Chapter 1
Many would think that a pair like them would ever be together. Many would have thought that it's a toxic relationship and would have burned to the ground in days, a month at most. However, in true tony stark fashion, he proved everyone wrong. He showed people that he can be a family man. Well, at least that's what they think.
Flashback – 4 months, tony stark.
Tony stark had just finished with the UN and had also managed to get Thaddeus Ross removed from his position on the grounds of racism against Vison and of illegal human experimentation after trying to create another hulk-substitute, though this one was to be pure monster and uncontrollable (not that the original hulk can be controlled, its just that at least banner is able to keep the hulk at bay, most of the time.)
To congratulate himself on such an achievement, he has decided to go to one of the greatest places in America, in his opinion, Las Vegas. Since he had got here, he has been drinking a lot of alcohol of various types, from ciders to spirts. Eventually, everything had become a blur. Until the next morning.
He awoke to find himself with a very good looking, dark haired, pale skinned women. He rubbed his eyes with his left hand, which then turned his attention to his third finger. There, sitting at the base of his left ring finger, was a wedding band. It was silver, and with a quick inspection of his still unconscious bed mate, it confirmed his suspicion, with the matching one on her finger, coupled with another one that has a very expensive looking diamond on it.
'huh, you never do anything half-assed do you?' he thinks to himself. Turning around and looking at the room he is in, he immediately knows that he had some how gotten the honeymoon suite at a very expensive hotel. 'definitely not half assed' he thinks. Smiling to himself.
The hot women on the other side of the bed groans and begins to stir. She lifts herself up enough to look around blearily before looking at the other side of the bed. "oh god, what have I done now?" she says, rubbing her face.
"to be completely honest, hot-lady, I've wondered a very similar thing in the past 5 minutes I've been awake," he says to her, looking at her gorgeous face from over his shoulder, "so what's your name anyway?"
"Jessica," looking both suspicious and tired, "Jessica jones"
"hmm, pretty name for a pretty face." He says, running his left hand through his hair, "so, you seeing anybody I should know about?"
Chuckling. "Nope. What about you, rumours going around about you and your girlfriend getting hitched." She says, looking at his hand. "and by the looks of things they're correct." She pointed at his hand.
"yeah well, just to set the records straight, we broke up, decided we're better off as friends, and from what I can see, its either your lying to me about that someone, or now I am that someone." He said turning around and showing her, her own left hand.
"FUCK" she yelled, l flopping back on the bed. "Why did I let Trish drag me here? God damnit." He looks at her, with surprise. 'now this is a girl I can get behind.' "am I that much of an ass for that?" he sasses her.
She rubs her temples and sighs "not your fault, god I need a drink." She sits up on the bed, making sure to pull the duvet covers up over her to cover herself, tony finds himself a little disappointed about this.
Fast forward – 3 hours later.
"So what do you want to do about this whole… shebang?" Jessica asks him while he's making coffee in the kitchenette, wearing everything but his shirt, purely because Jessica was wearing it.
"well, to be perfectly honest, I don't want to do anything about it." she says in his ever loving cocky-ness.
He turned around to see her looking shocked and a little angry. "what the hell are you talking about, stark?"
He winces a little (not that he'll admit it if anyone asked.) and says, "first of all, call me tony, I think out of everybody, you are the most entitled to do so," to which she raises an eyebrow, "and second of all, think about it, your married to a genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. I can literally give you everything, not to mention, together we are one hot couple, don'tcha think." He walks over and turns her attention to the large mirror over on the wall to the left of them. "all I ask is that you give this a chance to make this work, if it doesn't work, then fine, we'll divorce or annul it, what ever you want, I'll pay the expenses don't worry. Just, please, give it ago." He near begs, hell he does beg.
Jessica looks at her and tony in the mirror, sees the emotion in his face (and damn he's right they do look great together.) and sighs "alright we'll give this a shot, but be warned, I am a very difficult bitch to deal with."
He smiles, "duly noted, now, I believe we should get to know each other, and figure out how to go about this."
Forwards to the present – avengers tower.
And so, they got to know each other over the course of the few days they were there. And as it turns out, they some how work very well together. When tony found out about Jessica's powers and her past, he was excited about the powers she possessed and wanted to test her limits, but he was also furious about kilgrave and very glad that she had killed him.
When they went back to New York, everyone was shocked. When the media found out, they had flipped with theories and lies about the relationship, but most were about Jessica being a gold digger. But she didn't care.
When tony brought up the accords with her, she was ultimately confused. But after having read the improved and updated version, she had agreed and ended up also signing them, which shocked a lot of her friends.
As it turns out, in the domestic part of their life, Jessica and tony worked so much better then that of tony and pepper. Mainly because she wasn't constantly berating him for mistakes, missed meeting, his alcohol/coffee dependency or how he works 68-hour days before crashing. She has mastered how to get him out of the work shop of his own accord, and also how to get him to sleep every night. There are the nightmares that occur for both of them, but nothing is perfect.
The real annoyance had arrived 4 months after the marriage had occurred. In the form of good ol' captain American and his fellowship of fugitives, when they had managed to, somehow, be pardoned for their crimes.
As Jessica, tony and vision sit down for their dinner, chatting while they eat, Friday interrupts the domestic bliss they have acquired, with her Irish accent in what sound like distress and urgency, says "boss, there's news!"
Concerned, jess looks at tony and vice versa, asks Friday to show them. 20+ headlines show up with different headlines all with the same subject- the ex- vengers all have been pardoned for their crimes, including one James "bucky" Barnes, though he is having therapy as it seems.
While seeing these articles, Friday interrupts once again with "incoming call, Jessica's hand, "patch it through, Fri"
Through the speakers, carols voice come through.
"tony, I assume you've heard the news?"
"yeah, from the media, care to tell me what the fuck happened?"
Sigh, "they've been convinced to give rogers and his band of misfits a second chance. I'm giving you a heads up, they could be heading for the tower."
Jessica decides to chime in, "let's hope they stay far ways, especially the witch, I might not be able to control myself around her." Tony hums in agreement, "maybe they'll use their brains and not even call themselves avengers anymore," then Friday, yet again, ruins that thought by saying, "rogers and the others are trying to get into the building, shall I let them, boss?"
"might as well get this over with, let them in Fri." with dinner finished anyway, the three make their way towards the living room. "if I may introject, I do not think this is a good idea." Vision says, not only wanting the rest of the evening to go smoothly, but not wanting those "friends" that betrayed them to be anywhere near the Mr and Mrs. Stark. "it'll be fine vis, if not, I'll just punch 'em out the window." Jessica sasses, while going and grabbing to Whisky's from the bar not too far away from the couch, while the other 2 sits on said-couch. "As entertaining as that will be, please don't break my window." Tony says, smiling to jess as she gives him one of the glasses and sits next to him, his arm going around her body while his other hand takes the drink up to his face.
Behind them the elevator dings, but the 3 don't bother to turn around, and continue their conversation.