ext_2286 ([identity profile] cupidsbow.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2008-11-11 10:50 pm

Grease-stained by nekare (PG-13)

Fandom: MARVEL: IRON MAN (Movie)
Pairing: Tony Stark/Pepper Potts
Length: 4,600 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] nekare
Author Website: Fic tag
Why this must be read: Oh, this is gorgeously done. An angsty, beautifully written cross-section of Tony and Pepper being dysfunctional and co-dependant.


Four months after he first dons the suit, he sleeps with Pepper.

He knows what the first thing she says in the morning is because he’s there, because
he’s still lying on the bed next to her, wide awake, because this is something, whatever it might be. And then he knows it’s all gone to hell because what she says is, Oh, fuck, and he has never heard her swear before in all the time he’s known her.

He says,
God, I was so drunk, loudly, to give her a chance to escape, and he’s somewhat disappointed when she takes it, when she says, No more than I was, and gets dressed and leaves without looking him in the eye.

Grease-stained