Hey peeps! Wuddup? So, I'm going to start naming my chapters now because it will help me with titles. If you haven't noticed, I'm not too good at 'em. Lullllzz. AANDD, this is in fact the sequel to Taking Over.
Fae, now 17 and a senior in high school, sat cross-legged on her bed, laptop on her lap. She was busy talking to Katy online, and texting five different people on her phone, when Autumn burst in. Autumn was 13 by now, and in 8th grade. (A/N: correct me if my math is wrong. In the first one, Fae was 7 when Autumn was born and Michael was 5. I couldn't change that, because it was being retarded. What I wanted to change it to was Fae was only four when Autumn was born, Micheal being two when Autumn was born. Pretend that's what the first one says, please and thanks?)
"Fae, mom says you have to get downstairs right now." Autumn explained, wise-mouthed.
"Well, what does she want?" Fae asked.
"Are you kidding me, Fae? Mom called dinner, like, 10 minutes ago!" Autumn explained.
"Well I couldn't hear her due to the fact I was blasting music on my laptop! I mean, really? Wow." Fae complained. She and Pepper didn't always see eye to eye, and Michael was getting to be more and more like his dad every day. He said that he wanted to take over the company when Tony retires, and he was serious. There's nothing else he'd rather do.
Fae closed her laptop and got off her bed. Sliding her phone into her jeans pocket, she walked down the stairs to a waiting Pepper. Autumn walked down the stairs behind Fae.
"Fae Isabelle Stark, where were you ten minutes ago when I called you down for dinner?" Pepper asked, irritated.
"Well, gee, I don't know. Up in my room, blasting music on my laptop? How about that? Maybe that's why I didn't hear you?" Fae defended herself. Pepper rolled her eyes.
"Well, next time Fae, turn it down so you can hear me when I call you. OK?" Pepper finalized. They never really got into arguments, and Pepper never really felt the need to yell. So they didn't.
They both took their seats at the dinner table. As usual, Tony wasn't in his seat; Pepper had a pretty good idea of where he was.
"Well now we know where Fae gets it from." Pepper sighed. She got up from her seat and walked to the basement door.
"TONY, I TOLD YOU TO GET UP HERE TWENTY MINUTES AGO!" Pepper screeched into the basement.
"I'm working! Send dinner down later!" Tony shouted back. Pepper rolled her eyes and asked the robot maid to wrap up Tony's dinner and send it down to him.
"Well, as usual, your father is working and won't come upstairs." Pepper explained, sitting at the table. The three had already begun eating, so Pepper picked up her fork and dug into her meatloaf.
Fae had grown a lot taller by now. Her brown hair wasn't exactly curly, but it wasn't straight either. It was wavy; that is, of course, since she curled ever so little just to get the waviness; it reached to her shoulders. Her brown eyes were same as ever, and her freckles the same as well. She wasn't the girliest girl there was, but she wasn't exactly tomboy either. She was more in the middle. Like a mix of both. Her brown eyes seemed to sparkle and dance in the moonlight, and she was quite the pretty girl. Fae didn't really want to take after her father, being in charge or involved in Stark International, but instead use her knowledge for other purposes. She mostly dressed in jeans, logo tees, both long sleeve and short sleeve, and vests of all different sorts.
Michael, however, took more after Tony than anybody else in the family. He did have red hair, and it was a bit long; he'd grown bangs that end just above his eyelids, and his hair wasn't too long. It only reached mid-ear. His skin was as pale as Pepper's, and his eyes, a crystal, icy blue, danced in the sunlight. He'd taken more of an interest in his knowledge than Fae had, and he always worked with Tony on lots of his different projects. He really did want to take over the company one day. He'd work alongside his father until Tony was ready to retire. He dressed casually, too. Just a simple t-shirt, jeans; sweatshirt, most of the time.
Autumn had grown to resemble Pepper the most. She had brown hair, but you could see the red mixed in it from across the room. Her crystal, icy blue eyes were beautiful and slightly more tanned skin than Pepper's and Michael's. At the moment, she was telling a rambly-long story about who knows what, talking a lot, just like Pepper. Michael and Fae always joked about the long conversations the two would always have during long car rides and times they spent together at home. Autumn dressed more as Pepper, also; dark jeans, a pink t-shirt with a white long sleeve underneath, or just a pink sweatshirt, and occasionally she'd take more after Pepper and wear leggings with a t-shirt and jean shorts. It differed most of the time.
"So, Fae; what have you gotten accomplished as far as college acceptance?" Pepper asked. It was mid-January, and Fae had gotten numerous acceptance letters so far. Pretty much every college was dying to have 'the prodigy daughter of genius successor Tony Stark' attend their college. All she had to do was choose the one she wanted to go to.
"Well, pretty much every college in the world wants me to go to their college, so I really don't have to do anything but sit back and choose." Fae explained.
"That's good. Do you have an idea of which one you want to attend?" Pepper asked.
"Yeah, I was thinking Harvard, Yale or maybe even Cornell." Fae said.
"Maybe more. I don't know." Fae added.
They stopped the college talk, because there was really nothing more to say on the topic. Fae was really excited to go to college, and get out of her house where her father was constantly working in his lab, or at work, and your younger siblings are always all over you. She was excited to be starting out on her own life more than anything.
Suddenly, the four heard a doorknob start to giggle. The robot-maid attended to the door, and in came Rhodey and his young four-year old girl, Alana. He had one child older than Alana, another girl who was about roughly a year or two younger than Autumn; her name is Jennifer. Since the two Rhodes girls weren't exactly close in age to any of the Stark children, they didn't get along as close friends; Autumn and Jennifer, formerly known as Jenny or Jen, were probably the closest. Since Alana was still little, she liked to cling to Fae most of the time.
"Hey Uncle James!" Autumn greeted first. Micheal and Fae rolled their eyes at their youngest sister's perkiness, and smiled a hello.
"Hi Fae!" Alana greeted in her four-year-old voice, which made her sound very cute, as she excitedly ran to Fae. Fae got out of her seat and picked up Alana and greeted her excitedly.
"Hi, Rhodey." Pepper greeted, smiling at her children's individual reactions.
"I swear, Autumn is just like you." Rhodey commented. Pepper nodded.
"Tony is in his lab working again, I presume?" Rhodey asked. They walked into the kitchen and Pepper put the dishes from dinner into the sink and the dishwasher. She'd let the robo-maid get to them later.
"Yes, your presumption is correct." Pepper answered. Rhodey nodded. He walked down to Tony's lab and visited him, assuming he wasn't busy enough to look up to him and talk.
"Hey Jen." Autumn greeted.
"Hi, Autumn!" Jenny greeted back. They continued their conversation in Autumn's room. Fae took Alana to her room and played with her. Michael, with no cousin to talk to, went to his room.
Pepper, after having nothing to do, decided that it would be nice to just hang out in Tony's lab, just the three of them, like old times. They could talk and be friends like they used to, during their times at the Tomorrow Academy.
Speaking of high school, Pepper reminded herself, the high-school reunion was this weekend. She knew everyone would be there, and she was trusting on Fae to watch over both her siblings and her cousins for the weekend. The school was in the same town, NYC, which they lived in, but they were going to stay in a nearby hotel instead, like all the other reunioners. It was almost like tradition. The actual reunion would be held in a reception room at the hotel, and it would last until midnight; then all the guests would go upstairs to their rooms and sleep. The next day, the second part would take place; a brunch party.
"What exactly are you doing down here that's so important, Tony?" Pepper asked, curiously. She sighed when she saw the armor out.
"Of course. The armor."
"Well, what did you expect? He loves this thing like a fourth child," Rhodey teased.
"It's his pride and joy!" Rhodey added. Pepper laughed.
"One of them, at least." She said, referring to her hope that his own three children were more important.
"Tee-hee, guys." Tony piped in. Pepper leaned on the table next to Rhodey.
Since it was Friday, the next day was time for the reunion. Pepper, Rhodey and Tony were all standing at the front door with their overnight bags. Rhodey had come in a few minutes ago to drop off Alana and Jenny. It was about 7:30 at night, so Fae was in charge of each child's bedtime.
"You got it, Fae? We're trusting you." Pepper asked, after giving full instruction.
"Yes, mother. I can handle this." Fae said. Pepper nodded.
"Alright, goodbye guys!" The three adults waved, walking out the door.
"Alright, Alana! Time for bed!" Fae said.
"Okay, Fae!" Alana smiled. She would do anything Fae told her to do. Fae took Alana to her room and got her pj's on.
After sending Alana to bed in the guest bed in her room, she walked back to the living room where Autumn and Jenny were using Autumn's laptop.
"You two, bed at 10:30, got that?" Fae ordered. They looked up from the computer screen for a minute, nodded, and looked back to the screen.
"Mic. I don't need to tell you anything besides I'm in charge, and dad locked the lab up for the weekend; so don't go berserk over it, ok?" Michael nodded.
"Good. Make sure they get to bed on time. I'll be in my room." Fae said. She went to her room, got out her laptop, and respecting Alana's prescence, silently IMed Katy and texted her friends. Michael was watching TV, and Autumn and Jenny were on the laptop. It would be a quiet, relaxing night.
Well, good first chapter, ya? Lol, I loved writing their later lives. Seriously, feel free to correct my math and remember the adjustment I made to their age differences. Thanks so much! Review!