"Miss Stark, Captain Rogers is at the door for you." JARVIS announced Monday morning. Lex had just stepped out of the shower and she was running late on her morning routine.
"Oh fudge, are you kidding me?" She stumbled out of bathroom with a towel wrapped around her body. "Tell him to come in, but I'm going to need another minute to get dressed." Thankfully the guest bathroom was attached to her bedroom so she was free to dress while JARVIS invited Steve in. Her hair was thrown up in a messy bun, she was wearing a pair of jeans and Tony's old ACDC t-shirt since it was at the top of her clean laundry pile. She wasn't even wearing matching socks, but she shoved her feet into a pair of shoes just the same.
"I'm so sorry Steve!" She breathed after rushing him out the door. "I'm not usually this late."
"It doesn't much matter to me ma'am." He told her as they walked towards the subway station. "My job today is to go wherever you need, whenever you need."
"Okay." She huffed a lock of hair out of her eyes. "It's going to be a long day, Captain Rogers."
"Alex!" A bright streak of colors came running across the courtyard carrying a canvas. It was Lex's roommate Rachelle. "How was your weekend? Wait hang on…who is your hot new friend?"
"Listen Rach, I've been meaning to talk to you about that…"
"About your hunky new friend?" Rachelle was practically drooling as she studied Steve's chiseled face. "Has Kyle met him yet? Does he know you're seeing other guys?"
"Seeing other…Steve was friends with my grandfather and he's friends with my...Tony. He's like a hundred years old!" Lex laughed.
"I'm twenty seven." Steve's feelings were a little wounded. It wasn't his fault someone decided to thaw him out of that ice. "And I knew your grandfather, but I wouldn't say we were friends."
"Grandpa Howard wasn't exactly one for making friends was he? Shame I'll never get to have him over for tea." Lex sighed with little regret registering in her actual expression. Without a beat she looked over at her roommate. "Rachelle, please tell me you don't have a class right now. There are some things I really need to catch you up on."
"Yeah, I'm finished with class for the day, how about you?"
"Since it's quarter past nine I think it's safe to say I missed my eight am English class. I've got history at two, but until then I'm free. What do you say we head back up to our room, you're going to freak when I tell you what's been going on."
"Let me get this straight." Rachelle sighed after having everything explained to her once by Lex and then again by Steve. "Your biological father is billionaire Tony Stark, who is dating his company's CEO Pepper Potts. And you live in the Avengers tower with them?"
"Yes." The three of them were together in the girl's dorm room. Rachelle was laying on her bed with a pillow tucked under her arm, Lex was sitting cross-legged on her own bed and Steve was straddling one of the girl's desk chairs watching their back and forth exchange.
"And you're Captain Steve Rogers? The Captain Steve Rogers who's always on the news? The guy they say was thawed out of the ice?"
"Yes ma'am."
"And you told Kyle a whole week before you told me?" Rachelle pouted.
"Technically Tony was the one who told Kyle." Lex reminded. "You have to understand I couldn't just go around telling everyone. It would have been too dangerous for you to know before the timing was right. But Tony will be back any day now and he'll schedule an official press conference. I wanted you to know before the general public."
"So your dad, your other dad, just left you there? He didn't try to work it out or anything?" Lex shook her head. This was the first time she had really talked about what had happened with Oliver.
"I was so surprised at first. He had always been a great dad. He took me to all my dance practices, my piano lessons, future leaders of America meetings...Then I start thinking about how he had sort of trained me to be this little business tycoon and you know Rach, I can't help but wonder if any of that is actually what I wanted. When am I ever going to need to know the seven movements of ballet? Do I like playing the piano? And do I even want to go to business school? I don't even know who I am anymore! This whole thing has been kind of life changing and I don't know what to do to put it back on course."
"What do you think Captain Rogers?" Rachelle looked over at Steve. "If half the stories about you are true, you've seen some big changes in your life. So help us out. Shower is with your wisdom, Grandpa Steve! "
"Miss Rachelle," Steve decided to ignore her 'grandpa' comment for the moment. "I don't know if I've got much wisdom to shower you with. But if I know anything about Tony Stark, I'd have to say that he cares more about his daughter being happy than he does having a tycoon predecessor. It's been a long standing Stark philosophy that if you're happy the rest falls into place, and I think that dates further back than just your Grandfather Howard."
"And you said you didn't have any wisdom to shower us with." Lex smiled. "I guess I'll talk with Pepper and Tony when he gets home. If he ever gets home."
"They'll make it home." Steve promised. He realized this was the first assignment Tony had been gone on since Alexandria had come to live at the tower. "I can't say much, but I can tell you that where they went isn't particularly dangerous given our line of work and SHEILD has been in communication with your father the entire time."
"Good, because it would majorly suck if I went from having two dads to none within two weeks." Lex said. There was a knock at the door and Kyle's voice was calling from the other side.
"Rachelle, Lex, it's Kyle! Can I come in?"
"Oh no!" Lex jumped off her bed and crossed the room to the door. "I forgot to tell Kyle that you were going to be here today. He's a bit of an Avenger's fan so he is probably going act super weird. I apologize in advance for anything he says."
"It's alright. It happens all the time." Steve assured. Lex opened the door and invited Kyle inside.
"Captain Steve Rogers!" Kyle gasped. "Babe, you're officially the greatest girlfriend ever!" He kissed her on the cheek. He then thrust his hands out, which Steve got up from his chair to shake.
"It's nice to meet you Kyle." Steve smiled. Kyle adjusted his glasses and started to stare. He seemed too captivated by the super soldier's presence to contribute much more to their conversation.
"Kyle, I think I'm going to have to cancel our date tonight." Lex said, attempting to get her boyfriend talking again."I'm sorry but Tony's out of town and while he's gone, I'm being tailed by Grandpa Steve or Aunt Tasha everywhere I go. And I really don't think you want to go on a date with Captain America."
"Now hang on kids, there's no reason why you should have to cancel your plans." Steve interrupted. "I missed out on a dance with one heck of a gal because of my duty to my country. So unless one of you is planning on crashing a plane into some ice..."
"Wow, dating advice happens on a whole new level when your bio-dad and his friends are a bunch of world renowned mega-heroes." Rachelle observed getting out of bed. "I'd love to stay and watch this episode of Full House develop here in our dorm room..Oh wait no I wouldn't. If anyone needs me I'll be people watching in the quad to pad my sketchbook." Armed with the aforementioned sketchbook and a handful of pencils she left Lex to finish her discussion with Kyle and Steve.
A/N: I know someone mentioned in the reviews that they weren't exactly sure when this story takes place so I figured I should probably try to clear that up. Basically I imagine this story talking place sometime after Iron Man 3. So the Avengers are living in the former Stark Tower (which is now Avengers Tower.) For the most part everything is Canon up until that point.
The only reason my Tony still has an arc reactor in his chest is because let's face it, it's completely stupid that they spent all of Iron Man 2 inventing a new element only to take it out in Iron Man 3. And all the Avengers already know about Clint's farm because again, how dumb is it that they come out of nowhere in Age of Ultron? I figured the information would come out much sooner than it did in the MCU.
Other than that everything is pretty much canon. After all isn't that the fun of fan fiction? Getting to change parts of the canon? :D So thank you to Sabina Mohammad and for your reviews of Chapter 9! And thank you to everyone for reading, reviewing, favoriting, following and enjoying.