All right guys here we go! this one shot is right after the moment where Tony declares himself as Iron Man. we know how Scarlett reacted, but the question is how did Tony react?

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I Am Iron Man


After The Announcement


Tony strutted off of the stage; he had just announced that he was Iron Man. Sure, that uptight suit wearing agent was going to have a field day, but seriously he was The Tony Stark, he didn't just follow along with something he didn't want to do.

"Pepper," he greeted the redhead as he walked back into the back room where they had watched the press conference; he looked around the room and didn't see his daughter. "Where's Scarlett?" he asked.

He had just announced that he was Iron Man; nobody was going to try and hurt his family again. Nobody was going to hurt Scarlett ever again. After watching Obadiah drag her body out of his home, helpless to do anything but sit there and watch, he knew he was going to do everything in his power to make sure nobody came after her again.

Because he had realized something while he was sitting there, dying. He had turned into his father, worse in even some certain aspects. He was going to change that, he was lucky Scarlett was still calling him 'Dad' because when he was her age he called his father Howard, and he didn't think he could ever handle her calling him Tony and not Dad.

"She left," Pepper said quietly. "Right after your announcement."

Tony nodded his head, it made sense to him. Scarlett never liked being in the spotlight and she was still recovering from what Obadiah did to her. She didn't want anybody to see her like that.

"Well," he said, "my job is done." He turned to Agent Coulson. "Agent, have fun." And he walked back out of the room and made his way through the press area, ignoring all of the questions that the reporters were throwing at him. He wasn't answering questions today; today he was reconnecting with his daughter.

When he pulled into the garage he noticed that Scarlett's car was gone, which was weird but he didn't put much stock into that.

He walked into the house and noticed that it was quiet and dark; all of the lights were out, which threw him for a loop. It was never quiet when Scarlett was home, she always had a movie on or the radio playing in the background or hell even Max would be barking when he was bored of Scarlett doing her work.

But there was nothing; only silence.


"JARVIS," Tony called out as he made his was into the living room.

"Welcome home, sir," JARVIS repeated slowly before stopping all together.

Tony stopped and he felt his heart freeze. If someone had hacked into JARVIS they had to be on site in the house, where was Scarlett? And that's when he noticed someone standing in the living room next to the window looking out at the ocean.

"'I am Iron Man'," the man said without turning around to face Tony. "You think you're the only superhero in the world?"

The man turned around to face Tony. "Mr. Stark you've become part of a greater universe," he began. "You just don't know it yet."

"Who the hell are you?" Tony asked. "And where is my daughter?"

"Nick Fury," the man introduced. "Director of S.H.I.E.L.D."

"Huh," Tony answered. Isn't that where Agent and Scarlett's not-so-physical therapist worked?

"I'm here to talk to you about The Avengers Initiative," he said.

Tony just scrunched his face as he looked over the leather clad man. "Not to be rude, person-who-broke-into-my-house but I'm going to pass."

"Mr. Stark," he began.

"No," Tony interrupted. "I'm not joining; now where is my daughter?"

Fury walked over to Tony and handed him a piece of paper.

Tony looked down and saw the message that was written on it. "She's going to New York?" Tony asked.

"You've met Clint, he's got an apartment that she's going to stay at," Fury said.

"You're taking her from me?" Tony growled.

"We're not taking anyone, in fact she was going to leave without a place to stay and Clint offered his apartment without even thinking about it." Fury informed.

"I don't believe you," Tony said.

Fury sighed. "Mr. Stark, your daughter developed an anxiety disorder because of the life you've made for her. She has panic attacks almost weekly from how severe the pressure of being Tony Stark's daughter is. What made you think that she would be able to handle life as Iron Man's daughter?" He asked.

Tony looked up and opened his mouth, then closed it. He tried again as Fury's words kept repeating over and over again in his head. He never thought about it, how her life would be affected by it. He knew that she didn't enjoy life in the spotlight but he just assumed that she would embrace it eventually.

He gulped and turned his face from Fury's.

He heard the man's footsteps walk away and thirty seconds later JARVIS and the lights turned back on.

But Tony didn't care, he walked to Scarlett's room and stopped when he saw how empty it was; all of her clothes and her artwork gone. The safe was opened and all of her journals were gone. Tony stumbled over to her bed and sat down on the bare mattress.

She was gone, just like that she ran away and this time she ran away from him.

Tony put his head in his hands and wished hard that she would walk back in the door. That she would give one last chance to the situation. But she wasn't going to. That was something that he knew she got from him, when she made a decision she was going to go through with it. His daughter was on her way to New York, and chances are she was never going to speak to him again.

"Tony," he heard Pepper's voice softly call to him from the door.

"She's gone Pep," Tony said hoarsely. "She asked me not to stray from the notes and I did and now she's gone."

Pepper walked over and sat down next to Tony and grabbed his hand.

"For those three months when I was over there all I could think about was her, and how I screwed up raising her. I was going to do better, to be better, but then all of this Iron Man stuff got in the way and I let her get pushed to the back again," he rambled.

"Your daughter is an amazing person," Pepper said. "She is kind and caring and has a huge heart. You screwed up several times but what parent doesn't? It's not too late for you to be her father."

Tony stood up and walked over to the door. "Yes it is," he said as left Scarlett's room.

"Tony!" Pepper said as she stood up and started chasing after him. "So that's it? That's all? You're just going to give up? You're not going to try at all?"

"What's the point?" Tony asked as he headed to the bar.

"Because she wants you to!" Pepper said. "Because you never have!"

Tony's head shot up and glared at Pepper for a moment, but didn't say anything because deep down he knew the she was right. He knew that if he tried, if he gave up Iron Man and the giant spotlight, she would come back. And the two of them could just be Tony and Scarlett. But what if she didn't, what if that was the last straw, what if this broke the camels' back? He would rather live in this area of maybe than live in the definite of no any day.

No, he was going to let her simmer, she would need time to calm down and settle into this new life that she wanted. He was going to let her life in New York.

Tony nodded his head and walked down to the lab. He heard Pepper sigh behind him but the soft clack of her heels hitting the steps told him that she was following.

"What are you doing?" Pepper asked as she entered the lab.

She saw Scarlett's gift, well what was left of her gift on the counter. "What happened?" she asked.

"My daughter once again saved my life," Tony said. "I used the reactor that was in there to get her back. And I've decided that I should open the Expo."

"The Expo?" Pepper asked as she picked up the holder that Scarlett had made that stated that it was proof that Tony stark had a heart. She had loved that line but it broke her heart because Pepper always believed that Scarlett was proof that Tony had a heart. She remembered the early years, when Scarlett would cry for her mom for hours, screaming until she gagged. She remembered finding Tony sitting at her closed door crying because he couldn't raise his daughter by himself and he didn't know what to do.

"Yes," Tony said drawing Pepper out of her thoughts of the past. "The Expo, in fact I think we should start construction on it A.S.A.P. "Where would we hold it?" Pepper asked. "That's not something we can just decide to do, it's a yearlong event, Tony."

"I was thinking upstate New York," Tony said. "And we should probably start construction on a new branch of Stark Industries because you're right we're going to be there for a year."

It took Pepper a moment to pause and think about what Tony was saying. And then she sighed and nodded her head. "I'll get started on looking for locations, are you thinking about making this place permanent?"

"Its up in the air," Tony said.

"I understand. Will that be all Mr. Stark?" Pepper asked.

"That'll be all Ms. Potts," Tony answered.


AN: was it all that you hoped for? I hope it is! let me know if this was something that you guys enjoyed or if you want something slightly different!