Chapter 2: Rescuing Paislee

… = Tony's POV

…. =Paislee's POV

….. =Other Person's POV

WARNING! MENTION OF SEXUAL ABUSE CONTENT!

6 days later…

"Jarvis, if Ms. Potts comes home early tell her I will be back shortly." Tony told his robot companion (?)* "Will do, Mr. Stark." Jarvis replied as Tony made his way to his privet jet.

One 3 hour jet ride and 1 taxi trip to #4 privet drive later…..

Ugh! Tony hated this neighborhood already. It was too…..normal. And normal, to him anyways, sucked balls on the highest level possible. The taxi finally stopped at #4 Privet Drive and, unlike the other houses, had an eerie feeling to it; like something was extremely wrong. That was going to change right now.

….

Terrified. That was one of the many words, alongside confused and distressed, that described Paislee at that moment in time. She felt her tiny malnourished body vibrate against the freezing cold floor as she hugged her stuffed duck, Ducky, tightly against her chest. Her baby blue eyes were sealed shut from trying to avoid nightmares that frequented her every moment. Paislee laid on her 'bed', which was only two thin blankets on the floor, with her tiny two year old sized body that in which was swimming in an oversized tank top that was four times the size of her even. Her uncle had come home last night drunker than ever and did bad 'things' to her that still confused Paislee onto an extraordinary level…..which made it five times more terrifying. She didn't understand why she was being treated like this when she did nothing wrong! She did her chores, she didn't burn his food, and she didn't speak a single syllable. So why was she being treated this way? Maybe her uncle was right; maybe she was a freak. Paislee was silently crying when she heard the locks on her cupboard being ripped off and she didn't want to take any chances and tried to hide on the right hand side of her 'bed'. She wasn't expecting that the person who ripped of the locks WAS NOT her 'Uncle' Vernon, but someone who would give Paislee something she had never remembered of receiving before: Love.

Tony knocked onto the wooden door and waited for an answer. He was wearing a white suit with a maroon button up, long sleeved shirt. The door opened to reveal a pale and bruised woman with a horse like face. "Hello my name is Tony Stark." He introduced to the woman. She looked worried at the hand then decided he meant no harm. She took the offer and shook his hand. "My name is Petunia Dursley; please come in." She said as she led him into the sitting room. When they sat in the sitting room, Tony didn't hesitate to get straight to the point.

"Mrs. Dursley I have just learned that your niece, Paislee, is my daughter from an unknown writer. If you would, may you please sign these forms that just state I'm not kidnapping my daughter?" He asked as he placed the orange envelope in front of her.

Petunia Dursley was beyond shocked. "Mr. Stark, I am pleased that you do in fact want to love and care for Paislee but I have to explain a couple of things first." She sadly explained. Tony immediately became worried; what the hell is going on? "My husband, Vernon, is a major alcoholic. And when he drinks, he is very….abusive. And he turns the abuse towards me, my son Dudley and worst out of all of us: Paislee. I am in the process of divorcing Vernon and getting the kids and myself out of this hell hole and I love both of my little darlings with all my heart, I truly do. So if you promise to love Paislee more than life itself then I will sign your forms." She completed with tears rolling down her cheeks.

Tony was too disturbed and distressed to even give any thought of talking. All he could manage was a shaky nod and Petunia signed the forms. "Where's Paislee?" Was the first thing he croaked out with shakiness evident in his voice. "In the cupboard under the stairs." Petunia croaked out as well and pointed him to the direction of where his daughter resided.

Tony immediately sprinted towards the cupboard and ripped the locks off the cupboard (Noting adrenaline rush) and swung the cupboard open the small space to reveal a sight that would have been to disturbing and horrifying to place in a modern horror movie.

On the far right side of the cupboard where two blankets lay, there was a small girl with shards of beer bottles sprinkled inside her curly dark brown locks and curled up into a tight ball. She had black, purple and blue bruises spread across her dainty body and was shaking like there was no tomorrow. You could hear her whimper as she slowly inhaled and exhaled the existing air.

Tony knelt down and stared sadly at his daughter. "Hello Sweetheart." He called as soft as he possibly could with current anger boiling up inside of him. The small girl painfully lifted her head up with her haunted baby blue eyes staring right back at him. "W-Who are you?" She stuttered as she looked at him with some sort of confusion.

"I'm your Daddy, Sweetheart." He warmly explained to the four year old. "I-I H-Have a D-Daddy?" She asked with her eyes lighting up with hope, excitement and still confusion. Tony nodded softly and Paislee smile for the first time she remembered doing so.

Tony saw the girl with a stuffed toy duck that was locked inside of her arms with pink cursive that read 'Paislee' on the back of its head and figured that was the only thing she had in her value at this fucking hell hole (of course quoted by no other than Petunia Dursley not five seconds earlier) and gathered the small year old angel in his arms and made his way to the taxi.

Paislee fell asleep in her Daddy's lap the second they entered the yellow car and stayed that way the rest of the way home.

'Life will be good' she confirmed in her thoughts.

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