Sally Stark 2

Chapter Fourteen

Sally's POV:

After Elisabeth had stitched up the cuts on my arm I joined dad and Fury on the veranda.

"That thing in your chests is based on unfinished technology" Furry told us. "No, it was finished it has never been particularly effective until I miniaturized it and put it in my" dad explained

"No. Howard said the arc reactor was the stepping stone to something greater. He was about to kick off an energy race that was gonna dwarf the arms race. He was on to something big, something so big that it was gonna make the nuclear reactor look like a triple-A battery" Fury said.

"Just him, or was Anton Vanko in on this, too?" dad asked the question on my mind "Anton Vanko is the other side of that coin. Anton saw it as a way to get rich. When your father found out, he had him deported. When the Russians found out he couldn't deliver, they shipped his ass off to Siberia and he spent the next 20 years in a vodka-fuelled rage. Not quite the environment you want to raise a kid in, the two of you had the misfortune of crossing paths with in Monaco" Fury explained.

"You told me I hadn't tried everything. What do you mean I haven't tried everything? What haven't I tried?" dad asked "He said that you were the only person with the means and knowledge to finish what he started" Fury said "Are you that guy? Are you? Cause if you are, then you can solve the riddle of your heart"

"I don't know where you get your information, but he wasn't my biggest fan" dad said "What do you remember about your dad?" Fury asked "He was cold, he was calculating He never told me he loved me He never even told me he liked me, so it's a little tough for me to digest when you're telling me he said the whole future was riding on me and he's passing it down. I don't get that. You're talking about a guy whose happiest day was when he shipped me off to boarding school" dad said I did not know that.

"That's not true" Furry said "Well, then, clearly you knew my dad better than I did" dad said "As a matter of fact, I did. He was one of the founding members of SHIELD" Fury said "What?" dad and I said in sync.

"I got a 2:00"Fury said getting up "Wait, wait" dad said "What's this?" dad and I said at once staring at the box that two agents just put down "Okay, you're good, right?" Furry said "No, I'm not good" dad said.

"Natasha will remain a floater at Stark with her cover intact you remember Agent Coulson, right?" Furry said "Yeah" dad and I said "And remember I got my eye on you two" Fury said and walked out.

"We've disabled all communications No contact with the outside world Good luck" Natasha informed us walking out.

"Please. First thing, I need a little bodywork. I'll put in a little time at the lab. If we could send one of your goon squad down to The Coffee Bean, Cross Creek, for a Starbucks run, or something like that, that'd be nice" dad informed Coulson.

"I'm not here for that I've been authorized by Director Fury to use any means necessary to keep you two on premises. If you attempt to leave or play any games, I will tase you and watch Supernanny while you drool into the carpet. Okay?" Coulson explained.

"I think I got it, yeah" dad said "yep" I called walking into the kitchen taking a bottle of water and headed down to the basement to repaired my suit

Dad walked into the basement carrying the box that the Agents left "want to help me go throw this" dad asked "yeah sure" I called dumping the wrench on the bench curious of what was in it. Dad put it on the ground and I sat down dad joined me on the floor and we began going throw it all.

It's like 2am and we have gone through half the stuff in the box. I leaned back in my chair with my feet on the desk going through one of my granddads books trying to find something useful while watching some of his old tapes.

After reading through it and gaining no useful information I threw it on the pile of other useless ones and groaned in frustration.

"I'm gonna go to bed" I told dad getting up "night" dad called as I walked out of the basement and up the stairs. Once getting in my room I changed into my batman pyjamas jumped into bed and fell asleep instantly.

Tony's POV:

I woke up to sound of Sal screaming. I jumped out of bed and sprinted into Sal's room to see her thrashing around in her bed. I sat on her bed and shock her awake. Sal pulled me into a hug and cried into my shoulder.

"Hey its ok it's just a night mare" I soothed as she shook her head and looked up at me "it's not ok, you, you died and, and..." she said in-between sobs

"Hey I'm not going to die you're not going to die were going to fix this" I said hugging her "how?" she asked "with what's downstairs the director said there's a solution to our problem we just got to look harder" I said.

"Can you stay with me tonight" she asked "yeah sure" I said she moved over and I laid down "hey I really am sorry about last night" I said meaning every word "I know" she said yawning and fell asleep and I not much longer later.