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[charring]

When; Friday night
Rating; pg, pg-13ish because Ed can be vulgar
Characters; Evil Ed, Pepper Potts and Charlie McGee
Summary; Pepper and Charlie are cooking together. Evil Ed stops by to see his girlfriend.
Log;

Charlie's at the stove, glass of wine in one hand, cooking fork in the other. She's staring into a pan, chicken carefully saute-ing inside. It's too quiet, though. Much too quiet so, wine glass set down, she reaches for her iPod and puts on something of a theme-song for Charlie and Pepper. American Woman by Lenny Kravitz starts and she grins at the older woman before pointing at the fridge.

"There's a small bowl of shredded parmesan in the fridge. Can you grab it for me?"

And then it's back to the chicken, turning it carefully. "Thanks for coming over, by the way."

Comments

[socoolbrewster]

And it's about that time that Ed knocks.

He's not exactly looking forward to this. It's not as if he eats, so it seems fairly pointless, an obvious attempt to ease at least someone into the idea -- he's kept an eye on the feeds, he knows there are many who aren't exactly thrilled about her choice. He doesn't want to do this, but she asked, and in light of the rabbit impression he pulled when he was cursed? He figures he probably owes her.

Probably.

[charring]

She knows who it is. Knows that knock exactly and grins when she hears it. The food on the stove gets covered and Charlie hurries to the door. Yes, hurries. She doesn't usually hurry to open the door, just takes her time within whatever's considered polite.

But this is Ed.

She's grinning when she answers. He's already been invited in once. She doesn't have to do it again, does she?

"Hey," Still, a subtle tilt of her head to the interior of her apartment and she steps aside to let him in. "I'm happy you're here. There's a friend of mine I want you to meet."

Because that's what people do, right? Introduce the people they're in a relationship with to the people they're friends with?

[threeolives]

Pepper watches, eyebrows raised, as Charlie bolts to the door. Obviously someone she was expecting, then. And oh, look, it's a boy. Well, a young man. Pepper puts down her wine glass and extends a hand.

"Pepper Potts, nice to meet you."

[socoolbrewster]

He pauses at the doorway anyway, as if checking to make sure the invite still stands, then steps through, an easy smile falling into place, and he shakes the offered hand when he gets close enough. He can do this, have a nice dinner, act normal or a facsimile thereof, even if the walk over is more of a prowl and he has to actively try to resist the urge to smell her.

"Same; I never thought I'd get the chance to actually meet you in person. I'm Ed."

[charring]

Charlie watches the interaction for a moment, smiling a bit nervously. This was just weird. Introducing the boyfriend to someone she considered . She really didn't think this would happen in her life. Ever.

Ed gets an arm around his waist and a half-hug. "I may have mentioned you a few dozen times, Pepper." Because she has people to brag about and to. It's the best feeling.

[threeolives]

Pepper watches Charlie with Ed, smiling at their easy closeness. She's glad to see Charlie this relaxed and happy. This Ed must be a special guy.

"Well, I hope I can live up to your expectations." She honestly hadn't expected to hear that Charlie told her friends about her. Yes, she'd talked about Charlie with other people, but they all already knew her. Strange to be the person talked about for once.