Okay, so I guess we're going to figure out who this Steve character is. It's a big surprise, I'm telling you! lol At least for Abbey.
Chapter Seven
I decided not to tell Tony about Steve and that I was meeting him tomorrow. The last thing I wanted was for him to flip out about me meeting some random guy. The Avengers would be coming in any moment, and I was trying to look the best I could. Tony had said I could stay for the meeting.
"Don't worry about appearances. You look great." Tony assured me.
"I don't want to look like a wreck when the world's best team of superheroes arrives." I said and he laughed.
"You could have just woken up and you would still look like the prettiest sister." He said.
"You're just saying that because I'm your sister." I said, blushing for the second time that day.
"You've got the good looks of the family, right behind me that is." He said playfully and I shoved him.
"Hey!" I said with a laugh.
"I'm just saying..."
"Sir, the team has arrived." JARVIS informed us.
"Send them in." Tony replied.
The elevators doors opened to reveal four people. One was a red-head dressed all in black, followed by another man with reddish-brown hair dressed all in black as well. The next person out was a brown-haired guy with glasses, dressed in a dark-collared shirt. Then my eyes laid on the last person and my eyes went wide. Steve.
Steve's eyes met mine and his eyes revealed both shock and confusion.
"Abbey?" He asked.
"Steve?" I was just as dumbfounded as he was. Tony, seeing that we knew each other, looked at Steve first.
"How do you know my sister?" He sounded a little defensive.
"You have a sister?" The man with the glasses asked, looking from me to Tony.
"Didn't you read the papers this morning?" The man in black said, sitting down along with the red-headed woman. "The long-lost, supposedly dead sister has returned."
"You have a sister?" Steve asked, flabbergasted.
"Yes, Captain Obvious. I think we figured that out." Tony said sarcastically.
Captain? The only other Avenger that would be called Captain would be...
"Captain America?" I asked. Steve nodded. I had never seen Captain America's face. From what I had seen from the New York footage was him having his mask on.
"That's a...surprise." Steve said, looking sheepish.
"You're telling me." Tony said, glaring at Steve through narrowed slits.
"Tony, he had no idea...and neither did I for that matter." I explained.
"How do you two know each other?" Tony asked again.
"Maybe we should save this for another time." The man with the glasses suggested. Tony looked to him, then to Steve and then to me.
"Alright Bruce." I presumed that was the man with the glasses name was. "Let's get to business." Tony said, trying to shrug it off. It wasn't working.
"Is she joining us?" The man in black asked and Tony nodded.
"Yes, Clint." He replied.
"I thought this was a top-secret meeting." The red-headed woman said, her eyes serious. She looked from me to Tony and raised an eyebrow.
"Natasha, she's a Stark, remember? She's part of this whole crazy scenario too." Tony replied.
"She's your little sister that you just found after eighteen years of searching. Do you really want her to get involved in something so dangerous?" She reasoned.
"Like I said, she's a Stark. She's bound to get involved sooner or later. Might as well be sooner." Tony said. "Besides, it's not like I'm going to put her in a fight or anything."
The woman named Natasha must have thought it was pretty useless as she dropped the topic.
"Well," Tony clapped his hands together, "let's get this show on the road." He ushered all of us to some couches and chairs. I sat beside Tony and Steve wisely positioned himself away from me...more out of fear for my brother.
"So, why are we here?" Tony questioned Steve.
"We have been tracking a series of threats around the world." Steve explained. "It's a Russian terrorist group and we believe they are connected with several attempts to hack high-tech military security systems."
"So you want me to track them." Tony stated. Steve nodded.
"Anything technology-wise. If there's any unauthorized usage at military databases, we want to know. Dr. Banner also would like to join you."
Clint and Natasha continued to debrief Tony on the situation. I listened, but my gaze drifted more towards Steve, who I could see was glancing one in a while towards my direction when Tony wasn't looking. I could see a small grin, but if Tony so much as glanced at him, it disappeared. Inwardly, I was laughing at the whole scene.
"Then that settles it." Tony concluded. "Sis and I will stay in New York whilst me and Bruce will work on the tracing."
"Sounds good to me." Steve agreed.
"Since we're done with that, who's up for a drink?" Tony asked, making his way towards the bar.
"I think I'll take you up on that." Clint said.
"So what do you do?" Natasha asked me.
"I'm just a robotics engineering and physics major." I said plainly and Clint scoffed.
"You make it sound trivial." He said.
"It's not really that hard...at least not to me."
"You definitely have the Stark genius gene." Bruce commented.
"What can I say, we're two peas in a pod." Tony said proudly as he sat back next to me.
"What did you plan to do with your degree?" Natasha asked curiously.
"I had actually wanted to work for Stark Industries. I guess I got my wish." We all laughed at the irony.
"Well, Director Fury is expecting a report soon. We'll tell him your in and get back to you sometime during the week." Clint informed us as he and Natasha got up and left.
"See you tomorrow in the lab?" Bruce asked and Tony nodded. They both continued in other conversation whilst Steve and I got a chance to talk.
"I'm sorry, I had no idea.." I started.
"We both weren't being exactly truthful." Steve said. "But I guess our date just got cancelled."
"What date?" Tony's voice echoed through the room. We hadn't even noticed Bruce had left and Tony's eyes were on us.
Whoops.
Tony's P.O.V.
"We umm..." Captain Oldtimer seemed at a loss for words. He was definitely up to something...with my sister.
"Ummm what?" I asked suspiciously. I did NOT like the thought of Steve and my sister being together. Not one bit.
"We made some plans for tomorrow." Abbey said, avoiding eye contact at all costs.
"Like what?" I demanded, crossing my arms.
"We were going to go out to eat at a diner." Abbey explained. A date? My sister, my eighteen year-old sister going on a date with Steve? Every instinct said...
"Absolutely not." I said firmly.
"And why not?" She said, putting her hands on her hips and looking me straight in the eye. She was so much like Mom. If her and Dad got into an argument, she would put her hands on her hips and give me the same look Abbey was giving me right now.
"Because I said so." I sounded more like a parent than a brother.
"You're not the boss of me." Abbey retorted.
"I'm your big brother and I said no." I said sharply.
"Maybe I should go..." Steve was quickly cut off by Abbey.
"No Steve. I can go out with anyone I choose, and he has no say so." Abbey snapped, glaring at me. I wasn't about to let that happen.
"Would you please excuse us?" I said to Steve. He took the hint and left, quite quickly I might add.
"What's wrong with me dating Steve?" Abbey demanded as soon as the elevator doors shut.
"He's just...just..." Where was a good excuse when I needed one?
"Just what?" She said.
"He's too old for you." I said.
"He's like, twenty-one."
"Add about seventy years to that." I said. She had to have been taught about Captain America in history class.
"But he's not some creepy old man. He's a guy I just happen to like." Abbey argued.
"I said no and that's final." I said sharply. This time, Abbey seemed hurt.
"You're not Dad." She said before walking off to her room, closing the door and locking it.
Ouch.
"Abs, please. I'm sorry." I said. No response.
After a few minutes, I decided to leave her alone. I sat on the couch and dialed the only person I knew who could help.
"Hello?" Pepper's voice brought sweet relief to my ears.
"You're never going to guess what happened today." I told her about Steve and Abbey and the whole date scenario.
"That sounds great." Pepper was surprisingly happy about all this.
"What?" I asked, confused.
"From what I've seen of Steve, he's quite the gentleman." Pepper said. Great. Even my wife approved of him.
"But he's like ninety years old."
"He's in his twenties." Pepper said. "The other seventy doesn't count and you know that." I sighed. I told her about the fight.
"Tony, from what you're saying, it sounds like this is more about you than her." Pepper reasoned.
"What?" Now I was really confused.
"It's not his age that you're worried about. It's you. You're afraid he's taking away your sister."
I couldn't help but think that the words were true. I had only known my sister a few weeks and now she was hanging out with someone else. She was my sister, the one I had been searching for for years. Shouldn't I be the one to be around her right now?
"Yeah." I admitted. There was a brief silence for a moment.
"Where is she now?" She asked.
"In her room."
"Go talk to her."
"She locked me out."
"Try again." She urged.
"Alright. Thanks." I said before hanging up the phone. I sighed.
I knocked on the door again. No answer.
"Abs, I'm sorry. I know that you want to date Steve and all, I'm just not comfortable with it. I just got you back for a whole two weeks out of eighteen years. I was jealous." There was still silence.
"I'm sorry." I said one more time before turning away. That was when the door opened. There was Abbey.
"I'm sorry too." She said before hugging me. "And I understand. I've only had you for a couple of weeks too, you know." I held her tight.
"I tell you what. I'll let you go out with Steve as long as you help me on tracing those Russian terrorists." She readily agreed.
"Thank you." She said, hugging me tighter. It was good to be a big brother.
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