accidentally hitting Happy in the face with his elbow. "Sorry."

"What the hell was that?" Happy clutched at his face.

"It's called mixed martial arts. It's been around for three weeks now," Tony sent Bella a wink.

She rolled her eyes with a laugh. "No, that's just dirty boxing." Happy gave her a nod and she tipped her head towards him adjusting herself in her seat.

"All right, put them up. Come on." Tony lowered down to a fighting stance his hands in front of his face.

Pepper sighed sharing a look with Bella, "I promise this is the only time I will ask you to sign over your company."

Bella's eye's caught on a pretty red head that had followed Pepper in. Green eyes flashed brightly on blue as the two scanned over one another.

Tony turned to face her as the door opened. A frown crossed his face briefly and he caught Bella watching the red head.

"I need you to initial each box," the notary said tearing her eyes away from Bella to look at Pepper.

There was something about the girl that Bella recognized. Something about the way she held herself brought back memories of a woman Howard Stark described to Tony nearly every time he talked about Captain America.

A loud thump brought her back to reality and she flickered her eyes over to Happy, who leaned in the corner of the ring.

"That's it. I'm done," Tony peeled his gloves off and leaned against the ropes, chugging green liquid out of a water bottle. "Whats your name, Lady?"

"Rushman. Natalie Rushman." The red head smiled at him and glanced back at Bella.

"Front and center. Come into the church." Tony gestured to the ring. Pepper frowned looking to Bella, who still stared at Natalie like she knew her.

"No. You're not seriously gonna ask..." she trailed off shaking her head. Natalie made a face and Bella looked away.

"If it pleases the court, which it does," Tony said looking toward Bella. The blonde smiled closing her book and setting beside her.

Pepper scoffed. "I'm sorry. He's very eccentric." Natalie nodded with a small smile heading towards the ring.

Bella furrowed her brows as Tony ducked out of the ring asking Happy to give Natalie a lesson. "Pepper, who is she?" He asked.

"She is from legal, and she is potentially a very expensive sexual harassment lawsuit if you keep ogling her like that." Pepper flicked his arm harshly. Tony scowled at her after receiving an arched brow from Bella.

"I'm not ogling. I'm curious," he shrugged tapping away at their table with his free hand. "How do I spell your name, Natalie?"

She looked toward the trio before turning back to Happy. Her green eyes flashed dangerously at the couple before she covered it with a sweet smile. "R-U-S-H-M-A-N," she smiled flickering her eyes at Happy.

"Tony," Bella chided. "Don't Google her."

Tony flicked his fingers at her. "She's fluent in French, Italian, Russian, and Latin. Who speaks Latin?"

"No one speaks Latin." Pepper made a face as Tony repeated her words. The strawberry blonde shook her head.

"It's a dead language. Only people who speak it are witches, hipsters, and doctors. Even then they aren't fluent," Bella finished watching the lesson closely now. This chick didn't add up.

"I need her. She's got everything I need."

Happy continued to coach Natalie through the basics of a boxing match, going to swing at her when her eyes weren't on him. Instead of making light contact with her shoulder she grabbed onto his arm and flipped him over her shoulder, legs over head.

"Oh my god!" Bella and Pepper both shouted at the same time when they hit the ground. "Happy!" Pepper exclaimed leaning forward against her knees.

"That was amazing," Bella laughed. Her fingers griped onto the arm of her chair and Tony's arm.

He grinned moving so their fingers were laced together instead. "That's what I'm talking about!"

Happy, from the floor of the ring, groaned: "I just slipped."

Bella and Tony shared a look and then looked to Happy. "You did?" "Sure."

"Yeah," Happy sounded like he was in pain.

"Looks like a TKO to me." Tony leaned forward and rang the bell on the side of the ring.