Author's Note:
The new chapter is here, and I thank for those who sent me suggestions. Some of them will be taken in consideration in the future since it can be used in the future. Also, I am extremely devastated by the death of two of my heroes, Alan Rickman and David Bowie, but Alan's death hit me pretty hard since I was a fan all his movies, especially of all of the villainous characters he played (Snape being #1.)I am still mourning over this.
I'll be taking more suggestions to make the story better and I would like to know what you think of the story so don't forget to review.
Emily's P.O.V:
I woke up with an intense headache and nausea. Tony wasn't in the room when I woke up; it was almost time for the party. The pain was something I couldn't deal with for the first time. I remained in bed for another hour trying to ease the pain. It was already sundown when Tony arrived raving of how wonderful the party is going to be, and how excited he was of showing everyone his girlfriend after seeing the apology all the press gave in the morning. He started changing and kept talking about what I said to the press. Meanwhile, I tried dug my face to the pillow moaning with pain; my headache was getting worse, so was my nausea. "Babe, why aren't you getting ready?" He said.
"I don't have anything to wear, I might as well, don't go," I moaned. "Plus, I have a splitting headache, and horrible nausea. I think what I ate yesterday is taking a toll on me."
Tony sat next to me handing me a soda can and two small pills. "This will help you with your nausea and these two pills are for your headache."
I drank what he gave me and smiled. "Thanks, but I still don't have anything to wear."
"I thought you might say that," He went back to the closet and got a box. "I asked Jarvis to order a dress for the party. It's a one-sleeve black dress, there were other colors, but black suits you better."
I chuckled. "You know me too well, it worries me." I brushed my hair back. "I can't believe I opened up to a former playboy, who somehow managed to know everything without asking so much."
"What can I say?" He smirked. "My charms always work with all the ladies. Now, Hermione get dressed I'm hosting a party in an hour."
I stuck my tongue out like a little kid would, and got dressed. The dress was beautiful. It was ankle length, and it fit perfectly. When Tony got to see me in the dress, he was eyeing my ass. "Did you buy this just to look, how my ass looks in it?" I chuckled. His only response was to laugh. I narrow my eyes giving him one good glare. "You are a perv, Mr. Philanthropist."
He didn't fight my last remark towards his character; instead, he rushed me to get ready. I finished getting dressed in some fancy sandals and a necklace that belonged to my mother. "Ready Ems?" He said.
"Yeah, I'm not wearing any makeup." I shrugged.
He chuckled, "You never do, but you look smoking hot in that dress." He was staring at my ass while he talked.
I slapped the back of his head and said, "If Billy hears what you said, he is going to kill you." I snarled. "Now behave, I don't want to keep doing this all night."
"Alright, alright, I'll try to behave," He smirked. "But I make no promises I'll behave in the party."
I took his hand after giving it to me and left our room. We headed to the party, and the room was already filled with a lot of people. My eyes grew with amazement and fear. I was completely out of my comfort zone. I look over at the crowd and see the whole team gathered around talking to other people. Tony introduced me to mostly everyone. They seemed nice, but the fact that they were strangers put me on edge. "The famous mystery girl comes out and badmouths the press." A man said.
I turn around and see Billy smiling from ear to ear. "Billy you made it! You said you were coming to check on my progress on Thursday." I said. "Why did you suddenly disappeared?"
"I had to go to Europe and check of some relatives of yours," He explained. "They were thinking of giving up their powers to you."
"What? No, I don't want more power. I'm barely managing what I have."
"Babe, maybe it's for the best," Tony said. "I'm going to leave you and catch up while I try to drag Rhodes over here. He's the one who took a suit."
I chuckled as he left. "I'm not going to argue about their decision, but you could have told me," I explained. "Also, my spells were a success. I could stop time, make people tell the truth, see the past and future, and find Natasha's soulmate."
"I knew they worked," He smiled, "I felt when you froze time. Are there any secret you like to tell me?"
"No, I promised I would never talk about what happened to others if they don't tell me otherwise," I said. I told him everything he had missed this past three days from the bonding to the press. He was glad I was able to get along with the others, especially Thor being the "magical" one, and he mentioned about my other family members. From what Billy said, they were elderly and didn't want to have the burden of our family's name anymore.
Billy and I kept talking until Tony rushed back with Rhodes and two drinks in hand. "Champagne for me and a virgin Cuba Libre for the lady," He said. "James Rhodes, I present to you my girlfriend, Emily; Emily, this is my best friend, Rhodes."
"It's nice to, finally, meet the famous Rhodey. " I shook his hand smiling politely.
"Tony didn't spill anything embarrassing." He chuckled.
"Oh no, on the contrary. He always says how glad he is you've been his savior this past year."
"His savior, huh?" He cocked an eyebrow and smiled evilly at Tony.
Tony playfully scoffed. "I never said that."
"But, didn't you say that when the Mandarin attacked-"
"Ems, please don't finish the sentence." Tony interrupted and was blushing.
"I like her already," Rhodes said. "She has been the only one to put you in place." He was laughing at Tony.
I giggled at Rhodes making fun at Tony; it wasn't something I could see every day. Sadly, my laughter was cut short when I felt a wave of pain following through my body. It felt like something was trying to electrocute me. I drop the glass from my hand and fell from the pain. I looked up at Tony with tears building up in my eyes. This feeling was worse than H.Y.D.R.A. inflicted on me. "EMS! Are you okay?"
"I think someone close to her just died," Billy said.
I didn't understand what Billy meant since everyone close to me was already dead, and it didn't matter anyway; the pain was gone. Tony helped me up and asked me to sit down. Billy sat next to me while Tony let the others know about the incident. The party lasted for another two hours.
At midnight, the team ordered Chinese takeout and started talking about their past missions. Also, they kept shading each other for past mistakes especially Steve for calling out Tony's bad language. It was fun to see every guy in the room trying to hold Thor's hammer. Tony was trying for the fifth time, this time with Rhodey's help.
"Are you even pulling?" Rhodey said.
"Are you on my team?"
"Just represent, pull!" Rhodey yelled.
I laughed when Bruce tried to lift the hammer. I went to talk to Natasha while the boys played with Thor's hammer. "Did it work?" I said.
"The flirting did work, not to mention he got a little jealous when Steve I flirted with him up close." Natasha giggled.
"All that's left to talk to him about what we did," I said. "If you want to of course?"
"No, let me have some fun for a while. It's cute to see him fluster."
"Hey Ems, do you want to try?" Tony said.
"I'm with Nat on this one, plus I'm having a conversation over here," I said.
"You hurt me Bright Eyes," Tony grinned. "Whoever hold Thor's fingerprint is I think the literal translation."
"Yes, that's a very, very interesting theory. I have a simpler one," He explained while lifting his hammer. "You are not worthy."
Everyone chuckled and brushed Thor's comment. In seconds, I saw Billy stand up scared, and a high-pitched sound made its way to the room. Tony check if there was something wrong with the sound system. Before I could ask anything, Billy pulled me behind him.
"Now, how could you be worthy? You're all killers," The machine said. I noticed it sounded just like the thing in my premonition. Steve called Tony for an explanation, and Tony called for Jarvis, but none answered.
The machine ignored them. "Sorry I was asleep, or I was a dream?" It said, "... I was tangled and ... strings. I had to kill the other guy; he was a good guy."
"You killed someone?" Steve said.
"It wouldn't have been my first call, but down in the real world, we are faced with ugly choices."
"Who sent you?" Thor interrupted.
The machine played a recording. We heard Tony's voice in the recording. "Ultron," Bruce said.
"In the flesh, or no, not yet. Not in this Christmas, but I'm ready. I'm on a mission." It said.
The team was getting ready to engage if anything happens. "What mission?" Natasha said.
"Peace at our time," It said, and droids began to attack.
Steve used the coffee table as a shield when a droid went to attack him. "Teleport to get the scepter, Emily," Billy said.
I did and saw one of the droids trying to take it. "Stop right there Ultron," Billy said.
"I have been given a mission, and I'm not letting anyone interfere," Ultron said, shot us and fled.
I fell with the impact of the blast, but nothing happened to me. Instead, it affected Billy. He was bleeding a lot, and I couldn't heal him. "I guess it's my time to leave," He said.
"No, you can't, there is so much you need to teach me." I cried.
He moved his head sideways saying no. "You already taught you everything I know, now it's up to you. Use the book we left you, you'll need it in the future."
"Billy, I can't do this without you." I felt tears flowing like a river.
"You'll have Stark by your side, and he'll never leave you. I can promise you that." He brushed my tears away and smiled. "Don't stay angry too long, it won't be good for you."
"I promise." I kissed his forehead. "I love you, Billy; say hi to everyone."
"I'll only ask you this, turn me to ash when everything is over." I nodded. "Thanks, Little Angel."
I felt Billy's hands turn cold. His eyes showed me he was no longer with me. I instantly used my powers and slowly turned his body to ash. I ignored the mess outside and applied more pressure to the fire I created. In, at least, a minute his body was ash just like he asked me. I picked it up and put it a jar. I left the lab to check on everyone, and they still haven't beaten the droids.
"... This puppet," Ultron said. "There's only one path to peace, the Avenger's extinction."
Thor threw his hammer, destroying the broken droid. I made my way back to the common room. Everyone was surprised and exhausted, to make matters worse everyone was worried when they saw my hands covered with Billy blood. "Ems, are you okay," Natasha asked.
I ignored her and went straight to Tony. He had a worried look on his face, but I didn't care. He broke his promise. He brought that thing to life. Because of it, Billy was dead. Now, standing face to face with Tony, I slap him as hard as I could. "Anthony Edward Stark, how could you break your promise!"
"Technically, I didn't-"
"I don't give a rat's ass about technicalities, and you better not get cocky with me because you could have stopped the whole thing before this could happen!" I yelled. "Billy is dead! He died trying to keep that fucking scepter away from Ultron. You shouldn't have messed with powers you still don't understand."
"Ems, this was meant to protect us, give us a chance to retire from all of this!" Tony cried.
"I. Trusted. YOU!" I loudly muttered. "Now, my last family member is dead, and humanity has little hope of surviving." I turned around ready to leave the room.
"Ems, please..."
I interrupted Tony once again before the elevator closed. "Give me time." With that, the elevator door closed and all I saw was Tony falling to his knees devastated.
I felt like I was sixteen again. The walls that Tony broke down were now up again. I couldn't bring myself to trust Tony, the man I love, again. It was hard for me to experience betrayal once again especially from someone who was supposed to be my lover and protector.
Trying to clear my head, I went back to my old room, where I had a couple of premonitions. The first one was of Ultron's army, the second one was from an unknown threat, and the last one was from a witch who destroyed the team in seconds. I knew I should say something since it was the same entity that would control Barton, but what infuriated me the most she had made her way to Tony's mind causing him to create that thing. I was ready to kill the bitch who messed with him, and I wouldn't be able to find her. From now on, I made it my mission to destroy those who mess with my family, just like today.
