MCU ⚡
In which a 10-year-old shows up on Tony Stark's doorstep, claiming to be his daughter.
[pre iron man 2 - civil war]
{the first book in the "Little Light" series}
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As the two drove down the road, Tony ends up pulling off to the side to buy some strawberries, but as they pulled up, Nick looked to Tony knowingly. "You know she's allergic to strawberries, right?"
"What? No, she's not." Tony shrugs off but Nick gives him a look. "Starky, I'm telling you, she's allergic."
"20 bucks says you're wrong." Tony finally looked to her, but Nick just raised an eyebrow. "40 bucks says I'm right."
"Alright. Bet." He nods towards the man selling the strawberries, who was speaking Spanish, so Tony glances to Nick. The girl sighed before giving the strawberry man a kind smile, "¿Cuánto?" [How much?]
"Seis dólares."
Nick looked to Tony, "Six bucks."
Tony looks down, "I don't have any dough." He ends up taking off his expensive watch, "Here."
"No, sir, that's too much." The man says in rough English with a thick accent, but Tony still just hands it over. "No, it's fine. Take that. It's fine."
"That's... No, Señor."
"Take it. Take it." Tony urges and the man finally does, before handing over the strawberries, which Nick ends up taking while nodding. "Gracias, gracias."
The man smiles but then recognizes Tony, "Are you Iron Man?"
"Sometimes." Tony says while driving off, the two faintly hearing the man saying. "We believe in you!"
When they got to the Stark Enterprises building, Tony told Nick to stay in the car, to which she reluctantly did with an eyeroll. The car was parked in front of the building, making Nick watch Tony head inside with the strawberries. The girl sighed and leaned back in her seat, pushing the sunglasses up her nose.
But after a couple minutes, Nick got out of the vehicle. "Al diablo." [Screw it.] And headed inside.
Nick put the sunglasses on top her head as she walked in and looked around, having only been here a couple times before but always out waiting in the car. She managed to head out of the lobby and down a hallway, before needing to jog to catch up to the elevator.
When the man in the elevator saw the kid, he held the door open for her, and she thanked him. But when she looked at the buttons to figure out what floor it was, she nervously bit her lip, and the man watched with furrowed eyebrows. "Are you lost?"
"Uh..." She shook her head, but then looked up at him with a sheepish smile. "Actually, do you know where Pep- uh... Ms. Potts' office is?"
"Is she expecting you?"
Instead of saying 'no', Nick just nodded and lied. "Yeah, but my... my phone died before she could tell me where her office was."
"Okay, well, here, I can take you." He pressed a button and as the elevator went up to the top floor, Nick smiled. "Thanks."
