Hey guys! My email blew up with all the favorites, followings, and reviewers. It was awesome! Thank you, guests, Sam0728, Madgirl014, sbrock777, arthemys, seaweedbrainxx, badkitty, and for reviewing. As always, your words of encouragement made me smile :D I've decided to skim over Iron Man 2 for now, I might post a side story later but for now I will just touch on what happened in the next few chapters. Pairings are still undecided but Bucky was mentioned in a review, so he'll be added to the list of possibilities.

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The Iron Man suit shot out of the Atlantic and headed towards the newly completed Stark tower. The move to New York was inevitable after Obadiah's death. Even after appointing Pepper as CEO, the constant 2-3 day trips for board meetings were irritating to say the least. It was just easier to move in the end, rather than be away from his daughter constantly.

"Sir, Agent Coulson of SHIELD is on the line."

"I'm not in. I'm actually out," they were going to celebrate the completion of reactor powering the tower, Tony didn't have time for SHIELD's pestering today.

"Sir, I'm afraid he's insisting," landing on the balcony outside of the penthouse, Tony smiled and waved at Elli who was currently plastered against the window waiting for him to get back.

Ever since the palladium poisoning the year before, she had taken it upon herself to watch him like a hawk. At even the smallest sign of his health failing, Elli was ready to call Dr. Clemmons. He had sneezed three times in a row this morning and she had gone into what Pepper calls Elli's doctor mode. The P.A. turned CEO had been sure to take pictures to send to Rhodey later. Tony had been wrapped in multiple blankets and covered in various stuffed animals with a pink knit hat shoved onto his head as well as a fake thermometer hanging out of his mouth. A tray sat on the coffee table holding orange juice as well as a bowl of chicken noodle soup that Jarvis had heated in the microwave for the now five-year-old. The whole scene had made Pepper snicker but Tony was fine with playing patient if it made his daughter feel better. He still felt guilty for letting her find him at his lowest point in his lab last year. She had refused to sleep alone for a month after finding him half-dead on the floor.

"Close the line Jarvis. I got a date with a little lady," the suit disassembled as Tony strolled inside.

"Levels are holding steady... I think," Pepper was at the monitor having been waiting with Elli while Tony did the finishing touches at the bottom of the ocean.

"Of course they are," Tony scooped up his daughter and blew a raspberry on her tummy causing her to squeal and attempt to wiggle out of his grasp, "I was directly involved. Which brings me to my next question: how does it feel to be a genius?"

"Well, ha, I really wouldn't know now, would I?"

"What do you mean? All this came from you." Tony followed Pepper to the kitchen to where she had previously left her glass of champagne.

"No. All this came from that," the red head gestured to the glowing circle coming from Tony's chest, "and the living super battery hanging off your neck."

Looking down at his toddler, Tony chuckled as she hung onto him like a monkey, refusing to let go despite him no longer supporting her weight. For the past two years, Tony had been studying the energy his daughter produced and was able to slow down the palladium poisoning by using the arc reactor she had altered. The extra time had given him just enough time to create a new element to power the reactor as well as save his life. The large reactor powering the tower at the bottom of ocean used Starkonium and had just a touch of Elli's energy.

"Give yourself some credit, please. Stark Tower is your baby. Give yourself... twelve percent of

the credit," Elli laughed at Pepper's expression, her daddy was in trouble.

"Twelve percent?"

"An argument can be made for fifteen," Tony set Elli on the counter and went to the fridge to pour some chocolate milk in a sippy cup for her and the same in a wine glass for him. He had to keep it classy—it was a celebration after all.

"Twelve percent? For my baby?"

"Well, I did do all the heavy lifting. Literally, I lifted the heavy things. And sorry, but the security snafu? That was on you," Pepper raised her eyebrows at the man as he took a long sip from his glass, pinky up causing Elli to giggle and imitate with her Tinkerbelle cup.

"Oooooh."

"My private elevator..."

"You mean OUR elevator?" It had been decided that Pepper would live on the floor below, it made business easier and she didn't mind living right below her best friend and her goddaughter.

"...was teeming with sweaty workmen. I'm going to pay for that comment about percentages in some subtle way later, aren't I?"

"Not gonna be that subtle," finishing her champagne, Pepper pours herself another glass.

"I'll tell you what. Next building's gonna say 'Potts' on the tower."

"On the lease."

"Deal."

"Sir, the telephone. I'm afraid my protocols are being overwritten."

"Stark, we need to talk." Tony picks up his phone and looks into it at Coulson, scowling at the interruption.

"You have reached the life model decoy of Tony Stark, please leave a message."

"AGENT PHIL!" Elli levitates up to peak over her daddy's shoulders at the agent. Tony's scowl grew at his daughter's enthusiasm; she had developed a tiny crush on the man last May. It was cute according to Pepper, and normal for children her age, but Tony was not happy about it at all. The woman laughed at him causing him to stick his tongue out at her, he definitely was not jealous.

"Hello, Elli," the man grinned at Stark's daughter, before turning his attention back to her father, "Stark, this is urgent."

"Then leave it urgently," as Tony goes to hang up on the agent, the elevator door opens causing Elli to squeal in delight and run over to the man.

"Security breach," Tony turns to Pepper with an accusatory glance, "That's on you."

"Mr. Stark," Elli is riding on the man's shoulders causing Tony to mutter under his breath about sneaky agents using his daughter against him.

"Phil! Come in." Pepper walked to stand next to Tony.

"Phil? Uh, his first name is Agent," he was pretty sure Elli believed him when he told her that.

"We're celebrating," Elli informed the man.

"Which is why he can't stay," his daughter pouted at him, causing the genius to curse the agent all the more in his head.

"We need you to look this over," a file with top secret stamped across it appeared from inside Coulson's suit, "Soon as possible."

"I don't like being handed things," the only people who could hand him things were Pepper, Rhodey, Elli, and Dummy.

"That's alright, `cause I love to be handed things. So, let's trade," She passes her glass of champagne to Coulson and takes the file from him, before stealing Tony's chocolate milk and pushing the file into his hands, "Thank you."

"Official consulting hours are between eight and five every other Thursday," Tony opens the file as Pepper sips the chocolate milk resulting in a small chocolate mustache on her upper lip before making a face at Elli. The little girl giggles from behind Coulson's head and reaches to trade chocolate milks so she can do the same.

"This isn't a consultation."

"Is this about The Avengers?" Elli stretches her neck to look down at Phil.

"Which she...and I know nothing about," Pepper takes the five-year-old down from the agent's shoulders so she can wipe her face with a napkin.

"The Avengers Initiative was scrapped, I thought. And I didn't even qualify."

"I didn't know that either." Pepper rinsed out their glasses before handing them to Elli who put them carefully in the dishwasher.

"Yeah, apparently I'm volatile, self-obsessed, don't play well with others," Elli watches as a big green man smashes a car in the video her daddy is watching.

"That I did know."

"Yes, well your file isn't very accurate due to Fury agreeing to keep Elli and all things related to her out of our servers, but this isn't about personality profiles anymore, Stark."

"Whatever. Miss Potts, got a minute?"

Pepper goes to speak to Tony in private as Elli drags Coulson over to look at her newest drawing hanging on the fridge.

"You know, I thought we were having a moment. Me, you, and Elli."

"I was having twelve percent of a moment," Tony rolls his eyes as Pepper glances at the agent, "This seems serious, Phil's pretty shaken."

"I know. Will you be able to watch Elli for a few days if I need you to?"

"I'm going to take the jet to D.C. tonight, remember?"

"You could bring Elli with? Girls' weekend, that's a thing right?" Tony is watching the video of Captain America play as he and Pepper look at his file move across the screen. Nodding, Pepper is already texting Happy to inform him he will be on babysitting duty while she attended a few meetings. After they could go to the Smithsonian, Elli loved museums.

"You've got homework. You've got a lot of homework," Pepper glances as more and more files and pictures fly across the server.

"That I do," turning away from the monitor, Tony scoops Elli up as she is showing her favorite doll to the agent, "alright, munchkin. Go with Aunty Pepper to pack some clothes. You guys are going to have a girls' weekend while daddy gets some work done."

"Girls' weekend?" Elli didn't like the idea of leaving her daddy alone to work. He tended to forget to eat.

"Yup," Pepper grabbed the Captain America doll that Elli was previously showing Phil, "We are going to go to D.C. And you know what's there? The Captain America exhibit!"

Elli's eyes widened before screaming and running to her room to get ready, Pepper following behind at a slower pace. The girl was as in love with Captain America as Phil was. It was probably what had drawn her to him in the first place. They had bonded over Tony's dad's collection of memorabilia and watched the wars films while decked out in Captain America gear every other Tuesday. Tony took pictures to use as black mail against the agent later.

"What do you think she would do if she knew you were meeting him?" Tony looked back at Phil, the man was chuckling at the girl's antics.

"Probably follow behind me all the way to the helicarrier, she can keep up with Mark 6 easily when she concentrates." Phil snorted, he didn't doubt that for a second.

Pepper came back with Elli a few minutes later with her beanie and sunglasses on and ready. A Captain America backpack had the good Captain himself sticking out of one of the pockets and a Frozen themed duffle hung off of her side.

"Got your toothbrush?"

"Yep."

"Motor oil?"

"Yes."

"Extra undies?"

"Yes daddy! I gots everything!"

"It's I have everything sweetie," Tony kissed his daughter's head before Pepper began to steer her towards the door, Coulson following behind, "I love you!"

"Love you too daddy." Tony waited until the elevator doors shut before turning to look at the monitor. He had a bad feeling about this.

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Usually I write a lot more scenes in a chapter but I got carried away with this one, haha. About Elli's crush, it is purely innocent and Phil finds it cute and plays along because he is a great guy. My cousin's daughter has this huge crush on my older brother which is just the most adorable thing ever. It made me think of the possibility of Elli having a crush on Phil and seeing Tony being a jealous daddy made me laugh. Anyways, due to staying up late and getting up early, I'm going to attempt to sleep before 4 and wait to write the next few scenes of The Avengers. I'm supposed to have the day off tomorrow so I am hoping to write a lot while sitting in the sunshine.

Hope you all enjoyed!