Rosalind Stark

Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel or any characters or variations of Marvel/Avengers. I only own my OCs.

AN: This is a short chapter. The next one should be longer.

Chapter Fifteen: What?

"What did you say?" Vivian stared at him.

"I want you and Rosalind to stay," Tony repeated himself.

"Tony, you do realize you've only had her a week," Vivian waited to hear his response.

"I know, but I want her in my life," Tony answered genuinely. He was terrified to raise Rosalind, but the idea of not having her in his life was even worse.

"You understand things will change right. She may become an anti technology vegan or something. She may decide she hates us one day… She's not perfect Tony. Honestly the fire and breaking into your lab are completely normal things she does," Vivian started rambling. Tony tried to get her to calm down. "My main point is even if she changes… would you still want her?"

Tony smiled, "Yeah, I might get mad or mess up, but there is no way I wouldn't love her and want her."

"Okay, I'll think about it," Vivian headed toward the elevator.

"So wanna explain what happened to the toaster?" Tony asked following after her.

"Try four toasters. She has a dangerous fascination with heating coils," Vivian tried not to laugh.

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The elevator dinged. Everyone nervously waited only to be disappointed when it was only Jane and Thor.

"Nice to see you guys too," Jane huffed.

"We're waiting on Tony and Vivian," explained Darcy.

"Why?" Jane asked honestly curious.

"Cause Daddy and I made a mess," Rosalind was still in Loki's arms.

"We think they are having it out," Darcy answered not wanting to say fighting in front of Rozz.

"Man of Iron and Lady Vivian are alone?" Thor asked surprised.

"Yeah, we figured it was best to let them have a moment to themselves," Bruce replied.

The elevator dinged again. Everyone was silent as Tony and Vivian got off laughing. Rozz grinned now slipping down from Loki's arms to run to her parents. "Mommy, I'm sorry Daddy and I made a mess," she apologized hugging her mother's legs.

"I know honey, but I think you should be apologizing to Daddy not me," Vivian motioned to Tony.

Rozz moved to Tony's legs. "Daddy I'm sorry. Do you still wanna play with me?" she asked with big eyes.

"Of course, I said we were spending the day together so lets go play," Tony picked her up not exactly sure what they should do next, but he would figure it out.

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Everyone at practice was acting strange. Apparently, it had gotten around that Peter was going to ask Michelle out. She was starting to get mad that no one was paying attention or even trying at this practice.

"What is wrong with you all?" she demanded.

"Why don't you ask Penis Parker?" Flash laughed.

"Hey no name calling," Mr Harrington got on to him.

"Peter?" she turned toward him.

"I. I, well I was hoping we could talk after practice," Peter stumbled over his words.

"Okay…" she tried to get the meeting back on track. Everyone was still whispering and texting, so Mr Harrington ordered a five-minute break.

"Peter you should talk to MJ now before you disappear like usual," Flash teased pushing Peter toward Michelle. She caught him and glared at Flash.

"Peter just tell me what you need to tell me," ordered Michelle loosing patience with the situation.

"I just wanted to tell you that I," everyone was listening and his palms were starting to sweat.

Michelle rolled her eyes grabbing his hand and leading him to an empty classroom down the hall so they could speak in private. "Well can you talk now?"

Peter took a deep breath, "I just wanted to say, I like you and see if you maybe ya know want to go see a movie or something," he was sweating and internally having a panic attack. Michelle started laughing. Peter swallowed the lump in his throat. His panic attack was going to become external very soon.

"Peter I like you too," she admitted.

"Really?" he felt so hopeful but still worried why had she laughed at him?

"Yeah, I was wondering how long it would take you to figure it out. I figured you were more likely to tell me your Spider-Man than to ask me out," she now wore a smirk.

"Yeah, like I could ever be Spider-Man," Peter laughed nervously.

"Uh huh," her smirk broaden as she left him there. Wait did she know? And she never said yes or no to the movie.

Out in the hall, Peter peeked out to see the rest of the team waiting out in the hall.

"So are you dating Peter now?" asked one of the girls on the team.

"I bet he didn't even ask her," snickered Flash.

Michelle still wore her smirk as she turned back toward Peter. "I'm taking Peter to a movie this weekend," Michelle announced. Peter nervous smile changed to a goofy grin. The team freaked out.

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Steve headed into the tower after being given two manila envelopes at the front desk for Vivian. Steve found everyone looking out the windows to the balcony snickering when he got off the elevator. "What's going on?" he asked looking to see what was so funny.

"Bubbles," answered Bruce.

Tony and Rosalind were running around the balcony with large bubble wands.

"Oh Vivian the front desk had these for you," he handed her the two envelopes.

She made a face looking over the envelopes. One was from the hospital she had been treated at and had the blood tests done.

"What is it?" Bruce and Darcy were being interested.

"Not sure. Bill, maybe blood test results," shrugged Vivian opening the envelope.

"They gave you a copy of the results before we left the hospital," Bruce reminded her.

Vivian pulled out a letter and proceeded to read through it. "Well?" Darcy asked trying to see what was on the page.

"It's a job offer," she announced looking shocked.

"At a hospital? I thought you we a PhD not an MD?" Darcy cocked her head in confusion.

"I did a dual program, so technically I have both," she explained then she seemed to snap out of the shock and she was angry. "How dare he!" she nearly shouted glaring out the glass window at Tony.

"Dare he what?" Steve was confused as was the rest of the team.

"Tony, I'm sure he had something to do with this," the letter slightly crinkled in her hand.

"You think Tony got you the job?" Natasha clarified looking at the angry redhead. Vivian indicated Tony playing with Rosalind as if it was obvious.

"Tony wouldn't have gotten you a job offer. He would have spent a ridiculous amount of money creating a position for you," Bruce pointed out comfortingly. Vivian seemed to relax slightly. Bruce had a point. The simple job offer was too understated to be Tony's style. "What's in the other envelope?" Bruce asked hoping to get her to move past her anger at Tony.

She opened it not bothering to read whom it was from. Once it was open and read, she sighed, "It's another job offer. This one is for a lab job instead of a hospital… I agree this doesn't seem like Tony's style, but why else would I be receiving random job offers here?" She was no longer angry.

"Probably cause you're trending on social media," suggested Darcy.

"She's what?" Steve asked completely confused. Vivian was also making a face.

"These a bunch of posts about you being in the city. Did you really just disappear for nearly six years?" Darcy asked scrolling on her phone.

"I went back to my hometown… It was in the agreement I couldn't draw attention to myself," she explained in a soft voice. "Rozz is the attention grabber," she smiled looking at the little girl on the balcony who was now having a bubble wand sword fight with Tony.

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Pepper had all the finances pulled up going through each transaction for each account. Coulson was still sitting in her office watching.

"Hmm," Coulson made his noise from across the office.

"Yes?" she asked looking up.

"How do you feel about everything?" he asked.

"Everything like Tony and Vivian and their daughter?" she looked up. Coulson knew what she was working on, so she didn't understand why he was asking.

"Well yes, but I more meant how do you feel about everything. Tony's diving into being a father… You are his significant other. If you two were to get married, you would be Rosalind's stepmom," Coulson pointed out. Pepper froze. "You hadn't thought about that. Have you tried to get to know her?" he asked.

"I know all about Vivian," she huffed.

"Not Vivian. Rosalind. According to Agents Romanoff and Barton, she's a very sweet little girl who reminds them of Tony," he laughed under his breath thinking of how the little girl had apparently butted heads with the archer.

"She looks like Tony," Pepper acknowledged stopping her work.

"I have a file on everything we could find on her if you want to see it," he offered she nodded setting her work aside.

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Tony and Rozz finally came in giggling. "Did you two have fun?" asked Vivian. They were both wet from their bubble fight.

Loki grabbed a wet cloth and started wiping the stickiness off of Rosalind before moving on to Tony. "I get a kick out of seeing the god of mischief all domestic," Tony chuckled. Loki glared dropping the wet cloth on the top of his head and walking off, happy his brother and Jane weren't there to comment due to another of her meetings.

"I'm going to teach Daddy how to make a bubble chamber!" Rosalind announced to the rest of the avengers.

"That'll be fun," Vivian gave her daughter a hug.

"Sir there are law enforcement and another individual entering the elevator," announced JARVIS. Everyone looked confused turning toward the elevator.

"Rosalind," Natasha called her to sit on the couch with her.

The elevator opened to show two police officers and a middle-aged woman with a very stern expression.

"Can I help you?" Tony asked stepping toward the officers. Steve followed him.

"We're here to take that little girl somewhere safe," the woman growled.

"Excuse me?" Tony asked believing he had to have misheard her.

"The little girl. It's been all over the media, and I do not approve of superheroes thinking they can have a little girl as their mascot," the woman spat back.

Tony started to yell, before Steve put a hand on his shoulder. "Ma'am, Rosalind isn't a mascot. She's a daughter of a member of this team, and she is staying with us," Steve calmly explained.

"Whose daughter is she?" she asked looking around the room at the Avengers. Vivian was keeping quiet until she thought she needed to step in.

"She's mine," Tony barked glaring at the woman.

"Then she is still coming with us! The weapons dealing alcoholic who can't keep it in his pants is not a fit father, and besides that this tower is not a safe environment for her," the woman huffed.

"Who are you to say I'm unfit?" Steve's hand was back on his shoulder reminding him to stay calm.

"I'm a social worker. This tower was attacked a few days ago, and certain individuals have no reason to be near children," she cast a glance at Bruce and Loki. "Foster care will be a safer place for her," she announced.

"Actually, I have custody, not Tony," Vivian announced not likely the idea of foster care being threatened.

"And you are?" the social worker looked at Vivian. She was wearing a tank top and jeans.

"Her mother, Dr Ewart," she introduced herself already not liking this woman.

"And what proof do you have that you are the rightful custody holder of the little girl?" Vivian glared this woman wasn't letting up. She looked disapprovingly at Vivian's tattoo, injuries, and wardrobe. Vivian turned toward Natasha.

"Pepper has the documents," she explained.

"I'll call her. You don't touch my daughter," Tony threatened pulling out his cell to call Pepper. Once in the next room, Pepper picked up on her end. She sounded as though she was in a much better mood than this morning. "Pep, I need all the paper work you have about custody now," Tony informed her sternly. In reality, he was just trying to hold it together.

Pepper still knew him well enough to know. "Tony why? What's going on?" she asked. Tony could hear the sounds of papers being gathered up.

"Some woman from social services is trying to take Rosalind away," he explained feeling himself begin to shake.

"Coulson and I will be right there," she assured him before hanging up the phone.

Tony returned to the living room to see Steve and Vivian still blocking the woman from approaching Rosalind who was on the couch tucked close to the assassin. "The papers will be here soon," Tony informed the woman.

"It doesn't matter. I will still be taking her. Even if you are her guardian, you made the choice of being in this tower and exposing her to danger," the woman spat at Vivian.

"By that logic, every parent in New York City is unfit since they chose to live in an area that might be attacked," Vivian snorted back. Steve attempted to keep her calm as well as Tony.

The woman tried to push past them until a particular god spoke, "I would wait for Miss Potts unless you truly think you could survive the Avengers."

"Are you threatening me?" she asked looking shocked. Loki was supposed to be reformed.

"Simply warning you of numerous possibilities," Loki smirked. She looked around to see Bruce was looking a little green while Natasha glared daggers and likely had the actual weapons to back it up.

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"I can't believe you are all over the internet and got asked out by Michelle!" Ned gushed as they headed toward Peter's house.

"Yeah at first I didn't think she'd want to go out with me… Wait why am I all over the internet. Did another video of Spider-Man go viral?" Ned always kept better track of social media than Peter.

"You and Rosalind are everywhere. Everyone was thinking you and Rosalind were Mr Stark's kids, but then someone said you were just an intern," Ned scrolled through his phone showing Peter.

"Isn't that Flash's username?" Peter asked feeling a little embarrassed people thought he was Mr Stark's son. Ned shrugged. Peter kept scrolling through some people weren't saying very nice things about Rosalind.

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Coulson and Pepper came into a very tense scene. There were two stern looking police officers and an angry woman arguing with Vivian.

"We brought all the paper work," Pepper pulled out the agreement stating Vivian had full custody of Rosalind.

"And you really think her bringing her daughter into this tower isn't a sign of child endangerment. Doom and Hammer attacked this tower just the other day," the woman snapped.

"No one in the media ever mentioned Hammer. Who sent you to investigate this?" Coulson asked moving between Pepper and the woman. Both the police officers looked at the social worker as she stammered for a minute before pulling a gun and pointing it at Coulson. Loki grabbed Rosalind and disappeared. Both officers pulled there weapons and pointed their guns. One pointed his weapon at Natasha, the other at Steve.

"You could have just handed over the girl. It's a wonder why I even bother falsifying all this paperwork," the woman scoffed taking aim to shoot Coulson. Suddenly an arrow pierced the woman's shoulder causing her to drop the gun. The two men were distracted by their boss being shot allowing Steve and Coulson to quickly disarm the two either dirty or fake cops.

"Nice shooting bird boy," Tony commented looking around. "Lokes!" he yelled not sure where the god had darted off to. Tony, Vivian, Bruce, and Darcy started searching through the tower while Steve and the assassins contained the attackers. Coulson was making a call. They found them in Rosalind's room sitting on the bed. "You okay kiddo?" Tony asked leaning down to check her over. She nodded looking a little confused.

"Did the mean lady leave?" she asked trying to better understand.

"She is fixing to," Vivian assured her taking a seat on the bed. Rosalind moved quickly to hug her mother. She rubbed her back in little circles hoping to comfort her.

Coulson knocked on the door and motioned for Tony, Bruce, and Loki to join him in the hall. "Agents are picking them up and taking them in for interrogation. They don't seem up for talking now, but they should be soon," Coulson explained.

"Who sent them?" Tony snapped feeling a little impatient.

"Not sure yet, if it turns out to be Hammer, we will have enough to arrest him," Coulson answered honestly.

"I'll be happy to help with the interrogation," Loki wore an evil smile.

"Me too," snorted Tony.

"It would be better if you were to stay here with Rosalind," observed Bruce.

"I agree with the doctor," nodded Loki.

"Miss Potts is wanting to spend some time with her as well," added Coulson. The three men looked at him as though he had grown a second head.

"I have returned comrades!" Thor boomed joining the men in the hall.

"Thor we are discussing," Loki shot his brother a look.

"About the three people restrained in the living room?" asked Jane looking worried.

"Yes, they were after Rosalind," sighed Bruce. Thor looked angry now moving back toward the living room.

"I think it would be best if everyone, except Jane, Darcy, Vivian, Pepper, Rosalind, Tony, and Agent Barton went to SHIELD," instructed Coulson.

"Where will Agent Barton be off to?" asked Loki curious whether the archer would be on a mission or remaining in the tower.

"He'll be securing the tower. He's in a shoot first mood that may be an asset in this situation," Coulson explained.

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Pepper watched as Tony and Rosalind built their bubble chamber involving a large tub, a hoop, and a pulley system. Tony tended to do well with children in passing, but she never saw him interact to this extent.

"Now we need to pour in the bubbles," Rozz explained to Tony. He grinned listening to all of her directions. She had been so excited when found out she knew something he didn't and was eager to teach him how to build a bubble chamber.

"Okay now what?" Tony asked his little girl.

"It's ready, watch!" she pranced over hopping into the tub and pulling the string causing the hoop to rise and create a large bubble around her. "Now your turn Daddy!" she giggled hopping back out. Tony stepped into the tub chuckling at how this simple activity seemed to take her mind off the earlier incident. After Tony's turn, they took a turn together. Then Rosalind rushed over to Pepper who had been watching. "Pep wanna turn?" she asked her adorable smile was too much to even think about saying no to.

"Sure," Pepper agreed surprised at how Rosalind grabbed her hand and led her over to the contraption.

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Vivian watched trying her best not to have a melt down. "You okay?" asked Jane giving her a sympathetic look.

"Yeah, I… Is it too early for a drink?" she replied looking to her and Darcy. Darcy shook her head grabbing out so glasses to fix a few drinks.

"So is it her spending time with Tony or?" Darcy trailed off handing her a glass.

"No, it's seeing them look like a family," Vivian answer almost too softly to hear. The women exchanged looks, both suddenly realizing why this would bother Vivian.

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"The officers are real, and she is a social worker. But all the paperwork is fake," explained Coulson after looking into each of them. They were all waiting to get the go ahead to interview the woman. Steve and Coulson had already interviewed the two officers. They were simply following orders, but they were warned that the Avengers would put up a fight.

"Are we going to speak with her now?" Steve asked nodding toward the woman through the one-way mirror.

"Yeah, let's go," replied Coulson. The two started for the door when Fury joined them.

"Actually I think it would be best if these two had a chat with her," he gestured to Natasha and Loki. Both looked as though they were planning the woman's death, a slow and painful one. Natasha headed in immediately not giving him the chance to change his mind. Loki jerked out of his thought seemed truly surprised he was being trusted with an interrogation. He followed after the assassin closing the door behind him.

"You think that's a good idea?" asked Bruce. He knew they both had grown attached to Rosalind and were taking this attempt at kidnapping very hard.

"I'm not taking a chance that she won't talk," grunted Fury leaving them to watch.

"Maybe we should call the tower. It's getting late, and they might be waiting on us for dinner," proposed Bruce trying to distract them all from what could possibly be going on in the next room.

"I'm sure Vivian has it handled. She seems like a great mother," Steve smiled an awkward smile when speaking about Vivian. Even Thor could tell that the Captain was growing fond of the young woman.

"We'll give them a quick call just to let them know not to wait up," Coulson announced trying to move past his childhood idol looking so smitten.

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"Wow you can really drink," Darcy laughed refilling Vivian's glasses for a numerous time.

"I don't get to drink often," she answered. She was definitely intoxicated. It probably didn't help she hadn't eaten since Happy brought her waffles. Jane and Darcy were both a bit tipsy. Tony, Pepper, and Rosalind had just finished cleaning up the mess created by the bubble chamber.

Clint was lurking close to the kitchen making sure the girls didn't get into too much trouble. "Agent Coulson, Dr Banner, and Captain Roger are calling," announced JARVIS.

"Yes?" Clint answered glancing over to the girls who were now laughing about who knows what.

"Hey Clint. We are going to be at SHIELD late, so don't wait on us for dinner," Steve informed him.

"Okay, I'll be sure to let Tony and Pepper know to handle it…" Clint checked the clock. It was already eight o'clock.

"What about Vivian?" Steve asked confused at why Clint had specifically said Tony and Pepper.

"Vivian, she decided to get drunk with Jane and Darcy" Clint explained. The women had just realized he was talking to someone through JARVIS.

"What!?" Steve choked.

"Hi Steve!" Vivian yelled with a giggle.

"Steve you should get your star spangled butt back to the tower and hang with us," Darcy shouted at the ceiling.

"Other than that there hasn't been any disturbances," Clint went on.

"Are you three drunk?" Pepper asked wondering how they had missed this happening.

"Vivian is. We are just buzzed," announced Jane grinning like an idiot.

"Don't give me that look. I don't do this very often," Vivian huffed at Tony and Pepper.

"Yeah, Mommy almost never drinks. The last time she drank was when they said they were gonna kick me out of private school," confirmed Rosalind.

"What?!" Tony nearly shouted. Vivian hadn't mentioned Rosalind getting kicked out of private school.

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