love you 3000

ch. 2

Ch 2

Tony walked in the hospital with pepper by his side, clutching her hand in his. He would never accept it but he was really nervous at that moment, waiting in front of the pale blue door for the doctor to finish checking up on his niece and let them in.

His niece, the word tasted so differently in his mouth, Tony tapped his feet on the tiled floor, the burning anticipation of what was behind that door.

Words can't describe how much he hated the monotonus colour of the door,this is no color to belong in a children's hospital he will make sure that they change it to something more cheerful like red and yellow.

Finally after what felt like hours the door opened, a nurse asked them to enter. Tony stared at the barely visible room behind her without responding.
Pepper sighed and tugged his hand bringing him back from his thoughts and half dragged him inside.

Tony's gasped seeing a really small girl sitting on the hospital bed he expected a bigger child since he was told she was nine, her skin unusually  pale and chopped unkept golden hair covering almost all of her small sunken face she looked extremely thin and malnourished making Tony's heart clench, clearly his Sister was worse at Parenthood than their father.

she was propped up on pillows and met his gaze with hard chocolate brown eyes, like a cat, cautious and defiant but all he could think was that she had his eyes.

He turned his attention towards pepper who was already talking to the doctor about the health of the child.

"Mr. Stark " the doctor nodded in his direction his half bald head shinning under the florescent light.
Tony could swear that he saw wave of recognition flicker at the girl's face at the mention  of his name but it was covered quickly with the same unfazed but wary expression she had before.

He looked at the doctor and asked a question that was burning in his throat since he laid eyes on his niece's skinny form "when can we take her home"

The doctor hesitated, clearly not expecting him to ask this as he was already informed that Tony Stark wanted nothing to do with the child "sir I-i "

Tony tilted his head emphasizing at his question "well Mr. Stark she's okay just really weak, nothing good care and food can't cure but we still want to keep her under observation till Monday"

"Very well we will be taking her on Monday" Tony took a step towards the doctor "till then make sure that she has the best care and that there's always one or two nurse present with her, always" he looked at pepper who was smiling approvingly at him " inform me about anything she needs" the doctor nodded.

Tony turned and offered a small smile to the girl but she kept looking ahead as if the wall behind him held something of her dear interest.

He sighed, it's going to be way more difficult than he thought.