Stark Bleiben | Stay Strong | Tony Stark's Daughter | Book 1

Christmas Decorating

Team Kitchen
Few Weeks Later...

"What are you looking at?" Pietro chuckles slightly as he makes eye contact with me for the third time as we steal glances from each other.

"Nothing." I shrug and focus back on stirring my coffee with a slight blush on my face.

"Are you blushing?" He questions turning towards me, leaning his hand on the counter, other hand on his hip.

"No." My face gets a little redder.

"Are you sure?" He walks over to be next to my side.

"No, I am not blushing." I turn to to face him too.

"Then why is your face slightly red?"

"Because... it's hot in here, I'm in a sweater."

"It's New York winter and you're in a skirt." He states.

"And tights." I push, he gives me a really look.

"You two are assigned to go buy Christmas decorations and stuff." Tony commands walking into the kitchen, we both turn to him and lean on the counter.

"Why us?" I question crossing my arms.

"Not just you two, Tiffany and her boyfriend are going to go with too."

"Then why do we have to go?" I ask.

"Because you'll be splitting up into pairs to get enough stuff to decorate the whole tower. Plus Wanda didn't want to go with." Tony explains throwing the keys at me, I catch them. "They're waiting for you two in your guy's' floor."

"Yes, Faaaa-Tony." I correct myself while turning back to my coffee.

"Did you just call me Father?" I can hear the smirk in his voice.

"Nope." I shake my head and pick up my cup, taking a sip from it.

"You almost did." Pietro adds.

I glare at him over the lip of my cup. He just shrugs and grabs his cup.

"You almost called me your father." Tony crosses his arms and smirks.

"Maybe because you are my father." I quip and walk passed him quickly leaving him with Pietro following me.

Tiff and I's Floor...

Pietro and I walk into Tiff and I's floor to see her and Peter making out on the couch. I sigh and walk over to the kitchen area.

"Ahem!" I clear my throat while setting my cup down on the counter. Peter and Tiff's heads snap our way and turn red.

"Sorry." Peter mumbles quietly as he awkwardly sits up with Tiffany.

"Yup." I say walking to the cabinet and taking out my travel mug. "Hey Piet, can you go get my leather jacket, it's on my bed along with my large black clutch, black knitted infinity scarf, phone, and my wallet?"

"Yeah, if you put my coffee in a mug." He compromises while walking backwards toward the hallway to the rooms.

"Yup." I nod and go back to the cabinet to grab another mug.

"Aweee." Tiffany coos leaning on the back of the couch, looking at me. "How cute." She teases.

"Shut up." I mumble with a little smile pouring his coffee into one of the mugs.

"VERN! WHERE'S YOUR PHO-Oh." Pietro yells from my room.

"It's been like, a month since you realized you still loved him. When are you going to tell him?" Tiffany questions.

"I don't know." I shrug twisting the lid onto the mug. "How long did it take for Spidey here to tell you he loved you?" I counter looking the two.

"Touche." She sinks back in the couch as Pietro walks back into the room with my stuff.

"Thank you." I trade his mug for my stuff.

"No problem." He smiles leaning down to kiss my forehead but I dodge away with a red face. "Dragoste." He whines.

"Dragoste." I mock. "Nu sunt dragostea ta." I mumble sadly under my breath, pouring my coffee into my travel mug. (I am not your love.)

Mall...

"You two go get the lights, garland, holiday blankets, pillows, decorations like that while we the stuff for the tree and holiday cookies, food, treats, stuff like that." Tiff commands splitting us into two groups; her and Peter, me and Pietro.

"We'll meet up in the food court in an hour and put the stuff in the car. Then we'll grab some Christmas sweaters for us and the team." She continues. "To top it off we'll need to buy a tree."

"Affirmative, osprey." I do a two finger salute.

"Osprey?" Tiff questions.

"Baby hawk." Peter explains.

"Oh." Pietro and Tiff nod.

One of the Shops in Line...

"Vern." Pietro says trying to get my attention.

"Mhm?" I hum while turning my head to look at him.

"What's that?" He moves the cart to gesture at a magazine.

I walk over to the rack and pick the magazine up.

"God dammit." I mumble looking at the cover of me and Tony eating shawarma at the shawarma place near the tower with the headline, Stark Back To His Old Ways? Page 12 to read more about Tony Stark's new shawarma side bae.

"What are you going to do?" He questions as I put the magazine in the cart with the rest of our stuff.

"I don't know." I take a deep breath and run my hand through my hair and start tapping my foot with my super speed.

Clothes Shopping...

After putting our bags in the car we decided to go to H&M to get the sweaters instead of walking around the mall again.

Right now me and Tiffany are trying on sweaters to see which one fits best and which one suits either Nat or Wanda too. We already got the guys' ones so they're sitting waiting for us to pick the sweaters.

"Wanda would probably like that one." Pietro suggests as I walk out in cream color sweater with red embroidery on the top half.

"Yeah, that's what I thought." I say while stretching arms above my head, showing a bit of my stomach.

"What's that?" Peter questions from his seat in the dressing room.

"Whats what?" I turn to him letting my arms fall, yawning slightly.

"The thing on your stomach." He elaborates.

I look down at my stomach.

"A sweater." I furrow my eyebrows, clearly confused.

"No." Pietro stands up. "I noticed what he was talking about." He walks over to me and lifts up my sweater a bit. "That." He states rubbing his fingers above the waistline of my skirt, sending shivers down my spine.

"Uh..." I pull down the waist of my skirt slightly so they can see the whole tattoo. "A tattoo." I state looking down at the tattoo that says QuickSilver in blue with a blur shadowing the letters and the 's' is a blue lightening bolt.

As Pietro rubs his thumb over the tattoo, I look up to see him smiling while still looking at the tattoo.

"How long have you had this?" He questions.

"A month after SHIELD saved me and Tiffany." I explain, his smile gets slightly bigger.

"You've had it for that long?" He looks up at me.

"Yeah." I nod.