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Pepper was never one for games. If anybody knew her—knew her at all—they would know that she never bothered to pause and laugh at a joke or go along with their April fools prank. She would sit at a corner and observe, or she would be the one luring the victim because a colleague pleaded her to do so.

Occasionally she would put up with Tony Stark's antics and just go with it all for one reason—she loved him too much to say no.

She breathed in deeply. Yes. She loved Tony Stark very much which is why she was lying on his worktable in his workshop wearing nothing but lingerie. The man was going away for a few months, might as well give him a goodbye present.

She adjusted her position. She didn't know posing could be this hard. And where the heck was Tony? He usually lives in the very place she was in right now. She even had a hard time getting him to go out in broad daylight. But somehow, whenever she needed him, he was somewhere—somewhere only Jarvis knows (and won't tell).

She flipped her hair over on one side and stretched. She went back to her original position: sexy and enticing.

That was when she heard him.

"I'm going to the workshop right now. I don't know if—"

He was, it seemed to her, talking on the phone. Pepper smirked. Tony's going to be in for a shock.

But what greeted her wasn't Tony Stark on the phone at all; it was the entire Avengers team: Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, and Thor. This wasn't how Pepper wanted them to meet her—Iron Man's girlfriend. This wasn't how she wanted them to view her as—the half-naked girlfriend. They'd never take her seriously now!

She let out a squeal and so did the rest of the unsuspecting visitors.

"What has thy maiden—?" Thor couldn't finish the rest of his sentence as Bruce had already clamped his hand on the Asgardian's mouth.

Natasha's eyes widened as she put up hands to cover the nearest eyes she could reach, which was Clint's who was grinning widely. He pushed Natasha's hand aside, intent on seeing more.

Pepper struggled with her current position, and fell backwards to the ground.

"Pepper!" Tony cried out, rushing to her.

The other Avengers looked at each other, confused of what they had just witnessed and unsure of what to do.

"Maybe, we should, uh, leave," said Bruce but hadn't had the heart to move. His mind told him go, but his legs, well, they were pretty much disagreeing.

Natasha took off her trench coat and handed it to Tony who wrapped it around his girlfriend.

Thor let out a chuckle ("I say, women on Asgard never greet us like this."), while Clint gave Pepper a gleaming look.

"I'm sorry for the...surprise," said Tony. "Everybody, this is my girlfriend, Pepper Potts."

Pepper's cheeks turned a deep red. "Hi."

There was a chorus of hellos ("Hey, Pepper. Tony's been bragging about you in the lab.", "I say we leave the coat off, Pep.", "Stark's maiden, I am very enchanted to meet you.", "I'm sorry we had to meet you like this, ma'am.") which made the situation more embarrassing.

"I'll bring her upstairs," Natasha whispered to Tony.

He mouthed her a thank you.

As the two girls walked up the stairs, Pepper could hear Clint say "Wish I had a sight like that to greet me in my office."

And the entire male species present agreed with him.

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