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Over the next six months, Lily had come to learn a lot about Tony. She learned that he hardly spent a lot of time at Stark Industries, but spent most of his time down in his garage working on new projects and developing more weapons. She learned that every night he had a new girl in his bed, sometimes even two, depending; though he never took them to his room, always to one of the guest rooms. By now, she began to know the routine of how to get the women out of his house.

Despite all of this, Lily learned to trust Tony. She trusted him with her life the same way he had learned to trust her. She came by his house whenever she wanted to, spending time down in his garage experimenting with his equipment, trying to learn more. Sometimes she would cook him dinner, knowing that most of his meals were takeout or eaten at some fancy restaurant. Every Friday night she would come by, and they would watch a movie together. They alternated between who would choose the movies, that way there was no possible fight between them. Tony made Lily watch action movies, while Lily, from time to time, would make Tony watch chick flicks and romantic comedies. This was a torture for Tony, which was the reason Lily loved it so much.

She began spending most of her time at Tony's house. She felt safe there; she felt herself; she felt at home. Her mother was barely home anymore. She'd spend most of her time out at clubs with her friends or going shopping. She was anywhere her father wasn't. Lily couldn't blame her mother for the way she was. It wasn't her mother's fault, it was her father's. She understood that her mother wanted to get away, away where he couldn't hurt her anymore. Her mother was so fragile that sometimes Lily thought she wouldn't bare another fight.

Her relationship with her father hadn't improved at all. Although he didn't hit her again, he was always cold, resentful with her. Her friendship with Tony angered him even more to the point where he would ignore her both at home and at work. He was acting as if she wasn't even his daughter. Sometimes she wondered how her mother ever married him, and how could she had his child if she hated him so much? These were questions that Lily asked herself often, and that, in time, she would find the answer to.

The next morning when Lily arrived at Stark Enterprises, she went directly upstairs to see Tony, only to find the office in a chaos. Phones were ringing off the hook, people were coming in and out of the meeting room, and secretaries were running desperately around trying to please a crowd of not-so-friendly looking business ladies and gentlemen.

"Hey, Matilda, what the hell is going on here?" Lily asked Matilda, who was one of the older, more serious secretaries that Tony had around the office.

"Oh, Lily, it's Mr. Stark. He had a very important board of directors meeting this morning that started an hour ago, and he's not even here. We were trying to reach him at home, but we can't seem to find him. I am telling you that Mr. Stane is not pleased," said Matilda in a very worried voice.

Lily turned around and saw a very tall, dangerous looking man about to explode walking around the office and shouting at his cell phone. She had a pretty good idea why Tony was not in the office yet. She turned back to talk to Matilda.

"Listen, Matilda, I've got a pretty good idea why Tony is not here yet. Would you like me to go get him and bring him here?" Lily asked.

"Oh yes, please Lily. You are a life saver."

Lily nodded at Matilda and left the office trying to find cab that would take her to Tony's place in record time.

Half an hour later she was thanking the cab driver and hurried inside the mansion. When the driver saw the mansion, his jaw dropped knowing all too well who lived there. Lily saw Happy sitting by the car. In his hand he had two dry cleaning bags with two women's articles in them.

She walked towards Happy and rolled her eyes when she saw the bags. "You do know Tony is late for the meeting, and that the board will kill him, right?" Lily asked Happy taking the bags out of his hands.

"I really tried telling him Miss, but you know how Mr. Stark is. He never listens to me," Happy answered back.

"Where is he Happy?"

"He's in his garage working on one of his cars."

"Fine. Have the car ready so you can drive the...Madame, wherever she wants to go."

Happy nodded and Lily left heading in the house towards the guest room. When she got there she loudly opened the door. The girl jumped up when she saw Lily there. Lily recognized her immediately. She was a new upcoming star model who had appeared on the cover of Playboy that month. She had big green eyes, long blond hair, and was wrapped around one of the bed sheets.

To say the least, she was surprised to see Lily there.

"I have your clothes here. They have been dry cleaned, and down stairs is a car waiting for you that will take you anywhere you would like to go," Lily said as she handed the woman her clothes.

"Where's Tony?" The blond model asked.

"Tony is not here. He never is the next morning. I thought girls like you could figure that out." The model did not look pleased and looked as if she wanted to kill Lily.

"Whatever. And what do you do anyway? Housekeeping?" asked the model.

"Me? I take out the trash," Lily said as she turned her back and walked out of the room, leaving behind one angry looking model.

When she descended down the stairs to the garage, she saw Tony's legs sticking out from under one of his cars. She slammed the door loudly making sure that he would be able to hear her. He rolled out from under the car and looked up at her innocently.

"You are in so much trouble, Tony," she said as she stood looking furiously at him.

"What? What'd I do? If this is about the model, let me say in my defense that she was the one that was all over me, though, that changed once we got here."

She just shook her head, not wanting to go into details with him.

"It's not about that. Wouldn't be the first time, and I'm sure it's not going to be the last, when I kick someone else out of the house. You have a board of directors meeting that was supposed to start an hour and a half ago, and let me tell you that they are not pleased with you."

The smile slowly left his face when the words started coming out of Lily's mouth. He started running up the stairs into his bedroom with Lily trying to catch up behind him.

"Why didn't you remind me?" he asked as he went into his walk in closet to change.

"Um, you might have forgot, but I reminded you yesterday at lunch, Jasmine reminded you when we left Stark Industries yesterday, and I told you again at dinner when we came to watch the movie. It's not my fault that you completely forgot about it in less than 24 hours."

In five minutes Tony came out looking sharp and clean in an expensive looking suit, looking ready to face the directors.

"Ok, tell Happy that we are ready to go," he said to Lily.

"Yeah, Happy is not here because he had to drive Miss Playboy wherever she wanted to go."

"Fine, we'll take my Audi then."

When they got to Stark Industries twenty minutes later, the directors all looked purple as they welcomed Tony, and he apologized telling them that he was caught up working on a very important project.

Lily slowly backed up and left smiling, looking back at Tony who saw her and smiled back.

When she got home later that night, she was so tired that she could barely keep her eyes open. Her father, as always, wasn't back-probably working late-and her mother just left for a long trip to Europe with one of her friends, which meant that she would be gone for weeks.

She took a long shower letting the hot water run over her body, relaxing her. Some days, like today, were crazy, and she had to run back and forth between Tony's house, Stark Industries, and her school. Some days were slow and sometimes she would even get bored waiting to go home or have dinner and watch a movie with Tony.

As she was falling asleep that night, she though back at the power she had felt as she threw that model out of the house. Knowing that the blond had to leave and she got to stay, it made her feel important. It was like saying, Yes, you got to sleep with him for one night, but I get to always be there by his side, always taking care of him and knowing him.

In that moment the ringing of her cell phone made her fully awake and ready for anything. However she relaxed when the displayed call showed Tony Stark Calling.

"What in God's name do you want at this time Tony?"

"What are you doing tomorrow night?" he asked.

"What? What's that got to do with anything?" She questioned.

"Well, do you want to go to a charity gala? You get to dress up and everything. I thought you might enjoy it," he said.

She just might enjoy it.

"Sure, why not," she said smiling.

"Perfect. So, you can take the day off tomorrow to get ready. Don't women take, like, an entire day to get ready for these kind of events? Happy will pick you up and bring you to the gala, and I'll meet you there."

They said goodbye and she went back to sleep, thinking over and over in her head what she was going to wear and what other casualties and problems the party might bring.

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