Maybe if she'd taken more notice of him, and where he was, the whole dammed situation would never have happened. And she'd still have both her underwear and her make-up intact and not be praying that the security cameras weren't turned on... (Pre-IM2/IM3/Avengers, Pre-Relationship POV fic) (AU!Verse)

Pepper Potts has lost everything, her memories shattered and her life now powered by reactor technology. But she's lost something else, something she'd forgotten was precious to her, now she must untangle the web of lies and deceptions to rescue him before its to late. But luckily, he left her with some protection of her own.

Agent Philip Coulson has always taken an interest in strange things, especially anything that other people seem unable to solve. Puzzles and problems are a speciality, so when it's decided that the relationship between the two youngest members of the team is almost as confusing as an 0-8-4, a new, and not quite, undercover mission begins...