Tony Stark
Tony feels his ear piece vibrate and Friday speaks into his ear. "Nick Fury calling."
Tony sighs and hits the ear piece, the call commencing. "This better be good Fury." He says frustrated still with what happened now hours ago.
"I don't want your daughter leaving Stark Tower." He says and Tony scoffs.
"I don't think you have any authority to tell me what, and what not to do at the moment. Especially things involving Alex." Tony sneers, temped to end the call there.
"Have you checked the news recently?" Fury asks and Tony stops pacing his office to walk over to his monitor. He opens up a new internet tab and looks through today's news.
His name is all over it.
"Shocking ins't it." He hears Fury say through his ear piece.
"It seems that not all agents can keep their mouths shut." Nick Fury continues and Tony sighs rubbing his forehead. The main article on the screen flashing in black and white, several pictures under it of Alex and Pepper outside the book store and in his arms as they flew back to Stark Tower.
"Tony Stark has a daughter..."
The article plain and simple. Guaranteed to draw people in. To make people read it.
"Who's the leak?" Tony asks his fists clenched as he reads on in the article.
"We're not sure." Fury says back. "I haven't seen anyone with a pair of eyes like those in person. Ever." He says and Tony's gut stirs.
"Keep her away from the media." Fury continues and Tony sits back in his office chair.
"I will do what is safest for Alex." Tony says sternly back to Fury, already having enough of him today alone.
"Then you will listen to me." Fury states and Tony tenses, his point clearly not getting across to Nick Fury.
"I will do what I think is right for Alex." He states before hanging up the call.
Alex Green's – POV
"You're the hulk?" I say staring wide eyed at Bruce.
I watch him nod and I smile. No way.
I walk over and punch him slightly in the arm. The Hulk looked much bigger on TV, and greener and angrier.
"That's exactly what Tony did to me when he first found out as well." He says, and I look up at him and smile. I watch as he rubs his arm slightly and I chuckle.
"How are you the Hulk though?" I ask still slightly confused. He looks at me a bit nervous but then starts to talk, his voice hypnotizing.
"It's like he's another person inside of me. He comes out when I get mad or when I'm not in total control. And when he's out, I'm not in control." He says the last part quietly almost ashamed. I smile at him weakly and then look back down at the plans.
Then around at the whole lab. At a second glance more things start to make sense, I look to the very back of the shop and see a small room, the glass about three feet thick. I walk up to it slowly and see a small bed with a single blanket and pillow inside.
A large dent in the metal wall placed against the large glass box. I walk up and place my hand on the glass.
"You don't sleep in there do you?" I whisper, and I notice that Bruce has followed me. I look to him and then watch him nod slowly. I sigh and move my hand away form the glass. Suddenly afraid to touch it.
We stand their quietly, staring at the cage Bruce has built for himself, so afraid he might hurt someone.
A minute or two go by and my mind races for a topic to change the conversation too.
"Is there anything fun to do around here?" I ask, knowing I could always buy whatever I wanted having Pepper's permission. Her and Happy both encouraging me to buy a gaming system when we went shopping only a few days ago, but I refused. Never interested in video games enough to buy some.
"There's a kids lounge in the lobby." Bruce says, and I nod, not sure if he's joking or not. I smile anyways though, and he gives me a smile back.
"Friday." I say and Bruce looks at me questioningly.
"Can you have happy bring a car out the front for me?" I ask and smile at Bruce. I need to get out of here, go for a drive. Find a park somewhere. Being cooped up in here and having nothing to do is driving my crazy.
The only things I have to think about are my mother and more of my mother. I'm pretty sure I'm having a numb area at the moment. I could cry at any moment, yes. But it's hard to be happy or surprised. Hard to enjoy things like I used to.
"I'm afraid your not allowed to leave the building." Friday says back and I look up at one of the monitors.
"Ordered by who?" I asked shocked and slightly annoyed. Bruce stays quite and looks back to the monitor with me. A small circle supposed to be Friday sitting on the monitor, representing an eye, I watch it blink and then Friday responds.
"Mr Tony Stark." She says, and I clench my fists.
"Call him." I order, and I watch the eye blink again on the screen.
"I'm afraid I can't do that." She says, and I sigh.
"Why not?" I say growing angrier and angrier. Bruce beside me fiddling with his fingers in his lap.
I watch the eye disappear from the screen and I look to Bruce. "Friday." I order and I look around at the rest of the monitors, no response.
"What the hell." I mumble and walk over to one of the screens, bringing up the key board and trying to type. The monitor shuts down and Bruce moves past me to type on the same keyboard, the monitor, the screen switching back on.
"He's locked you out." Bruce mumbles and I glare at him.
"What the hell does that mean?" I ask, and Bruce looks at me nervous.
"It means you can't leave, access the data base, or talk to Friday." He says, and I sigh, throwing my arms up in the air for them to rest behind my head. "He has your prints so any computer you assess will shut down." He adds.
"Do you think he can hear me?" I ask Bruce and he looks at me puzzled.
"Who Tony?" He asks, and I nod. "Maybe if he's watching the security cameras." He says, and I nod.
I walk out into the middle of the lab and look around, walking in circles. "What have I done?" I ask into the room. No response. I groan and sit down flat on my ass in the middle of the floor. Machinery and boxes of random junk sitting around me.
"What did I do?" I ask myself more quietly this time.
"If it makes you feel any better." Bruce says walking over with a box. "This used to help calm me down." He says sitting the box at my feet. I look into the box and see hundreds of small LEGO bricks. Some still connected into cubes and small structures.
"I used to play with this stuff when I was five." I say running my hand through the different coloured bricks. Bruce smiles down at me and then walks off, leaving me and the box of LEGO in the middle of the floor.
I tip the box out over the floor and start putting pieces together. First, I make a car after finding some wheels at the bottom of the box. Then I make a tower, stacking all the bricks I could onto each other without breaking them.
After the tower falls I build a house, then a bigger house after that. Bruce being right about the calming effect.
My eyes wonder around the room and rest on the glass stair case at the end of the other room, the stairs curving up into Tony's room and lab. Memories of watching him put on the Iron Man suit flashing into my brain.
If I had to wear the suit, I wouldn't want it pushed onto me like a jigsaw puzzle. I would want it to slip on, cover my clothes and head comfortably. I would also have more weapons, and more cools things to use. I make a list in my head, imagining everything I would make better, change or adjust.
I look down at the LEGO blocks in front of me then think about the suit again.
I would want the suit to build around me. Like the particles could adjust and bend around my body, fitting perfectly.
Where have you seen something like that? School, engineering classes, books, what did they call it? I stand up suddenly startling Bruce and looking at him.
"Nanotechnology." I mutter, and Bruce looks at me confused.
"Nano what?" He asks, and I walk up to the bench he's working on.
"Nanotechnology. What do you know about it?" I say as Bruce looks at me puzzled. I watch him put down a prototype of the arrow head and look at me, his arms on the table.
"I heard about it in university lectures years ago, the technology to make it happen unheard of." He says and I smile.
"I want to create it." I say, and he looks at me with a smile.
"Alex, you can't just simply 'create' Nanotech, it's very advanced physics-" Bruce goes to say but I cut him off, already knowing what he's about to say.
"Maths, science, engineering. And you need to have one hell of a brain." I say tapping my head.
"And a lot of money." He finishes, and I look at him still smiling.
I open my arms to the enormous lab around us. "I could make it here." I say, and he continues to look at me as if I were a child talking about building a rocket.
"Resources, the things used to make Nanotech are unheard of." He says and I smile more, raising my arms wider.
"Everything I need is here." I say, and I watch him sigh at me, moving his glasses up onto his head and rubbing his eyes.
"Even if you did make it, what would you make?" He asks and I go to say before stopping myself. I shouldn't tell anyone that part.
"I don't know." I lie and I watch him place his glasses back onto his eyes.
"Exactly." Bruce says before looking back to his plans. I sigh and look back to the box of LEGO. I pack the rest of the pieces into the box and walk back to my room.
"Goodnight Bruce." I yell, and I see him wave at me through the glass.
"Goodnight Alex."
I walk back into my room and place the box of LEGO against the wall on the other side of the room, an open wall sitting in front of me. I rummage through my desk and eventually find pens and notebooks. I pull them all out and lay them onto my bed with my laptop.
I spend all night on the internet, scribbling down pages and pages of notes, diagrams. Everything I could find on Nanotechnology.
I eventually finish the next day. A whole night passing me.
I look to the once blank wall, now covered with notes and pages. Printed off photos and pictures of articles. My own sketches and plans covering the concrete wall. Held up by tape and glue, not caring how messy it looks.
I sigh and collapse back onto my bed.
Now to figure out how to get into Tony Stark's Lab.
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