50 Shades of Tony
By Rey

Chapter 16
Tony Stark and Family Protection

Warnings for:
Piece 376: Explicit: Discussion of Sexual Practises, Semi-Graphic Sexual Content
Piece 377: Mature: Semi-Graphic Sexual Content
Piece 403: Mature: Past Violence, Traumatic Family Member Death
Piece 408: Teens: Dark Musing
Piece 410: Teens: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Piece 413: Heavy Teens: Implied/Referenced Violence
Piece 416: Teens: Mild Language

Stark Tower, New York, United States, January-March 2015 (Ctd.)

**376. Oral
Milaðen apparently don't believe in much deviation from "normal" sexual intercourse, for whatever reason. Tony didn't bother with this before, too focused on just feeling things in whatever time he got with Fié. But now, after so much and so long, he indulges in a lazy treat of oral delights.

**377. Cloud
Fié turns out to be a quick learner and a decent partner. Tony babbles this out, fervently, repeatedly, intersperced with other noises, as they enthusiastically and repeatedly return the favour to him. He's in the clouds and he doesn't want to come back. `Why didn't I try this before?`

378. Jump
Having things jump from utter bliss to dense tension is really, really, really jarring, Tony finds. He's giving Fié a proper tour of the whole tower, and the duo intersect ways with Agent Wannabe Robinhood, who snarkily says, "Whoa. Never guessed you'd fall for a fatty sack of meat, Stark."

379. Robe
Things got worse when, before Tony can say or do anything against the insult – `fié's pregnant, not fat, and there's nothing wrong with being fat anyway!` – a group of robed people suddenly materialise amidst them with a deafening crack and start to shoot unknown spells all round.

380. Earthenware
One of his knives being turned into an earthenware pot clues Tony in to whom they're facing, and that only makes him madder. The instant hostility just clinches it. But he's not alone being mad at and can fight the intrusion, so, in short, the magic-disusing bastards are fully incapacitated.

381. Pool
"Why can't I join? It's big!" Agent Wannabe Robinhood whines from the edge of the pool, and Tony answers by sending a huge wave towards him, from the other side of the pool. Meanwhile, down in the middle and pretty much under, Fié's lazily swimming about, trying to calm down.

382. Board
Tony's on board with Hammond about making an island a safari park. He's rather leery about resurrecting dinosaurs to populate it, however. "I think they're extinct for a reason," he writes. "We've got enough world-wide problems already. No need adding loose dinosaurs eating people to the list."

383. Tenant
"You're the whiniest, nosiest freeriding tenant here, y'know that?" Tony snaps at last, when, after the cooling-down session at the pool, Agent Wannabe Robinhood insists to tag along to where Týo's team has been interrogating the magical intruders. "Back off, or I'll get the team to interrogate you, too."

384. Leave
Tony's glad when the whiny tagalong simply leaves. He's far from glad, though, when the said tagalong returns, with a game-faced Agent Pretender in tow. "I simply wish to help," she says levelly when Tony snarls at her. "Let it be not said that I am a whiny, freeriding tenant."

385. Hard
When Agent Wannabe Robinhood lets out a startled, loud, betrayed, "Whaaat?!," Tony falls apart, laughing hard, with not a little tinge of hysteria in it. Who knows Agent Cold-hearted Bitch could joke? His eyes are hard, though, when he makes her and Barton promise not to reveal anything to anybody.

386. Delicious
The info doesn't so much trickle as pouring out from the interrogation when Tony and his little entourage arrive at the unused floor he hastily set aside for it. And it turns out that the attackers were British magicals, there to bring Tony in for questioning. What a delicious irony.

387. West
"West" is what Chan-Chan simply texts, just as Tony's ushering his tagalong out of the interrogation-and-holding floor, back to the common hall. He stops dead mid-step. For the first time after that on-the-run text forever ago, he's getting news from the elder twins. And then, `West. They're here. West.`

388. Glossy
Tall buildings stand on the west of Stark Tower, and everywhere else, too. But these tall buildings hide small streets and alleys between them, and Tony's roamed many of them during his nightly jaunts, though not recently. Now he's treading the familiar paths, with absently reading glossy magazines as cover.

389. Rumour
Rumours are flying. About tall winter ghosts with sharp, glowing blue eyes, and the little black-eyed ghosts that follow close behind. About foodstuffs and drinks vanishing from supposedly secure places, to be replaced with heartfelt sorries and thank-yous – and, when the amount taken is more than the usual, some trinkets.

390. Hoarse
Tony catches up to the "ghosts" after three days of tireless roaming, east of his tower. All… six?… of them are skin-and-bones, filthy, smelly, and skittish as hell. He flinches, heart clenching and plummeting, when one of the two Voðen-like twins – Chan-Chan? Or the real Voðen? – says hoarsely, "You come."

391. Point
The point of a dagger presses against Tony's heart when he comes nearer, held up by the other twin. It means an awkward reach-up that he can easily disarm by now, but he knows the twin's saying differently by this move. His mouth is desert-dry. "Failed you, didn't I?"

392. Vote
"Let me make it up to you? Go home with me?" There's more that Tony would say but can't. Breathlessly, he watches as the dagger-holding twin flicks a glance at the speaking one, who in turn stares at the tagalongs one by one. `They're making a vote out of this!`

393. Layout
JARVIS suggests that Tony give the twins a virtual tour of the tower instead of the physical one, once they've agreed. Wincing, Tony remembers the many nosy people currently there. Well, now they can avoid those, right? And he can give them a much more in-depth explanation of the layout.

394. Drop
Tony goes to Ýmirheim nightly instead of risking Fié dropping by unannounced and encountering Voðen. Fié's already pestering him about why he booted them out so summarily that time, as it is. It's hard, still, having seven living secrets to keep away… and then somebody almost literally drops on him.

395. Exact
Tony gives the newcomer exact details on how he'll make them suffer, the newcomer replies likewise… and they're off to a good start, especially after the said newcomer confesses to haunting the twins' party to protect them, and spreading the rumours to attract Tony's attention in the first place.

396. Companion
Agent Pretender blanches outright when Sasha the newcomer strolls openly into the commons' kitchen, smiles blandly at her and says in Russian, "Hello, Natalia. I hope you and Laura are doing fine. I am glad that some of my old companions have also… crossed over, so to say."

397. Picture
Sasha's story paints a bleak picture, once Tony gets them under the grindstone of Týo's interrogation team. Worse, Neuolvir – who's a bred-and-trained assassin who's once tasked to eliminate all of Fié's bloodline from the universeassures him that Sasha cannot lie in their presence… because Sasha's part of Fié's bloodline.

398. Shopping
"So… you're practically family?" Tony's really, really tired with all the weird, shocking, life-changing – speechlessness-inducing – things, including how to respond to an unexpected, inherited expansion to his previously nonexistent family circles. It doesn't help that then Sasha hands him a shopping list of defence materials instead of… luxurious makeup, maybe?

399. Template
HYDRA's still alive, Sasha said, and they've cloned "the Winter Soldier," not only in look and strength but also training and… everything. It makes Tony think of the clone template lurking in the tower's 99th floor, perhaps busy making a smoothie instead of a bomb, and he swallows back bile.

400. Jealous
"Whom do you bar me from meeting each time?" Fié glares. "You're so rarely here, Tony," Peter sighs. "You need to spend more time with your employees, Mister Stark," Pepper huffs. "When can you practise with us, Mister Stark?" Cap whines. And Tony's overwhelmed. They're jealous, competing about his attention?!

401. On Top
Tony's so not on top of the game today. First, Anga pestered him endlessly about Voðen out of the blue. Second, Voðen themself's having a setback after… their child? Sleipnir?!… had a nightmare about their… "captivity" as a horse, and Tony could only gape to that. And now, he finds….

402. Blade
There's a blade digging into the side of Tony's neck, but thankfully it's just the yet-unnamed guy, formerly codenamed "Winter Soldier by HYDRA, who's just snuck behind him as he's visiting the guy's laire. "Cut the shit, buddy," he sighs. "Not in the mood to play. Y'got some leftover cake?"

*403. Establish
Voðen and Chan-Chan were bloodily driven out of Chan-Chan's home, months ago, and Tony manages to establish the chronology only now, after weeks of careful prying. Chan-Chan and her sole surviving little sibling are a mess, presently, after Tony confirmed it. He feels rotten. And so, so much a failure.

404. Coarse
Agent Legolas has a very, very coarse humour, coarser than even Tony's. But Tony can appreciate the archer's blatant offer to Chan-Chan and her little brother to go hunting the culprits of their whole family's deaths for them. And then Agent Pretender offers herself, as well, clinching the self-made mission.

405. Swimming
Tony proposes a swimming session to the overwrought Chan-Chan and co, remembering how it helped Fié. He forgot, though, that Fié's usually the only swimmer in that pool, the twins come as a package, and milaðen are very sensitive about who's previously occupying a given – stagnant(ish) – body of water….

406. Lean
Voðen leaps out of the water upon touching it, and frantically drags their twin to dry tiles, as if there's a hungry shark out for their flesh in the pool, or the water's actually a very strong acid. Sasha, ever hovering, leans over Tony and inquires, `Who rules the water?`

407. Purée
In the end, and avoiding Sasha's question for the sake of the extended family's privacy, Tony gets the twins to purée whatever they want for later consumption. He figures that mashing things out on a board or through numerous tiny holes before devouring them ccan be pretty cathartic.

*408. Assassin
Tony's… bemused, and admittedly somewhat amused. – HYDRA's top assassin. Cooking and baking. Using the various purées that a bunch of broken children made. No doubt imagining the crushing and devouring of their enemies while doing so. And it worked as a cathartic agent. `Huh. The world's gone upside-down and inside-out….`

409. People
Dealing with people in their new lease of life is an on-going issue for the eldest twins, whom Tony's come to call Vovo when addressing both. It doesn't help that the little twins Nathaniel-Natalia, "Nana," Chan-Chan's adopted children, look to them for cues… and vice versa. It's a vicious circle.

*410. Desert
Tony wakes up with the sight, smell, feel and taste of the desert clinging to him. Desperately, he runs to the pool and, ironically for once after Afghanistan, submerges himself in it. But then again, here, now, he can feel Fié's presence lingering, and the brief touches of Vovo. `Family.`

411. Plan
Agents Legolas and Pretender are gone, sniffing out things. Left behind, Cap's moping in his floor and the gym. Bruce, Happy and Pepper are busy with their own families. Tony's left with his own family, and he has not even a sketch of a plan to do anything yet.

412. Twin
"Meet the long-lost and extended family," on hindsight, isn't a good idea when one party is filled with broken members and the other is filled with tensely expectant ones. Fié verbally lays into Voðen once they clap eyes on one another, and, in defence of her twin, Chan-Chan fights back.

*413. Root Out
The two agents-on-mission have rooted out the info they wanted, based on Tony's access to various servers and their own networks. Tony's Loptr-rescuing mission hasn't gone unnoticed, apparently. HYDRA – which has infiltrated SHIELD right from the start – took their revenge by killing off those seen as closest to him.

414. Goal
Peter's trying everything to cheer him up, Tony knows, and the boy – still grieving his relatives – even manages to snag the combative Fié and Chan-Chan into the effort. It's an admirable goal. Sadly, it only reminds Tony that some very sick bastards are getting at him through his family.

415. News
Hammond's e-mail's an unwelcome news on top of the mission's results. Apparently, that grandpa's company's interpreting Tony's "natural preserve and safari park for endangered animals" requirement as permission to clone dinosaurs. And Hammond wants Tony to bring his family for a "sneak-peek visit" to an island full of humongous toothies.

*416. Concession
Tony's heart falls when, for the first time ever since he helped retrieve them from Asgard, Voðen expresses a wish, by themself, for their own sake, to visit the dinosaur island. It doesn't help that Peter also wants to go there. He's got to make a concession to Hammond. `Fuck.`