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Chapter 5: A Place to Go

Like for the fist time last week, I laid my head down in New York. I looked up at the ceiling thinking about how it happened.

"Now if I remember correctly you that you said that you didn't know how you got there. But people just don't appear in the desert. Are you a run away?" Mr. Stark asked.

"No! I could never do such a thing! I just, I just don't know." I said.

"Give me your full name." He said.

"Jessica Lillian Jones, why?" I said giving him a confused look.

" Jarvis?" He asked. Jarvis..? I almost forgot about him.

"All ready on it sir." He said . There was a short moment of silence until Jarvis spoke again. "It appears that there are no files on Jessica Lillian Jones of Miami, Florida." He said. My eyebrows scrunched up in confusion.

"Are you sure?" I asked the A.I. seriously.

"Positive , madam." Jarvis answered and I turned my head back to Tony.

"What does that mean?" I asked him. I was starting to feel anxious.

"It means that either that's not your real name, or you're an illegal alien." He said. I blew out a breath of frustration before I spoke again.

"That is my name." I said in all seriousness looked at Tony who was taking his phone out of his pocket.

"Do you mind if I take a picture of you?" He asked while he took the picture.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"Jarvis is going to do a world wide search of your face." He said. I put my head down to wait.

"Sir?" Jarvis said and Tony hummed. "Nothing has come up sir." Tony looked at me.

" Jarvis are you sure?" Tony asked, even he looked uncertain of Jarvice's answer.

"Yes sir." Jarvis said. My heart thumped in my chest for the short time between that answer and when I spoke again.

"And what does that mean?" I asked worriedly. Tony turned to me.

"You're not on any data base." He said.

"I don't understand." I said shaking my head.

"Outside this car you don't exist." He said as awkwardly as someone as nonchalant as him could. My chest squeezed at his statement and I took a deep breath through my nose and my neck started to feel restless. And then I looked forward at the front seat head cushion and folded my hands tightly into my lap."What about your parents names what are they?" He asked.

"John and Sheryl." I said automatically, it's not that I didn't have hope it was just hard to get over the shock and surprise that came with hearing of my nonexistence.

" Still nothing sir." Jarvis said. This time when he found nothing a place in my chest pained before I started to feel panicked. I started breathing as calming as I could and contain myself but then I started to move around to much.

"I don't feel so good."I said. I needed air, I needed to get out. I leaned my back and he as into my seat as hard as I could.

"Maybe you should be still." Tony said then I saw from the side of my eye that Pepper had began to observe me more.

"She's having a panicked attack, Happy pull over." She said. As soon as the car stopped I flew out of the car do to take a big breather. We were a ways from the lively part of the city and so the somewhat silent Navada night was calm and welcoming. I closed my eyes and let the fresh air fill my lungs. After I felt better I opened my eyes and began to breath normally again. I couldn't go back in that car yet, I just need to feel like like myself by myself for a minute.

When it was all out of my system I turned around . Although I was ready I just didn't want to be in that car. Not right now.

"Are you alright now? " Happy asked. I sucked on a small silent breath before nodding.

"Yes." I said before I crossed two yards back to the car and got back in. The car pulled of silently after I got back inside.

"Thank you." I said.

"You looked like you needed it." Pepper said. A full half of a minute went by before Tony spoke again.

"You said that you didn't remember how you had got stranded in the desert, well what do you remember before that?" He asked. My mind went blink and so I started to think long and hard which caused my eyebrows to scrunched together. Tony and I could feel Pepper and Happy as well waiting for me to say something.

"Hold on..."I said looking down into my lap. A memory started to flood into my mind...it was me walking into my backyard, then the memory stopped. I loomed at Tony and Pepper.

"I remember going into my backyard." I said. Tony 's eyebrows lifted a little.

"That's it?" He asked.

"Yeah... The rest is blink." I put my head down into my hands. I felt like I was going to cry, what else could I do. I far away from home without any money and any place to stay.

"So what are your plans Mrs. Invisible?" Tony asked and I swear that nick name really annoyed me.

"I don't know." I said.

"You have someone to call?" I nodded and patted my clothes, oh yeah don't have a phone on me.

"I don't have a phone." I said and Tony gave me his. I dialed my sister's number and it went to a much saying that the number was disconnected. I took calming breaths and handed it back to Tony.

"Nothing?" Pepper asked.

"Not even a ring." I said.

"How is this possible?" She asked. I just sat there in silence and she turned to Tony.

"We have meeting in the afternoon what are we going to do with her?" She thought she whispered silently. Tony then looked at me for a moment.

" A lost legal adult yet teenager, the police would turn up with less than we had... Let's take her with us." Tony said nonchalantly and everyone including Happy looked at him."Happy take us to the air port." Happy just took his eyes of the mirror and nodded.

"Tony, she's a person not a puppy." Pepper almost hissed.

"Yeah a homeless person, you always said I needed to do more charity work." He said. I was becoming increasingly nervous. What they were discussing as if I was it in the car was a big decision. Tony finally turned and faced me. "How do you feel about New York Jessica?" He asked.

"I always wanted to go there." I said monotone, this was really unexpected.

"Well tonight that's where we're headed."

When we were boarding the plane I looked out towards the city in goodbye and with slight nostalgia . So much has happened this night. I Iwelcome in the desert stranded, was found by Robert Downey jr. ,ho turned out to be Tony Stark, Tony Stark in the other characters exists, still in shock about that keeping in the back of my mind when i'm really alone. And there's the icing on the top, I don't exist.

I took a breath before turning around and boarding the plane. I only road on a plane once and that was when I was little which I only barley remember. But I did okay on the ride over and was just like being in a small comfy room. I looked away from the window at Ms. Potts and she smiled at me in a comforting way in the chair near the front of the plane and I smiled back. Then I folded my hands in my lap before I turned to Tony when I heard him speak.

"When I get back home i'm going to find where you came from." Tony said. There was no question that he was completely serious. Gratefulness opened up in me and also something else , a question as to why he would offer me this. If I didn't have a mind of my own or a heart to feel I would've never questioned it.

" It's not that i'm not grateful because I really am. But why are you helping me?" I asked. It was still strange to know this person from only movies, but it helped to know that he kept around the people who changed him and that were good for him even when they were few of them. Happy saved his life. Pepper keeps him on track. Innocent people brought out the hero in him. But me? He found me on the side of the desert. He could've just took me to the police station so they could deal with me.

"Because you look lost. You look like you need a nudge..." He said.

"I still don't understand..."

"Well, petty recently I guess I fallen into that category. I didn't ask for help but when I needed the most thankfully it I was given something that I think that everyone know while. A nudge in the right direction. I know for a fact that I wouldn't be here today if I wasn't given that nudge by someone else." He said. I nodded in understanding.

"So I need a 'nudge' in the right direction?" I asked and He leaned his head to the side while swallowing scotch.

"Yeah, something like that." He said.

So he did. helped me. I traveled with Happy to South Florida and went back home. But when I got there I found that the only people that answered the door were not my family. They explained that they had lived in that house for years. I was to overwhelming, to shocking. To me I woke up, got dressed, and walked out that house two days ago. I couldn't take this and I didn't want to deal with this.

I found myself crying many times, in the shower , walking down the stairs... in the the back of my mind I knew that I had to adjust and get better but I couldn't just into we got back to New York I felt so numb. I was alone. It's not that I just didn't want to talk or eat, I just couldn't. I went straight back to the room Mr. Stark gave me until I could go home but clearly my stay there would be longer.

And so here I am. On a queen sized bed letting tears slide side ways on my face until I feel like putting myself back together. I'm clearly not in my own world anymore and i'm still dealing with it. I closed my eyes and felt this burning sensation on my hand. When I looked at it in it was a small flame as it laid loosely curled on my chest.I gasped and set up quickly and shook my hand like crazy. It went away but I still held my hand away from the rest of my body as far as my arms stretched out.

"Miss Jones, are you alright? I picked up a high rise in temperature in the room." Jarvis asked.

"I'm fine! I think..." I said hurriedly before looking at my hand again. " Jarvis, just a question. Nothing to read into. What are the odds of my hand catching on fire with no reason at all!?" I asked.

"None, madame." He answered. I smiled a little when he called me madame. Then I nodded my head at what he just said.

"Uh,Thank you Jarvis!" I said.

"Yes, madame...And by the way" He started. I lifted my head up towards the ceiling.

"Yes?"

"There is no need to shout I can hear voice tones even at hushed volumes." He said and I looked at the ground just a little embarrassed.

"Okay...got it." I said bringing my hand closer to me.

"Will that be all madame?" Jarvis asked.

"Yes."

After a couple of moments of silence I sat down and wiped my face before inspecting my hand again. Was that really fire I saw in my hand? It's not the first time my eyes lashes could have fooled me. That's most likely what it was, the shadow of my eyelashes mixed with the glare of light. And my whole body felt overheated anyway, which usually happens when I cry. Taking a few calming breathes I laid back down and quickly drifted off to sleep with swollen eyelids.

The Next Morning

I woke up and took off the clothes that Pepper had bought for me and then I took a hot relaxing and contemplative shower. Of course I still feel terrible for not apparently existing so moments like these usually kept my thoughts going back to he things that constantly bother me. After I was done drying off and combing out my long dark brown hair I put on some regular clothes.

I came out of the room and went down stairs for something to eat. I was starving, hopefully there was at least a jot pocket around(dought it). On my way to the kitchen I saw a sweaty Happy and Mr. Stark coming down from the hallway. I wanted to turn back but it was already to late, I was in their sight. I noticed that Happy looked at Tony a certain way before he spoke.

"Well, I guess i'll be going home now Tony. I need a shower. See ya Jessica." He said heading out.

"Bye Happy. Hello ." I said walking to the kitchen. Happy had apparently left us in an awkward atmosphere. Dang it.

"Uh, hi...Happy told me what happened in Florida. Do you... ya know, want to talk about it?" He said coming into the kitchen and leaning on the counter. He sentences were stumbling out of his mouth. He was not used to this sort of thing and I knew I wasn't either. I put my hands in front of me and leaned on the kitchen counter facing away from him.

"I just want time to...adjust." I said.

"Okay, that I get. Just know I lost my parents to, not literally like you did, but still. If you need someone to relate to... Well, i'm your guy." He said. I nodded and smiled a watery smile as I tried to keep the tears down. It worked little. "And there's plenty of room to...so...ya know." Still turned away from him I nodded. As I heard him walking away I turned slightly towards him.

"Thank you."I said.

"You're welcome." He said and left. In all the places I could've popped up. It was the desert where he found me. Although I have come in to a most peculiar situation, I still have to say that I am lucky that Tony Stark found me, I thought to myself. I leaned off of the counter and went into the fridge Wwhich didn't have a lot of food.

What to make...? I narrowed my eyes and smirked as an idea came into my head.

"Hey Jarvis?" I called.

"Yes madame?" He answered.

"Give me at least ten recipes I could use with the foods and ingredients in this kitchen." I said.

"Yes madame."

Hello my amazing readers! I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Please!Please!Please review! They keep my heart beating and make my brain functional! If you do Thor is going to give you a lap dance! When you show up to the palace in Asgard just don't mention my name!

P.S. Tony and Pepper are together. They will only be a friendship between him and Jessica.