Last chapter.... Merry Christmas!

I OWN NOTHING

"Merry Christmas!" Pepper Potts shouted, giving her friend a giant bear hug.

"Hi Pepper, Merry Christmas." Rhodey greeted, returning the hug. When he had answered the door he had not expected Pepper. Her visit was sort of a surprise, it was Christmas and it was 10:00 PM.

"I just finished dinner with my family and I wanted to come by to say happy holidays." She explained. Rhodey gave her an odd look.

"What?" She asked. Pepper always earned these types of glances from people but she wasn't sure what she had said wrong this time.

"You had dinner this late?" Pepper rolled her eyes.

"And what's Tony doing on Christmas? Flying to houses and impersinating Santa?" Rhodey laughed out loud.

"Come in it's freezing out." Rhodey said taking note of her shivering.

"I don't really have time. I promised my dad I would be back soon. Tell Tony I'm out here I wan't to say Merry Christmas ." She said impatiently. He snickered.

"What now?"

"You just want to be alone with Tony." Rhodey teased. Pepper gasped and punched him in the shoulder.

"I do not!" She said defensively."I just wanted to be a good friend and show some kindness on Christmas!" Rhodey kept laughing but he went inside to get Tony anyways.

Pepper stood there alone on the front porch, thinking about what Rhodey had said.

She did just want to be alone with Tony. Rhodey couldn't know that though, it would be too embarassing. Pepper had likd Tony almost from the moment she had met him. But then she had started liking Gene and those feelings had sort of drifted. It had been two weeks since Gene had made his unexpected appearance, and those feelings for Tony had been resurfacing.

"Hey Pepper." A smooth and easy going voice startled Pepper out of her internal babble. She looked up and was staring into Tony's smiling face.

"Merry Christmas!" She gave Tony the same hug she had given Rhodey. When she let go he looked down at her with a concerned expression.

"You came here this late, all alone?" He questioned. Pepper rolled her eyes. Tony had been treating her like some pathetic three year old for the past two weeks. He would insist on calling her early in the morning before school to "make sure she didn't sleep in" but when vacation came he had to stop using that excuse. After school he would tag along with her until she went home and he would call her right when she walked in her front door. He would constantly call her and text her before she went to bed, and Pepper was sick of it.

"I'm a big girl, I can take care of myself." She said sticking her nose in the air. Tony snorted and she hit him. She turned her back to him and stared up at the sky. Snow was falling very slowly but very heavily. The sky was so black Pepper thought she might fall into it. Like the night she had almost been killed it looked very strange, the pitch black sky spitting up thousands of snowflakes a second.

"I don't think that every snowflake could be different." Pepper said. Tony blinked a few times, that was random.

"Well, why not?" He asked.

"Just look how many there are! Imagine how many snowflakes have ever fallen! It's insane to think that two couldn't be the same!" She rambled on. Tony chuckled. That was Pepper. She didn't have a care in the world and Tony loved that about her. He went to stand next to her and looked down at her face. She was staring at the sky in awe, she looked deep in thought.

"Pepper?" Tony said, getting her attention. She turned her head turned towards him but her eyes still lingered on the falling snow.

"I'm so sorry you were almost hurt." That shocked her out of her wandering mind. She looked up at him in confusion. Pepper and Tony had already had the whole, "It was my fault you were hurt", battle. She had ended up winning by saying that if he didn't stop blaming himself she would jump in front of a subway.

"I'm fine, I thought we were done with that-"

"Pepper I know but what if you weren't fine? What if you had died?" He aksed her suddenly. He expected an answer, so she gave him one.

"I would either be in hell boiling in a cauldron for hacking into my dad's computer so many times and thinking of ways to kill Whitney, or, I'd be in heaven, swaying in a hammock sipping coconut juice out of a coconut next to some ocean or whatever they have up there." She said jokingly. Tony stared at her shocked. Pepper started laughing.

"That was not funny." he dead-panned.

"It totally was!" Pepper laughed. "You should see you're face-"

"Pepper can't you ever be serious!?" He snapped. Pepper sighed with a smile on her face and looked back up at the sky.

"Tony, hasn't anyone ever told you, life is to important to be taken seriously." She murmured. Tony thought about that for a second.

"That makes no sense." He said. Pepper just kept staring up at the sky.

"Sure it does." Pepper insisted. She felt a buzzing in her pocket and took out her phone.

"It's my dad. Listen I have to go." She said turning to him. "I'll see you later, and will you please stop calling me? It's getting really annoying."

"Doubt it." Tony ansewered with a sly smile. "Merry Christmas." He hugged her and she started down the stairs. She turned around one more time to wave bye. Tony waved back and watched her until she was in a cab and on her way towards her house.

"Love you..." Tony mumbled so quietly, he himslef didn't even hear it.

Yay!! My first story complete! REVIEW!! I have another story coming along so keep on checking fanfiction!! Good Night folks!! (walks off stage. Crowd is applauding and shouting.) Life is to important to be taken seriously is a quote from Oscar Wilde. It is one of my favorites.