DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of these characters except Mason Stark and her friends.

This is my first Iron Man: Tony Stark/Pepper Potts FF but I love reviews and follows! This is just the beginning. It gets better, I swear. Hope you enjoy. xx Kat

Mason Grace Stark was not your average child. Her parents weren't average parents either. Tony Stark was hardly a normal person and he and his wife made an uncommon match. Pepper Stark (nee Potts) may have been the only normal person in the small family.

Mason Stark had been a special gift. Every parent has called his or her child "special" but that was what she truly was to Tony and Pepper. She got it from her parents. Combined, the couple was a power machine that meshed surprisingly well together: Pepper doing most of the work while Tony gave her compliments, headaches, and did most of the heavy lifting. Their daughter was intelligent in all the ways they were but with an added bonus of being musically gifted.

The talent was discovered at an early age. Tony would sit Mason in his lab and he would play the songs from his youth: AC/DC, Black Sabbath, etc. She was drumming along at the age of 5, playing the guitar by 7 and taught herself the piano at 10. Music was her passion and her parents were thrilled that she found something she loved so much, so early in life.

Mason's talent's spanned beyond music though. She was plain, old intelligent, a genius the experts would say. She understood the mechanics of her father's lab at an early age and graduated high school at 13, completed her undergraduate at Julliard (Music composition and production/Business Major) at 16 and at 17 she was working with an independent record label while slowly taking on responsibilities at Stark Industries. She knew that one day she would need to understand the family business but was like her father in the fact that she wanted to do what she loved for a living.

Her parents were extremely proud. They knew their daughter was gifted from the beginning but the way she shaped herself was impeccable. She was more like her mother in the way she dressed and held herself: confident, grounded and elegant but more like her father in the knowledge department. Some days her knowledge was her downfall, just like her father's. It was their logical thinking ability that made them superior to the rest of the world, or so they were thought.

Tony was sure he was going to mess Mason up from day one but Pepper always reassured him that nobody was messing anyone up. They were in the business of raising their daughter together and they would make mistakes together but it was all a learning experience. Like the time Tony let her near Clint's bow and arrows or the time she had nightmares for a week because he let her watch Saw with him while Pepper was out of town. But Pepper wasn't a model parent either: like the time she lost Mason for 10 minutes at the American Girl store in Chicago or when she left Mason at the house because she had been late for work and forgot that she needed to drop her off with her Uncle Steve. Both were great parents who sometimes slipped up.

Growing up, Mason was surrounded by adults. Her mother and father had been only children and her mother's parents had lived in Minnesota, far away from both New York and Malibu. Her father's parent's died in a plane crash when he was 17 and they were a step-by-step instruction manual on exactly what type of people not to grow into.

Her family consisted of her parents and family friends: Natasha and Clint had a child a few years before Mason was born, named Dex. Her Uncle Thor had married Jane Foster a couple years after New York and they split their time between Asgard and New Mexico, having children of their own: Bowden, Kenley and Talon. And her uncles, Steve and Bruce, had remained happily single. Bruce was always in a different country, so he never had the time for a serious relationship and Steve found that he hadn't discovered a connection between anyone in this century like he'd had with Peggy.

With such a large group of natural protectors as family and friends what could go wrong? This is Mason's story.