Girl On Fire

Pepper Potts in Rescue 2020

“Wanda? What are you doing up?” Pepper remarks feeling internally panicked that maybe she had gotten too comfortable with there abilities. 

“Oh I mean that can be easily sorted out,” She shrugged. Maybe it was the business woman in her that quickly sorted out the licenses and trademarks over Iron-Man when Tony first came out of the woodwork and quietly ensured that the money was being put towards charitable things on products that licensed out.  Children felt warmly to those of a positive role model. “You don’t wanna know how many accidental fires I’ve started. Or the one afternoon I locked myself in my office on accident because I pulled the handle off and had to have maintenance come up to install a new door. Tony’s been helpful, I don’t think he ever assumed he’d have to be the calm one to talk me off my hysterical screaming.  But I suppose after twenty years, he owes me a few.” 

4 July 1804

“Wanda? What are you doing up?” Pepper remarks feeling internally panicked that maybe she had gotten too comfortable with there abilities. 

Differentiating between Iron-man and Tony Stark felt like a constant battle with Tony for Pepper. Because most of the heroes were much more than their heroic  persona in Pepper’s eyes at least. “I know it’s not as cut and dry as my beloved Tin-can man, but your magic? It’s what’s up there that counts, that’s what drives you not the arm flailing or the red stuff,” She shrugs as the wisp of a flame danced around the flickers of red magic stuff before simply just giving out. Pepper gave a tired sigh,”It makes for a very lame party trick right now or a very convenient lighter.”  “They usually tend to be afraid because they haven’t humanized you, or connected the idea that you’re just a person too with fears and dreams and family and a life. It’s a hard question, but who do you want to be” It was a hard question that she wrestled with herself. So long she had been the no-nonsense assistant that seemingly had the abilities of precognition to know when Tony was going to fuck up and close a deal regardless if her boss was there. Somehow that evolved into the esteemed CEO of tech company that was genuinely trying to make good in the world while still remaining with more money than many socialists wanted them to have. Few government agencies and select questionable people in the less favorable circles also knew that she wasn’t a woman to be fucked with, but that was between herself and her board members.  “To be fair, no one is Tony Stark who knows how to work the press since birth. That was part of the endless Howard Stark’s terrible parenting package. Which isn’t at all the plans for well,” Pepper awkwardly gestured toward her stomach,”It can be learned to a degree. God knows, I did. But I’m not nearly as cruel as Tony and the PR department who made it trial by fire. If I had a dollar for every page 6 tabloid from the past twenty years that said I was only here because I slept with him? I’d probably have billion myself from that. ”

“Wanda? What are you doing up?” Pepper remarks feeling internally panicked that maybe she had gotten too comfortable with there abilities. 

There was never genuinely bad egg in the Avengers. Their intentions were genuinely good and pure, but the actions taken to get from point A to D were... needing better execution. “You don’t have to even use your powers,” She twirled the fire with her finger,”Something small and grounded would be good for you. I know, Steve’s wander off and done some habitat for humanity projects. Tony slips out on me every Christmas morning, he has his routine dropping by children’s hospitals. Not everything haas to be about the Scarlet Witch, because Wanda Maximoff seem pretty lovely herself.” Everyone saw the writing on the walls of the pending nuptials long before Tony and Pepper started dating when Tony had give Pepper the chairwoman’s position for the Maria Stark foundation and Pepper’s utmost devotion to the various causes they helped with it. She felt like Tony needed her every once in a while to pull him off his high horse and remind him that he’s Tony Stark first. Tony Stark is the man who got himself out of a cave. Tony Stark was the idiot at night that had to work up the courage to make them work. “Well one certainly influence those fears, but I advise you to always have a plan of attack,” What people forgot about Pepper was that she learned the tools of the trade from Tony. The perception of them was everything and it was calculated, but Pepper knew how to get what she wanted from the media, other companies and the public with a few graceful steps. “There was one point in my youth that disturbed me about the news. Rupert Murdock as terrible as man as he was, had a point. The news is what the talking heads say the news is.  You have a say in what goes out into the world by your actions, Wanda. How other people see it? That just depends how your  friends see you.Personally, I see a young woman who wants to do good and you just don’t know how to do it.” 

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“Wanda? What are you doing up?” Pepper remarks feeling internally panicked that maybe she had gotten too comfortable with there abilities. 

Clutching her hand and then opening to reveal the small flame once more,”I don’t want to let these things like powers control me or be the single thing people see me for. People  should just be people.” 

“Wanda? What are you doing up?” Pepper remarks feeling internally panicked that maybe she had gotten too comfortable with there abilities. 

Peace was the fairytale ending they all were sold as children right? Contentment with world, inner peace? Even she struggled with the idea if that would be enough. “Sokovia is very different from America. I could understand the differences might be vast,” She contemplates aloud. America privilege was still vastly different from many other less developed nations. God knows, Tony and her were the epitome of privilege in the country as ashamed of she was about it. “I’m glad everything is settling in.” 

“Neither are the press,” She chuckled as she took a sip of the boiling tea. Volatile was Tony’s middle name. Mercurial moods and how to work with that was the name of her game.  “I genuinely do. Who do you think was the architect behind making one  the swiftest pivots in business history. He went from the merchant of death to beloved super hero and  leading champion of peace and green energy in under a decade. But it’s just the matter if you’re ready for that change..”  It wasn’t that she was smug about that fact, but remarkably proud  of everything they had accomplished in the last decade.  “Truth be told I didn’t even want the CEO job in the first place,” It was one the few things she genuinely had never pushed for or even aspired to doing. That wasn’t to say she didn’t do it with the same amount of focus or care, but that now extended to the whole of the company on a daily basis. “But it’s good for me. You do help people and you’ve been getting the support you need here. But it’s not a forever gig, we’re all still mortal. Except maybe for Steve or Thor. You think I don’t spend every moment fretting over  Tony? Or the idea that I might end up a single parent. He’s getting there and there seems to be younger heroes every day that maybe. Just maybe, we’ll have that quiet life. Or as quiet as our life can be. But what I’m saying is. I want that for all of you. The world can’t force you guys to be the mightiest heroes until you’re dead. You’re  more than that.” 

They had small army of well paid people who were from all accounts amongst the best and brightest in their field. Everyone knew that no two days at Stark Industries were alike with the owner being Tony Stark and his beloved promoted PA to CEO. No one was ever bored. “It sounds incredibly shallow, I know. Trust me, I know. But it can curtail a good deal of the optics of how you’re viewed and bring you into a positive light. It’s not magic, but you know it’s a good starting point,” She takes another sip. “Tabloids are just idiots who’ll do things to make a living, I can’t fault them for that. Everyone deserves a roof over their head. But like it or not, you’re in the public eye. Not even public adjacent. Give them a little, and let the lawyers carefully threaten them. And they’ll be happy for even a second of time. Trust me, I would prefer nothing more than to be a happy homebody and never attend any galas or even go out. But I knew taking my job wouldn’t allow me that and even less so being engaged to him. But sometimes you can use that light to bounce onto things that you believe in that as dumb as it is could use the attention.”  Setting the cup down on the counter. Tony knowing now was good. Healthy even. Anything that wasn’t full transparency hurt them in the end, they both knew that worst of all theses days. “But it wasn’t right to hide something that probably could of thrown a bigger wrench into our relationship. Everything that was going on before. I felt like I was in the way,” She shrugged,”Carol know. She might have helped me not have an incident at Thor’s Halloween thing. Bruce. That’s about it. Despite Nat’s gossiping that Tony built me a suit, I have no intention of doing everything and avenging.” 

She didn’t admit to knowing Wanda well enough to investigate into her love life, but she knew the girl deserved some happily ever after.  Sipping the scorching hot tea before placing it down once more. “I know I am. He really loves me and some days I feel like I don’t deserve such an intensity from him. But he gets me and I regret not telling him sooner about.”  She gestures vaguely as the flame erupts.”Whatever this is.”’ 

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