Hey guys. Sorry. I meant to get this up yesterday but II went to the zoo with my family for my birthday and I was exhausted. So. Any ways. Please review and here you go.

Chapter 14

Liz couldn't breath. Oh god... Kip was the woman in black. Oh god. Liz got her breathing under control before she heard foot steps. Liz silently inhaled before she put the suit back in the closet, dried her tears, and made it appear she was leaving. Kip rounded the corner and both women stood in the door way.

"Oh! Hey Liz." Kip said with a smile.

"Hi." Liz said forcing her self to act natural.

"Why are you down here any way?"

"I was looking for you. I wanted to apologize for missing swimming. But I have some things to do. So. I'll see you later."

Liz began to walk out of the room when Kip called her. "Liz. You good?"

Liz just nodded but truth be told she was any thing but "good".

Liz walked through the tower, thoughts swimming through her mind, until she hit what felt like a wall but in all reality was Steve's abs. After she recovered from her shock, she ran and wrapped her arms around him.

"Whoa! What's this?" Steve said hugging her back.

"Uh I've just had a really long day and I needed a hug. Uh I think I'm going to go to bed but Pepper said Rhody was in town tonight. Say hi to him for me." She said.

"Ok. Sleep well Liz."

"Thanks. Night." Liz called as she walked into the elevator.

Once in the elevator Liz slid her back down the wall until she was sitting, with her knees tucked to her chest. She rubbed her hands over her face. God. Things were so complicated.

Once to her floor Liz put on a purple tank top and some white shorts. She pulled her hair out of its pony tail, and brushed it before brushing her teeth and preparing to climb into the bed when she remembered her lap top, and phone were still out side. It was almost as if JARVIS read her mind because he said "Miss Liz. Miss Potts brought your things up. They are on your desk."

"Thanks J." Liz said.

She grabbed her phone and put her ear buds in and just started with the first song on her phone. 7 Minutes To Heaven by Fall Out Boy started to play as Liz laid down and went to sleep.

OOOOOOOO

Liz wasn't quite asleep yet but she was almost there. She had been thinking about the suit and the files.

Kip had lied to them. What did she want with Liz? We're they ever really friends? Was Kip training her to help her or some thing else? Had Kip done other things that Liz didn't know about? Hundreds of questions raced through Liz's mind. Then her mind jumped to the files. What if Kip was part of the League Of Assassins? What if she was the one who redacted the file? What if she was the one who was trying to prevent Liz and JARVIS from reading the file? Oh god... First thing tomorrow she needed to find out if Kip was the one preventing her from her hacking in.

Liz thought about the Red Room files and Natasha. She had read about the Red a Room and the League having an alliance. What if Kip was training her so Natasha could take her back to the Red Room? Oh god... These thoughts continued to cloud Liz's thoughts until she drifted into sleep her music still playing.

OOOOOOOO

Liz was in the lab with Tony. He had a glass of scotch in front of him as he was working on something for his suit as Liz sipped her Coke and talked.

"Hey Lizzy." He said. "Can you give me a hand with this?"

"Sure." Liz hopped off the counter and walked over.

"Hold this."

Liz did what Tiny asked. She was holding a small pice of titanium alloyed, as tony was preparing to put on the suit. The pice of metal was so small she could hold it with two fingers. Liz adjusted her grip, and as she did, the pice of metal was destroyed by her grip.

Tony looked at her horrified...

"Your a freak!" He yelled at her. "Your a monster!"

"No Tony it's not what you think!" Liz tried.

"Freak! Monster!" Tony continued to yell at her

Liz tried to explain but her brother wouldn't listen. He began to throw things at Liz. She ran out the door of the lab and through the endless hallways of the tower until she saw a figure lying on the floor. She couldn't tell who it was. There was another person on top of the figure. She was wearing a black cat suit, a bleach blonde wig, and held a bow staff. Kip...

She gave Liz an evil smile, before moving slightly to the side so Liz could see it was Steve. Liz inhaled sharply as Kip continued to kill Steve. Liz tried to cry out. But her voice wouldn't work. She tried to stop Kip but she couldn't move. And when she tried to move, she fell into a black pit. She fell and fell and fell until she landed in the back of a car. Two people were in the front. One looked like Tony and the other like Liz.

"That's not what I'm saying Maria. All I'm saying is maybe we should have Lizzy take over the company instead of Tony." The man said.

"Howard. I love you but are you sure that's logical? Lizzy is good with computers and technology. Much better than I am, but look at her skills compared to Tony's. Tony wants to take over the company. Lizzy is 8 years old and doesn't know what she wants to do yet. Tony is 16 and knows where he's going with his life. Howard. He's in MIT at 16. Give Tony the company." The woman said.

Wait. Maria? Howard? Tony? Lizzy? Oh my god! These were her parents! These were her parents sitting right in front of her alive and happy!

Suddenly Howard yelled. "Crap!" And the car swerved. Liz and Maria screamed. The car hit a bump and flipped over. Liz realized this was the night her parents died...

Liz crawled out of the destroyed car knowing her parents were dead. When she got out there was a man with a metal arm, short brown hair, and a gun. His brown eyes were surrounded by black paint.

The mans hair suddenly grew out and he was standing in the road looking at a car, gun raised. He shot and the car flipped over. Then she saw the man looking down at Steve, arm raised and preparing to kill him.

OOOOOOO

Liz woke with a start. She looked at her phone, realizing it was 6:00. She knew tony would be awake and she needed to see him Liz threw her sheets off of herself, tore her ear buds out of her ear, then ran down the stairs to Tony's lab, completely forgetting about Kip. When she ran in he turned and looked at her slightly confused. She ran and hugged him. She began to cry into her big brothers shoulder as he stroked her hair.

"It's ok Liz." Tony said.

Liz gazed up at her brother.

"Tony how is any of this ok?" She said.

"Liz. We've been through worse. We can get through this." He said.

"T...through what?" She said fearing he knew.

"Your strength."

"Oh god! Tony I'm not a monster I promise. I'm trying to control it. I really am! I'm trying so hard! I promise I'll get it under controls."

"Whoa Lizzy. It's ok. Where are you getting these ideas from?"

"M...my dream last night."

Tony pulled out two chairs and the two siblings sat down.

"Tell me about it." Tony said.

Liz left out the part about the files and Natasha and Kip, but explained every thing else. When she came to the part about their parents Tony stiffened but continued to listen.

"T...then I saw the man that killed mom and dad. T...Tony he's alive." Liz said.

"No he's not." Tony said coolly.

"But Tony he is I saw him."

"Elizabeth! Mom and Dad died in a car crash. And it's your fault! If you hadn't gone to piano lessons that day they never would have died! Now get out of my lab before I kick you out of my tower."

"T...Tony..."

"Now Elizabeth!"

Liz ran out of the room crying. She ran up to her room, changing into a pair of gray knee length work out leggings, and pulling her hair up, and putting her shoes on before going to the gym.

OOOOOOOO

Natasha walked into Tony's lab. He saw her walk in and stood up.

"Perfect. I need you to sedate Liz." He said.

"Wait what?" Natasha said taken aback.

"She hasn't been in for her flu shots cuz she has a fear of needles. Can you do I?"

Natasha looked at him skeptically before nodding. She didn't believe him, but she didn't want to know the real reason so she nodded and walked out.

OOOOOOOO

When Liz got there she lowered a punching bag and began to beat the crap out of it. Liz delivered a strong blow, as the bag snapped off its chain. Liz ran to it, before sitting on it and throwing hammer fists, elbows, Palm heal strikes, and regular punches. Liz punched and cried and screamed angry at Tony. She punched, and punched, and punched, not paying attention to any thing.

OOOOOOOO

Steve walked into Tony's lab seeing Kip was already in there, she looked kinda out of it. . Tony was grumbling about some thing that Steve couldn't make out.

"Hey Steve." Kip said, her voice steady but still not quite normal.

"Kip." He said nodding to her.

"Ok. So does one of you care to tell me how my sister got super power?" Tony said.

"Ok. Well we know her powers were dormant until the Lazarus Pit. Maybe it had some thing to do with that?" Steve asked.

"Maybe. But I've never seen it do this to people..." Kip said distracted.

"Ok. Well maybe she was exposed to some thing before the Pit. Maybe the bullet was laced with some thing." Steve said trying to come up with any possible solution.

"The doctors said the bullet was clean." Kip contradicted.

"Well is there any thing else she could have been exposed to?"

"How should I know?"

"I don't know!" Steve said. "Tony is there any chance Liz could have been exposed to any thing lab related?"

"God. I don't know." Tony said rubbing his hands over his face. "As a kid she would spend a lot of time at the company. My dad was pretty set on recreating the serum but there's no way she was exposed to any thing there. And when I'm messing with stuff here I lock down the lab so Liz can't get in."

"Are you sure there's no way she got exposed to any thing as a kid?" Steve said pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Positive." Tony said, hoping he wasn't wrong.

"Steve. Even if she was there's no way that she would still have what ever she was exposed to in her system. She couldn't have been more than 8 when she was exposed to it." Kip said.

"Well what if it was injected into her blood stream?"

"No. My father only injected things into the blood streams of rats. And he loved Liz. He never would have put Liz in harms way." Tony said.

"So what? The Pit just magically did this to her?" Steve said sarcastically.

"Well..." Kip started.

"No. Ok that's just not possible." Steve said.

"Steve. When people are brought back from the dead things... The person changes. Most the time they have an uncontrollable blood lust but..."

"God... What happened to my little sister..." Tony said sadly, a single tear falling.

"Tony. She's going to be ok. We're going to figure this out." Steve said putting a hand on Tony's shoulder.

"I really hope so." Tony said.

"Don't worry Tony. Liz will be ok." Kip said, her voice cracking.

Tony nodded before turning around and going back to his work. Kip and Steve shared look before walking out.

OOOOOOOO

Liz was soon laid on Tony's work table. Tony sighed. He took out a syringe and began to take blood samples.

OOOOOOOO

Liz was six years old again. She screamed in laughter as she played with her new toys. She recognized where she was. She was in her fathers office!

"Lizzy." Her father said as she squealed again. "Keep it down please."

"Sorry daddy..." Liz said innocently.

Howard Stark looked at his little girl. She was so sweet an innocent.

"Mr. Stark. The board is waiting for you." Said a blonde woman poking her head in.

"Ah. Yes. Thank you Louisa." He said. "Ok Lizzy. Daddy has to go bye bye for a few hours. Louisa will be out side. I'll be back soon. Ok?"

Liz smiled. "Ok." She stood up on her tip toes and gave her father a kiss.

Howard smiled at her as he left the room. Liz waddled back over to her toys and began to brush her dolls hair. She was singing a song to her self in her quiet voice when the door opened. Liz looked up not seeing any one. She shrugged it off and went back to playing with her doll. Suddenly Liz felt a pain in her arm. She turned and saw a short bald man in a lab coat sticking a syringe in her arm. Liz began to cry as the man pushed her before walking over the the filing cabinet. Howard Starks assistant came in to stop Liz's crying.

"Ok Li- Oh! Dr. Zola. What are you doing here? Mr. Stark didn't give me permission to let you in." The woman said.

"Oh darling. This is for our research on the super soldier serum." He said with his Swiss accent.

The woman just nodded and let Zola leave as she went to stop the six year old Liz from crying.

OOOOOOOO

Liz's eyes opened groggily. She blinked the blurriness away before realizing she was staring at her ceiling. She say up realizing she was wearing jeans and a black tank top, and no shoes instead of her gym cloths she last remembered being in. Liz knew this wasn't s dream. This was real.

The last thing Liz remembered was punching the crap out of that punching bag. Now she was laid on her bed in a new set of cloths and her hair in a side braid instead of its original pony tail. Liz looked in the mirror seeing her make up don't to perfection.

"Jarvis?" Liz said scared he wouldn't answer.

"Yes Miss?" He said. Liz let out a breath she didn't know she was holding.

"Why am I in my room?"

"You blacked out miss. Agent Romanoff found you and brought you up. Miss Potts was the one to clean you up miss."

"Why did I pass out?"

"My guess is physical exhaustion and emotional trauma."

"God. Ok."

Liz grabbed her Aztec cardigan and black high heel boots before she sat down pulling out her phone. She looked at the time. 3:00. She wondered how long she was out for. Then she remembered Peppers text from yesterday: Rhody was here.

"Jarvis? Where's Rhody?" Liz asked.

"He is currently leaving Mr. Starks lab." The AI said.

Liz ran to the elevator pressing the button to the floor of Tony's lab. When she got to the floor, she saw the doors open and saw Rhody.

"Rhody!" Liz said jumping at him.

"Liz!" The two friends hugged before getting in the elevator.

"So why are you in New York!" Liz asked.

"Oh. Well I was in DC for a meeting at the Pentagon, and since I happened to have the suit with me, I decided I would fly up here for the weekend and see you and Tony." He said.

"Well I'm glad you did. Where are you headed?"

"Well um I was gonna go back to my room. I don't really have any thing to do. You?"

"Well I was gonna find you then I didn't have plans after that."

"Haha. Well we still got s few hours left in the day. What do you want to do?"

"We could walk around the park if you want. The leaves are really pretty." Liz said thinking about all the fall colored leaves.

"Sure. That would be fun."

As they walked into the ground floor Rhody grabbed a sweat shirt and they walked out of the tower. As they walked Rhody and Liz asked each other questions trying to catch up.

"So have you made any friends?" Rhody asked her.

"Um..." Liz sated at the side walk as she walked.

Rhody nodded and sighed. Part of the reason he had encouraged Liz I come to New York was to make friends. And she had made some friends. Well. That is if you count the people she was living with as friends. But to be honest...Liz didn't actually feel like they were her friends. And this also wasn't what she had had originally planned for when she got to New York. She had planed to live with he brother and sister and law. She was going to go to college. She was going to live the most as normal as life as possible with Iron Man as your brother.

"Well..." She said.

"Liz..." Rhody said with a sigh.

"Rhody I'm trying. I really am it's just... I don't fit in..."

"Liz. Your 21 and have a masters degree in English. Become a teacher, or a journalist. You need to do some thing with your life. You can't just sit around in your garage all day."

"Rhody I'm not even going to be here much longer. I'm going back to California. And I'm going to go back to school and get a degree in engineering. I realized how much I loved working on my car and... I want to do it for a living."

"Ok. But Liz. You really need to make some friends."

"Maybe I don't want any friends! Maybe every time I make a friend they turn around and stab me in the back!" Liz said. And with that she ran off.

As she ran through the park she thought about how she had snapped at Rhody. But honestly...it was true. Kip was probably the closest friend Liz had ever had, but she had stabbed her in the back. And there was no way Liz would ever trust any one after that.