Hello everybody, the sort-of-long-awaited sequel is here and Danielle is now 16 (or almost 16). Anyway, here it is, I hope you enjoy it

Chapter 1:

Dani POV-

"Danielle!"

I sighed, apparently my most recent, not so subtle, hint has been found. Now that I'm almost sixteen (in one month and twelve days) I had been sliding pictures of a white Pagani Zonda C12 S 7.3 in Tony's desk and in between Pepper's folders for about three months now, and let's just say, Pepper at least, was beginning to get annoyed. Apparently, she thinks my first car should not be worth half a million dollars, but, when your dad is Tony Stark…

And now my latest picture, which I had stuck to the bathroom mirror, had been found.

I grinned to myself and went down the hall to where Pepper was standing, arms crossed, and tapping her foot in my direction, and Tony was seated on the couch with a kind of amused smile on his face.

"Yes?" I asked was an innocent smile.

"I want you to stop putting these around the house," she ordered holding up the picture of the car that I had hearts drawn around the border of it.

"I have no idea what you're talking about," I batted my eyelashes at her. Pepper uncrossed her arms and placed them on her hips, glaring at me. I smiled; sliding passed her into the kitchen and grabbing a Poptart and some orange juice.

I heard a high-pitched beep from outside and I picked up my bag off of the couch. Perfect timing.

"That's Issa," I smirked, "I've got to go." I waved goodbye to Tony and Pepper as I closed the front door behind me to get into Issa's black convertible slug bug and go to school.

Tony POV-

"I wish you would stop encouraging her," Pepper scolded me when I burst out laughing after Dani closed the front door behind herself.

"What?" I asked in the same innocent way that Dani had holding up my hands in mock confusion.

"You buy her anything and everything she wants, that's not exactly setting a good example to be appreciative of what she already has," she frowned.

"Pepper, I think you need to ease up a little. Danielle, appreciates what she has just fine, especially considering her upbringing," I arched an eyebrow in her direction reminding he of Danielle's traumatizing "childhood" and abusive "father" leading up to the last big confrontation nearly four years ago after we had first adopted Danielle.

"Yes, I know," she sighed, "And we can't change that, but I think that she still needs to learn that she can't have everything she wants just because you go and buy it for her."

Alright, I'll admit it, I do spoil Dani a little…or, maybe a lot…but only because I think she deserves to be treated well, especially after the way Vlad treated her.

"I don't see the big deal. She's really smart; she gets great grades in school. And eventually, you know, she will inherit Stark Industries and she'll be able to buy whatever she wants anyway," I told her.

"Tony…" Pepper sighed again, "What if something happened to you…or me, or both of us? Dani doesn't even get any of the money from the company until she turns eighteen, and after that she would have the entire responsibility of Stark Industries. And, assuming she actually is able to handle all that responsibility, a lot could happen in the two years before she is able to get it," Pepper told me.

It was true. A lot could change in two years, hell, a lot could change in two months.

In the two months after we had adopted Danielle I had gone from a (mostly) detached, irresponsible bachelor to the father of a half-ghost preteen clone who was being hunted down by her psychopathic father. So, yeah, on some level I did see Pepper's point.

"But, I don't see how my buying or not buying her a car will change any of that," I argued.

"Ugh!" Pepper threw her hands up in exasperation and stormed off towards the office.

This, I was sure, would not be the last time we would be having this conversation, but I was glad it was over for now, especially considering I had already bought the car for Danielle, not that there had ever been any doubt that I would, even Pepper knew that.

And the reason I had bought it so early was because I was having it customized. The inside now had, of course, state of the art technology (Stark Industry technology, Jarvis included), along with a few things that would be specific to Danielle such as a built-in specter deflector in the car itself, and a place to plug in a thermos to release the ghosts she catches on a regular basis. In addition to that, the inside was being upholstered with black leather, lined with neon green stitching, which I considered very fitting.

But, obviously, Pepper didn't know this, mostly because I had taken extreme precautions to hide the purchase from any of the bills we would be getting from now until April.

What Pepper did know about was the surprise party we were planning that would be held from Friday to Saturday, the days before her actual birthday on Sunday, April 7th. We had invited her usual circle of friends, Issa, Scarlett, Zeke, Jesse, and Alec, but we had also invited Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Jazz who had attended all of her birthdays for the past four years to a more intimate party on Friday. But on Saturday is when Pepper and I had organized her actual "Sweet 16" party, sending out invitations to her sophomore class, renting out an expensive venue and decorating team, and even bringing in a guest singer for after the banquet. And, let's just say…we spared no expense, and it will definitely be a party that Danielle and the rest of her class will never forget.

Hmm…wonder what the venue is? Well, I guess that one will have to be a surprise to, both Danielle and all of you