<div class="floatleft">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/Shalymar/Avatars/KissingPepperandTony2.jpg)</div><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 15pt;"><strong>Name:</strong> Pepper Potts<br/><strong>Title:</strong> Chairman &amp; CEO of Stark Industries<br/><strong>Location:</strong> Tony's Personal Lab<br/><strong>Time:</strong> 7:14 PM Thursday<br/><strong>Tags:</strong> Tony Starks</span></span><br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Every defining moment in the past decade of their lives, had been celebrated or mourned together. It had been those moments that had changed them both and had prepared them for this moment. This was their time now. In so many ways, what they had was a stronger and deeper connection than most people would ever get to experience in their lives. They played to their strengths and complimented each other, creating a balance, an understanding foreign to anyone outside the two of them. Tony deferred to her, looked to her for some sort of guidance, direction of his conscious and moral compass. He made her see things outside the box, and when it came to the two of them, it was Pepper who turned to Tony for her cues, for a foothold with their building emotions and budding relationship, for anything that would keep her from completely falling away.<br/><br/>People didn't often get or understand Tony, Pepper did. She saw past the walls, the sarcasm, the bullshit and plugged directly into the man underneath. Saw what made him vulnerable, and called him out when he got full of himself. No one, absolutely no one understood Tony like she did. Though both of them had a tendency to over think things. It was the nature of who they were, but it worked in so many areas of their lives, and yes even caused complications in some of the others. But it was a balance that worked. But here and now, there was no room for analysis. This was raw, real and there was no thinking what-so-ever. For once, it was their emotions carving out the path in front of them.<br/><br/>So when he lifted her in his arms, the sound of the contents of his desk crashing to the floor had almost been dream like, and the coolness of the desk came as a little shock to her heated flesh. Her heart was pounding wildly in her chest and she pulled her lips from his for only a moment to catch her breath. Pepper buried her head in his arm, kissed the flesh of his muscle. She felt a rippling tingle of pleasure that coursed from her lips, to her neck and down her spine. She peppered his arm and chest with kisses, nibbling at him like a small bird in a field of Milo. His lips set off small fires, and sent waves of heat into her loins. <br/><br/>Slowly she lifted her head from the crook of his arm and looked at him as she watched him open his mouth to speak. His eyes expressed the words his lips hadn't formed. So when all that came out of his mouth was her name, Pepper smiled and ran her hands over his cheek, pressing quick passionate butterfly kisses to his lips, cheeks, temple then back again. There was nothing holding them back now. <br/><br/>Pepper kissed him again, letting her arms and legs encircle his neck and waist drawing him closer to her. Her breath rushed and whispered against his lips. <strong>"I know Tony... I know."</strong> She kissed him one last time before she looked him deeply in the eyes and held his gaze for a very long moment right before his lips assaulted her neck and her senses. <br/><br/>Pepper let out a soft cry of pleasure as he all but marked her. A declaration of intent and meaning that was not lost on her. Her fingers laced into his hair, nails biting at his skin. <strong>"I love you too."</strong> Pepper said in response, each word spoken slowly, and more than a decade in the making.</span></span></div>