Chapter 1

*I know I sometimes write Tony as bit of a dick, (sorry, I'm not a huge fan) but when I do I swear by the end there is always character growth and I will right all his wrongs. Sorry Tony fans, I just call him as I see him. I'll admit Tony has grown, but Civil War made me turn on him. I do love him as irondad though and I think he would be a good father. However in this fic he is only bad because of the pressure of Civil War and the divorce.*

It had been 3 weeks since Steve left, Peter and Alice were distraught. Steve and Tony had been so in love that no one expected them to get a divorce, especially not their children. Alice seemed to be taking it harder than her brother. Peter didn't really seem to understand the gravity of the situation and was still hopeful his parents would get back together. Alice had given up hope and shut everyone out. She decided to focus on her entry for the Stark Expo. Like her father and brother, Alice was incredibly bright and creative, but the things she dreamed of, Tony considered to be fanciful. She was working on a quantum transducer that can convert emotional energy left over from significant events into visions of those events, in other words, a device that could allow one to see through time. One afternoon she went into the lab to work, Bruce and Tony were there working. Alice and Tony hadn't really been on speaking terms since Steve left, Alice blamed Tony for the divorce.

"Hey Alley cat, I booked a trip to Paris for you, Peter, and I." Tony told her as she walked to her corner of the lab.

"I'm not going." She told him plainly.

"Oh come on, it's Paris, you love Paris." He commented and walked over to her.

"No I loved family vacations to Paris, without Pops it isn't a family vacation." She growled and went back to her invention.

"Alice you're going and that's the end of it." Tony said and stormed out of the lab. Alice fought back tear and started making modifications to her invention.

"Jarvis where are we on the simulation?" She asked.

"75% success rate." He told her.

"That's not good enough." She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. Bruce walked over to her, Alice had almost forgotten he was there.

"Alice I know you're hurting, but you should really cut your dad a break, he is hurting too." Bruce told her.

"Any hurt he is feeling he brought on himself." She replied. "Now are you going to help me with this or continue lecturing me?" She wondered.

"When you apologize to your father, I'll help you." Bruce huffed and walked out of the room. Alice angrily went to work on her project, until she was interrupted by JARVIS.

"Ms. Stark, your father requests that you come up stairs for dinner."

"Tell him that I'm busy and I'll eat dinner." She huffed and continued working. Ten minutes later Tony stomped into the lab and ordered her to go upstairs and eat.

"Alice, will you stop spending all your time on this fantasy and come eat?" Tony fumed, he usually never got mad at her, but he was already upset.

"It's not a fantasy and I'm almost done. Why can't you support my inventions? You always support Peter's ideas." Alice growled with tears in her eyes.

"Because Peter's ideas are practical, this is insane, you're too smart to waste your energy on something like this." Tony argued.

"Fine, whatever." Alice sighed, giving up. She pushed the transducer off the table and into the waste bin, trying not to cry as she heard it break. She went upstairs and picked at her dinner, Tony was starting to feel guilty.

"Alice, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said those things. I can help you fix your transducer tomorrow." Tony offered.

"Why would you want to waste your time on a fantasy?" She asked, throwing his earlier comment back at him.

"Alice I said I was sorry. What do you want from me?" Tony wondered.

"Can I be excused?"

"Yes." Tony huffed.

The following morning Alice went to see if she could salvage her project, but while she was holding the transducer she knocked over a container of experimental, medical nanobots. Alice screamed as she felt the nanobots cutting into her skin.

When she came to she was in the medbay and Bruce was standing over her.

"Hey Alice, how are you feeling?" He questioned. Her head was spinning and she felt sore all over

"Sore." She groaned.

"I can imagine… Alice the nanobots got a bit confused and they fused the transducer with your body. I'm sorry, we tried to remove it, but it is too deeply embedded in your skin and quite possibly connected to your brain." Bruce told her.