Ch.1 The Beginning
"The beginning of my story starts when I step out of the shadow of my creator." – Ember Stark
Ember POV
Walking briskly, my heels clicked as I glided across the granite tiled floors. Passing cubicle after cubicle and glass doors till I arrived at my destination. My pencil skirt snug around my hips, my jacket slightly flowing behind me as I held my hands up to push in the doors. I glared at the secretary as she was about to stand up but I held a hand up, commanding her to stand aside and continued on.
"Pepper, where is he?" I asked politely as I slammed my hands on the desk, making her pencils fall. "I don't know what you're talking about Ember." Sitting down in the chair across from her, I sighed, putting a finger to my forehead to release the tension there. "Pepper, I will not ask again. He was not where he was supposed to be." I growled out, my brown eyes darkened; this was not going to be good.
She tried to glare back at me but I continued standing slightly crouched half on her desk unaffected by her stare. "He's here; come out here Tony; she won't stop till she sees you." She sighed, I smirked and "It seems I won Dad." "Yea don't let your ego get any higher, I'm afraid you won't be able to come back from space." My father spoke as he came from out of a room. "So you're finally out of the closet?" "Har har haar, well aren't you a wise ass."
After he spoke silence ensued while I collected my thoughts, "Father, what is it you want from me?" My hand fell from the arm rest as I stood up to look at him. "It wasn't me that called for you." His eyebrow was raised and his eyes widened at my question. "If it wasn't you then who?" "It was me." A voice said from behind me, I turned around, my eyes widened. "I needed to speak to both Starks and seeing as you both had separate agendas. I took the liberty of bringing you two together, so let's move on to what I need to tell you two." Nick Fury said as he walked to stand in front of us with both hands behind his back.
"Now if you will please follow me out to the car, we can get this show on the road." He stated as we followed him to the car, "I like to show him where to…" "Dad be nice or if you can't be nice then shut up and sit down; I won't listen to you squabble like a three year- old that didn't get his way." He shut up and did as I requested, I nodded as I sat down to listen to Acrimony.
"Stark, I'm sending your daughter to S.H.I.E.L.D's academy were she'll become useful for something other than mass media." I interrupted him, "No I'm not going." My voice was calm but was slightly irritated at the audacity of him coming in here and telling me where I was about to be shipped off to. I looked in to his eye, he smirked, "I have meetings to go to, and my schedule is full to the very last minute. I don't know why you think you can order me around without any explanation or my consent." My words calmly came out of my mouth with bitterness at my situation.
"So you want an explanation?" he said calmly after my little tirade, "Yes an explanation would be nice." I sighed out, "Well to fucking bad you won't be getting one from me! Now get your head out of your ass and move it! Your plane will be here soon and I expect you to be on it." His one eye glared at me the whole time, I just glared back. "Fine but what about my stuff, I mean I'll need clothes and other necessities." My voice came out with an air of stuck up rich girl to it.
"I've already got that taken care of princess." He said it with such sarcastic attitude that I was stunned and unable to come up with a came back.
"Fine, I'll do it but I'm not leaving without my dog." I said like it was my last defense which I guess it kind of was. "You mean the little hellion you call a dog; yea we already took care of him he's sedated and will be on the plane; before you rant he's not in a cage he has his own seat right next to yours. Is that acceptable Ember?" I was outraged that they sedated my dog but I now understand that he's not physically hurt.
"Ok you have my undivided attention Acrimony, I'll go get changed into something less this. I assume you already have a uniform prepared or is that a stop on the way to this boarding school?" I asked as I started walking to the door not really waiting for him to answer. "It's already in your room, princess." He said that word again like it was a motherfuckin' stereotype for me. I grit my teeth, "Thank you." I was trying not to cuss him out in public doesn't mean I couldn't in my head.
I vowed after I left that car and headed to my haven he would get tortured whenever we meet. I opened my door to see electric blue walls with abstract painting and posters of cars on all the walls and a comfy chair that you could fall asleep in. A king sized bed with black sheets and grey checked comforter, a black wood desk with a marble top, a computer that would have Microsoft wanting it in one corner of the room, of course I made it. I smiled at that, as I spotted the uniform laying on the left side of my bed right in front of my closet my smile turned to a frown.
I put on a black tank top with a short sleeve white button up and just buttoned the middle button so my tank top could show through. As I tied a navy blue plaid tie around my neck to match my navy plaid pleated skirt with black short shorts underneath. I slipped on my black hoodie over it and put on my black DC sneakers, before grabbing my phone and neon blue headphones. I put on a necklace that had a circle with 'Music is my religion' written on it and wrapped my bronze dragon ear cuff on left ear.
I grabbed my satchel that has everything I need including my laptop and headed back to be escorted or at least told where the plane was. "That thing in your chest is based on unfinished technology..."I heard Fury get interrupted by my father, I laughed. "No, it's finished - it's just never been particularly effective until I miniaturized it and put it in my.."I stepped in right at this moment, "Not true it could have been effective even when big if you would have placed it like I told you to; but you were like noo let it be a big attraction for tourists, like they don't have enough to gawk at."
I said while rolling my eyes at my dad when he put his hand over his chest like he was hurt. "Ember I'm dying and you you.." I raised my hand, "No you're not well you don't have be dying like extremely fast if you would just listen, cause everyone is dying numbnuts, as I was saying I kept trying to tell you it wasn't done yet; I looked over all the sketches grandfather did and you only got it half right well mostly the holder for the metal you'll need." I ranted at him while Fury just nodded at this all.
"Well if you're so smart why didn't you make the metal to save me?" Dad asks sarcasm tainting the question, I smirked "Who said I wanted to save your ass? I mean I already do it for the company why should I help you. When I wanted to give you my help you shunned it because you thought you knew what's best. So now I repeat my question, who said I wanted to save your ass?" I said as I sat down and waited for Jarvis to be done with making me my cinnamon rolls.
"I – I don't know what to say I guess when you put it like that your right." He stuttered at first but slumped on to the couch with his head in his hands I spit out my drink that I got while waiting for him to speak. Nick Fury looked shocked that he admitted to his mistake, "Wow, what the fuck did you give him while I was gone; if you put a god damn truth serum in him you're going to learn things that will make you bang your head against a wall for weeks."
"It fucking wasn't me, trust me if I thought you two were hiding something that be the first fuckin thing I would do; but that situation and this situation or two entirely different things for right now at least." The conniption said as I shrugged and started to drink my unfinished vodka. "I needed this." "Ms. Ember your cinnamon rolls are done." Jarvis said I smiled like a cat on drugs, "Now that's what I want to hear Jarvis, always bringing me good news."
"Alright enough of this fuckin around Stark you know what to do!" Fury yelled, we both said, "Which one?" at that question it looked like his one eye was about to blow a blood vessel. "Stark not you Starklet!" he yelled I nodded after I iced my cinnamon rolls. "I prefer that nick name to princess." I said with venom, before starting on eating my nine cinnamon rolls. "Starklet noow!" "Fine but I'm taking the cinnamon rolls, I mean I just iced them I'm not fucking leaving it." I quickly spoke out when I saw him glare at me.
"OK I'm ready take me to your planet. Ok ok I'm done we can officially go stop looking at me like that it's weird with only one eye, we should get that looked out." 'Starklet get on the fucking plane!" he said when we finally transitioned from car to plane, Luci stopped growling at the flight attendant and jumped into my arms. "Well let's follow the yellow brick road."
"Just shut up Starklet." Fury sighed out.
So sorry for the late update been researching and ok fine i had a writer's block but im back and in action.
Hope you guys loved it.
