Summary: When Tony Stark was nineteen he had a daughter. When she was three months old she was stolen and he was never able to find who took her. Twenty-one years later Thor landed in New Mexico and Darcy Stark was found by shield. How will things change with the inclusion of an overprotective father/Tony and a convient bargaining chip in America's newest darling for Loki to use.

Warnings: Spoilers, foul language, kidnapping, emotional abuse and mentions of torture. Past non-con and liberty with character profile. If you dont like it dont read.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the idea.

Chapter One

When Darcy was born he was nineteen and immediately he was captivated by her. Melissa, her mother was a fool and had given up all her rights for a good word in the modeling industry overseas. It was a small price to pay for having his daughter to himself.

For three months he was at peace. His little girl had the Stark mind, he could tell by how she watched the world around her. He made his decision when she was placed in his arms to be a better man so he had stopped drinking and partying and had begun paying attention to his business because one day it would all be hers and he wanted her legacy to be great.

It was all ruined that day. He had gotten called by Obadiah to attend an important meeting across town and had been forced to leave Darcy with the bodyguard nanny he had hired for her. It was only supposed to be an hour, two tops but the meeting had been drawn out for hours until the police barged in with the news.

Someone had broken into his suite at the hotel, killed the bodyguard and taken Darcy. There was no ransom demand and they had been smart enough to cut the security feeds. The FBI, CIA and every private detective he could find spent over a year looking for her and he made more impassioned pleas on the news than he could remember but there had been no response. Eventually the government agencies had backed off, unable to continue when there were cases that needed their attention and also one by one the detectives came to him with the same answers.

Darcy was gone, he should give up now. But he wasn't able to, the grief was too much to handle. So he turned to alcohol to numb the screaming in his mind and to parties and women to try and hide from his loneliness, but he never allowed another woman to become pregnant, no other child could be as perfect as Darcy.

With the partying and drinking and a short stint with drugs he couldn't bring himself to care too much about Stark Tech and so he allowed Obie to take back the everyday running and contract negotiations. He bought a mansion in Malibu and made the west coast his home base, refusing to go anywhere near New York no matter how good it would be for his company. He created Jarvis and the number one code line in Jarvis, his instruction above anything was to keep watch for Darcy.

Eventually he begins to surround himself with others. Rhodey, who he had been friends with in college but lost contact with when he joined the military. Rhodey came back into his life as the assistant to the man Start Industries handled their military contracts with. Tony made a call and Rhodey got the mans job and also a frequent place in Tony's life and eventually the title of best friend. Happy came next as his new body guard after an attempted assassination and stayed through some spectacular meltdowns like when the reporter asked on what would have been Darcy's fifteenth birthday how he felt about getting over her loss so easily. He had beaten the man unconscious and Happy had been forced to drag him off before he killed him. After that incident he found the last member of his mixed up family, Pepper. Pepper helps protect him from the media and she makes him take an interest in Stark Industries again. But even more she makes him picture her holding his perfect Darcy as she smiles at him. They are his family, even if they are not blood and while he is not happy, never happy since loosing her, he has at least found some tiny measure of the peace he lost when his baby was stolen.

When the whole thing with Afghanistan and being trapped in a cave for three months happened his only thought was that he had to get out not to live but because he had to find Darcy. When Yinsen asked if he had anyone he answered no but all he could think of was a black haired baby with startling blue eyes and a bubbly laugh. He built the arc reactor and blew his way out of that cave more determined than ever to be a better man because he would hate for her to be found one day and be disappointed in who he had become.

When he gets back he shuts down weapons manufacturing and at the press conference he speaks about his father all the while thinking about his daughter. When he begins working on the suit its not meant for terrorists specifically but he has a thought in his mind since hearing Yinsen talk about how they would steal the girls from his village and sell them to the highest bidders, about maybe saving someone else's daughter.

Becoming a superhero wasn't his plan but when Obie was standing over him while he was paralyzed and he spoke of Pepper he also spoke of hiring a strike team twenty years before to kidnap a child because he couldn't have Tony too focused and taking her and sending her off with people paid to keep her from him was the easiest way.

He tells Tony she is alive and he ensured she was beaten down and now with Tony dying he might conveniently find her just so he could control her, keep her as a pet. No one would look for her he says. It isn't a desire to survive that gets Tony to his workshop. Its absolute fury and a fathers need to protect his daughter.

He tried to get Obie to tell him where she was before he died but the man wouldn't talk and neither his office at home or work has any clues. Tony lets Jarvis rip the mans life in electronics apart and he actually finds the payment for the kidnapping of his daughter along with the hundred thousand dollars cash paid each year to someone he can't find.

His heart breaks all over again until ten months later after dealing with Vanko and not dying from palladium he gets a call from Couslon who had left three weeks before. The words he has been begging and screaming in his soul to hear come over the line and if it wasn't for the new vibranium powered arc reactor his heart might have actually stopped.

"Mr Stark, we have found her. We found Darcy."