It took Tony and Sara grand total of an hour in a half after leaving the tower, to get where they were going. Get out of the car and hit the first three shops before finally coming to one of Sara's favorite clothing and accessory stores. Tony was currently standing outside of the dressing room where Sara was trying on a little black number that had a nice, classic style to it.

Yet was so plain and ugly that it reminded Tony of a medieval burlap sack.

Which is why after she came out of the dressing room wearing it, he promptly shoved a nice pastel pink, ankle length dress into her arms and then pushed her back into the dressing room to change out the outfit before she could so much as protest.

Sara huffed at him for not even looking, much less considering her- berlap sack of a dress as a potential dance dress. The father and daughter dance was considered a formal affair. And he had already decided that if he was going to be wearing a monkey suit- then she was going to wear a damned dress and look like a princess.

The pink dress didn't look bad on his girl. In fact it looked really, really nice on her.

But it wasn't the one that she was going to wear to the dance. However it didn't stop Tony from taking the pink one from her hands as Sara marched past him to go find another dress to try on.

The next one was a flop. And so was the three or four after it.

Finally after being in the shop for almost two in a half hours, Tony pushed away from the wall and went to browse some of the dresses in an effort to speed things up a bit. he found a nice white velvet calf length dress with pastel blue, purple, cream, and mint green embroidered flowers on the front of it that was too cute for him to pass up.

But it still wasn't a formal dress.

Everything red and sapphire blue was out. The colors' while nice, simply didn't look good on his girl. So that only gave him white, pastel pinks, purples, greens and the same color of her eyes to work with. And unfortunately, there wasn't many of any of those. It took some doing, but finally he found the dress for Sara.

The dress looked to be a vintage style reproduction of a seventies or eighties style pageant/prom dress. Holding it up in front of him so that he could get a better look at it, he noted the nice simple off the shoulder top down to the pretty full skirt with ruffles and lace and a nice pretty little silk ribbons here and there.

Checking the inside of the dress, he found a sewn in satin slip and then finally checked out the color.

It was the closest color to Sara's eyes that he'd seen so far. That nice bizarre mix of turquoise, aquamarine, and soft mint green all rolled into one. The top fabric shimmered when it was held up in the light. Letting the colors shift from one to another until they blended again.

It was perfect!

And with the right hairstyle and accessories- OH! Accessories!

He had the perfect idea of what she could wear with the dress to look absolutely stunning. Quickly dashing back to the dressing room as she started to come back out, he thrust the dress into her face and quickly said, "Here, take it. Perfect, dress!" And then once she took it from him, he went dashing back towards the front of the store where he had seen some crystal hair combs and such.

Some of which were made of carved mother of pearl, and jade with freshwater pearls and crystals in various shapes, sizes and colors. Picking five of each that would match- in combs, hair barrettes, clips, and accents- for not just the pretty turquoise/aquamarine/pale green dress. But the white one and pink one too and then stood there for several minutes just thinking about what else she would need.

Shoes. Perfume. Jewelry- well, she probably had some back at the tower that would work well enough.

After all, he had bought her some rather nice pearl pieces and a necklace and earring set with little over three carats worth of stunning flawless white and pink diamonds shaped like flower clusters, set in white gold.

The necklace was an impressive piece alone. That Tony had had created specifically to look like an illusion necklace. There were five breathtaking flower clusters soldered into place all around the front of the necklace with a little bit bigger cluster that dangled down a little bit as a pendant.

The earrings were smaller and more delicate looking clusters that hung from a fine, delicate white gold chain.

All in all, he felt that those would do very nicely given the color of the dress.

He then set them all on the counter and waited patiently for Sara to finally emerge from the dressing room before calling her over to see what she thought of the dress that he had picked out for her to wear to the dance. "Well?" He asked curiously as she finally reached him.

"It's nice."

"Yeah it is." He said as he nodded, his dark eyes watching her as she fidgeted with her shirt sleeve for a moment before asking him awkwardly what he thought of it.

Tony merely grinned. There was no need to vocalize his thoughts on it when she could plainly see it. So after a moment's hesitation, she handed him the dress and then walked over to a small display, pretending to look it over as he payed for everything. Once he was done, and everything was bagged, he took the bags and then whistled to get her attention as he headed for the door.

He was tempted to see if she wanted to get a haircut or have her hair styled at a local salon, but knowing Sara as well as he did- he knew that would be a big problem. Especially since she might decide to have someone cut her hair up to her shoulders or shorter. And that would be a damned travesty given how cute she was with long hair.

So instead he merely asked her if she was ready to go eat or if she wanted to look around for some other stuff. To be honest, his girl wasn't much of a shopper when she was out.

She didn't do mall crawls. If she went to the store for anything at all- it was usually a get in and get out operation. She always had a good idea of what she wanted, why she wanted it and where the hell it was located. Which was something he found a mite peculiar for someone of not only her age, but her gender.

So naturally it didn't come as much of a surprise when she merely told him that she'd rather grab something to eat and head back home.

The buzz kill.