love you 3000

ch. 1

Sometime after Iron Man 2

"And you say she's the daughter of Sabrina Stark" Tony rubbed his eyes exhaustion clearly evident in his features, his lips formed a thin line when the man on the other side of the phone answered in affirmation.

He was sitting on his work table balancing the phone between his ear and shoulder, pepper was sitting in front of him with anxious expression listening keenly to their conversation while fiddling with her tightly knotted fingers in her lap.

Tony took a deep breath and rubbed a screwdriver's handle he was holding on his forehead " there's nothing we can do about it,there was no point calling me when you already know that my sister and I are not on good terms" he let out a harsh chuckle "that's an understatement we hate one another" saying this he ended the call and tossed the phone.

Pepper was dumbfounded with shock "are you crazy, you are going to leave that child alone" she finally asked

Tony looked at her and observed"I'm going to sleep" saying this he walked towards his room.

"Tony that child "

Tony turned to her "highly weak and traumatized, I'm aware" he said loudly that's what she's been telling him for last two hours.

Pepper stopped in her tracks with tears stinging in her eyes and when she spoke it was a bare whisper "she's is you're blood"

Tony closed his eyes and took another deep breath, his tense form relaxing a little "I know pep and because of that she has gone through enough I don't want her to end up like me or my sister, they will find a loving family for her I'll make sure of that"

Pepper nodded even though she didn't agree, moving across him she entered their bedroom and took a pillow and a thin blanket, coming out she handed them to Tony

"go sleep downstairs you need some alone time to think this through" saying this she closed the door.

Tony sighed and walked down the stairs, pepper was right he needed to think it through.

Tony couldn't sleep that night and in between the tossing and turning he found himself wondering what the little girl looked like an unintentional smile came on his face when his brain told him that she might look like him.

After a few hours Tony found himself in his lab working on a small pendant that looked very much like his arc reactor, Jarvis had control over it and it has many functions one of them was alerting tony when the one wearing it is in any kind of danger, not that he was making it for the girl but it should be ready by the morning.

Pepper entered their kitchen when Tony was at his fourth cup of coffee, the dark circles under his eyes where evidence that he didn't sleep even a bit, usually she would fuss over it but today she only smiled.

"What's our plan for today" she asked Tony, scanning the newspaper as they settled down for breakfast.

Tony mumbled something not looking away from his bowl of alphabet cereals.

Pepper smirked "thought so".