Devotion - Marvel Fanfic

Chapter One

Bee's POV

"Tony?" I question.

"Hey Bee," he replies. "I just wanted to let you know, I'm leaving in a couple of hours, for MIT. I probably won't be back in a while." He says. "I was wondering if you would, I don't know, want to go get ice cream and doughnuts?" He asks.

I laugh. "Yeah, definitely. Your house, or mine?" I question into the phone, twirling the cord in my hands.

He hums, "Hmm, I think yours. I will be at yours in ten minutes. That sound okay?" He asks.

"Yeah, sounds perfect. I'll see you in ten minutes. Bye Tony."

"See you then. Bye Bee." And with that he hangs up.

A couple hours later.

"So, are you excited about going to Boston?" I question Tony as we sit on his bed in his house.

He sighs. "Yeah, I guess." He didn't sound to enthused at the idea."

"Hey," I say gaining his attention. "What's going on? Are you okay?"

He laughs. "Everything is okay Bee, at least according to dad." he sys with a pensive look. "I, I just. Bee, you have to understand, in an hour I will be on my way to Boston. I'm Fifteen, Fifteen Bee! I should be in high school hanging out with you! Instead I am going to be the only 15 year old at MIT. I don't think I can do this Bee, I really don't" he says, breathing heavier.

I touch the side of his face and smile genuinely at him. He looks at me like I just kicked his vat because I am smiling. "Hey, you are Tony Stark. You are a boy genius. And most of all you are my best friend. All right. You can do this. I believe in you." He smiles at me.

He pulls me into a bone crunching hug. "Thanks Bee. You know, you are my best friend too, right?"

I laugh. "Of course. Who else would put up with you?"

He pulls a sour face. "Now, that wasn't nice, was It?" He asks while grining now.

I pretend to think. "I guess not." I say.

He smiles big and launches himself at me, grabbing on my sides and tickling me.

" No! Please stop!" I bet between giggles, now crying.

He laughs as he lets up. "Okay, but only because I like you. If you were another person I would've kept at it." He says.

I slap his arm. "Don't do that again, you jerk!" I told him.

There it is again, that smile again, the one that says he won. I was about to start tickling him when there was a knock on the door.

"Come in!" Tony yells. His mom steps in.

"Honey, it's almost time to go. Are you ready? Hello Bee." His mom, Maria says.

"Hi Mrs. Stark." I say. She smiles politely at me.

"I told you to call me Maria, Bee. Please, Mrs. Stark makes me feel old." She giggles.

"Sorry Mrs. S- Maria, I always forget." I apologise.

"I don't see how that could happen, You've been around since before you two could talk. Always together, the best of friends since me and your mom were in the same Birthing class. How is your mother by the way?" She asks, concerned.

I take a deep breath. "Yeah, she's, she's good. Umm, the chemotherapy was doing more harm then good. The doctors, they say she only has a few weeks left, if that." I say trying not to cry.

I feel a hand on my back and turn and smile at Tony. He smiles back. He looks at his mom. "See, this is why I can't go. I have to stay, encase something happens. I have to be here for Bee." He says.

His mom shakes her head. "You have to go, your father has made it very clear. Now are you ready, or not?" She answers/ questions.

"Yes, I'm ready. But, I want to come back on the weekends and informed automatically if Mrs. Parker's condition changes."

His dad interrupts him. "No, absolutely not. You need to focus on your grades, your schooling. You are not coming back on the weekends. And as for Mrs. Parker you shouldn't be worrying about her. She is not your mother. The only person that should be worrying about her is Bee. By the way Bee. I'm sorry, I know how losing a mother feels." Howard Stark says.

"Dad! You can't say that! She is my best friends mom! Ok!?! I am aloud to be worried not only for Mrs. Parker but also for Bee. She is the one going through this not you or me. I can't believe we are even having this conversation! I need to be here! Not at some stupid school that I won't even learn anything at! My best friend needs me! Don't you see that! God! If you didn't go around and try to find Steve Rogers all the time, maybe you would understand! Maybe then you would notice that your own son has issues, Dad! Bee needs me, I need her. She is the only thing that keeps me grounded dad!" He breaths shakily still really angry, wow, I'm shocked he just said that to his dad. "Or, should I call you Howard, Howard the Coward! Huh?! That's all you are! That's all that you raised me to be! Some kid that does what his father says because he is never good enough any other way! Hell he's not good enough then either! Is he dad?!" You go and you chase around a old missing man because you want to hide behind him! He, he is the son you always wanted! But, instead, you got me." He now has tears building in his eyes. He grabs my hand and drags me away from his bedroom.

"Tony?" I question softly, after we got outside. He looks at me now. His tears are ready to fall now. "C'mere" I pull him into a hug. He put his head in between my shoulder and neck. He is shakily breathing. I run my fingers in his hair. "It's ok. Tony, it's okay." I say. He lays the side of his head on my shoulder and hugs me tighter.

"I don't wanna leave, Bee. I want to stay here and see you every day. You are my favorite." I laugh.

"Well you can't see me everyday, but, you can call me everyday. A conversation with you is always appreciated." I say. It's his turn to laugh.

"Are you two ready to go yet?" I hear Maria ask. We look at her and then at each other. Tony sighs. He looks back at his mom and nods.

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"I'll miss you so much, Tony." I told him as he was at the gate to the plane.

He smirks at me. "I will miss you more Bee." He then pulls me into a hug.

" Tony," I start but he cuts me off.

" No," he says. He pulls back, " I love you Bee." He kisses my head then boards the plane.