And then we were two (Tony stark's daughter fic)

Quiet

Tony watched helplessly as Christi climbed back into her car and drove away, leaving a silent dark eyed child on his couch. "Well, so this has been uh-interesting and-fun but I have things to do, projects, stuff. So uh, Pep, you can watch Ada-"

"-Addy!" The child said exasperatedly.

"-Addy, I knew that." Stark responded instantly, sending a pleading look at Pepper.

"uh no."

"No?"

"Sorry Tony I have to go to the office, you know the company? Someone has to run things." She told him as she headed towards the door.

"Oh come on Pep! Please?!" He shouted out the door, "Pepper! You can't leave me here with the kid!"

"Bye Tony," the woman replied chuckling, "you'll be fine. Bond!"

Tony turned slowly to stare at the child, who eyed him nervously in return. "I'll be back, don't move." He instructed before hurrying from the room and down the stairs.

Addy stared after him helplessly. "Well, that happened." She mumbled standing and wandering to the wall of windows to her right. She stared out in awe at the crashing waves of the ocean yards below her. It hadn't fully hit her yet, her mother gone, a father she'd never known taking her in. What had hit was the exhaustion, pulling all nighters was not something her seven year old body was used to and she found herself crashing hard. As she was still in her pajamas, what she'd been wearing in preparation for a sleepover when the call came, Addy pulled her soft purple and green blanket from where she'd tied it to her backpack's straps curled into a chair in the corner and promptly fell asleep.

Tony twiddled a screwdriver in his hands, absentmindedly tinkering in his workshop. "Jarvis can you pull up anything on a Candi Noble?"

There was a pause before information was displayed via hologram. Pictures filled the room of a sandy blonde woman in crisp, designer dresses and stiletto heels, only a few including Addy. "Candi Noble graduated top ten in her class at Yale university. She went on to parent one child Adeline Noble now Adeline Stark. In her early career she was a coroner's assistant until five years ago becoming head coroner to the city of San Bernardino. Miss Noble was known to be a stubborn woman with a brilliant analytical mind her only downfall in the opinion of her peers would be that she liked to party on her off time, more so than was considered strictly responsible. Miss Noble died of smoke inhalation from a fire set by a forgotten curling iron last night. Survived by her child Adeline Stark-"

"That's enough Jarvis." Stark mumbled staring unseeingly at the random car part in his hand. "You think I could be a good dad Jar?"

"I have no frame of reference for such queries sir."

Tony shook his head chuckling despite his bad humor. "Crank up the toons k pal?"

"Right away mister Stark." The A.I. responded before blasting ACDC through the sound system.

Addy woke at noon, she sat up with a start not quite remembering the night before. It hit her then, she was alone. Well, not technically, she reminded herself. There was Mr Stark but he'd run for it the moment miss Potts left. The young girl sniffled quietly hugging her blanket to her.

"Are you alright miss?" The same automated voice from before questioned as a tear rolled down her cheek.

"Are you a real person?" Addy questioned rather than replying to the query.

"I am Jarvis, I am mister stark's artificial intelligence system."

"Artificial intelligence, so you're like a robot?" The child clarified.