muse_shuffle - Helpless

[lawyerlarry]

But lately I am beginning to find that // I should be the one behind the wheel.
(Incubus - ‘Drive’)

(Another for that storyline of doom with laws_of_dawes. Follows Pepper going to airport. Set day after the ball, before last nights prompt. Open thread for whoever he calls here.His fingers tightened against the steering wheel. He sat frozen in the car in

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[only_pepper]

It's 11 at night before Pepper has a chance to call Larry back. In fact, it's 11 at night before she even turns her phone back on. Hera never had her phone on during a mission -- it was distracting.

Listening to the message made Pepper's heart break a little, and she felt so bad that she wasn't able to call him then. Knowing he wouldn't care that it was late, she called him instantly.

"Larry," she said softly when he answered, "She'll be okay. Rachel will be fine."

[lawyerlarry]

His whole body relaxed at the sound of Pepper's words. "God..thank God. How is she? Really..how is she? What..what happened? What can I do? Is she awake?" He couldn't quite help the barrage of questions. His forehead went into his hand and he rubbed it.

[only_pepper]

She doesn't want to say much on the phone. At all. How do you tell someone that an explosion -- a purposeful explosion -- had been set off? That someone wanted to HURT Rachel, actually no, correct that, someone wanted to KILL her.

"She woke up. I mean, she's asleep now and..." Pepper was close to breaking down. She kept a brave front for her team, for Will, for Rachel but she's never been Hera to Larry. Or Ms. Potts. Just Pepper.

"Larry...," she catches herself from crying and just said what she was thinking, no censoring at all. "Can you come to Gotham? Now? I'll get the jet for you, or train ticket, or anything but...I need you here.. Rachel needs you.."