Pepperony #70 - Friends
Title: Oh, Grow up.
Theme: #70 - Friends
Rating: PG
Length: 422 Words
Summary: Tony needs to start listening to adult music, because Pepper is no longer impressed.
Warnings: Borderline ridiculous. I have no excuse.
“And once again, you make me question myself-“ Rhodes is saying, never glancing up from his newspaper.
“Your sexuality?” Tony Stark interjects, leaning back in his desk chair with a classic Tony grin on his face.
“-and I wonder,” Rhodes continues, ignoring Tony’s remark, “why I’m still friends with you.”
“Technically, we’re not friends,” Tony says, leaning forward, his finger hovering over the intercom. “You’re my liaison.”
Rhodes lowers the newspaper, genuinely hurt. “You don’t consider us friends?”
“Miss Potts, could you come here, please,” Tony says into the intercom, shutting it off before Pepper can say, “Yes, Mr. Stark.”
“You were wondering why we were still friends,” Tony explains, sitting back again. “I was giving you an out.”
“I don’t need you to give me an out.”
“A freebie. Take it while you can, I hate handing out freebies.”
“I don’t need your charity,” Rhodes says and Pepper walks into the office, asking, “How may I help you, Mr. Stark?”
“Miss Potts,” Tony simply says.
“Yes, Mr. Stark?”
Tony’s grin grows like a Cheshire cat’s and Rhodes rolls his eyes and goes back to his newspaper.
“What would you do if I told you that you make me want to ‘la-la’?” Tony asks.
Pepper blinks and her eyebrows furrow together as she thinks about it. It’s not often that Tony’s able to throw her off, but it’s clear that he’s thrown a curveball when she was expecting a serve.
It doesn’t last, and she’s able to clear her throat and say, “I would tell you that you simply can’t afford another office related sexual harassment charge, Obadiah is the only reason you haven’t permanently lost your security clearance in the building and I don’t think he’d be willing to stand up against to the board for you again. I would also tell you that you’re much too old to be listening to Ashlee Simpson.”
Tony’s smile hasn’t shrunk at all. “Is that all, Miss Potts?”
Pepper considers, then answers, “Yes.”
“You make me want to ‘la-la’, Miss Potts,” he deadpans.
Pepper glances to Rhodes for help, who simply shrugs and says, “He’s not my friend.”
After a moment of Pepper staring in disbelief, of Tony grinning, of Rhodes trying his hardest not to laugh, Pepper says, “Will that be all, Mr. Stark?”
“That will be all, Miss Potts.”
When Tony’s security card denies him access to the building the next day, he stands in the lobby and laughs like a hyena until Rhodes appears to sign him in as a guest.
Theme: #70 - Friends
Rating: PG
Length: 422 Words
Summary: Tony needs to start listening to adult music, because Pepper is no longer impressed.
Warnings: Borderline ridiculous. I have no excuse.
“And once again, you make me question myself-“ Rhodes is saying, never glancing up from his newspaper.
“Your sexuality?” Tony Stark interjects, leaning back in his desk chair with a classic Tony grin on his face.
“-and I wonder,” Rhodes continues, ignoring Tony’s remark, “why I’m still friends with you.”
“Technically, we’re not friends,” Tony says, leaning forward, his finger hovering over the intercom. “You’re my liaison.”
Rhodes lowers the newspaper, genuinely hurt. “You don’t consider us friends?”
“Miss Potts, could you come here, please,” Tony says into the intercom, shutting it off before Pepper can say, “Yes, Mr. Stark.”
“You were wondering why we were still friends,” Tony explains, sitting back again. “I was giving you an out.”
“I don’t need you to give me an out.”
“A freebie. Take it while you can, I hate handing out freebies.”
“I don’t need your charity,” Rhodes says and Pepper walks into the office, asking, “How may I help you, Mr. Stark?”
“Miss Potts,” Tony simply says.
“Yes, Mr. Stark?”
Tony’s grin grows like a Cheshire cat’s and Rhodes rolls his eyes and goes back to his newspaper.
“What would you do if I told you that you make me want to ‘la-la’?” Tony asks.
Pepper blinks and her eyebrows furrow together as she thinks about it. It’s not often that Tony’s able to throw her off, but it’s clear that he’s thrown a curveball when she was expecting a serve.
It doesn’t last, and she’s able to clear her throat and say, “I would tell you that you simply can’t afford another office related sexual harassment charge, Obadiah is the only reason you haven’t permanently lost your security clearance in the building and I don’t think he’d be willing to stand up against to the board for you again. I would also tell you that you’re much too old to be listening to Ashlee Simpson.”
Tony’s smile hasn’t shrunk at all. “Is that all, Miss Potts?”
Pepper considers, then answers, “Yes.”
“You make me want to ‘la-la’, Miss Potts,” he deadpans.
Pepper glances to Rhodes for help, who simply shrugs and says, “He’s not my friend.”
After a moment of Pepper staring in disbelief, of Tony grinning, of Rhodes trying his hardest not to laugh, Pepper says, “Will that be all, Mr. Stark?”
“That will be all, Miss Potts.”
When Tony’s security card denies him access to the building the next day, he stands in the lobby and laughs like a hyena until Rhodes appears to sign him in as a guest.