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"yet turning stay" by irnan (Teen)
Fandom: The Avengers (movieverse)
Pairing: Pepperony
Length: ~4K words
Why this must be read: There's a sense in some parts of Avengers fandom that Pepper's too "good" for Tony. You know, maybe she is, but this fic is a gorgeous exploration of how thoroughly and deeply they understand each other. The focus is Pepper and how she sees the world and why, though, and every sentence is exceptional.
Gin's mother died when she was eighteen; it was a car crash. Tony has known her eight years before he becomes aware that this is a thing they have in common. Pepper knew him eight weeks before she realised why she understood him so well.
She never knows her father. Well, that's not quite true, she meets him once - after her mother's funeral - he shuffled his feet and looked guilty and said, you should come - and was interrupted by her half-sister, calling from inside the house in a high, childish voice. And to be fair, which Gin does generally try to be, he always sent money, when and where he could. He's just never done anything else
"I won't keep you," she said to him, over the call of Daddy, Daddy. "I just thought you should know she's gone, it could have taken you decades to realise it."
Gin Potts spent high school being a clever, arty kid with a head for numbers and organisational talent. The verbal bitchslap is her favourite form of self-defence, although on this occasion it comes issued with a slightly wobbly voice and a grimace that in no way resembles her usual smile.
She lets Tony call her Pepper because she likes it better than Virginia, and because she likes Miss Potts the PA better than Gin the student, or the trainee, or the youngest employee, or the intern, or the (not)orphan.
And, look: she's not just good at her job, she loves it. Pepper has a predilection for bossing people about and (as mentioned) a talent for organising things; she's uncommonly fond of hard work, not for all the reasons most people think - sure, she has issues, and sure, she's damaged in her own special ways, but she's not trying to run away from that by hiding in her job. Very much the opposite: the knowledge that she is good at her job, that people like her and respect her for being good at her job, fixes something in her she didn't realise was broken - it gives her self-confidence, it lets her smile again and mean it. College wafted by, undemanding, in a haze of grief and loneliness, but Pepper's job anchors her.
Apart from anything else she's always liked being needed and Tony -
Contrary to popular belief, Tony doesn't flirt with her. He teases and he runs his mouth off but he doesn't flirt with her.
At least, not until they've known each other for long enough that she begins to flirt back.
yet turning stay
Pairing: Pepperony
Length: ~4K words
Why this must be read: There's a sense in some parts of Avengers fandom that Pepper's too "good" for Tony. You know, maybe she is, but this fic is a gorgeous exploration of how thoroughly and deeply they understand each other. The focus is Pepper and how she sees the world and why, though, and every sentence is exceptional.
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Gin's mother died when she was eighteen; it was a car crash. Tony has known her eight years before he becomes aware that this is a thing they have in common. Pepper knew him eight weeks before she realised why she understood him so well.
She never knows her father. Well, that's not quite true, she meets him once - after her mother's funeral - he shuffled his feet and looked guilty and said, you should come - and was interrupted by her half-sister, calling from inside the house in a high, childish voice. And to be fair, which Gin does generally try to be, he always sent money, when and where he could. He's just never done anything else
"I won't keep you," she said to him, over the call of Daddy, Daddy. "I just thought you should know she's gone, it could have taken you decades to realise it."
Gin Potts spent high school being a clever, arty kid with a head for numbers and organisational talent. The verbal bitchslap is her favourite form of self-defence, although on this occasion it comes issued with a slightly wobbly voice and a grimace that in no way resembles her usual smile.
She lets Tony call her Pepper because she likes it better than Virginia, and because she likes Miss Potts the PA better than Gin the student, or the trainee, or the youngest employee, or the intern, or the (not)orphan.
And, look: she's not just good at her job, she loves it. Pepper has a predilection for bossing people about and (as mentioned) a talent for organising things; she's uncommonly fond of hard work, not for all the reasons most people think - sure, she has issues, and sure, she's damaged in her own special ways, but she's not trying to run away from that by hiding in her job. Very much the opposite: the knowledge that she is good at her job, that people like her and respect her for being good at her job, fixes something in her she didn't realise was broken - it gives her self-confidence, it lets her smile again and mean it. College wafted by, undemanding, in a haze of grief and loneliness, but Pepper's job anchors her.
Apart from anything else she's always liked being needed and Tony -
Contrary to popular belief, Tony doesn't flirt with her. He teases and he runs his mouth off but he doesn't flirt with her.
At least, not until they've known each other for long enough that she begins to flirt back.
yet turning stay