Hey guys! Okay, something you should know about me it's that I'm completely obsessed with the MCU, like who isn't? I'm in love with the Avengers but I wasn't like completely making like any fan fiction about that because although I was in love with each single character, I didn't had a character that I could relate too.
But then Spiderman: Homecoming came out and it flipped my life, I have such a crush on Tom Holland that I can't handle it. And I began to read this fan fics, and obviously this is just another version of Stark!daughter that I think it's a great idea because I'm completely crushing on Iron Man since 2008, so basically since I was eleven.
Anyway, I know that this is not a Lucaya FanFic, and I'm writing the next chapter for Arranged and TWUC, but I just couldn't leave this idea floating around, I wrote a draft for this story like that it's 20 chapters long and I'm dying because the trailer for Infinity War will come out on the 29 and everything built up for me to write this chapter. Although, you should know that I took many traits from Maya to Sophia Stark so I don't know if you want read it and tell me what you think. If you are new to my fanfiction welcome and I appreciate every follow, favorite or review you can leave!
Thank you so much!
I do not own anything regarding the MCU, but I'm completely in love with it.
"Happy Birthday Sophia, Happy Birthday to you!" Her mother sang as Sophia turned around and smiled at her.
Her mother was truly beautiful but she couldn't hide the pain. Her hair was blonde, like gold and her eyes were blue, she had this beautiful pale dress with a blue sweater on top of it because it was getting colder and colder in the city. Sophia could see the bags under her mother's eyes and her pale skin, she could see the pain she was feeling but how hard she was trying to hide it under that smile because it was her birthday. Sophia swallowed hard and turned herself to blow the candles from the little cake, the candles shaped like a 1 and a 0, where melting already as Sophia decided what she should wish for.
"Come on, Sophie" Linda, her mother's friend, cheered behind her. "Make a wish."
Sophia's caramel brown eyes were fixed on the cake, she really had no idea what to wish for. On her past birthdays as her mom kept getting sicker and sicker, she had wished for her to get better –It clearly didn't happen. Sophia wasn't dumb, she knew that her mother probably wouldn't make it to the end of the year and she felt devastated about it- but she couldn't stop wishing for more time with her.
"Sophie, hurry" Her mother whispered.
Please make my mom better, please, Sophie thought and then she blew away the candles.
Linda and her mother cheered as they went and hugged Sophie from behind, giving her kisses as she giggled and smiled at the warm of the hugs.
"I love you my sweet girl, Happy tenth birthday" Lindsay, Sophie's mom, cried as she held Sophia tighter and tighter. Sophia sighed, she knew what that cried meant and she felt her heart squeeze as she realized her mother's tears were falling in her blonde straight hair.
"Don't cry mom, please." Sophia begged as she took her mother's hand and laced their hands together. "I love you too."
"No crying today Lindsay." Linda beamed as she separated from the hug and walked towards the kitchen. "It's her birthday."
Lindsay sighed as she pulled apart the hug and Sophia turned around to gaze her mother that had kneeled to see Sophie on eye level. Lindsay tucked a strand of Sophie's blonde hair behind her daughter's ear and smiled. Sophie then wiped her mother's tears, her heart clenched every time she saw her mother crying and suffering, she felt angry at the universe for not helping her mother.
"She's right, no crying on your birthday." Lindsay said as she watched Sophia with a twinkle in her eyes. "What did you wish for?"
Sophia opened her mouth, she wanted to tell her mother but she knew that it would break her heart. Sophia wasn't sure that her mother knew how mature she actually was and how aware of her state she was. She had seen the x-rays, she knew about the tumors and the metastasis, Sophia knew what all those big words on the papers meant, it meant that her mother was going to die.
"I can't tell or else it won't come true." Sophia replied as her lips turned into a small smile as she hunched over.
Lindsay smiled and place a kiss on Sophia's cheek before Linda walked in again to the small living room as she divided the cake into three parts. Sophia ran towards the table and sat down to eat her cake as Linda passed a hand through her hair, Sophie smiled as she was handed a slice of her chocolate cake.
"Thank you for the cake Mom." Sophie smiled as her mother sat slowly next to her and winced in pain for a second but then smile back to her daughter.
"I know it's your favorite" Lindsay smiled as Sophie began to stuff her mouth with the cake –it really melted on her mouth, it was delicious, only her mother could make that cake taste like that.
Sophia closed her eyes as she tried to taste the cake to its limit, she knew she wouldn't have this cake next year and so she needed to enjoy it as much as she could.
"So, what do you want for your birthday?" Linda asked as she sat down.
"I'm about to finish my engine, I'm just missing a gasket from a good manufacturer and then it's just about checking that the pickup remains attached just in the right way to the oil pump" Sophia answer to Linda. "It's just about monitoring and balancing the engine parts that make up the rotating assembly." Sophia answer carelessly to Linda as she took another slice of the cake.
"Okay, I'll check where can I find one of those" Linda replied with a bit of sarcasm as she gazed at Lindsay, thinking that Sophia wouldn't see it, but she did. "So, no toys, I assume?"
"Why would I want a bunch of dolls when I can build something?" Sophie replied to Linda, irritation in her voice because it wasn't the first time she felt ashamed of her different likes.
Sophia wasn't like the other kids if we were being honest, she inherited that from her parents, she was beyond brilliant and she had been showing it since she was almost two. It was in her blood, she had the mind of her father, and her mother dared to say she was even smarter than him. Sophia was actually a prodigy and her mother had made sure that she followed hers and her father's step. Lindsay had a PhD on Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, while her father was… well everyone knew who her father was. Therefore, Lindsay had wasted no time in teaching her stuff, it wasn't that she was forced, Lindsey taught her everything but Sophia by herself had a passion for physics, chemistry, science, engineering, etc. For example, on her third birthday, she asked her mom for the materials for a circuit board and she had made it work a month after.
"What do you say Sophia?"
"Thank you, Linda," Sophia replied as she gazed at Linda with a tiny bit of sarcasm in her voice.
Sophia rolled her eyes as she got back to eating her cake and enjoying her time with her mother.
"She's just like her father." Linda whispered as she stood up from the table to leave her plate on the sink.
Sophia's heart clenched as she glared at Linda, tears pooling in her eyes as she felt the rage filling her whole body. Why on earth would she have to mention her father? In her birthday, it was just hurtful and careless. Sophia took a deep breath as she felt like she was going to throw up because of the anger, she was feeling at the moment and without any prelude she dropped the fork on the table and then ran towards her room, while the teardrops fell from her eyes.
"Sophie!" Lindsay called as she ran behind her.
But Sophia was quick enough, she closed the white door of the small bedroom and pressed the red button next to her nightstand. Soon, the light whirring began to sound as Sophia turned around and gazed at the different cylinders and pieces of metal twirling around and locked the door before her mother could try to open it.
"Sophie, come on, open the door." Lindsay said behind the door but the tears falling on her cheeks weren't stopping.
"I don't want to." Sophia barked as she fell on her tiny blue bed and began to sob, it wasn't fair. "Why would she mention him today?"
"Sophia come on, it's just…" Lindsay struggled to get the words out as she coughed and Sophia quickly stood up.
It was something she had learned from a young age, that she shouldn't be ungrateful with her mother or rude to her. Her mother had abandoned everything just to have her and Sophia was aware of the sacrifice. Sophia knew she was her mother's world and her mother was her world, she couldn't be mad or rude to her and less in this position when she knew she had a few months left with her.
Therefore, Sophia passed a hand through her hair, then she wiped her face from the tears with her grey oversize sweater and she pressed the button, the twirling sound filled again the room as it unlocked the door. Her mother slowly opened her door as she gazed at the roof looking at the cylinders and pieces of metal that were still retracting to its usual position.
"I thought I had disable that lock." Lindsay said as she closed the door behind her and her lips set into a small smile.
Sophia didn't look back at her mother but she moved near the wall next to her bed to rest and hunched over while hugging her knees.
"I fixed it last week." Sophia muttered without paying much attention to her mother that began to sit on the bed.
Her mother sighed as she noticed how her daughter was trying to put space between them.
"I'm sorry Sophia." Lindsay whispered as she gazed at her daughter. "You're going to meet him someday, soon."
Those were the same words Lindsay said over and over again for about six months now and it had begun to get on her nerves because she believed it was all lies, that she would never meet him and that sometimes it wasn't true.
"I just don't understand why he doesn't know I exist." Sophia replied with a sob as the tears began to pool again on her eyes, she hated when she wasn't able to control herself from crying, she saw it as weakness.
"Sophia, your father at the moment that you were conceived and born, he wasn't ready to have a child" Lindsay began but Sophia couldn't have stopped herself from making a grimaced at the thought of her conception and it got her every time her mother told her. "I don't even know how he would've reacted to the news back then, maybe he wouldn't even had let me have you or he would've taken you away from me."
"But mom, he saved the world and he's a hero!" Sophia replied to her mother with anger. "How could you think he would do that?
"I don't think he would be capable of doing that but the people who surrounded him, like Obadiah Stane" Sophia felt panic in her bones when she usually heard that name, she knew he had tried to kill his father and that he was selling weaponry to terrorist. "They wouldn't have let me have you and he wasn't ready to have a child at that time, you know that."
"Yes, but now…" Sophia began but was interrupted by her mother.
"You didn't like him before, and I used to tell you great things about him but you always rejected him." Lindsay replied angrily at her daughter.
It was true, she used to dislike him before she found out that he was a hero about two years ago and it made her extremely proud now, she wouldn't shut up about it and it wasn't a day when she wouldn't think about her father, about that person that she wanted in her life.
"But he doesn't sell weapons anymore, he stops bad guys on daily basis, he makes technology that would help people." Sophia answered to her mother with excitement lingered on her voice. "I mean, mom he is Iron Man."
Lindsay shook her head as she saw Sophia's caramel brown eyes widened and filled with joy as a small smile was drawn on her face.
"You're such a dork for your father Sophia Stark." Lindsay laughed as she hugged her daughter while both of them fell into the bed.
Sophia laughed as her mother kissed her blonde hair while she hugged her daughter.
"You were too when you met him, that's why you have me now." Sophia giggled as she gazed at her mother's blue eyes with her caramel brown eyes.
"You are just like him, you have an answer for everything, don't you?" Lindsay said as she rolled her eyes. "You're just like your father Sophia Stark and I promise you'll meet him, sooner than you think." Lindsay muttered as she kissed her daughter's forehead while her voice drowned at the end of that sentence.
Sophia knew she would meet Tony soon, she knew that her mother hadn't many time left, she felt conflicted how it would end. But she knew she had to make this last months with her mother, the best of her life or else she would regret it, and then she would meet her father.