All These Places I Have Gone by odi_amo (PG-13)

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Fandom: MARVEL COMICS - Iron Man movieverse
Pairing: sort of Tony/Pepper
Length: 4,000
Author on LJ: odi_amo
Why this must be read:

An achingly gorgeous look at Tony and Pepper's relationship. The inevitability of things. The inability to breach some of the gaps that divide us and the way we keep trying, anyway. In my mind, this is what happens, yes, eventually.

Pepper knows Tony is in Cuba, because he’s puffing on a big fat cigar and the text that accompanies the picture says extremely legal. What’s not extremely legal is the Molotov cocktail he’s holding in his hand, and the shit-eating grin around the cigar clamped in his teeth. To his left is the ocean, its beach littered with trash, and to his right is a steel fence with barbed wire at the top. He’s flanked on either side by a bunch of maniacally grinning teenagers, and Pepper prepares herself for the inevitable message from SHIELD that Tony has managed to get himself arrested and executed.

Instead, he shows up two days later, and the first thing he says when the helmet comes off is, “I bet you thought I was serious.”

All These Places That I Have Gone