Chapter 3 I own nothing
Make sure you read all the way to the end, there is kind of a twist!
Ashley's P.O.V
It's been a little over a month since I started living with the Avengers, unfortunately the only one of them that trusts/likes me is Tony. I've been using the laptop that Tony gave me to do research, and see what I have missed in the last ten years and of course I decided to look him up. I read about his life, and about his parent's death, how when he turned 21 he took over Stark Industries until he 33 and he promoted Pepper Potts to be the new CEO. But what really got me is when I started to read the articles about how he became Iron Man, how he was kidnapped, and stuck in a cave for 3 months. So he knows what its like to be held captive.
"Knock, Knock" I heard, I turned around and smiled when I saw Tony
"Hi" he walked over and sat on my bed
"What are you doing up here all alone?" I frowned
"Um, Jarvis said you were busy in the lab so I didn't want to bother you, and…" I stopped and turned my head
"And, what?" he asked
"No one else here likes me" he frowned
"That's not true" I gave him a sad smile
"Yes it is Tony"
"Well, they will like you eventually"
"Tony, it's kind of hard to like someone when you don't trust them"
"It will happen Ash, just give them some more time" I nodded sadly
"Um, did you need something?" I asked
"No, just thought I would come and visit. You need to know you can come and see me in the lab any time, I'm never too busy" I smiled "Ok?" I nodded we sat in silence for a moment then he grabbed my hand "c'mon"
"Tony where are we going?" I asked with a giggle
"It just occurred to me that you have never been in the lab" once we reached the lab I was in shock, it's huge
"Wow" I said after looking around for a few moments I spotted a whole bunch of sports cars and I ran over to them
"You like cars" I nodded
"I don't know much about them, but I do love sports cars" he smiled
"You can take it out for a test drive if you want" he said when he noticed I was admiring the Audi R8
"Tony are you crazy? I don't know how to drive" he nodded his head
"Well one of these days I'll have to teach you won't I?" I smiled
"You would really do that?" he reached over and grabbed my hand
"Yeah, Ash of course I would you are one of my best friends, and I'll do anything for my best friends" I smiled then went over and hugged him
"Thank you" he hugged me back and it felt so right to be in his arms, Tony is so Hot, and I really like him but he would never like me like that so there is no point trying to get with him.
"Ash can I ask you something?"
"Of course"
"Before everything that happened to you happened, what did you like to do for fun"
"I loved to sketch, paint, and draw"
"Yeah?"
"I love it"
"You any good?"
"Well it has been a while, I'm probably pretty rusty"
"I some sketch books and stuff I could give to you"
"Really?" he didn't say anything he walked over to the shelf and grabbed some sketch books, markers and pencils"
"There you go" I smiled
"Thank you, if you don't mind I think I'm going to go and use my new sketch book and see how rusty I am" he smiled
"Ok, have fun" I walked up the stairs and was about to go back to my room but decided I would go to the dining room area and draw, I sat down at the table and opened the book, and started to draw and was surprised I am not as rusty as I thought I would be. I sighed after doing a few practice drawings what should I draw, I looked up at the Avengers symbol and got an idea, maybe I could draw something for Tony with all the Avengers on it, and give it to him as a thank you present.
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I had been drawing for about an hour it took me a while but with the help of Jarvis I managed to track down some colored pencils and I have to admit It is one of the best drawings I can ever remember me doing. I was surprised when I heard voices and a few seconds later Natasha and the rest of the Avengers minus Tony walked into the room, I decided not to make eye contact. Then I heard foot steps headed in my direction, I looked up and was shocked to see Natasha had come and sat down next to me
"What are you doing?" she asked, I was a little confused as to why she was talking to me but I was in no position to not interact with her, I really want them to like me
"Oh, I'm just practicing my drawing, I use to be pretty good just wanted to see how rusty I am" she nodded
"Is that supposed to be all of us?" I nodded
"I thought I would draw this maybe you would like that"
"Are you sure you weren't, planning on sending that to someone?"
"What? I asked confused
"C'mon Ashley, I have been a double agent many times before you were probably planning on sending that picture to Hydra, it probably has hidden messages in it right?"
"What no, of course not, I just thought Tony would like it if…" I was cut short when Natasha grabbed my sketch book and ripped the page out "What are you doing?" I asked, she didn't say anything she just ripped up the drawing into many pieces. I looked at her and then the remains of my drawing. I felt tears forming in my eyes but didn't say anything I just got up and ran to my room…
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Tony's P.O.V
It's been a few hours since I saw Ashley, is it weird to say I missed her as soon as she walked out the door? I shrugged my shoulders I had finished working on my latest project and realized I am kind of hungry
"Hey Jarvis what time is it?"
"6:30 sir" he said, I walked out of my lab and headed to the kitchen I looked through the refrigerator, and decided there was nothing I really wanted, I'll probably just order some food. I turned around and was about to ask Jarvis to order me some food when I noticed on the dining room table was Ashley's sketchbook and whole bunch of ripped up pieces of paper, that's strange I walked over and picked up the book, and then started walking to Ashley's room. I was about to knock when I heard what sounded like crying, and I suddenly wanted to kill whoever made her upset
"Ashley?" I said as I walked in, she quickly wiped her tears
"Hi" she said
"Why are you crying?" I asked
"No reason"
"Ashley, nobody cries for no reason" she didn't say anything she just looked at the ground "Does it have anything to do with the ripped up paper in the dining room?"
"Yeah" she said silently
"What happened?"
"I was panning on surprising you, I was going to draw something, I was sitting in the dining room minding my own business and Natasha walked over and started to talk to me, I was confused by happy I thought that meant she was finally starting to trust me" she sighed
"Ashley what happened?" I asked
"She saw me drawing and started talking some nonsense that what I was drawing had some hidden messages in it, and I was planning on sending it Hydra to give them secrets" she started sobbing again "I'm not a double agent I swear, I just wanted to give you something nice as a thank you then she just ripped it up into a whole bunch of pieces" I am so pissed off right now, how could Natasha do that? I pulled Ashley into a hug and let her cry
"It's ok Ash, you can just draw me another one" she looked up at me "Ok?" she nodded
"Thank you for being so nice to me" she mumbled I smiled
"Like I said before you are one of my best friends" she smiled again "hey have you eaten?" she shook her head "Why don't I order us some food?" she nodded
"Can we have cheese pizza?" she asked
"Jarvis, you heard the lady make it happen"
"Of course sir"
"Hey Ash I'll be right back" she nodded, I walked out of her room and started storming down the hall "Jarvis where is Natasha?"
"Her and the rest of The Avengers are in the kitchen" when I reached the kitchen I grabbed her by the arm roughly pushed against the counter
"What the hell Stark?"
"What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Why the hell would you rip up Ashley's drawing?" she laughed
"Because I felt like it" I looked at her confused
"She said you said some nonsense about it being a secret message to Hydra"
"That's what I told her, but I just don't like her, and decided to mess with her, it was only a joke she needs to relax"
"I'm warning you Natasha back off, Ashley has done nothing to you or any one else here, she is not a double agent and she is going to be living here as long as she wants, so get your fucking act together" I said before storming off back to Ashley's room
Sorry for making Natasha such a bitch I just think it would be fun to do something a little different.
