The Forgotten (2/?)

[alafemmefatale]

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time." Friedrich Nietzsche

Title: The Forgotten
Rating: R
Pairing: Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, TS/PP
Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to characters... or anything, really.
Set in the movieverse, after the first movie.  Includes a little reference to the

Comments

[shipperchick]

Oh wow, i'm loving this fic. Your writing style is deft and incisive, you are very good at saying a great deal while maintaining a spare sense in the language. The voice in this part is so very Pepper -- constrained, forcibly muted because it's 'proper, efficient, PA behaviour', and she is the perfecty proper efficient PA now, nothing like Virginia, that slightly wild and uninhibited young thing. I LOVE the idea that she has already succumbed as that other person buried in her past to Tony, and that this is part of why she is not immune, but also not receptive, to his charms/overtures now. I've tossed that idea around in my head, as I'm sure many have, but I couldn't have ever fleshed it out as wonderfully in my head as you have here; of *course* the details of their encounter are absolutely, perfectly right, but there's also the little things -- from her modeling past which sets the scene perfectly and could make her more reticent now to the fact that it was a maid (in an age pre-Jarvis and the robots) to find Pepper the next day.

I wonder: does she still have the sweatpants and wifebeater she wore home that day?

And lest we forget, in the grand old tradition of ALIAS flashbacks, something AWFUL is lurking, waiting for the flashback to end and splash us back into 'real time'. I hold my breath in anticipation!