#ppctts

[wormholxtreme]

@ppctts | for something stupid iunno

"Is there a reason you were skulking around the lab at 3am?"

[torxnn]

@ppctts plotted starter

The past 24 hours have been a complete whirlwind for Tory, from her and her adoptive brothers being sent from their universe to this one and seeing all the people who have passed away in their world, be alive in this one. Especially seeing Pepper, it was like looking at a ghost for her, as she had been the closest with the redhead out of all the avengers and their respected partners. Torunn had gone into complete shock and found herself becoming mute.

However the shock as now worn off and she now needs to ask Pepper a favour, so she starts walking around the facility, until she spots her. "Hi Pepper..." Tory begins, to grab the older woman's attention. "Yesterday, you said to ask, if I needed something and well... I need some clothes..."

[expositicn]

❛ Nothing good is ever easy. ❜ @ppctts

"is anything easy ever good?" it was beginning to seem impossible to secure a true win. "i mean just one thing would be great. except it's like i'm asking to buy a lottery ticket and win first time. although i read that actually happened to a kid in ireland-"

[clochanam]

it's not their fault, even if the universe insists that it is. hangovers fade to dull and persistent headaches, and somehow the usual bacon and eggs don't tickle her fancy. so instead, she appeals to her sweet tooth. fresh squeezed orange juice settles in a frosted glass. she grates the remaining zest into a bowl of waffle batter, stirring with a pinch of cinnamon and a generous spoon of brown sugar. in a separate pan, crispy strips of bacon sizzle, coffee bubbles in a pot, and cinnamon rolls soak up a crown of orange icing. carbs, caffeine and citrus. the perfect solution.

where did you learn to cook?

as she spoons the batter into the waffle iron, chewing a strip of bacon while sliding the jug of orange juice over to @ppctts, pepper's curiosity prompts a grin, and she takes a quick gulp of coffee before commencing with her saga.

" stanley taught me. he figured i had nowhere to go, but i kept trying to leave out of guilt for taking up their apartment. so he made a deal. he needed someone working in the diner while new york got rebuilt. he'd train me, teach me whatever i needed to know, and i could stay here. it was a load of shite. we both knew it. but we both needed it, so we shook hands. twelve years later, he still makes a better chilli than me, but i'm happy to let him keep the secret! cinnamon roll? "

[cardiomyapathy]

@ppctts

" You look gorgeous today. Absolutely radiant, love.

Hey, do you think I can get me one of those mech suits? "

[ravarui]

// @alyafae @fortislumen @ppctts and me on our way to support and hype up each others posts like:

[emeraldbuilt]

One by one, the constructs created by the ring began to fade away. The guns used to fire lethal rounds and the bullet shells that had fallen at his feet during the confrontation. Until the only remaining light was the personal force field the ring continued to project.

A hand clapped down on @ppctts's armored shoulder as she spoke. "Nothing like a near-death experience to get the blood pumping."

"Nothing like a near-death experience to show out a little, too. You handle that suit fairly well. Wouldn't mind getting to see you in action more."

ACCEPTING MEMES

[wormholxtreme]

@ppctts | For More Peppy Stuff

The last few months Happy had felt lost without her by his side. The heartbreak he felt when yet another attempt at saying their vows was ruined, this time not by some villain hoping to crash the super star-studded event but by Pepper herself running from the church.

He knew the time spent in Pennsylvania, the time spent with his mother was trying, but he never thought she'd leave him standing dumbfounded at the alter. Maybe the crowd was too much. Maybe she was just worried about another attack. There were any number of reasons she needed a moment but that didn't mean she didn't want him right?

At least that's what he thought when he pulled the car around and told her to jump in. Only Pepper didn't say the words he wanted to hear. Instead, all of her worries poured out like a volcano. Every reason they shouldn't be together, ranging from their work to the fact they'd lost so much just trying to keep in each other's arms. Nothing they did ever changed the outcome and in her mind, the outcome was they were not meant to be together.

Happy knew better. He knew there were no guarantees in this life but it's those little moments that brought happiness and peace that were worth fighting for. Come Monday she'd realize her mistake and come running back to him.

Only she didn't. And who was there to pick up the pieces in the wake of their ruined wedding but the one and only Tony Stark. He saw them grow closer in the weeks after the wedding. He saw how she dotted on him, how she watched over him. There wasn't much that set Happy off, but Tony, despite their friendship, was a point of contention in his relationship with Pepper. And the fact that Tony knew about the miscarriage before Happy even knew about the baby's existence, cut like a knife in his chest.

It took him time to come to terms with Pepper's decisions. He didn't agree with them, but he knew her better than most. Every decision she made was always right in her heart even if it wasn't right in the aftermath. And for the first time, he showed her how hurt he was. He showed her the side of him he kept hidden away. Not as a tactic, but as a way to fight for her love.

And now they were back at work, giving each other side smiles, the secret of their affair only meant for each other at this point in time. Well, each other, and their couple's therapist.

Happy held the door open for her, nodding with a slight smile. He leaned over her shoulder as she passed. "Good Morning Mrs. Hogan." he whispered politely in her ear. "What's on the agenda for today?"

[lookedinfinite]

[ HANG OUT ]: sender arrives at the receiver's house to hang out with them for the day. from @ppctts

how long has it been?  promises that, someday, when they both have the time... yet there's never actually time. they're both so busy: buried in their responsibilities, in trying to juggle what feels like a hundred jobs and lives at once.  (bobby was good at it, at cutting her off from her life and her friends. but even before that - she never had the time to come out of shiny shell.)  

learning to be more than just her smarts - to be anything resembling longterm or permanent - had never been easy.

"pep." bright smile came as she opened the door, petite woman beaming as she quickly stepped aside to let other in. "I'm sorry most of my stuff is still in boxes. well, what little remains." her mother wasn't the sentimental sort - with her in a coma, she'd only really held onto boxes of books, the majority of maeve's things sold or given away. apartment white and very open plan, only a few boxes shoved into a neat corner near large chinchilla cage and velvet orange couch. "I have tea or wine in."

[ir0nheir]

homecooked meals had become a bit of a RARE occasion for jay. that made sense ... while he knew how , he'd been so wrapped up in his latest PROJECT , that by the time he remembered eating was important ... it always made more sense to just order something and call it a day. he DID miss those meals that took time to make so the enjoyment was better. just like when he finished something he'd been slaving over for his suit. there's a smile on his features. the invitation taking him back to younger years of his childhood when that had been more common place for him.

@ppctts // " let me cook for you at least. "

" now ya see THAT ... that sounds like a plan. " it wasn't like he was BUSY , hence him deciding to pay a visit to the woman who probably knew him as well as his dad. lord knew he spent ENOUGH time running around underfoot as a kid for her to at least get relatively close to the young man he was now. " been a while since i actually cooked somethin ... want some help? "

[insidemyblood]

tony gets married pepper & rhodey: brother ew. what's that brother?

"First of all, Rhodes was in jail and I was trying to get him out... That's how it happened. I just wanted to help?

We had to make it look good, real good, keep up some appearances in front of some dangerous people. Me and Hazel, well not Hazel, Emma. And I had a lifetime of experience faking it til you make it. Then she said "go for it" so we went for it, and I mean we really went for it by going to Vegas...

That's short version of it, at least." @ppctts

[clochanam]

I need Aisling's timeline for dummies. Cause I am a dummy who wants to learn more about her ❤️

u are NOT a dummy, ur responsible for every smart choice i've ever made and ever will make in my life, and yet the length of this timeline is horrifying and i can only apologize for that. ily!

here's the aisling jones timeline, from birth to the moment she set foot in new york and met stanley and richard in 2012!

moira spends 500 years trying to gain more power, specifically the power of the soul stone. she meets an irish farmer who recently inherited a magically imbued area of land and properties from his grandfather, unaware of the power that dwells in his acquisitions. moira seduces and marries colin lynch, they have many children, one of whom is aisling jones.

november 29th 1991: aisling is born, moira tries to use a map discovered and developed by lucia (@fortislumen) to bring herself to vormir in time for the birth, but fails, forced to use dark magic to make the deal in the estate, but the soul stone pulls an uno reverse and chooses newborn baby aisling as the hostess, leaving moira without the power she's been searching for the last half a millennium.

november 28th, 1996: aisling's siblings have all taken it on themselves to provide aisling with the love and protection that moira would never dream of giving her kids. moira launches an ambush on the farmhouse where the family has been living. colin dies, the children remain a mystery, but dr. ajay kapoor (a renowned psychologist and new expert in the mystic arts) casts a spell that affects the memories of three of the sisters, aisling being one of them, and siobhan and niamh (@windhcld) being the remaining two. he then sees to it that they find "good" homes to live out their childhoods in. however, aisling is taken by moira and the company, including ajay, to the manor on the estate, which she casts a protective spell over, leading the entire nation to believe that nobody survived.

2010: aisling has spent fourteen years under the company's control. with the use of magic and coercion, they've used her to kill, wound, and control many opponents, leading to their own rise in power. ajay has become a surrogate father to her. she's been in a fling with fiachra for six months, which he's using to sway her loyalties. 2010 is the year that a number of very important things happen. 1) naomi, a member of the company and president of the "fuck fiachra" club, follows him into town and takes photos of him kissing other people. she shows these photos to aisling, and aisling ends things with him "so you can have something real beyond this place". 2) fiachra, who has never had anyone do something for his benefit before, begins to develop feelings. 3) eoin kelly, fiachra's brother, starts a new job as a bus driver.

2011: ajay decides that aisling needs to see the real world. on the condition that she returns every night by 11, he begins to sneak her out of the estate. over the course of the next eighteen months, she meets eoin, they fall in love, they date, and he proposes to her on the beach. ajay is oblivious to this. fiachra is not.

2012: everything that happens transpires over the course of 72 hours. eoin proposes to aisling, aisling accepts, fiachra arrives and incapacitates eoin while forcing aisling to get into the car. moira is waiting at the estate, where she binds aisling to her room and fiachra takes eoin away. ajay, startled by how rapidly things have gone wrong, finds out that moira has decided to use eoin as the sacrifice to cause the soul stone to leave aisling's body, so that moira may take it. if that were to fail, she has also set up runes that would allow her to drain the stone from aisling, should she attempt to use the stone to save eoin's life.

eoin is dragged into the room with aisling, but just before moira can cast a lethal spell, ajay drives a volkswagen polo straight through the wall of the room, temporarily knocking out moira and fighting with fiachra to allow aisling and eoin to escape. the pair of them make it to the cliffs behind the manor, just as moira awakens and uses dark magic again, causing a massive storm to descend over ireland. fiachra, having survived the fight after ajay was incapacitated by moira, follows them to the cliff, and shoots eoin, who manages to use his momentum to topple himself and aisling over the edge of the cliff and into a waiting fishing boat which becomes dislodged, sending them out to sea.

eoin dies after twelve hours, but not before insisting that aisling doesn't save him, because the spell is still in place, and any efforts to use the stone to protect him will only result in moira winning and the world being in mortal danger. he also asks her to go to new york. after he dies, the spell ends. aisling is out at sea for 36 hours, saved by ajay. aisling returns to fight moira, during which time many pieces of footage are recorded. aisling gains the upper-hand and rips apart the fabric of reality, pushing moira out of this dimension and sealing the rip closed. with ajay's help, she seals the rip, and moves the site to the manor, containing it in the basement.

around this time, aisling discovers she's pregnant. ajay supports her during the pregnancy, but after the baby is born, the trauma of losing eoin, the grief, and the protection from the soul stone, in addition to the memory erasure spell that ajay conducted on her to prevent her from remembering the night of the fire, all collide and cause her to forget who the baby is. ajay doesn't tell her the truth, believing that baby brea (also written by @windhcld) would be safer and better off with a better family. travelling back in time a few years, he brings baby brea to a middle-aged couple in manhattan, stanley and richard, who take in brea as their own. when ajay returns to the manor in 2012 to collect his things, however, he's confronted by the spirit of eoin, who, enraged by his betrayal, uses ancient magic to bind ajay to the estate, and then convinces aisling to move to manhattan, where she meets richard, stanley, and a three year old brea.

[expositicn]

i hope i'm not interrupting anything ➛ @ppctts

"you're not interrupting, you're solving. come here." chloe spins her chair to the side, turning the monitor to face her companion. "what are we looking at right now?"

[the-mjolnir-owner]

The idea that Thor is a portable charger made my day. 😄❤

@ppctts

All that electricity must be put to some use, am I right?

[trckstaer]

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR GRADUATION!!!!!!!!! <3

THANK YOU SO MUCH! It was hard work but now its done and over and I jut have to face the abyss that is real life adulthood.

[oozeyboozey-archive]

@ppctts // CONT. FROM HERE // CLOSED.

SHE'D HAD WORSE THAN THIS ONE , but it didn't mean she was in any less hot water. she could survive this , BUT SHE NEEDED TO WORK RELATIVELY QUICKLY. momentarily a little grateful that she had already lived through several stab wounds and a few gunshot wounds. ( those ones weren't so fun. ) it only takes a few seconds for pepper to bounce RIGHT INTO ACTION. much like anya able to channel that get to work mentality even in a stressful situation as they move to the sofa.

there's a wince when the blouse makes contact , BUT THAT ONLY ENCOURAGES HER TO PRESS HARDER. she knows how this works. just like she knows the bullet isn't out , SO THAT'S GONNA BE FUN. anya looked to pepper when she mentioned happy and the lab. A SPIKE OF ANXIETY SHE PUSHES DOWN. ' not anymore , ' she starts plainly. ' guy who got me didn't get far. ' HER VOICE IS STRAINED. nodding in a sense of realization. ' yup ... fucker's still in there. '