Aaliyah Aviva Cohen is Tony Stark's best friend, their dads worked together on the Super Soldier program in WW2 and their mother's were nurses, that's how Tony and Aaliyah's parents first met.
Tony Stark x OC (Aaliyah Cohen)
Started: 02/06/2024 (Jun...
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Tony Stark woke up to an empty left side of his bed, it was freshly made and ice cold, it had been for days, the man sighed as he sat up his eyes moving towards the draw of his bedside table, Tony leaned over and opened the draw, grabbing the deep red velvet box opening it, he saw the 18 carat golden, sapphire stone engagement ring that Adam had sold to the Stark's favourite jewelers but made sure they didn't sell it to anyone except Tony Stark.
Adam Cohen, Aaliyah's father had sold the ring in 1987 after Dalia had been murdered, he knew Howard loved that jewelers since the two men had met in the 40s, it's where Howard bought Maria's engagement ring and Adam knew it would become Tony's favourite too, so Adam sold the ring to them in the hopes that Tony would one day propose to Aaliyah with that ring.
That was the plan but it all went to shit when Tony realised the amount of commitment he was going to have happen to him if Aaliyah said yes, so he went to the bar and drunk for some Dutch courage but one bottle turned into two, which turned into three which turned into sleeping with someone who wasn't Aaliyah, he had cheated on her without realising it, he was far too drunk to notice.
Aaliyah had spent the night with Emma when Tony had gotten drunk so when she returned home the next day she found the woman, Emily, in the kitchen wearing Tony's shirt that Aaliyah had kept tucked under her pillow and that's when Tony came out of the bedroom, very hungover but he sobered up when he saw Aaliyah, who'd stormed out the house, disconnected FRIDAY from her phone, left her suit behind and packed only the essentials for herself and Abigail, and moved herself to her father's old house in Malibu.
Tony knew she was at her father's old house, she owned it so it's where she'd go and Tony would normally go try and find her but she'd taken his copy of the key as she left the Compound, he tried calling and texting her but he only got radio silence, he even tried Pepper and Rhodey but neither of them had heard from Aaliyah in days
Tony groaned as he forced himself out of bed to get ready for the MIT speech that Aaliyah had canceled her involvement in, that was the only time he heard from her in the last few days, he grabbed the box that the ring sat in and decided to swing by the jewelers to return it but decided against doing that, instead he placed the ring in his glove box.
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Aaliyah Cohen was sitting in a reclining chair staring blankly into space, she still wasn't over the scene she walked into, the woman wearing Aaliyah's night shirt using her coffee machine and sleeping with her boyfriend.
"Why don't you let him explain?" Abigail asked her mother as she stood in the doorway, at eight years old, she understood what her father had done, he'd broken her mother's heart but knew there had to be a reason behind it.
"You wanna know something Abby?" Aaliyah asked her daughter turning towards the young brunette standing in the doorway, Abigail nodded her head and sat next to her mother. "While staying with Emma I found out I was pregnant, so I returned home to tell Tony and there's a woman wearing my nightshirt and using my coffee machine, Tony didn't even try and deny it, he knew-"
Abigail placed a hand over her mother's mouth to shut the woman up, so that she could talk. "Dad asked me if he could marry you," Abigail said, Aaliyah raised an eyebrow and prompted her daughter to continue. "Granddad being dead he asked me, I think it got overwhelming for him."
"Don't go defending him Abigail," said Aaliyah as she removed her daughter's hand from her mouth. "That doesn't give him the right to cheat on me, I should've known, I mean did I really think he could change his ways?"
Aaliyah stood up and walked to the kitchen, she avoided coffee it made her feel sick so she started drinking tea given that she couldn't drink alcohol, Abigail had followed her mother and has known for the past several days that her mother was breaking inside without Tony at her side.
"Mom?" Abigail asked, the woman turned around. "Just call him, let him explain."
Aaliyah sighed and grabbed her phone dialing Tony's number but she only got voicemail, she smiled mirthlessly, it seemed Tony was ghosting her, she figured that it was karma for ghosting him, or he was just ignoring his phone.
The brunette threw her phone on the Island table before her, she felt a tear fall down her cheek, she wiped the tear away when her phone started ringing, it was Natasha calling her, Aaliyah placed the phone on speaker.
"Hey Nat, how can I help?"
"To start, it was in the news, how're you going?"
"Terrible but I'll get through it. I always do."
"Hmm, you want something to do?"
Aaliyah glanced behind her as she watched Abigail pack her schoolbag.
"I'm doing something, I'm about to drop my daughter at school."
"Well when you're done with that exciting assignment, come to Lagos."
Aaliyah frowned thoughtfully and agreed, so she got herself ready to actually go out somewhere shocking her daughter, as the two sat in the car heading towards Abigail's school.
"Are you going somewhere?" Abigail asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, I'm helping Nat and the other's in Lagos, Emma said she can watch you if it goes over the normal time." said Aaliyah.
"Or I could just stay with Dad." Abigail suggested.
Aaliyah knew what her daughter was doing and pulled up before turning around to face her daughter.
"No, you're not staying with that man and his whores. Also he's not your father."
"Don't you dare say that, you murdered my biological father, Tony's the only father I know!" Abigail yelled.
"It doesn't matter!"
"Yes it does, he's my father and it's my choice if I call him Dad."
"You're eight years old there are things you-"
"I understand just fine, Dad makes one, one mistake and you're three year relationship is over, I mean Jesus Christ, no wonder my bio father and Stane tried to have you killed. You're so over dramatic."
"He fucking cheated on me Abigail and you obviously can't understand that and that's perfectly fine but I'm not having you exposed to someone who has no fucking respect for women."
Abigail sighed knowing her mother was semi right, Tony had indeed cheated on Aaliyah and therefore was in the wrong but that didn't mean Aaliyah had ever stopped loving him and that's what broke Aaliyah's heart.
Aaliyah didn't say anything as she drove and dropped Abigail off at school, she was lucky most of the kids didn't watch the news because, it had spread overnight, Tony cheating on Aaliyah, someone had spotted him with the one night stand, Emily and knew it wasn't right and reported it to the news.
Aaliyah took her phone out and called Natasha.
"I'm on my way." with that the brunette hung up and got into her car.
Someone asked for more drama so that's what they're getting, this movie and Homecoming are going to revolve around Aaliyah and Tony getting back on track, not that Aaliyah will ever completely trust him again.
