;welcome to chapter 26. Enjoy and please review!;
Two weeks had gone by quick. Kat had been working non-stop on her irongirl project behind her uncle's back, which wasn't easy.
Ironman and his Assistant had to go on a big business trip to California for the next few days, much to Kat's delight.
Finding the right time was more of a problem than the actual building of the suit. she just used ironman's old notes to make her suit, with a few modifications of course. She already has a spot in the vault where she keeps her projects ready to hide it.
"Are you sure you didn't want to come with us? It'd be a fun trip..." Pepper pestered Katherine over the phone. "I'm positive, Pepper." Kat replied not looking up from her project. "I'm just tinkering in the lab."
This didn't seem to ease the PA. "No explosives. I swear to god, Katherine I will just- loose it if something blows up while we're gone. if anything harmful happens to you-"
"well being kidnapped and tortured to near death sounds perfectly safe compared to playing with minor explosives." Kat joked rubbing the swirling scars she had on her arms.
Pepper sighed with annoyance. Katherine knew how much she hated being reminded of her kidnapping over the summer.
"You sure you can handle being home alone, Katherine? I can call Rhodey to come check on you earlier-" "Yeah, Pepper, I'll be fine." Kat repeated for the millionth time. "I'll see you guys when you get back from California."
Kat hung up the phone. "she just doesn't know when to stop..." the mutant muttered. Kat knew Pepper's intentions where motherly and for the best, but they got annoying after a while.
The genius tightened the last screws in and walked back to the take-off platform.
Her face, jeans and tank top where all smeared in oil and sweat. She was finally ready to try flying... for the 5th time.
"Right..." Kat said calmly shaking her hands. "10% thrust capacity, test 5. aaaand 3...2...1."
The rock boots and repulser gun hands burst to life, sending the genius several feet off the ground.
Kat's eyes grew wide as she struggled to control herself. "Lower thrust capacity to 5%!" She directed JARVIS. "Thrusters capacity lowered to 5%." The robot replied.
"Alright... Alright..." Kat murmured flying over the lab. The mutant laughed as she levitated around the room.
"Ohhhhh! not the car! not the car! not the car!" She panicked flying away from ironman's new cars. One scratch and she'd loose lab privileges.
"Miss. Peterson?" JARVIS asked. "Yeah JARVIS?" Kat asked flying around the tables, scattering papers all over the place. "Miss. Odenson has arrived." The robot answered.
Katherine cursed. She had been so wrapped up in her suit she forgot Eri was coming over for sparing.
"Right! Right!" Kat said trying to make her way back to the take off platform. "Let her in and tell her I'll be right up!"
Ironman's niece jogged upstairs to find her friend sitting at the kitchen counter. "Hey, Eri." Kat said wiping her hands with a towel from a hook.
Eri smiled. "Hey. I see your busy." She mused nodding at Kat's sloppy appearance. "Yeah... My suits coming a long perfectly." Kat said happily.
The mutant furrowed her eyebrows at her best friend. "Eri is something wrong?" Kat asked sitting next to her. Eri braided her hair nervously. "It's... It's just... My dad.. He's planning on getting married again." Kat's jaw dropped. "What?! What do you mean your dad is getting remarried?!" The niece of Iron Man nearly shrieked.
Kat lead Eri up to her room so she could change and hear the rest of the story. Instead of sparing, the girls decided it'd be better to take out their frustration on cookie dough instead of each other.
Eri began braiding her long blonde hair again, it was nervous habit she had picked up over the years. "Yeah, she's his childhood friend. Her name is Sif." She continued.
"And the next time he goes back to Asgard, he's just gonna propose to her?" Katherine sighed in sympathy as they made their way down stairs to the kitchen.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that my father's happy. It's just that his whole idea of him getting married again…it just never occurred to me that it would happen." Eri let out awkwardly as she helped Kat get out the indigents.
"I know." Katherine popped a handful of chocolate chips into her mouth as she kneaded the dough.
She thought it was stupid, remarriage. What's the point of going to someone new if you vowed to stay with someone else forever? Then again, Kat hated big changes in original.
"Well…I do have good news…" Eri smiled a little as she ate some chocolate chips.
Kat grinned. Finally some good news. "Don't leave me hanging in suspense." The genius pushed on. "Tell me!"
"Jason…he asked me to go to prom with him!" Eri squealed excitedly, Kat couldn't help but chuckle in response as she placed the cookies in the oven.
A sudden realization hit Kat. "Shit…this means you and Charlie are going to drag me around to get my hair done and pick out a dress…aren't you?" Ironman's niece sighed.
Eri smiled. "Charlie's right, you really need to learn to be more girly." The demigod half giggled.
"Your the only girl I know who hates dresses more than anything." Daniel mused aloud as He and Kat sat at the bar in stark tower.
Kat took a bite out of one of the cookies she and Eri had made earlier that day. "Yeah. Their also expecting you to take me." She added taking a sip of chocolate milk.
Dan laughed. "I have no idea how to dance. How do they expect me to take you?" Kat looked startled at her boyfriend. "You don't know how to couples dance? It's so easy!" She exclaimed.
"Thanks for rubbing it in..." Dan muttered. Kat wiped her hands and mouth off with a napkin before standing up.
"Come on." She said holding out her hands to Dan. "What-?" He asked looking at her hands. "I'm going to teach you." Kat said simply as she grabbed his hands and pulled him to the middle of the room.
"You place your hand here..." Katherine said placing one of Dan's hands to her hip and taking the other in hers. "Eyes up." Kat instructed. Dan looked up from their feet to Kat's face.
Slowly, they danced around the room. Dan wasn't to bad. After a while he caught on to the rhythm, even though they weren't playing any music.
Dan spun Kat in a circle before hoisting her up by her waist. He spun around repeatedly on the spot. The genius gripped Dan's shoulders to keep balanced.
both of them where laughing to hard to notice the slight rumble of thunder in the sky.
Starting to get dizzy, Kat rapped her arms around Dan's neck and kissed him.
The son of captain America slowed down to a stop. Still holding Kat in his arms while they kissed. Finally, they pulled apart. Kat rested her forehead on top of Dan's, smiling.
"So..." He said still holding her up. "Prom, huh?"