"Daddy, I won't be coming home for a little while." Willow said into the phone as her dad finally stopped yelling for her to answer him. She could hear the faint sound of Kylie crying somewhere in the background and felt a sharp pain in the vicinity of her heart as she thought about her poor baby being without her for much longer.

Especially since leaving her daughter with her dad any longer meant that she was pretty much tempting fate.

"Tell me what's happening? What was that sound from before?" Her dad demanded in an uncommonly clam tone as she quickly replied,

"No! The less you know the safer that you and Kylie will be."

"Willow,"

"I said no dad! Just forget that you got this call, if anyone asks about me- act as if you haven't heard from me in months. It'll help keep you and Kylie safe until I can figure out-" She was about to say until she could figure out a way to settle things so that she could come home when her dad suddenly said.

"I'm calling Tony."

Causing her blood to pretty much freeze in her veins. Oh-no! No, no, no, no!

He wouldn't! He couldn't!

The line went dead and Willow swore a blue streak. Son of a bitch! He would, and just had apparently hung up on her for the sole purpose of calling her godfather, Tony Stark.

"Crap, crap, crap," Willow muttered to herself as she pulled into some random area and parked her car as she hung up the phone and then quickly dialed her godfather's number- hoping against hope that she could busy Tony's personal line before her dad's call could get through.

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Tony was just about to adjurn his meeting with the others to go lock himself in his lab and nurse the caffeine headache from hell after a semi nightmarish morning of being deviled relentlessly by Steve when his cell suddenly started playing Crazy Bitch, indicating that his goddaughter Willow Thornton was calling him.

Possibly for the usual reason she called him for.

To act as a mediator between the pissed off red head and her congressman dad.

Flushing a little bit as everyone stared at him, he gave a slightly awkward sounding laugh and then slipped his cell out of his pocket and flipped it open.

"Hello."

"I'm only going to say this once and I expect you to actually listen," Well, okay then. No pleasant hello's for him. Just an angry sounding red head that had a temper to rival the Hulk's talking to him. "Are you listening?" The feminine voice on the other end of the line snapped at him, making him inwardly cringe.

The last time he'd heard that tone from Willow was the time he had gone to see her for her birthday and accidentally caught her sunbathing without her top on.

She had not only been pissed enough to grab him and throw him into her dad's pool but had actually attempted to commit murder. and when that hadn't worked she had let him out of the pool so that she could bloody his nose and ream him for a good thirty minutes.

And man had she been brutal about it. So naturally when he heard the words, 'Pay attention.' coming form her, he tended to do just that even if it didn't seem like it to everyone else around him.

"Yeah, I'm listening." He said as he waited for her to tell him what she wanted.

"Good, now listen and follow my orders to the letter. Dad is going to call you," He opened his mouth to ask why when she hissed out, "Shut your mouth." Which he did automatically out of self preservation. "When he calls you, he's going to tell you something, you aren't going to like-" Again he opened his mouth to ask her something and again she hissed at him like a little snake before going on to say, "When he calls tell him what he wants to hear and then hang up. Don't you dare involve yourself in this, Tony. Or else." After that the line went dead and he took it away from his ear so that he could scowl at it .

Well...that was...weird. Tony thought just a second before his phone started to ring again, the dial tone this time was Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue. Alexander Thornton's favorite song.

Sighing because he didn't really want to lie to his friend without figuring out first just what the hell had Willow chomping at the bit like she was. Flicking his phone open again, Tony put it against his ear and once again answered with a polite sounding, "Hello."

"Tony! Tony something's wrong! Something'shappenedtoWillowandIcan'tgethertotellmeanything!" Alexander's panicked voice said from the other end of the phone in a rush.

Momentarily taking the phone away from his ear to scowl at it, again. Tony then placed it back to his ear and did his absolute best to try and calm Alexander down while attempting to ignore everyone else's eyes.

I mean really, didn't the others have anything better to do than sit in his conference room and listen in on his phone conversations? And if not- well, there were sneakier ways of doing so. And several of his team were really good at being sneaky.

"Tony did you hear me?!" Alexander's tone took on that weird high pitched sound that almost made him sound like a girl shrieking, thus bringing Tony out of his thoughts and back to the present.

"I heard you, dammit. Now calm your ass down and tell me what the hell your going on about. And speak slower please, I don't understand Alexander grade gibberish."

"Something is wrong, Tony. I got a call from Willow this morning and everything was fine until-"

"Until what?"

"Will you please be quiet and let me finish speaking." Alexander snapped irritably causing Tony to once again scowl at his phone before he began to listen to his old friend go over the morning's events and what had happened to Willow to cause him to panic like he was. And by the time he was finished explaining everything, Tony was thoroughly convinced that his goddaughter was up to her pretty little neck in trouble.

He told Alexander that he would send a security team over to the vacation home and check it out and then he would personally hit the streets to go find Willow and then walked out of the room without so much as a word to his team.