Iron Man and all related characters and situations are owned by Marvel Comics. This is a work of fanfiction and fanlove. Prompts are from the Pepperony 200 challenge. Which I claimed that I would not do. Now I am.

001. Stair

The idea itself was daunting. A long, uphill climb awaited them both. She had decades of experience with the man that almost guaranteed failure. He was egotistical and arrogant, controlling and manipulative. He had never given her a compelling reason to trust him. How many years had he spent telling her lies?

The chances were very good that this would ruin them. They would hook up, break up and lose the most important relationship in both of their lives.

Pepper had survived the end of the world. She would survive this. The choice was no longer hers. She loved him.