Tony Stark x Reader

Part 6

Immediately, not wanting to be around here for any longer than I needed to be, I dialled Tony's number and waited as it rang. The ringing seemed to go on forever, but eventually, he picked up "hello? Who is this?"

"Tony? Tony! Oh my god, it's me, it's Katie!" I exclaim, letting out a relieved sigh.

"Katie? Oh thank god you're alive, where are you?"

"I don't know" I answer, turning to look at the kid "hey, Harley, where are we?"

"Rose Hill... we're in Tennessee"

I repeat the location to Tony and I could hear the confusion in his voice "rose hill, Tennessee? What are you doing all the way out there? Who's with you?"

"Some kid, he's got this pretty cool lab, says he knows you" I explain.

"Alright, I know where you are, I'll be there as soon as I can, okay? Just stay with the kid" Tony insists, immediately hanging up the phone. I pass Harley's phone back to him and sit myself down.

"Thanks, Harley" I smile "so, what kind of stuff do you do in here?"

"Everything! I used to just tinker with potato guns and some other stuff, but since Tony Stark was here I've been able to make some more advanced stuff, I'm on Mark 4 of my potato guns now" I laugh a little at how much he reminds me of Tony, listening as Harley continues to show me everything about his little lab, excitedly explaining how it all worked and things he wanted to change about his inventions. For maybe half an hour, I sat with Harley and offered suggestions on how he could improve his designs, until finally, a loud sound came from outside.

I immediately recognised it and ran outside, seeing Tony in his suit, and instantly rushing over to him and wrapping my arms tightly around him. It was awkward hugging a large metal suit, but nonetheless, he hugged me back, and when we finally pulled away, he stepped out of the suit "hey, kid" he waved to Harley before looking down at me, seeing that I was cut all over "what happened to you? Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, Tony, I just wanna go home"

"Alright. We'll go home" Tony immediately gets back into his suit and pulls me close to him, holding me tight "hold on" he says and immediately lifts us both off the ground.

Before we completely fly off, I shout down "thanks for everything Harley!" And then we disappear into the night. It wasn't long before we finally got back home to the Avengers Tower and the second we got inside Tony was rushing me into his lab "Tony, what are you doing? Relax, will you?"

"I am relaxed, but you're not healing, so we need to fix you up" he says, sitting me on a chair and walking across the lab to a cupboard to grab a first aid kit.

"Tony, I'm fine, I already told you"

"You're clearly not fine. What happened to you anyway? The last I saw of you, you were headed to work. It's been 5 days, Katie, I tried to find you, where were you?" He questions, sitting down to begin patching up my arms.

"It's a long story... honestly, I'm not even sure what happened. I was walking home and I found this guy tied up in an alley, then the next thing I knew I was in a cell, these people tortured me, saying that I was supposed to be dead and that they wanted to kill the Avengers or something like that. They moved me to another place, I don't know what it looked like or even where it was but somehow I ended up in Tennessee and I was stuck in this room for 4 days, no food or water, no human interaction or even a lightbulb, just me and a tiny window"

"Who were these people? They deserve hell for what they put you through" he says through gritted teeth, clearly seething with rage but trying to focus on my injuries.