Due to popular demand... I wrote another installment. Short little thing because I really don't want to study for exams. Might actually have a plot line for this now!
Enjoy!
Stark put aside his work with the new suit. He was engrossed in making a mini-Iron Man suit for the little Barton he promised would get her very own. While it was fairly easy to get the dimensions of his suit and have the blue prints for the mini-suit. It was creating the technology that would fit into the smaller frame.
"Hi Mister Iron Man!" the little girl greeted him. Tony jumped back in surprise.
"Shit — SHOOT, kid you scared me!" Tony said correcting himself hoping that the little kid didn't catch on.
"Tasha teach me how sneak up on people," she said with a smile ignoring his language. She's heard it a lot being around Fury. Her father ensured that she would know not to use that kind of language. He told her that it wasn't "lady like" and if she wanted to be a lady then she couldn't use that type of language.
Since 'Tasha was a lady, and she wanted to be like 'Tasha, Hailey decided she couldn't say words like that.
"I bet she did," Tony replied. He looked at Hailey who was looking at the mini-suit with awe.
"That mine?" She asked amazed itching to come closer to touch it. Tony nodded his head, pulling down the tablet and projecting it lower so that it was life sized next to the little girl. "Can I touch it?"
"Yeah."
Hailey reached out her small hand and touched the hologram expecting it to be solid. When her hand went through the digital image, she pouted.
"It not real."
"I'm still building it."
"And then I fly?"
"Then you fly," Tony nodded. Flying, he thought, must be from the small girl's mother. He hacked into the SHEILD files after discovering about Hailey and looked up Mockingbird. She was gorgeous, and Tony wondered how the hell Barton could be so lucky to get the blonde to fall for him. One of Mockingbird's tricks was being able to levitate and fly with the use of what Hailey called her "magic stick."
"Okay," she said climbing on the stool next to Tony's. The girl just looked around her and Tony proceeded to tinker around with the circuit in front of him to develop the suit. After a few minutes of silence, Hailey spoke up tentatively. "Mister Iron-Man, sir?"
"Yeah?"
"You's a gen—-gene—-really smart, right?"
"Well I don't mean to brag but… yes," he smiled. "The word you're looking for there is genius."
"You's can help me fix daddy and Tasha?"
"What's wrong with your daddy and Tasha?" Tony asked putting his tools down and facing the small child.
"Daddy sad coz 'o Uncle Phil, and I try make him happy but he only happy when I there. And Tasha sad too. I wants-ta make everybody happy."
He nodded understanding. Since he started 'consulting' for SHEILD, he (or Pepper) had gotten to know the man very well. He could only imagine those he was actually close to.
"I want to them happy together. Like the prince and the princess. They gonna be happy ever after!"
Tony's eyes lit up. "You want my help to get your daddy and 'Tasha' together?"
Damn. Thor owed him twenty bucks for betting that the two assassins were already "betrothed to one other." Tony on the other hand had sensed the unresolved tension between the two and bet Thor that they weren't.
Twenty dollars richer. Yes!
"So we be a family, like in the movies. And she can be my momma, but no evil momma like in Cindy-ella," she replied nodding her head enthusiastically. "Tasha gonna be good momma."
"You want her to be your mom?"
Hailey smiled. "Uhu! Then her, and me, and daddy all gonna be happily ever after!"
"Okay, what do I get for helping you?" Tony asked the little girl, an eyebrow raised, teasing the kid. He didn't want it to seem like the girl has him around her pinky finger, when it was obvious that she did.
"I no gonna tell Ms. Potts you buy her pretty ring."
"What? How do you know about the ring?"
"I, Iron-Black-Hawk-Bird-Girl! I knows-ed everything!"
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