After the death of my mother, dad dealt with it the best he could, which meant he tried to drink his problems away or buried himself in his work. I know what your thinking he's the worst father in the world he'd rather send his kid away than take care of her himself. He abandoned the poor baby despite his promise. Well I thought that for a while but that despite the fact he was a genius he was a kid himself. He lost his parents, his childhood guardian, and the woman he thought he was going to spend the rest of his life with all in a year. That takes its toll on anyone and add the responsibility of raising a kid when you're a kid yourself that's a heavy burden on anyone.

Dad would visit whenever he could get away from work. His extracurricular activities provided a good cover when he would disappear for a few days to visit. Anna or Nana as I would call her was amazing. She would give dad daily updates and pictures of me when he wasn't at the ranch. She was patient and adored me. Uncle Rhodey, my godfather would also visit occasionally when he wasn't stationed overseas or he would tag along with dad on his visits.

Everyone said I looked like my mother but that my personality was entirely my dad. I didn't know if that was a good thing or not. I started speaking at the age of two, Read my first book at three, and disassembled and reassembled my first computer by age four. Because of this dad decided to build a lab in the basement of the ranch so that I could explore my scientific interests safely it was also where he decided to store some of the blueprints for side projects he did not intend to sell or mass produce.

Nora's POV- Age 4

I was in my room staring at the glow in the dark star stickers dad put on the ceiling of my room. It was the middle of the night and I couldn't sleep. That's when the idea came to me using the magnification of my electron microscope and adding it to my telescope I could connect it to my computer and magnify the images I capture with my telescope. There was a comet that was supposed to pass in a few days if I started working on it now it should be completed on time. I got out of bed and quietly went down to the basement. I had to sneak down cause Nana didn't let me work downstairs after 7pm. I mean come on that's not even late so of course as soon as she fell asleep I would sneak downstairs.

As soon as I entered the lab I got to work. I dismantled by telescope and microscope and tried to figure out the best way to combine the pieces together. I was working for a few hours when I started to feel like someone was watching me. I looked around and didn't see anything so I put on my headphones and went back to work. Then I felt the light where I was working get darker. I looked up and there was a man with chin length brown hair and grey eyes. He was wearing a mask, black leather vest and black pants with a lot of pockets. What really got my attention was his metal arm. It had a red star on it. It was shiny and looked like something out of the movies dad and I would watch. He tried to reach out and grab me but winced when he tried to move the metal arm. I looked at him try to clench his fist but he couldn't. I got off my stool and brought over my toolbox.

The strange man just followed me with his eyes as I moved around the room. I got another chair and placed it near him. I pat the cushion and said "sit down and let me look at your arm. I can tell its hurting you." He scrunched his eyebrows together and tilted his head like if he was trying to see if I was serious or not. "Come on," I said, " I don't bite and even if I did I have all my shots."

He glared at me but then just stepped toward me and sat on the chair. I brought the stool over so I could reach the metal plate I needed to remove. As I tried to pry it open with a screwdriver he flinched. I noticed and said " Its okay I'm not going to hurt you I just need to get that plate off to fix the thing inside that's hurting you. I promise I'll make it all better." He was still nervous and would flinch anytime I grabbed a tool. To get him to stay still I decided to sing my favorite song that dad would sing when I couldn't sleep, Hey Jude.

"Hey Jude, don't make it bad

take a sad song and make it better

Remember to let her into your heart

Then you can start to make it better

Hey Jude don't be afraid

You were made to go out and get her

The minute you let her under your skin

Then you begin to make it better

And anytime you feel the pain

Hey Jude refrain

Don't carry the world upon your shoulders.."

He looked at me like I was crazy but it worked and he relaxed. I kept singing until I found the wire that was shocking the poor guy. I quickly fixed it and put the plates back on his arm. I asked him how it felt. He didn't say anything he just looked at me and nodded. I smiled at him and asked him what his name was. He looked confused and shook his head no. I asked him what he was doing in the lab and he stared at me for a bit then pointed at the blueprints I was making for the telescope. I was confused what did this random stranger want with one of my random doodles. I didn't think much of it so I stood up and rolled up the blueprints and handed them to him. He looked at me in amazement. He gently took the m out of my hand and put them in his pocket.

That was when I started to yawn and realized how late it was. I started to close my eyes. When I least expected it I felt a pair of arms lift me up. One was cold and hard and the other was warm and flesh. I don't know why but I felt so comfortable in this stranger's arms. When we made it upstairs I pointed him in the direction of my room. He walked in and put me on the bed. He then tucked me in and was about to leave when I said " wait!" He turned around surprised. "Can you stay till I fall asleep?" he walked back to the bed and sat on the edge and just looked at me. I looked back and decided to break the silence by saying "You have pretty eyes, you shouldn't glare so much or your face will stay like that and.."

"Shhh" he shushed me and then started to rub my back while humming the song I sang to him earlier. I closed my eyes and fell asleep. " I mumbled "Thank You Shadow"

I woke up the next morning thinking everything was a dream. I ate breakfast with Nana. She told me dad was coming over tomorrow and I was so happy he was working on creating an AI that could help me with homework and with my projects. I went down to the lab and found the tools I used to fix the strangers arm and the telescope I was working on. That's when I realized It wasn't a dream.

Who was he?