An original Tony Stark x Reader. You are a hard-working woman who does not believe in stepping back and becoming a damsel in distress. You are amazing at whatever you do, but you have always fallen short when it came to something called "love." Many men have come for your heart in the past, but there was only one who stood out to you: Tony Stark. Tony may not have been the most appropriate man you had met in your life, but he left the biggest smile on your face. When your loving best friend, Steve Rogers, invites you to a party for the Avengers, you run into Tony who was definitely not the man you had known years prior to the party. What will come out of it? Will Tony love you? Will love continue to fall short for you? Find out..