(I'm skipping the flight home, the girls spent most the time asleep)
"Rachel! Let's go now! You are such a child." Pepper scolded Rachel practically dragging her from the airport.
"But I'm tired!" Rachel whines dragging her feet, her free hand rubbing her eyes.
"Sleep once we get to the car." Pepper says dragging the luggage too, she was slightly cranky because of how Rachel was acting and the fact that two of their flights had gotten delayed so they were home super late, instead of about 7pm.
"UGH!" Rachel moans and starts walking herself, though still lagging behind Pepper. "I can't wait to talk to Tony, I'm thinking my next school with be in China."
"What?!" Pepper exclaims stopping right in her tracks and turning around quickly.
"What?" Rachel says stopping just a second before hitting into Pepper.
"You plan on leaving me with him so soon after getting back?!" Pepper glares up at Rachel, who blinks owlishly.
"I was more or less thinking out loud, I don't plan on going to school again for a few more months, I still have to help Tony." Pepper lets out a breath then turns again and dragging Rachel to the purple, and black convertible that was waiting for them.
"Don't scare me like that. There is only so much I can take of Tony." Pepper 'pouts' at Rachel, who rolls her eyes.
"And I still say in a matter of a couple of years the two of you will be sucking each other's face, and Tony will no longer be a playboy." Rachel says nodding her head in finality. Pepper starts laughing hard.
"Tony? No longer a playboy?!" She gasps out before resuming her loud laughter.
"You know if my brother didn't have the libido of Hugh Hefner, he'd be a good guy. I actually get to see that side of him too so don't even!" Rachel sticks her tongue out at Pepper as they climb in, Rachel in the driver seat.
"Uh, Chele you sure you're ok to drive in the US? I mean you're use to the UK right?" Pepper asks looking at Rachel slightly scared.
"Oh please! Like anyone in the UK would actually let me drive. I'm just the young CEO of the biggest weapons company in the world. Everyone was so worried that I would get hurt if I drove myself, like someone would actually try and kill me." Rachel rolls her eyes and starts the car. "Besides, I drove to the house didn't I?"
"You did?! Why didn't you call me, I would have sent someone to get you." Pepper looks at Rachel as she turns out of the airport and quickly maneuvered their way to the highway.
"Because I am so tired of people driving me places, besides I called Happy and had him bring my car up, then drove the two of us back. He was quite happy I was back, though not so happy that I didn't let him drive us back." Pepper rolls her eyes at her friend.
"I don't blame him, I mean it is his job to drive you and Tony around."
"No, no, actually it's only his job to drive Tony around. I am not his actual employer. Kind of like how I'm not your employer. You and Happy personally work for Tony, where as I am only CEO of the UK, for the most part. So I am not your employer, and you are not my employees." Rachel says before leaning forward a bit and turning on the radio full black to 106.1 Kiss FM. Pepper sighs and looks over the Florida landscape as they drive.
~~ Small time skip *About 20 mins*~~
"TONY! WE'RE HOME!" Rachel yells going into the house quickly.
"MARIE!" Tony yells back jogging up to the two women, and grabbing his little sister in a hug.
"Hi big brother, how was your time without us?" Rachel asks as she hugs Tony back, over his shoulder she sees Rhodey, and smiles at him. He smiles slightly back, though he looked a little pained doing so, which caught Pepper's attention and she goes over and starts whispering to him.
"Well you see Tonie." Tony says pulling slightly away from his little sister, her eyes narrowing at the use of that certain nickname.
"What happened?" She cuts him off.
"What?" He asks quite confused by her sudden change in demeanor.
"You only call me Tonie if something bad has happened. DID YOU HURT MY SUIT!" Rachel pulls away from her brother, her green eyes hardening into emeralds, that looked as though she could shoot lasers out of them.
"WHAT?! NO!" Tony quickly holds his hands up and shakes his head. "No, your suit is fine. But-"
"But what?" Rachel cuts Tony off again, her voice with as much warmth as stone. If she had looked over Tony's shoulder she would have seen Pepper, being hugged by Rhodey, crying, and Rhodey looking at the Stark siblings sadly. Tony sighs and collects his sister in a hug again, though she doesn't move, and is rigid.
"Obadiah had left us Tonie, he's dead." Tony says in a low voice. Rachel, if at all possible, grows more rigid.
"Wh-what?" Her voice cracks, as her eyes finally look over to Rhodey and Pepper, the latter still crying into Rhodey's chest, as the man looked away from the siblings not meeting Rachel's eyes.
"He was-" Tony clears his throat and shakes his head, seemingly to change what he was saying. "He betrayed us, and then ended up being killed for it."
"N-no!" Rachel squirms in Tony's hold trying to break free of him, but he tightens his hold on her, knowing if he let her go, she'd do something she'd regret. "You're lying! Let me go! Tony let go! Stop it! STOP LYING TO ME!" She continues to squirm and yell at Tony.
"I'm not lying, I'm sorry Princess. I am." Tony mutters as Rachel finally breaks down in his arms.
"Uncle….." She mutters turning her head into Tony's neck, her arms around his back as she sobs, her knees giving out, so all that was holding her up was her big brother.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Tony continues to mutter into his sister's hair as he holds onto her. Neither one of them noticing Rhodey and Pepper going into the living room as Pepper finally collects herself enough to start working again, and making plans for the Stark siblings to get out of the country for a little bit.
~~Time skip *about 2 weeks*~~
"Mr. Stark! Rachel! Let's go!" Pepper Potts screams at her employer and best friend.
"I told you call me Tony if you are going to call her Rachel!" Tony Stark says swaggering his way down his stairs, he was in a dark, expensive suit, a normal for him, and dark sunglasses over his eyes. His sister walking right behind him, rolled her eyes, she was in a knee length black skirt and a flowy black blouse, her own pair of dark sunglasses resting in her hair.
"She'll never do that if you don't stop being a playboy Tony." Rachel Stark comments to her brother as she checks her makeup in her dark phone before turning on the screen and making sure everything was running smoothly in the Stark Industries for the UK.
"Rachel, phone." Pepper says, holding her hand out, as the two siblings reach the bottom stair.
"What?! Why!" Rachel's greens eyes going wide as she holds her phone to her breast.
"Because you and Tony are going on a vacation, and I refuse to see you work whilst trying to relax. Now give." Pepper reaches over and pulls Rachel's phone from her hands.
"Pepper! I need to check on the company's UK branch daily!" Rachel says diving for her phone, trying to pull it from Pepper's hands as her butt length hair, which was high in a ponytail, waved out behind her.
"No Rachel, if I can take care of this branch I can take care of the UK for a couple days as well." Pepper said, as she was now the CEO of the US branch of Stark Industries, whilst she dodged Rachel.
"Pepper! PLEASE!" Rachel begs as Tony slings an arm over her shoulders and holds her to him.
"Tonie, just let Pepper do what Pepper does best." Rachel glares up at Tony, he had taken to calling her Tonie all the time since Obadiah Stane had been killed, she still didn't know what truly happened, but she has tried to throw herself into her work for the UK branch, and modifying her suit, until it's up to par on her tastes. She now had about 50 different suits, but they were all dark blue and black, and panther style, with each one having different array of weaponry in them, with many new weapons she herself had invented. Tony watches, from the corner of his eye, Rachel glare at him, but doesn't say anything, he'd been hiding from her the fact that the arc reactor was starting to kill him, and refused to tell her anything about it. He agreed with Pepper about her needing a vacation, and going to Monaco with Pepper was an amazing idea in his head, though he wished it was just the two of them, but more than happy to have his baby sister with him.
"Alright let's get this show on the road." Tony says steering Rachel out the door, Pepper right behind them.
"You're just being a suck up." Rachel says, her voice a mutter of a British accent.
"And you are talking in a British accent, come back to America Tonie." Tony says trying to aggravate his sister. Rachel growls lowly in her chest but doesn't say anything, crossing her arms over her chest she doesn't give a glance to her brother or her best friend as she climbs into the back of the car Happy was driving.
"Oh buck up Chele, we are going to the Grand Prix in Monaco. How can you be pouting?" Pepper asks sitting in the front seats with Happy as Tony climbs in the back seats with his sister. Rachel glares at Pepper, but again doesn't say a word.
"She doesn't want to talk because I'll make fun of the accent she's acquired from being in London for so long." Tony says chuckling.
"Oh bugger off Anthony!" Rachel snaps at her brother and looks out the window ignoring the chuckles of her brother and Happy, and the twittering that is Pepper's laugh.
"See?" Tony says poking his sister in the very ticklish spot on her side, causing the girl to yelp jump and trying to turn away from Tony.
"Arse hole!" She practically growls at him and kicks his shin with her black steel tipped stilettos. He yelps and grabs his shin scooting as far from Rachel as the car will allow.
"Like two children." Pepper mutters from her spot next to Happy as the man chuckles getting them to the Stark plane quickly.
"And you've for some reason agreed to be in a flight with them for ages." Happy reminds Pepper, who groans and lets her head fall back against the chair's headrest.
"Oh dear G-d kill me now." She mutters to herself as Happy again chuckles.
"We aren't that bad!" Both Tony and Rachel mutter at the same time, making Pepper quickly turn in her seat and stare at them like they've lost their minds.
"ARE YOU KIDDING!?" She practically screams at the two. "You two act more like children then two five year olds!"
"And how would you know Pepper?!" Rachel shoots back at her best friend, all of a sudden her green eyes coming back to life as mischief fills them. "When was the last time you've been around five year olds huh?"
"Wha?- I haven't in-" Pepper starts only to be cut off by Rachel.
"Oh so it wasn't recently when one of Stark Industries' partners had to come in with his two five year old twins, because his nanny suddenly quit on him just before he had to come meet you, and he couldn't find a replacement? Oh should I also mention that playing with the two kids you got distracted and barely gave the man any attention as reigning CEO?"
"Wha-! How! I!" Rachel starts to laugh as Pepper collects herself to make a full sentence. "How on Earth did you know that?!"
"I have a couple people who usually help Tony, stay around and help you as the new CEO, they also give me constant updates on how Tony is as CEO, and now they do you." Rachel smiles widely at Pepper who stares at her dumbfounded.
"You did what?" Tony says looking at his sister.
"I had to make sure you were doing your job, and not using your giant ego to get women into your bed. It failed if you ask me. But now I have these people watching after Pepper, and giving me updates on how she's doing as CEO, they'll also slip some things on her desk to give her a bit of a heads up, and some help." Rachel shrugs and goes back to staring out the window, as Tony and Pepper stare at her like she grew another head.
"You mean to tell me, you have people that spied on me, and now spy on Pepper, as well as help her on your command?" Tony asks trying to wrap his head around the fact that his sister is practically an international spy.
"I wouldn't really call it spying, as they don't tell me what exactly is going on in the US branch, I just ask them to keep an eye on the CEO and help when they can. They know I am the CEO for the UK branch, so they don't give me any information that would threaten national security. Like blueprints for new weaponry, no I get that straight from you Tony." Rachel smiles at her big brother. "Besides, how else would Pepper know about the Grand Prix in Monaco, if not for the fact that the paper was sitting on her desk opened right up to the article talking about it. Considering that paper was from France." Rachel crosses her legs over one another, folds her hands together and places them on top her knee, her back straight and she tilts her head a little, a small smile playing on her ruby lips.
"Y-you. I-I. HUH?!" Pepper says shaking her head trying to get ahold of the idea of what just happened. Rachel rolls her eyes.
"I have been personally helping the US branch through a couple of employees, who have been sworn to secrecy and their identities shall remain a secret, stay on track. As for seeing the paper, it put an idea in your head that maybe the CEO of the US branch of the Stark Industries should go see it. Then when you got an invite you thought it was fate and said yes right away, made Tony and I pack, and here we are on our way." Rachel says, her accent back, making her sound ever more the British spy.
"I-I-I-" Pepper says blinking and shaking her head.
"So you more or less planned this whole trip?" Tony asks slowly.
"You know for a genius, you are pretty dull." Rachel sighs and shakes her head, "No I did not expect Pepper to be dragging us along, but I did expect her to go to the Grand Prix." Pepper sighs and turns away from Tony and Rachel, so she can sit in her seat correctly as they pull into the airport.
"I will never underestimate you again Chele, but I can say I hope I never had to try and face you in battle, you are scary." Pepper mutters loud enough for the siblings to hear. Rachel smiles brightly and looks at her brother, who looked a strange mix of insulted, proud, and confused.
"Ok you are here, and as far as I know the plane was already ready for you to head on out." Happy said parking near the plane and opening his door going around to Pepper's side opening it for her then opening the other door for Rachel. Rachel climbs out and looks at Pepper as Happy goes and gets the luggage and Tony climbs out the other side.
"Oh don't look so pale dearie! Like I said, I have these employees to help you, not hurt you. Besides I like getting updates on how the US branch is doing, and knowing that you are CEO now, all my updates are such bright reviews on how you are doing, instead of the constant "Your brother was not here again today." I swear, it gets a little tiring after a while." Rachel smiles and hooks her arm with Pepper's, who again sighs and looks at her best friend.
"I'm not happy about finding that out, but there isn't much I can do about it is there?"
"Nope!" Rachel pops the 'p' and giggles, causing Pepper to giggle too.
~~ANOTHER time skip *idk how long, but they're in Monaco now* Just after the crazy Russian guy attacks, I really don't like the second movie, plus I'm sure everyone knows about what goes on there. Let's just say, no one brought a suitcase suit for Chele~~
"I cannot believe you didn't bring mine! But you for damn sure brought yours?!" Rachel continues to harp on her brother as they go back to their hotel rooms.
"It's not my fault you didn't think to bring it." Tony mutters to himself.
"AND HE HAS MY WHIP! WHY IN THE HELL DOES HE HAVE MY WHIP!" Rachel then starts yelling at everyone and no one at the same time, her accent the most thickest it's been.
"Chele! We can't exactly do anything about it. Just calm down, I'm not surprised there is another genius out there that knows how make that type of technology." Pepper says coming into the room with Tony and Rachel before sitting on a couch. "It was only a time before arc reactors was able to be recreated. And what you can do with them as weapons, my guess is, you're only limited by your imagination." Tony and Rachel stare at Pepper, Tony's look one of admiration for even thinking that, and Rachel's of horror and repulsion.
"Why?" Rachel basically breaths out, Pepper looks up at her in confusion, Rachel shakes her head, "That is basically saying, just because Tony has made it, it can now be used by anyone? Um no, not no but bloody hell no! That isn't even ok logic let alone something that should happen! There are many genius' out there, yes I shall admit that! But there are a lot of them that would sell this for so much money not caring who got killed." Rachel then turns from Tony and Pepper to continue her rant about it. Most of which was tuned out by Tony, and Pepper kind of looked horrified by what she started, and where her thinking was going.
"I swear to all that is holy Rachel, if you do not sit down and drink some scotch to calm your nerves I will tie you the bed and you will never allowed to be up." Tony exclaims over Rachel's muttering, it had her instantly stop, look at Tony before walking over taking his glass of scotch downing it then going to get her tablet to read.
"Real kinky Tony, but I'm not really one for incest." Rachel sends over her shoulder as she walks out of the room, Tony glares at his empty glass, and at his sister's back, as Pepper's mouth pops open.
"I have never seen that side of her." Pepper mutters watching Rachel's retreating back.
"That would be her slight panic mode." Tony says getting up to get more of the amber liquid. "She only gets like that when something had slightly freaked her out, she would have paced there for ages trying to figure what ever problem out." Pepper shakes her head as Tony sits down with a full glass of scotch.
"And when you calm her down she drinks the scotch in your hand and calls out your innuendos?"
"Yeah something like that. It's the only time I can actually get her to drink, and normally it's only one. She doesn't really like alcohol, even though both our Father and I drink. I know for one thing, she'll get me back for having her ingest the scotch." Tony takes a drink as a small bang comes from Rachel's room, followed by light giggles.
"Um, why?" Pepper asks looking at the door, slightly afraid by what is going to happen. Tony's chuckles are a short reply until he opens his mouth.
"Because scotch makes her loopy." Rachel's doors burst open, banging against the wall, and a giggling Rachel comes out.
"Oopsy." She giggles more, and luckily, seeing as she was in heels, walks a straight line and sits on her brother's lap, reaching for his scotch.
"Oh no! You are not getting anymore." Tony says moving it out of her reach, it'd been like this since he ever gave her a taste, and considering she downed a whole glass of it just a couple minutes prior, and it's the good stuff, she's more loopy than ever.
"But!" Rachel says still reaching for it and pouting.
"No buts, Princess. Don't you think one mouthful is enough?" Tony asks his sister.
"But! You drink glass upon glass of it all the time~!" She giggles again and drops her arm, her head loling back and resting on Tony's shoulder, his arc reactor humming on her back.
"Yes, but one glass of scotch does not make me act like a kid like it does you." Tony chuckles and wraps an arm around her waist to keep her stationary.
"I do not act like a kid!" Rachel pouts, but snuggles down into Tony, who rolls his eyes but nods.
"No, of course you don't. I mean you've only spent the last few years in England, and that has purged all the fun out of you yes?" Tony gives her a 'serious' look, as she pouts at him. Pepper's jaw has dropped as she watches the siblings.
"England was fun too!" Rachel exclaims looking at Tony.
"Sure it was, all the history, and books." Tony smirks and nods.
"Just because there isn't a playboy bunny around every corner." Rachel mutters and turns from Tony, who chuckles and kisses the side of Rachel's head, making her hum happily. Pepper just stares at the two as though they had grown extra heads, or worse melded together to become one person.
"Alright! Plane is ready let's go!" Happy says entering the room, not really noticing anything different.
~~~ANOTHER Time Skip*How ever long it takes them to get BACK* I promise these will stop sooner or later~~
"I'm having a party!" Tony said walking into Rachel's room, she cuts him a glare and turns back to her book. "Rachel this is where you get excited?" Tony lowers his arms and looks at his sister.
"Are you seriously thinking that I am going to be going? Tony I know lately with me gone, your birthday you go to where ever you want and bang at least twenty girls. I figured, now that I'm home for a bit, we can do what we use to, like for my teenager birthdays. Just the family, you, me, Pepper, Rhodey, Unc-" She stops short and closes her eyes, before shaking her head and looking up at her brother. "I don't like crowds big Brother. Can it please just be us?" Tony looks at her sister and comes and sits next to her, kissing her temple he sighs.
"How about this, you go check on the England branch, I know you are dying to, make it a small day trip, I'll have that party, and once you get back, you, me, Pepper, and Rhodey will have our own party ok?" Tony says looking at his sister, who sighs and nods.
"Yeah, alright, I'll leave early afternoon tomorrow, and be back a little later in the night. It shouldn't take me too long, I left most of it to someone I trust. A couple hours at most." Rachel looks up at her brother, who nods.
"Ok, get some sleep then Princess." Tony kisses her temple again and leaves the room.
"Oh! Tony." Rachel's voice stops him at the door, "Happy birthday, a year closer to 50, what an old man you are." She smirks at him, he hesitates a second before turning and smiling.
"What you gonna start getting me diapers now? Pepper won't change them, and Rhodey would puke, so that's all you dear, little Sister." Tony chuckles at Rachel's horrified face before leaving the room, his face falls and his chuckles stop the moment her door is closed. He looks down at the arc reactor that was meant to keep him alive, but is really actually killing him.
"She will never forgive me." He mutters to himself, he knew if died, any time soon, Rachel would hate him for leaving her. "I don't want to leave you either little Sister, but I have no control over this." He again mutters as he makes his way down stairs. Rachel packing a bag, not hearing, or even thinking about, what Tony was muttering, she was excited, here for the first time in a couple of years, she'd be able to celebrate Tony's birthday with him.
~~Another time skip *2 days after the talk with Tony and Rachel, Rachel is just coming back from England*~~
Rachel enters a seemingly deserted and destroyed house. "EDWARD ANTHONY STARK!" She screams at the top of her lungs, only seemingly not answered. She runs down stairs quickly dialing Pepper and grabbing her latest suit.
"Hello?" The sleepy voice of Pepper fills her ears.
"What in the bloody hell happened to my house!" Rachel demands not even saying hello back first.
"Oh, good morning Rachel, and welcome home. As for your house, Rhodey had to shut down Tony's party last night after he became really drunk. Rhodey and Tony got into a fist fight in two of the suits, and then everyone left, quite quickly too." Pepper explains as Rachel bounds out of the house and right up into the air, a small growling sound coming from her throat.
"Thank you Pepper, I'll talk to you later after I find my brother and strangle him." Rachel says, knowing exactly where her brother would go after something like this.
"Bye Chele." Pepper quickly hangs up her phone and falls back to sleep. Rachel quickly flies over to the donut shop, seeing her brother in the donut she lands next to him, her helmet moving back so he could see her face.
"Anthony!" She growls as he shoves a donut in his mouth, he jumps and coughs dislodging the donut from his throat.
"Holy shit! Rachel you scared the hell out of me!" Tony looks up at his pissed off sister.
"AND HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL ENTERING OUR TRASHED HOUSE WITH NO ONE THERE!" She screams at her brother, who gulps.
"Ah! Right, about that." Tony says, adding breathy laughs, and gulps again as a voice calls up to them.
"Sir! Ma'am! I'm going to have to ask you exit the donut." Tony and Rachel glance at each other before flying out, Tony grabbing his donuts and helmet. "Please come talk to me." The man again says entering the donut shop. Tony quickly follows and Rachel bounds after him.
"Uh, Ton, you think this a good idea?" She whispers to him, and he nods back.
"Don't worry, it'll be fine." The man sits at a table and Tony slides into the chair, Rachel right after him.
"Look I told you, I don't want to join your super secret boy band." The man laughs.
"No,no,no I remember you. You like to do everything yourself, how's that workin' out for you?" He says, and Tony looks at Rachel from the corner of his eye, as she gives the man a confused look.
"It's-It's, it's-Look I don't want to get off on the wrong foot, do I look at the patch or the eye." Tony asks pointing to the man's face.
"Tony!" Rachel whisper yells at her brother, who ignores her.
"I'm still trying to process if you are real or not-" The man gets close to Tony.
"I'm the realest man you're ever going to meet." He says and Tony looks away looking around Rachel.
"Where's the staff here?" The man reaches over and looks at Tony's neck.
"That's not lookin' too good." Rachel who was very confused looked at her brother's neck as well.
"Tony! What the hell is wrong with your neck!?" She exclaims as a woman approaches.
"We secured the perimeter, but I don't think we should hold it for too much longer." Tony's jaw drops looking at the new woman, Rachel looks at her and does a double take, looking quite surprised.
"Huh! You are fired" Tony mutters.
"It's not up to you." Natalie says as she sits next to the man.
"Tony, Rachel. I want you to meet Agent Romanoff."
"I'm a SHIELD shadow, once you came out as the Iron Siblings, I was tasked to you by Director Fury."
"I suggest you apologise." Tony says leaning against Rachel a little bit.
"You've been very busy Tony. Made your girl CEO, given away all your stuff, you let your friend fly away with one of your suits! You know if I didn't know better-"
"You don't know better." Tony says sitting up and deadpanning him, Rachel gives him an incredulous look.
"Rhodey took one of your suits?" She asks, and is once again ignored.
"And I didn't give it to him, he took it."
"Woah! Woah! He took it?! You're Iron Man, and he just took it? The little Brother walked in there, kicked your ass and just took it? Is that possible?" Fury says looking at Natalie, though it was Rachel who answered.
"Considering our AI Butler, there are protocols to keep from someone just entering the house and taking one of the suits, be it mine or his." Rachel tucks a lock of hair behind her ear, as all eyes fall on her, she clears her throat and ducks her head. Fury looks at Tony and gives him a 'There-you-go!' look, and Tony smirks at it.
"What do you want from me?" Tony asks almost quietly.
"What do we want from you? Nu-uh-uh it's what do YOU want from me." Fury says as Natalie gets up and walks off, leaving an awkward Rachel with Fury and Tony. "You! Have become a problem. A problem I have to deal with. Contrary to belief, you are not the center of my universe, I have bigger problems to deal with than you in the SouthWest region." Fury motions to someone behind them and Natalie sticks a needle in Tony's neck, causing the siblings to jump.
"Ah! You going to take my kidney and sell it?" Tony asks as Natalie moves his head to the side, and Rachel watches in amazement as the lines retreat down Tony's neck.
"They're disappearing!" Rachel exclaims.
"What'd she just do to me?" Tony looks from Natalie, who was hanging out in the booth behind them, to Fury.
"What did we just do FOR you." He says seriously "That's lithium dioxide, it's going to take the edge off-"
"Edge off? Edge off of what?" Rachel interrupts and looks from her brother to Fury, though she goes ignored again, and she was getting really pissed off about it.
"We're tryin' to getcha back to work."
"It's not a cure, just a base of symptoms." Natalie says.
"It doesn't look like it'll be an easy fix."
"Trust me I know, I've been looking for a suitable replacement for it. I've tried every combination, every permutation of the known elements."
"I'm here to tell you, you haven't tried them all." Fury says, before nodding to Natalie, the two get up and walk away, leaving the siblings alone. Fury stops a moment. "By the way Tony, you may want to talk to your sister, she probably deserves to know." Fury again resumes his walking, leaving a frustrated Tony, and a pissed off Rachel.
"What do I not know?" She says turning, and blocking Tony's escape, her voice like stone, and her eyes like cold emeralds.
"Let's get to that house first please." Rachel quickly gets up, picks up her helmet and storms out the door, taking off without glancing backwards to her brother, who was just trailing behind her. Landing at the house, both Rachel and Tony quickly get out of their suits as Jarvis get's them back into the garage. Just then multiple black vehicles pull up, and stepping out is Fury, again. He walks in, and Tony guides him to a chair.
"Am I going to learn about what's going on!?" Rachel yells at her brother, not giving two damns about Fury being there.
"Tonie-" Tony starts walking towards his fuming sister.
"NO! Do not Tonie me! Tell me what in the bloody hell is going on before I take my belonging and MOVE to England!" Rachel pokes Tony in the chest hard when she said 'move'.
"Tonie, stop it. I'll tell you but you have to calm down." Tony grabs his sister's arms and holds them to her side, "And you are not moving."
"Just tell me you are dying from the stupid arc reactor." Rachel lowers her head, her hair hiding her face, as Fury whistles lightly in the background.
"H-how did you know?" Tony asks stunned by his sister.
"It was an unfinished project by Father, even I can tell that. I know my suits are running on the same thing you are. Which means-"
"Which means your arc reactors are burning it up too." Tony says finishing her sentence. "How long?"
"A couple of months, I haven't really been using my suit lately, and I took the newest out for a run, and Jarvis told me to get back to the house immediately, I thought something bad had happened, he had one of the arms open the arc reactor and told me about what was going on. He did not, on the other hand, tell me it was killing you. But after looking at the palladium that was coming out, I could only guess it was poisoning you."
"Oh Tonie, Princess, why didn't you tell me you guessed it?" Tony asks collecting his sister in his arms, causing Fury to look at the two in surprise.
"I didn't want to accept it." She mutters into his chest, as he runs one of his hands through her hair.
"I'm sorry Tonie, I should have filled you in as soon as I knew about it."
"Yes you should have!" She says as she starts to sob, "You promised not to leave me!" Her arms wrap around her brother and she holds on for dear life.
"And that is why I'm here." Fury says standing up and walking over to the siblings and places a warm hand on top of Rachel's head, causing her to look up at him. "Your father worked with SHIELD, and we have some of his things. Tony you are now under house arrest, until you fix that arc reactor. I suggest you help him Rachel."
"And was Anton Vanko part of this?" Tony asks still holding that crying Rachel, though he noticed she had calmed down a little, still clinging to him like she did when she was small, and that Fury had yet to remove his hand from her head.
"You're father wanted to make clean energy, Anton wanted to make weapons and millions of dollars. You father ended up having him deported because Anton tried to sell out what the two were working on."
"You said I haven't tried everything, what haven't I tried?"
"He said that only you and your sister have the means and knowledge to finish what he started."
"He said that?" Tony asks incredulously.
"Mmmhm, are you up to that? Cause if you are, you can solve the riddle of your heart." Tony starts to shake his head.
"I don't know where you are getting your information, but, uh, he wasn't my biggest fan."
"What do you remember of your father, huh?"
"He was cold, calculating, he never told me he loved me, never even told me he liked me. So it's a little tough for me to digest that he thought the whole future is riding on me, he's passed it down. I don't get that! You're talking about a man, who's happiest day was shipping me off to boarding school."
"That's not true." Fury deadpans Tony, as Rachel's sobs and crying stops completely as she listens to the two men, and thinking about the hand on top of her head, how it would have felt if it was her Father's, if it would still be this warm, if there would be any love in it.
"Well then clearly you knew my Dad better than I did."
"As a matter of fact I did! He was a founding member of SHIELD."
"What?" Tony asks as more people come in caring a large case.
"I have a two OK." Fury says finally taking his hand off of Rachel's head, who pouted at the loss of the warmth she had always dreamed of getting from her Father.
"Wait! What's this?" Tony motioned to the box with his chin, his arms tightening around Rachel.
"You two are good right? Y-you got this right? Right." Fury turns and goes to leave.
"Got what, what is this? I don't even know what I was suppose to get."
"Natasha will remain a floater at Stark Industries, with her cover intact, and you remember Agent Coulson right?" Fury says throwing on his coat and walking away, "Oh and Tony remember, I got my eye on you." Tony looks at him incredulously as Fury once again walks away.
"We disabled all communications with the outside world. Good luck." With that Natasha turns and leaves herself.
"If you could send someone to get starbucks that'd be great, I'll put a little work in at the lab, but first I need some body work." Tony says turning to Coulson, who smiles and shakes his head.
"I'm not here for that."
"You're not?"
"No, I've been authorized by Director Fury to use any means necessary to keep you on premises. If you try to leave or play any games, I will tase you and watch SuperNanny as you drool into the carpet. Not you of course Rachel, just Tony. Kay?" Tony nods as Rachel silently giggled into his chest.
"Yeah I think I got it."
"Have fun." With that Coulson quickly turns and leaves. Tony lets go of Rachel and looks at the box that was labeled "Property of H. Stark"
"You going to help me with this?" Tony asks looking at Rachel who was clinging to his back, like he was going to disappear on her, she nods, and he picks up the case and they head down to the garage, the only place in their home that wasn't trashed. They get down to the garage and Tony plops the thing down and sits down in the chair right in front of it, while Rachel sits on the floor to the side of the case. Tony opens it up and starts to search through it as Rachel picks up old film reels.
"Hey Ton, can we watch these?" She asks looking through them.
"Yeah, give me the one you want to watch first." Tony says picking up their Dad's journal as she looks at the labels of the reels, before handing him the biggest one. Tony puts down the journal and sets up the reel before starting the projector, almost instantly the room is filled with the sound of Howard Stark's voice.
"Everything is achievable through technology, better living, robust health, and for the first time in human history the possibility of world peace. I'm Howard Stark, and everything you'll need for the future can be found right here." He mumbled a bit, then "I'm Howard Stark, and everything you'll need for the future can be found right here." The film cuts out then comes back in.
"So from all of us at Stark Industries" In the background a tiny Tony pops out.
"Oh! Tony look, there's you." Rachel points out her brother that looks about 11 years old.
"I would like to personally-" Howard Stark turns around and sees his son "Tony what are you doing back there? What is that? Put it back where you got it from! Where is your mother? Maria!" A worker comes and collects Tony, "Come on! Go! Go!" It cuts out again, then it comes back to Howard with a scotch in his hand, he takes a sip then walks over to the model, "So from all of us at Stark Industries, I would like to personally show you...my ass" Rachel laughs a little at that as her Father turns around and points his butt in the air, he runs a hand over his forehead mumbling, "I can't." It cuts out once again and comes back to Howard just staring at the camera. "Tony, Rachel." Howard says both their names, their heads instantly snap up and stare at the film of their Father. "Both of you are too young to understand right now, so I thought I'd put it on film for you, I built this for you, and someday you'll realise that it represents a whole lot more than just people inventions, it represents my lifes work. This is the key to the future, I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out, and when you do you'll change the world. I also want to tell you, if your Mother and I aren't there to tell you. Rachel, my sweet little princess, you are adopted." Rachel gasps and stares at Howard Stark, tears streaming down her face, as Tony watches her, "Your Mother and I found you when we were on a cruise, you literally simply fell into our lives, and my Princess, the day we actually adopted you, was one of the happiest days of my life. You will always be a Stark Princess, never forget that. Both of you are, and will forever be, my greatest creation and finding." The film reel runs out, leaving the Stark siblings staring at a white wall.
"Tonie?" Tony says gently reaching out and grabbing his sister's shoulder.
"I-I'm not…." She stares blankly ahead of her, seeing almost nothing.
"Princess, you are, it may not be blood, but you are a Stark, you are my sister. You are the daughter of Howard and Maria Stark. You are Rachel Marie Antoinette Stark." Tony says dropping to his knees collecting his sister to his chest, and holding her there.
"I'm not actually…." She starts again as her eyes fill with tears, and Tony's arms tighten around her.
"You are a Stark, you are my sister. I don't care." Tony whispers as the tears start to roll down Rachel's cheeks.
"Did you-?" She tries once more, though her eyes not focused on anything, Tony shakes his head.
"They brought you back just before Thanksgiving, they said that Mom had a surprise pregnancy, told me your name was Rachel Marie Antoinette Stark, and you were my baby sister. That I had to look after you, and love you. Mother was so happy, Father seemed just as happy that our family grew a little, you looked just like us, black hair, and you had Mom's eyes, I never thought. You were so small, first thing that happened when you saw me, was you laughed, and waved your hands out at me. Mom made me sit down, and placed you in my arms, you cooed and giggled. I knew you were my sister, I had to protect you from everything. I am your big brother, and I always will be. I will protect you, you can promise that on your blue eyes. Come on Tonie, Princess, look at me." Tony leans back and makes Rachel look at him, her cheeks still wet with tears as he takes her cheeks in his hands, using his thumb he wipes away the continuous tears that streamed down her face. "Little Sister, you are mine, and I your big Brother, I will protect you for ever, and you will always be a Stark, no matter what your DNA is. Your soul is Stark, your brain is Stark, and if that is not enough for you, just remember Princess, I still love you like a sister. Hell I helped raised you. Dad has said you are his Princess, that you are a Stark, I am saying you are THE Stark Princess, and there is nothing you can do to change it ok?" Tony says, his own eyes brimming with tears, Rachel nods and falls back into Tony's chest.
"Thank you big Brother, I love you too."
~~POV CHANG! *Loki* 3rd person (Btw as this is happening Tony and Rachel are finding the element and making it and such, just sayin)~~
With a giant boom, in the dead of night what seems to be a falling star crashes right into Nowhere, Nowhere Midgard, and as that 'star' makes an impact it creates a crater. In that crater, wheezing is heard, then coughs, all of a sudden a hand is seen at the top of the crater, then another, and finally something pulls itself up onto level land, coughing again this being looks around. He was dressed in green and gold leather, his black hair just touching the collar of his shirt, his green eyes, like emeralds, taking in the landscape. Standing the man brushes off his clothing, nothing like someone on Earth would see, all leather, and in colors no one knew leather could be. The man clears his throat, smooths back his hair, looks around and jump off the Earth, muttering something under his breath, then he just hovers in the air, like something was holding him up. The man thinks back to how ever long ago it was, when he was ruling in his father's stead, his brother banished from the realm, then the fighting.
*Flashback*
He held onto his brother's boot, looking up at his father.
"I did this! I did this for you! To show you!" He says trying to stress his point, his Father, a man whose hair and beard was all silver, shakes his head.
"No Loki!" It was all that was needed for the youngest son, he looked stricken, looked at his brother, who was having troubles holding onto their father, but still looked down at his baby brother, knowing exactly what he was about to do.
"NO LOKI DON'T!" The older brother yells as Loki let's go of his brother's boot and falls into the black hole that was made under the rainbow bridge.
"LOKI!" The boy's Father yells as he watches his youngest, even if not by blood, fall to his certain doom.
*Flashback end*
The man, Loki Odinson, no Laufeyson, again looks around, now that he was in the air, he had a slightly better look on what was going on. With a simple twist and turn Loki shot off into the air, he knew where he was, and he had a mission to find the only family he'd never known.