The next week Tori went down to the workshop. She had asked four more times to use the holographic projector since her birthday but every time something had come up; today she wasn't taking no for an answer. Entering her code she spotted Tony under a hot rod in the corner.

"Dad, can I use your holographic projector?"

"Of course, princess," Tony said as he slid out from under the car, "Why didn't you just use the one upstairs?"

Tori slowly, slowly, turned to look at him, her eyes becoming glazed, "You have two of them?"

"Yeah, there's another one in the office right down the hall from your room; Pepper's got a key to it," Tony said, oblivious to how much danger he was actually in. He turned to look at her and froze when he saw the glare he was receiving, "What?"

The teen sighed, "Nothing, not a thing. Can I load my research on your computer?"

"Sure," Tony said, still unsure of what he'd done.

As Tori woke up the computer and plugged in her flashdrive she saw some of Tony's research was already pulled up. She looked at it for a moment, "Hey, is this the write up of Starkadium?"

"Yeah," Tony confirmed as he went back to working on his hot rod, "Pepper's been on me to get it submitted for a while so I sent it in is morning."

She read it for a few minutes, a look of realization starting to dawn on her face, "Holy Fuck!"

"What?" Tony asked as he pushed away from the car, "You okay?"

"This is it," Tori said as she started to pull up her work and load it into the projector.

By then her father had come up behind her and started pointing to one of the holograms, "Is that cancer?"

"Jarvis, load Starkadium, please!" Tori ordered the A.I., ignoring Tony's 9/10ths rhetorical question. He watched as she put Starkadium into her second hologram, which looked suspiciously like a white blood cell with something else attached to it. It was the attachment that she loaded the element into and then took a step back, "Run it!"

Tony watched amazed as the cancerous cells, which were color coded black started to disintegrate and leave normal red cells in their place.

"The contaminated cells have returned to a normal state and while there still need to be more tests, it would appear, Miss Stark that this was a success."

"Did you just create a cure for cancer?" Tony asked her, breathless.

Tori nodded, afraid to even breathe, but her father wasn't as reserved. Suddenly he was picking her up and almost crushing her in his arms. This spurred her out of shock and she quickly began to hug him back, happily bouncing up and down as he finally let her go.

"What did I miss?" Pepper asked, coming in with a bunch of papers for Tony to sign.

"The little princess found a cure for cancer!" Tony announced.

Pepper quickly grabbed the girl and hugged her, amazed by what she'd heard, "That's amazing; I'm so proud of you!"

Tony had Jarvis run the tests but as he read through all of Tori's work he knew that it was going to work. An hour after the discovery Pepper was already running the information through the company and announcing the medicine as a 'breakthrough' to the public, until the tests were complete. While he was excited about this being good for the company, Tony was happier that it had been his daughter to figure it out and quickly pulled her close, "You know that you'll always be my little girl, right?"

"Always, Daddy," Tori told him.

"Let's go fly around," he said, "Jarvis, alert us if anything happens or comes up with the cure."

"Yes sir, but I see no problems on the horizon."

"Me either," Tony conceded.

"Hey Jarvis, will you let me know when it's 4:30, I have to be ready for Hal to take me out at 7:00."

"Of course, madam."

They spent the afternoon flying around in their suits. Tony knew that he must have told Tori he loved her a hundred time and was sure she thought it stemmed from him being proud of her creation. While he was definitely a proud papa, wishing he had a sign that connected him and Tori saying 'My daughter; MINE!' it wasn't just because of the cure. He wanted her to be happy but he wasn't ready to be cut from her life either. He still didn't know that much about Tori and Hal's relationship in Italy and he hadn't known the kid all that long.

When they finally landed Tori quickly let the robots take off her suit and then hopped into the small changing room. By then the cure had been confirmed and announced, Pepper was preparing a statement for the media, and she had a date to get ready for. Tony sat down beside his fiancé on the sofa, "How are you doing?"

"Not good," he admitted, "It's the best day of her life and I feel like I'm two seconds from falling apart. I don't want to lose her again."

Pepper sighed and looked at him; this was going to be hard for her to put delicately, "Tony, I'm going to say this as gently as I can. You and I both know that you are going to have a lot more access to her if she's married to Hal, than you would if she was with her mother."

He flinched and while she felt bad she knew that she needed to continue, "I don't think this engagement is going to change things all that much, at least not anytime soon. Hal's got the Loki threat and the Corps and Air Force and Tori's got this cure and M.I.T…. I'm telling you that she will always be your baby and I don't think this is going to happen as fast as you think it is… That's if it changes anything at all."

"Do you not think she'll say yes?"

"... I… I don't know for sure. Tori is a lot like you and I know how much you like having me around as much as possible… I'm just not sure how she'll react to a marriage with Hal… He's gone at least 75% of the time and I can't see her looking back on her life and saying that she was alone for three fourths of it."

Tony stared at her in wonder, "It's moment like this that I remember why I'm marrying you."

….

Later that night Hal dropped in to pick Tori up and generously took the head slap that Tony dealt him, figuring that he should be grateful the man wasn't chasing him around in his Iron Man suit. This wasn't their first Spacewalk but it was the first time he'd taken Tori out of the galaxy and to the Omrodin people's love fest. The ring was held securely in his pocket and he was trying very hard not to make a fool of himself in front of the woman he been with for so long.

The ring had band of white gold, with a .5 carat diamond encircled by a double row of bead-set diamonds.

Her dress was a simple sun dress that was solid red, as the festival dictated. His team mate had assured him that Lanterns weren't expected to wear red but had encouraged him to have Tori do so. They landed safely in the festival after a light speed ride that never ceased to leave his girlfriend breathless, no matter how many she went on spacewalks with him. Luckily this planet had the same oxygen in the air as earth, so she didn't need to stay with him the whole time like she had in the past.

While she was playing a side game at the carnival like, but planet wide, celebration, Hal prepared himself to take the next step in their relationship.

"Hey let's go for a walk."

"Okay!" Tori said. As they began to move through the crowd, "This has been the best day ever!"

"I'm glad," Hal said as he steered them toward the planet's most famous place to propose to someone. His team mate had assured him that it was like Earth's Verona, Italy, which the pilot figure would be more romantic if Tori hadn't grown up in Italy.

Once they reached the spot he turned to her, "I know that you've done so much today and I want you to know how proud I am of you. I know that you've been through a lot this last month but no one else could have handled it as wonderfully as you have. And we've been through a lot in the last three years and I want you to know that I'm here for you…"

Tori gasped as he went down on one knee and pulled out the ring, "Tori Stark, will you marry me?"

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Yeah, that's right, I did it!... Review? I won't upload another chapter until I get some feedback!