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Chapter 4 : Questions From The Past

It was going well. Ray didn't mind answering the questions as long as they weren't personal. But she knew sooner or later they would ask her about her personal life. She really didn't want to answer them! Tony took out the fourth card. This was starting to look like some reality show where you ask someone about their past and they have to answer them, something like 'Face the reality' blah blah!

"What calms you down when you panic?" Tony asked.

Ray sighed. What calms me down? She thought. She flinched a bit remembering the times she panicked. It was normally when she woke up from a nightmare. She hated that feeling.

"Working in the lab, listening to music and talking to you." she said shrugging her shoulders. 'Ting' went the lie detector.

Tony brought his eyebrows together so that there were contours on his forehead. He gave her a 'that's-cute' look. The others mentally awed. Tony dramatically cleared his throat.

"Yeah! Yeah! Don't pick up your collars!" Ray said. "You know you are the stress reliever of the team!"

"How is that so?!" he exclaimed.

"You know, when I panic I look at you, and then I realise..." she paused to give it a dramatic touch, "...that if I can been handeling you for the past 16 years..."

"15 years 11 months!" Tony popped in.

Ray rolled her eyes as she continued. "if I can been handeling you for the past 16 years, I surely can deal with any problem in my life!" she cunningly smiled.

"Wow! You really have a reply for everything don't you?" Tony said.

"Where do you think I get it from?" she joked.

"Yeah, I would have crossed you with that reply of yours but I don't wanna make things awkward for you." he joked back.

"Mr. Stark, Miss. Stark we should probably continue with the interrogation."

"God, I really think you should go and get a life!" Ray said as the machine went 'ting'. Tony laughed. The lie detecting machine was making things over dramatic. He took out the next card and a grin appeared on his face. "This one is good." He said looking at Ray.

"I can already feel that." Ray sarcastically remarked.

"What is the thing you did without Tony's..." Tony paused to correct himself, "...without my permission..." he pointed at himself in the process, "that got you in trouble."

"Why are you guys after every childish thing I did?" Ray exclaimed quite irritated. She was so busted!

"I bet Tony's gonna burst right now!" Clint commented earning a glare from Ray. Seriously? He had to comment that when she was already in a tight situation.

"Come on! How bad can it be?" Tony said though it was clear from his tone that he meant exactly opposite.

"I went out on a blind date." She said. 'Ting!'

"And?" Tony asked as he picked up the glass of water to drink.

"Turned out that the guy was older than even you." she said. Tony almost choaked the water and spit the remaining out onto the floor. "What?" he laughed. "Older than me?"

"Yeah, his hair had grey streak!"she said remembering the guy. She was 14 then.

"What did he say?"asked Steve looking quite entertained.

"Ohh he didn't say anything. He wanted me to kiss him. That's the first thing he wanted. Eew!"

"What?" Tony flinched. He didn't like the idea that his sister had kissed someone older than her!

"Chill, I didn't! I paralysed him and ran off."

"Did you ever tell this to anyone?" asked Edwin.

"Yeah, Edmund, my school friend. We laughed about it!" she smiled remembering the old days when Rayne Stark wasn't Valkyre. She was just a normal girl, the sister of billionaire weapons designer, the star of the school. She did miss the old days.

"I hope that was a lesson to you..." Tony said in his fatherly attitude.

"Yeah, pretty much." She agreed.

"Is that all Miss. Stark?"asked Edwin.

"Nothing I can remember at this moment Eddy." She said.

"You mean there can be more?"

"Like the time I told her not to fly in her suit without doing the final calculation and she didn't listen and she ended up breaking her arm. These are normal!" Tony said to the rescue. No matter how much he wanted to know what all mischief his sister did, but he didn't want her to say about it when she was on a lie detector machine.

"Right!" Ray said as Edwin nodded.

Tony took out the next card and had a look at it. He sighed. Ray knew from his expression that it wasn't going to be a good question. "Someone you terribly miss."

"Mom, Jarvis." She said.

"Jarvis?" asked Bruce.

"He was out family butler." Tony said. The discussion on Jarvis stopped there. Thank god Edwin didn't know that the Starks had named their AI after the family butler!

"Why not your father?" This was the one question Ray didn't want to be asked.

"I was only 7 when they died. He used to be busy at work. I hardly remember him!" luckily the lei detector went 'ting!' 'cause though partially, it was true. Both Tony and Ray sighed. They knew it was coming and they didn't want to go through this.

Tony opened the next card this time without even being asked to so. He was feeling uncomfortable with these questions and he could only imagine how Ray would be feeling at the moment. The hated discussing anything about their family especially about their dad! All he wanted was this to end early. He saw the next question and then turned at Edwin. "I really don't find a reason why you are asking these questions? How do these even make any sense?" he snapped. All this was doing was salting old wounds.

"I am not an expert in this Mr. Stark." he replied. "Just finish this."

Tony sighed as he turned towards his little sister. "Did you ever need a psycaitist or a councellar?"

Ray raised an eyebrow. Wow! This was starting to get bad. She took a deep breath before replying. "Pepper took me to a counceller for depression when this guy went to Afghanistan." she said. The lie detector went 'ting'.

"Been on medication?" Edwin asked.

"Yes." This was starting to get on her nerves. 'ting' went the detector again.

"How long?"

"5 months." 'ting!'

"How bad was it?"

"Come on! Can we skip this now?" Tony snapped.

"No." Said Edwin and then turned back at Ray. "How bad was it?"

"Level 3." 'ting!'

"Level 3, that's the worst case."

"Yeah..."

"What did you do?" This s where Tony lost his temper. "Stop it! She was a kid, she is a kid! It was normal for her to react.

"I never said it isn't normal."

"Then stop asking these weird questions!"

"I am just doing my job." Tony didn't reply but when Edwin asked, "What did you do in your unstable condition?" he snapped again. "She wasn't unstable. She was just depressed!"

"Calm down Tone." Ray said in a low tone. Tony sighed and looked at her.

"You better frame your questions properly!" Steve said in a serious tone. Damn even he was feeling uncomfortable. He knew this was awkward for them.

Edwin nodded and then turned towards Ray, "What did you do?"

"I broke the Buggati Veyron we were working on, stopped going to school, didn't talk to anyone except Pepper."

"Anything else?"

"She lost her appetite and locked herself up. Stop it now!" Tony snapped again.

"Is that all Miss Stark?"

"Yes."

There's chapter 4. I was supposed to type 'I am Iron Man' today but I ended up typing this one! I am really enjoying this.

'Question 6: Someone you terribly miss' was asked by lizlil on fanfiction. Thank you so much for reviewing! I think my answer isn't enough and I'll probably add some fluff in the next chapter. And Meee, I think I'm gonna add your question in the next Chapter.

And to everyone who haven't added any question yet, what are you waiting for? I am waiting for you to add to my question bank.

And the ones who have already asked. You can always add as many questions as you want. That will only make this fic more interesting.

Bye till then!

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