Little Stark (A Tony Stark Daughter Fan fiction)

Chapter 4

With fear, Monica made her way down to Tony's lab after dinner that night, finding him sitting down and staring at multiple different holigrams at once.

"So, what's up?" She asked as she stepped into his office.

Tony rubbed his face as he turned to his daughter. "I'm dying." He told her. Monica stopped in her tracks. "The plutonium cores for the arc reactor are poisoning me. This is likely to be my last birthday Mon." He explained to his daughter, who seemed to be as pale as a ghost in that moment.

"What?" She whispered in shock as shr looked over her dad. Then she ran to him, hugging him fiercely. "No, no, you can't die. You can't." She softly cried into his chest. "JARVIS! What can replace plutonium and power the reactor?" She questioned desperately.

"Nothing Miss. There is no known element that can-"

"Check again JARVIS every possible element, every possible alloy combination. Check them all. I won't lose my parents. None of them. Just you wait dad, I'm going to save mom and I'm going to save you. No one is going to die." Monica replied, her eyes wild with a determination that terrified Tony.

"Monica, I don't want to die, but I want you to be healthy. Don't run yourself into the ground trying to save everyone. People die, it's how things are." Tony assured his daughter as he placed his hand on her shoulder.

Monica shook her head. "Why do people keep saying that! You aren't dying Dad. Mom isn't dying and neither will you. I will save you both, I'm a Stark, I can find a way. It's not fair that death should be able to take all the good people in the world." She stated as she stared at her dad worriedly.

"Ah, but it also takes all the bad people too. Everyone dies eventually Monica. No one can stop death." He told his daughter, trying to talk her down from her impossible endeavor to try.

"No one has before dad. But no one has lived for over six months with shrapnel in their chests either and yet here you are." Monica pointed out before she turned to go to her own lab, Tony following.

"You'll see Dad, this time next year Mom will have a beautiful baby girl and we will all be down by the sea, watching the sun set over the Pacific Ocean." She stated confidently as she added a new project to her ever growong list of things to do.

Tests were still running on how to kill a tumor without harming a fetus while new tests started, finding the energy this Element could make on its own or combined with another element.

As Tony glanced around, he took in the state of chaos that the part of the lab dedicated to keeping her parents alive was in. There was a pillow and blanket on the floor for late nights and multiple different notes were scattered about haphazardly.

"Don't you have that thing tonight?" Tony asked desperate to get his daughter away from the lab.

"I can skip." She muttered as she stared at the theoretical results to possible replacements.

Tony huffed. "Monica, go, there is nothing you can do right now. JARVIS will compile a list for you to look at when you get back." Tony assured his daughter.

Skeptically, she agreed and flew off to save people while Tony anxiously pulled at his hair.

It was bound to be a long night for the man.