Unfinished Gems

Iron Maiden - 1

Author: Sakurademonalchemist

Platform: Fanfiction.net

Type: Harry Potter x Ironman

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Being a father isn't easy. Especially when you don't know you are one. Tony gets a rather big surprise when Pepper's new protégé turns out to be his kid. Jazz Evans has her own demons to battle, which isn't easy when you're a glorified babysitter for someone like Tony Stark. And what's with the secret glances between Jazz and Rhodey? What are they hiding?

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Jazz Evans had come to California for one reason and one reason only. To become a special intern at one of the biggest tech and weapon companies in the world.

To be honest, most of her reason for picking Stark Industries was more personal than for anything she would gain by interning there. She still had her inheritance, even if the Goblins were rather pissed at her for pulling out over half of it from their precious banks to invest heavily in the real world.

She had various accounts under different names, but left a respectable amount under her current alias so she could legally claim to be living off her inheritance. The rest of it was squirreled away under false identities that she could access online to invest in different companies.

She had found an entry in her mother's journal (strangely stashed in her trust vault) that made her suspect James Potter wasn't her biological father.

Oh she still had her original inheritance, but the possibility that she might have a father out there, alive, was too tempting not to investigate.

The fact it gave her the perfect excuse to leave England behind and make her own fortunes without being dragged down by the nonsense Dumbledore kept pulling made the idea even more appealing.

She double checked the interview time, and got into the elevator. She was so nervous she almost missed the fact she wasn't alone.

"Aren't you a bit young to applying here for a job?" asked the man next to her. He looked vaguely familiar, but she couldn't pin down why.

"Not here for a job. I'm here for the internship interviews. There's no age limit on that," she replied.

She had faced down Voldemort and near death from multiple magical creatures. A stupid interview should not be making her this nervous!

The man snorted.

"So long as you don't simper at Stark and try to get into the boss' pants, I have little doubt Pepper would jump at hiring you. Every idiot who's applied so far has either been a cocky moron or some halfwit trying to jump into bed with Stark and get their claws into his fortune," he commented. "And the few who did manage to survive usually quit because they get tired after cleaning up after him."

Jazz highly doubted dealing with Tony Stark would be nearly as trying as half of what she had to put up with before now.

Even a grown man-child was nothing compared to dealing with the Dursleys. So long as he didn't try to flirt with her she could put up with damn near anything.

The elevator dinged, and the man left. It took her a moment to realize this was the floor she had to get off on as well, and she followed directions to a waiting area where several people were sitting to be interviewed.

After an hour or two, she was called up.

Pepper Potts looked rather frazzled, but managed to keep a professional attitude.

Jazz liked her immediately.

Pepper blinked when she saw Jazz.

"Aren't you a bit young to be trying for an internship?"