Don't You Worry Child

Little Red Wagon

Chapter Summary: The New Avengers attend one of Tony's parties - one which involves Karaoke and, after some coercion from her younger sister, Samantha uses the opportunity to tease a few people in the audience. But has she gone too far?

Soundtrack: Little Red Wagon by Miranda Lambert

For once in her life, Samantha was thanking God – or whoever controlled this messed up universe – for one of her father's parties, even if Steve was going to be there. She and Natasha had gotten nowhere in their attempts to figure out what exactly happened to her over the three years she had been missing. They were incredibly close to recruiting somebody else into their investigative team. On that front, they were leaning towards Wanda because of the sheer fact that she could, potentially, hack into Samantha's mind and find the missing events.

Samantha was also glad that Sam had agreed to be her date. Well, not really date more like friend who doubled as a date so that she didn't have to deal with the knowing looks of her father's friends. Somehow, they'd all figured out that Steve and Samantha were not getting along and each were taking sides. This led to some annoyingly judgemental looks – as she had discovered at the last party. It had infuriated her, yet another reason she had escaped to the balcony, but she'd never tell her father that.

She had driven back to Stark Tower in her Audi A5 with Sam and Wanda in tow, Rhodey preferred to travel by War Machine suit these days and Vision wanted to avoid the party – something about being stared at. Upon arrival, Pepper had rushed Samantha and Wanda upstairs to get ready for the party, leaving Sam alone with Tony and Sophia. Pepper had chosen outfits for both girls as neither of them had really had time.

Pepper had chosen a white skin-tight mini-dress with cut-outs around the midriff for Samantha along with a pair of white strappy sandals, a gold box clutch, a pair of gold triangular drop earrings and a diamond ring worth more than her life. The thing had exactly 248 diamonds, which formed the shape of a Lotus across her hand as she wore it. She was freaking out just wearing it, a worry that she would lose it influencing her every move. Her hair was pinned up in a top knot, her make-up consisted of cherry red lips and winged eyeliner with a few lashings of mascara, aside from that her look was polished and natural.

For Wanda, Pepper had chosen a black sequined lace mini dress, it had a round neckline and long sleeves which made up for the fact that it didn't even meet mid-thigh. This was paired with some black peep-toe pumps, a black clutch and a matching black floral ring. It was dark and mysterious. The smoky-eyed look and nude lips along with her textured wavy locks created a sexy look that could turn even the straightest of women gay.

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Samantha walked into the living room, still trying to get used to the heels she wore again. She was thankful that Pepper had chosen a lower pair of heels for her this time. She couldn't count the amount of times she had nearly fallen flat on her face at the last party, she still blushed red with embarrassment at the very thought of it all. "So this is what Samantha Stark wears to a party," Sam said sarcastically and she smirked. The sight in front of her was sweet, he wore a black jacket, white button down shirt and a pair of jeans, and somehow he'd managed to get a hold of Sophia and she was staring intently at her.

"So this is what Falcons wear to parties is it?" she quipped back at him, an amused smile appearing on her face "Where's my dad?" she asked, still looking at her baby sister.

"He had to get ready so I said I'd keep an eye on Sophia," he said and she smirked again.

"And she just happened to decide to hug you?"