Hey everyone! Thanks so much for the reviews and follows they made my day! I wanted to update this chapter today because I just couldn't wait any longer! HEHE! Hope you like it!
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"So welcome to Stark Tower!" Tony said spreading his arms out wide. Ella just laughed at his antics. Tony was giving her a tour of the tower. The bottom floor consisted of a garage which housed all of Tony expensive cars along with a vintage motorbike which was revealed to belong to Steve and a black convertible which belonged to Clint. The floor directly above the garage was the gym. It was there they found Clint and Natasha sparring with each other.
"Hey assassins this is my sister Ella, Ella meet the assassins." Tony introduced. Both Clint and Natasha glared at him.
"Hi, I'm Clint Barton, this is Natasha Romanoff." Clint said, introducing them properly.
"Nice to meet you both." Ella said politely slightly unnerved by the trained killers.
"Welcome to the mad house mini-Stark." Clint smirked
"As long as you're not as bad as Tony I think you will do fine here." Natasha said, speaking for the first time.
"I'm not as bad as him. Unlike my brother I didn't grow up with a rich kid's lifestyle."
"In that case I think it will be nice to have another girl around here, especially one who can give Tony a run for his money." Natasha smirked.
"Hey now, as the owner of this building I strictly forbid you from ganging up on me." Tony cut in.
"And as someone who can kill you with their bare hands I'm allow to ignore that rule." Natasha replied curtly. Ella and Clint chuckled at that. Tony swallowed thickly.
"Noted. So Ella, lots to see." He replied, steering her out of the gym.
The next floor was the kitchen and living room area. It was an open plan area with full length glass windows covering 2 of the four walls. Tony assured Ella the glass was mirrored so she could see out by no-one on the street could see in. The next two floors were clearly for Tony and Bruce. Both were labs with a large room of computers and other tech in them that Ella couldn't identify.
"We are going to skip a couple of floors, you can explore them later." Tony explained as they entered the elevator again.
"What's on them?"
"Just stuff. A cinema, an office in case I need to work from home and a meeting room in case of Avengers business." Tony explained. "So do you want to see your room?"
It was only then Ella noticed the remaining buttons on the elevator. Each button was designed with a different avenger in mind. Tony followed her gazed, noticing what she was looking at.
"I'm a busy guy I can't always remember what floor belongs to whom so this way seemed easier."
The first button was blue with a lighting bolt carved into it; clearly that was Thor's floor. Next was a green button was Ella guessed was Bruce's what with him being the Hulk and all. The next floor button was black with a silver bow and spider in the centre, it appeared Natasha and Clint shared a floor. Next was one she recognised easily as Steve's floor, the button was a mini image of his shield.
"Pepper and I have the top floor of course because it's our building." Tony said pointing towards their button. It was red and gold like Tony's Iron Man suit but had a red hot chilli pepper in the middle of it. "This is your floor button, I wasn't sure what to design it as but I know you like music so the musical note seemed like the best choice."
"Tony it's amazing, thank you. But you know I am only staying for the summer, you are going to have to change it once I leave." Ella smiled. She had played the guitar from an early age and found it was a great way to relive stress; it also gave her the space she needed to think. Well that and running.
The elevator opened to what would be her floor for the next few months. It was furnished with cream walls and a plush carpet. It was homely yet professional at the same thing and Ella loved it. She left Tony's side to look around. There was a small living area and kitchen, with a guitar resting on a stand by the TV. The first room she came too was full of Stark tech. Computers and other gadgets filled the room along with a desk.
"Yeah, I was hoping you might work at Stark industries for a bit. Just for computer tech stuff. I only employ the best and your hacking skills are the most impressive I have seen, not including myself of course." Tony explained as he walked into the office. Ella was great with computers but not so good at the engineering side of things. At the age of 17 she might have accidentally hacked into the CIA's database, safe to say her mom was not best pleased.
"Tony you don't have to do that, I am more than capable of finding my own job." Ella explained.
"Hey you would be doing me a favour, just until I find a replacement." Tony asked giving her his best puppy dog look.
"Fine!" Ella laughed knowing he wasn't going to give up, it would also give her something to do while she was in New York.
Ella moved onto the next room which turned out to be a bathroom. The next door she came to was her bedroom. It was also decorated in natural colours with a massive bed. There was a dresser against the right wall and off to the left there was another door. This one led to a walk-in-wardrobe. Ella stared at it open mouthed.
"Pepper's idea, she really wants a shopping partner." Tony explained seeing his sisters face.
Without any warning Ella launched herself at her older brother, "I love it! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" She squealed almost crushing him with the hug.
"Can't. Breathe." Tony joked. Ella smiled shyly before releasing him.
"Hey Tony do you think we are going to be okay? Living together I mean. We haven't really seen that much of each other." Ella asked, the question had been on her mind a lot lately, especially on the plane to New York.
"We agreed not to hate each other because of the mistakes our father made. Are we like every other family? No, we're not. Hell how many other families have a Hulk? We are way cooler than every other family."
"Tony, I'm serious."
"So am I. We aren't the most conventional family and I will never admit it to anyone but after everything we have been through the avengers they are sort like the family I never asked for and you are a part of that." Tony replied looking directly at her. Ella smiled at him. "I got to go and meet Pepper, you need anything?"
"Na, I'm good." Ella replied "Go have fun."
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Ella had unpacked her few belongings, she would have to make a trip with Pepper soon. It was only when all her clothes were up in her new closet that Ella realised she really didn't pack much stuff at all. Her stomach started to rumble, reminding Ella that the last time she ate was the burger she had for an early lunch with Pepper. It was now half 5 in the afternoon. Well no wonder she was hungry.
She grabbed her phone before walking to the elevator. Ella pushed the button to the kitchen and waited, humming a song as she did. The kitchen was empty now, not an avenger in sight. Ella walked over to the cupboards opening them. Her plan was to eat the first thing she could find that she didn't have to cook. She was rubbish at cooking, the last time she tried her flatmate had to get a new oven, safe to say Ella decided against cooking now at all costs.
There was nothing in the cupboards except a few boxes of pop tarts. Opening the fridge she found the same thing, only a small block of cheese and a bottle of mineral water was left.
"You won't find anything edible, it's Tony's turn to go food shopping and he really hates it." A voice from behind her explained causing her to jump and bang her head as she tried to look up. "Are you okay?" Steve asked as he came into her view.
"Yeah, that was stupid." Ella replied rubbing her head. "So what do you guys do for food?"
"Normally we get take-out until Pepper convinces Tony to go shopping or someone gets so annoyed they do the shopping for him." Steve explained in an amused tone.
"Sounds like Tony. Hey do you know anywhere good to eat? I'm new around here and I'm starving." Ella asked, as if on cue her stomach rumbled causing both Ella and Steve to laugh.
"There is this great café a few blocks away, quiet. The best brownies around, I could take you if you like?" Steve asked shyly. Ella thought it was adorable. Having dinner with Captain America, what kind of girl would refuse an offer like that?!
"Sure, I'd love too. Just let me grab a jacket."
"That's a good idea; meet you back here in 5?"
"It's a date." Ella replied before realising what she said, "I mean it's not a date, I mean-" Ella blushed. Steve laughed.
"See you in a sec." Steve replied before winking at her, Captain America just winked at her. Wow, did she sound like one of the girls in his fan club. She really needed to get a grip; she had never been that girl. Taking a deep breath she went to retrieve her jacket. It's just one of your brother's friends! Relax!
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p.s. I want to point out this story will be a long one so I am planning to not rush into the development of steve/ella's relationship but trust me, I think you will like it! I have to mix the action and plot lines in there too!
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