Hello my dear readers!
Sorry it took me so long to get this next chapter out. College and mother drama this week has kept me busy. Well here is chapter four and I hope you like it. I want to thank Lyvendel for their comment, and I would like to thank 10051Yaya182769, Archrsphoenix, BlackRoseBruns, Lil-B-Rebel, Lyridium, QueenOfHEL666, Seraphina Peverell Slytherin, and Turtle-Tastic3000 for following the story! Thank you all and reviews are apreciated!
~Scmax~
The next couple of days I didn't see hid or hair of Bruce, and had to ask Malak if he was okay. She explained that the next village over had an emergency and Bruce went over to handle it. I thanked her and went back home for the day to pack some bags. I was going on a little vacation at the end of the week, and needed to be ready to go for when my ride came. Luckily Bruce came back the night before I was leaving and came over for some tea and relaxing conversation. We were sitting in the kitchen while the tea brewed just talking about what happened at the next village.
"So, there's some type of illness going on over there?" I ask getting up to pour the tea.
"Yeah, I need to go back tomorrow and stay awhile longer. Can you handle everything here?" Bruce asks.
I can feel him watching my every move and get a little nervous at that. I don't let it show, and I don't know why I'm getting nervous around Bruce. It's not like I'm scared of him or the Jolly Green Giant. Although I haven't meet the other guy yet, but I really want to. I sat Bruce's cup in front of him and sat down with my own before answering him.
"Actually, I will be gone for a while as well." I tell him.
"Where are you going?" Bruce wonders.
"Back to the states for a couple of months. I have to check in with my brother, and visit Jo for her birthday." I tell him feeling a peak of jealousy in his emotions.
"Jo's a girl?" Bruce asks taking an interest in his cup.
"Yes Bruce, Jo is a girl. One of my former students that is really close to me." I explain trying to keep the laughter in.
I watch Bruce closely and see a slight hint of pink on his cheeks. I have to quickly look away from him to keep from blushing myself. Which is odd, cause I haven't blushed since I was a teenager.
"Hey Bruce, I've been wondering about something for a while now." I say trying to break the awkwardness in the air.
"Yeah?" He asks looking up from his cup.
"I was wondering if I could meet the Jolly Green Giant when I come back?" I ask looking right at him.
"No." Bruce says right away.
"Oh, come on, you didn't even think it over." I say throwing up my hands.
"The answer is No Elissa. I don't trust the other guy to not hurt you." Bruce says standing up.
"That's bull Bruce and you know it. The Jolly Green Giant is curious about me. You may be able to feel his emotions much deeper than I can. But you can't deny that he doesn't hate me, and wants to meet me too." I say poking his chest.
"Get this through your thick skull Elissa Carbonell. You will never get to meet the other guy and he will never get to meet you. I don't care if he's curious about you or not. The Hulk can kill you and I am not risking that." Bruce says grabbing my hand to keep me from poking him.
I looked at him like he was stupid for a minute, before pulling my hand back and getting right in his face. I know it was probably not a good idea to piss him off, but he was pissing me off right now.
"You stupid ass. Have I not shown you what I can do with my healing ability? No don't talk, I am talking right now." I snap when he goes to open his mouth.
"You know, it hurts me that you don't trust the big guy to be around me. Cause that means that you don't trust me either, and don't try to deny it. I can still feel a little mistrust in your emotions toward me. When I feel the Jolly Green Giant's emotions, I don't feel any distrust toward me. It's you that's holding yourself back Bruce, by not trusting me or the big guy. Now please get out of my house." I say walking over to my door and opening it.
Bruce doesn't say a word, just stares at me for a minute before leaving like I asked. I slammed the door behind him and went back to the kitchen. I gathered the cups up and put them in the sink planning on washing them. My hands were shaking so much though that I had to set the cups down and pace a little to calm down. Well enough that I could call my brother and ask for a favor without dropping my phone.
It took around thirty minutes of pacing for me to calm down enough to call Tony. I asked that he send the jet tonight, instead of waiting in the morning. Instead of asking me a whole bunch of questions like he usually would. He just agreed and told me that he would see me in the morning. I got my bags ready in the front room and brewed some more tea for the wait. It took around three hours for the jet to get here and someone to knock on my door. Before I could get up to answer the door Tony sauntered in like he owned the place.
"Well come right on in Tony." I snap a little irritated still.
"Whoa little tiger, what's your problem?" Tony asks wrapping his arm around my shoulder.
"Sorry Tony, I just got into an argument with a friend. Can we just get to Miami now please?" I ask slipping out from under his arm.
I could feel Tony's worry as I grabbed my bags and walked out the door, just leaving him standing there. By the time I got to the jet, Tony was running up behind me and took my bags from me. I rolled my eyes at him and walked into the jet to see Happy sitting there not looking very Happy. Tony walked up behind me and made me move further into the jet so the door could be closed.
"Alright Happy, tell the pilot to take off." Tony say plopping down on the couch with his feet up.
Happy got up from his seat and went to the front of the jet. I sat down in the chair next to Happy's chair and leaned it all the way back. Happy came back a minute later and sat back down in his seat.
"The pilot says it will be four hours to New York." Happy says buckling up.
"New York?" I ask sitting up quickly.
"Yep. The Stark Tower has been built and we will be staying there." Tony says not even looking up at me.
"Is that what you were working on last year?" I ask remembering our phone calls.
"Maybe." Tony says smirking.
"Ugh your annoying." I grumble laying back down.
"So are you." Tony sings.
"Shut up Tony and go to sleep." I sigh closing my eyes.
I try to ignore him, but he keeps on talking nonsense. I finally get tired of him, grab the pillow behind me and smack him on the face.
"Shut up before I smother you." I say whacking him again for good measure.
Tony shuts up at that and crosses his arms and starts to pout. I roll my eyes and close them trying to find that sleepy feeling. When I find it, I push the feeling onto Tony and wait for him to fall asleep, before laying back and relaxing.
That is always one good use of my empath power, to get Tony to shut up and fall asleep. This isn't the first time I did that to him either. He used to stay up all hours of the night and even for days on end. This would worry Pepper and she would usually fly me down from school just to get Tony to sleep for a day or a couple of hours. That was when I was younger and still working on controlling and developing my powers. Now all Pepper has to do is call me and get Tony to talk to me, before I can put him to sleep. It took a lot of practice to transfer my emotions to him over the phone, and soon I could just focus on Tony from long distances and manipulate his emotions.
The jet arrived in New York four hours later like the Piolet had said and I woke Tony up from his slumber. He had a little drool on the side of his face and I decided to be nice and tell him about it. Tony glared at me though and whipped the drool off before leaving the jet in a huff. I don't blame him though as I was laughing when I told him. Happy helped me with my bags this time and opened the car door for me when Tony shut it in my face. He put the bags in the trunk and got in the driver's seat. Tony was still pouting beside me so I decided to make it up to him.
"Hey Tony, I have a surprise for you." I say nudging him in the ribs.
Tony ignores me and turns his head to look out the window. I roll my eyes at his antics and turn to start poking him on the shoulder. It took about ten minutes for him to get annoyed and grab my finger.
"You laughed, I'm mad at you." Tony says before dropping my finger.
"Aww I'm sorry big brother, but you looked so cute with drool on your face. I promise to make it up to you." I say moving to peak at his face.
I could see him trying to fight a smile and poked him in the ribs a couple of times before it finally came out. Tony sighed and turned to me with an evil look in his eyes.
"You promise to do what I want to do?" Tony asks a smirk coming over his features.
"I know I'm going to regret this, but Yes, I promise to do what you want to do." I say resigning myself to some kind of nightmare plan Tony was cooking up.
We arrived at Stark Tower then and Tony pulled me out of the car and straight into the building. He ignored the reporters trying to get his attention and pulled me straight to the elevator. He pressed the button for the top floor and leaned back against the wall.
"Surrounded by reporters like always." I tease shaking my head.
"You know the public loves me. Ironman is a hero to them." Tony brags.
The elevator dings and opens before I could give off a sarcastic remark to that. Tony drags me out of the elevator and to the windows that overlook the city.
"Well how do you like it?" Tony asks hopping around like a little kid.
"This view is amazing Tony." I say walking a little closer to the windows.
"He knew you would like it. You should see your room." Pepper says walking into the room.
"Pepper." I squeal turning around.
We hug each other tightly and walk out of the room talking like we just saw each other the other day. I forgot all about Tony as Pepper showed me around the penthouse and finally my room.
I walked to the middle of my room and turned around to look at every inch. The wall facing the outside was just windows, letting me look out over the city. I had a big screen TV, a beige couch and chairs. My bed was a queen size bed with beige blankets and brown sheets and pillow cases. I had a huge walk in closet and a big bathroom with a jacuzzi tub and a steam shower with glass walls.
"Wow. Pepper this is amazing. Is Tony trying to make it to where I won't want to leave again?" I ask getting a little suspicious of my brother.
"Honestly Elissa, I have no idea. But I do know that he has a lot of things planned for your visit." Pepper says linking arms with me.
We laughed at that and walked back to the living room together. Tony wasn't there though, so Pepper called out to Jarvis to find him for us.
"Misses he's in the elevator on his way back up with some Chinese food for Miss Elissa's first night back home." Jarvis informed us.
"Thank you, Jarvis." Pepper says.
"Your welcome Miss Pepper." Jarvis says.
"Is Jarvis in every room?" I ask looking around the living room.
"Yes, he is. I made sure of that after the last incident." Tony says walking into the room.
"What incident?" I ask taking some cartons from him.
"Pepper darling why did you steal my sister away from me? I wanted to show her, her new room." Tony pouts sidestepping my question.
"Because I knew you would make too big of a deal out of it." Pepper says kissing his cheek and taking the rest of the food from him.
Tony play glared at Pepper and me, then came and joined us on the couch. Pepper popped in a movie and we all sat back to eat and relax.