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Tony,

I love you, but your not ready. Please understand, I don't want to do this, but I have to do what's best. It's hard to go, after everything we've been through, I could never have thought of leaving you, I would rather die than leave, but this is bigger than me now. You will always have my heart Tony, always.

Pepper.

Tony couldn't believe it, after everything, she was leaving, the one person he would give everything for had left. With only a note. He broke down into floods of tears, something he had never done before. This is Pepper, she has reasons. He thought, but that didn't stop the pain. He was right, Pepper did have a reason, she was at the hospital.

"Well Miss Potts, your here for your ultrasound?"

"Yes, but I'd appreciate it if it was kept quiet."

"Of course. Now how many months?"

"One."

"Right, well, lets get started."

Eight months later, on the 1st of December, baby Clarice Antoinette Roxy Stark Potts was born.

21 Years Later.

The alarm clock was going off. Roxy jumped out of bed and hopped into the shower. She lived and breathed for her work, if she could, she would sing dance and act right into her grave. But if everything went pear shaped, she had her brilliant mind to fall back on, she was often reading papers and then writing down how someone could improve it. After her piping hot shower, she chose to put on her favorite blue jeans, her purple, without shoulders, polo neck, her black leather jacket and purple converse. She then swept her middle of back length, medium brown hair off her back and into her hand, where she brushed, blow dried and curled it. Roxy took extra care in curling the one purple highlight she had seperatley so it would stand out, not that it didn't already, stretching from the top of her side parting, to the very tip of her hair. She then let it fall naturally, but put a few hair ties on her wrist for later. She then applied thick black and purple eye make up, which surprisingly complimented her dark chocolate brown eyes. She didn't bother with lipstick as it annoyed her when it came off every where and that it made her lips sticky, nor did she bother with foundation because she had flawless, pale skin.

As she walked through the living room of her tiny apartment, she switched on the TV for a quick news update.

And finally we can announce that the damage done by the attack, that was defeated by our very own Avengers, has finally been completely put straight, and to celebrate, The Avengers are holding a ball at Stark towers in two months time.

Roxy wasn't that fussed, so she turned off the TV, grabbed her bag and left. She only had to walk a few blocks to get to the theater, and she usually met Mei outside the block of apartments she lived in. So it was no surprise when she was there.

"Hey , you watch the news this mornin'?"

"Yeah."

"Your not bothered about the whole Avengers thing then?"

"No."

"Oh come on Rox, he's your dad."

"Don't talk so loud. You are literally one of four people who know about me. I'd like to keep it that way."

"Five?"

"Yeah, me, you, mum and Director Fury."

"Who now?"

"No one." She was getting tired of this, all she heard about was The Avengers, she liked them, but when you know one of them is your dad, who is completely oblivious to your existence, it kinda gets annoying.

"Whatever, don't you think Captain America is fit though?"

"I am not answering that question." She laughed. "Come on, if we're late, Mrs Jones will kill us." The two girls walked into one of the digest theaters in New York.

"I still can't believe we work here."

"Tell me bout' it." The girls had been friends ever since nursery, going to all the same school's with the same dreams as one another. They walked towards the stage, where they were greeted by their fellow cast members and director, Mrs Jones. In the play she had written, Roxy and Mei played sisters, one who was a joker and had a boyfriend who loved her, Roxy, and the other, who was shy and had a crush on a boy. They were the main characters.

"Right," Announced Mrs Jones. " We'll do each scene in order, and we'll have the interval as well, so, opening number!" She said excitedly. It started with Roxy and her characters boyfriend singing Taylor Swift's Enchanted, while the rest of the cast dance. It ended in the same way, but everyone joined in in the choruses, just as they were finishing, Pepper walked in with a worried look on her face. Roxy jumped down of the stage.

"Mum, what is it?"

"Fury let it slip honey. He knows, your dad knows about you!"