NEVER AGAIN (TONY STARK)

"Kid, look at me. I'm here and I'm not going anywhere, anytime soon. Nada. Zip. You got me?" With a chin on the crown of her head he let out a shuddering breath. The man was afraid that this was all a dream, a mirage created to ease his own mind.

But then he felt the steady rise and fall of a small chest against his own, and warm breaths in the crook of his neck. "Please," the young girl continued to shake in his hold as she clutched onto his suit of red and gold.

"Never again."
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Kitty has always been alone; she was good with alone. At least that's what she thought. Having undergone hundreds of tests that Aldrich Killian put her through, all she could remember was him telling her, "We're nearly there, Kitty." He told her to call him "Uncle Al", but she never breathed a word, not since the first week of treatment.

Tony Stark had only ever hoped to find and rescue his partner, Pepper Potts. But he hadn't expected to walk out of AIM's laboratory with a youngin clinging on to his shirt. The little mutant was a mystery, with only a tag on her wrist - that had her name printed on it - to show for her identity. The easiest move would have been to hand her over to S.H.I.E.L.D., where she would be labelled yet another 'Inhuman'; but she needed a cure for her Extremis, and Tony was compelled to right a wrong that he had indirectly caused.

And who knew that young Kitty would grow on him?

(STATUS: ongoing)
(IRON MAN 3▹ENDGAME)
( FEMALE OC )
( TONY STARK FIC )
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