Chapter 4
Abby was on the laptop Steve had let her borrow. He had tried to help her in turning it on, but Abby said she was ok and she has one at her old home and knew how to work it. The Avengers were on a mission, well everyone except Tony. Steve, with Bruce backing him up, said that Tony should stay and get some rest because he was working too hard. Tony put up good fight but had to surrender eventually. So Abby was in the living and Tony was in his work shop 'getting some rest'. She was with him in the tower alone, and she was sure at any moment he would walk upstairs and tell her off. Stark had been told about her overhearing them that night, and was being grumpier towards her. If he was any smaller, Abby was sure that she would call him grumpy the dwarf. He had given her a new phone because Pepper had told him to be nice and stop being a child.
She was in the living room on the love seat, legs crossed with the laptop sat on her legs. She turned it on and started typing on the keyboard, within minutes she had hatched into the SHEILD secret dated base. She hovered over the file Abby Rogers. She took a deep breath and clicked on it.
Name: Abby Rogers
Age: 14, April 4th 1999.
Parents: Stephanie Rogers and Paul Wilson
Abby saw that her mums name was underlined she clicked on her name. Another file opened up. It had in big letters at the top her name. It had her date of birth and her date of death. Abby scrolled down and pictures of the car accident showed up. There was a picture of the car in a ditch and another one with car being pulled out of the ditch. The front of the car was smashed up. the lights were hanging off by a thread. The bonnet was crushed and the window screen was smashed and there was glass everywhere. No-one could have survived that. Well only Abby could survive that. She was in the car when her dad had lost control of the car and it had crashed into the ditch. The car had swerved and her mum screamed, Abby screamed and then felt the impacted of the car hit the floor. She went forward and hit the back of her mum's seat. Abby had crawled out of the car and up out of the ditch crying her eyes out. Her lungs felt like they were going to burst, her chest became tighter and tighter. They ambulance had found her mu and dad in the car dead and Abby lying passed out on the grass out of the ditch.
She woke up in the hospital and freaked out. She ran home and locked herself in her home and then locked herself in her parent's room. She didn't come out of the room for about a week. She would have stayed in there of ages but she needed food and water, plus she need a shower and the toilet. She lived at her home until SHEILD came and got her.
'Abby….Hey Abby,' a pair of fingers clicked in front of her face. She snapped out of it, jumping and slamming the laptop shut. She turned around and saw Tony staring at her. He walked around the sofa, snatching the laptop from Abby.
'You'll need a password for…' She stopped talking. Stark turned the laptop around.
'SHEILD secret database hey, wow you're a good hacker to get into SHEILD's database. In fact how long did it take you to get into SHEILD's secret database?' Stark said looking up at Abby.
'Erm… about one minute, it's very easy you see,' she said smiling. Tony looked at her, jealous probable because he was bragging about how he had updated Jarvis to be able to hack into anything in less than twenty minutes yesterday. But then Abby comes in and hacks into SHEILD's secret database in under a minute. Tony turns the laptop back round towards him. He looks down at the screen
'I wouldn't look at them pictures,' she said, trying to grab hold of the laptop but Tony moved it away. Tony looked up at her and smiled. He looked back down and scrolled down. She could tell he saw the pictures. Tony scrolled down more and read a news article about the crash. It said about how Abby had been in the car and how she had survived. How Abby had ran away from the hospital and no-one need where she was. It said how she had lost all her family and was left to grow up on her own with no-one to help her out. Tony looked up at Abby. She saw the look in his face. Tony remembers how he had felt losing his parents in a car crash. It brought back memories that Tony had focused down at a young age. He forced them back down. He handed the laptop back to Abby. He stood up and walked towards the kitchen
'Too much for you to handle,' Abby said looking back at the laptop and shutting it down. 'I told you not to look at the pictures, so I did warn you. Your fault metal head,' She said staring down at her hands. Tony looked up at her.
'I can handle anything.' Tony said grabbing a scotch and pouring himself a glass and drinking it down in one. He looked back at Abby from the kitchen. She put the laptop on the table and sat back in the chair. Abby could tell he was thinking about his parents. He walked out of the kitchen and walked passed Abby's chair to the door. Stark stopped and turned around. He opened his mouth to speak and nothing came out. He closed it and walked out.
'Ha, Tony Stark speechless,' Abby smiled, but then the smile slow drifted off her face.
Tony Stark speechless.
Wait… That was bad wasn't it. Abby was sure Clint has told her everything about the Avengers and had said if Stark stops talking then it's bad, very bad. She had told him not to look at the pictures. She just wished someone had told her not to look. How did she survive that. Why couldn't she be dead with them too. She wouldn't have to live in fear from SHEILD, who were supposed to be the good guys. She sighed and wiped tears away and got up to leave. She turned around to the door. But Stark was stood there staring at her.
'You ok kid?' Stark said. Abby nodded, she didn't want to talk.
'You sure?' He asked.
'Yeah am fine, why wouldn't I be?' She said, picking up the laptop.
'Ok, just thought I asked,' Tony said, putting his hands up in surrender. He smiled and turned around and walked out the door. This time not coming back. Abby smiled at the empty doorway. Tony had asked her if she was ok. She smiled to herself and walked to her room.