Soooo, I know this took absolutely ages, and I'm so sorry, but I do have an excuse! My Ipad, which I was doing all of my writing and uploading on broke completely. I've upgraded to a laptop now and I'm still trying to get used to it. But anyway. Chapter time!
Chapter 5: To be put in my place.
I landed back on the top of my tower at around 3 in the morning. My armour was removed and I walked into the tower. Odd. The room was spotless, and nobody was there. I started to think maybe she'd found herself another room and went to check out all the bedrooms.
Still no sign of her. Kitchen? No. Bathroom? No. Lab? Still no. I gave up and went back to the room I had entered in. The one that was destroyed… Keyword 'was'. I walked in, so distracted by the cleanliness of it that I didn't realise I was about to sit down on somebody.
My bum barely touched something when I was roughly yanked up back to my feet.
"What do you think you're doing?!" a familiar voice hissed. "'You'll wake her up!"
"Rhody!" I said happily when I turned around.
"Shush!" he whispered angrily, slamming a hand over my mouth. He pointed to a space on the sofa behind me. I turned around and quickly stepped away.
"Oh…" I whispered. "What's she doing here?"
"What you were supposed to be helping her with."
"I did not agree to any of those terms. I, do not like that accusation."
"Fury's got it in writing."
"Noooo." I said sarcastically "All he's got is a… an autograph! You should have seen him earlier. Who knew? Fury, a fangirl…. Ha…"
"Tony you were supposed to help her. She cleaned this whole room almost completely on her own. Think of all the rubble! We could have done with some help, especially with the heavy lifting."
"I-I… alright I should have come back sooner. But still… she could've stayed up. I mean c'mon… it's my tower"
"She was extremely tired, almost to the point of passing out on the spot."
"But she can't just go to sleep there on my couch! Its mine, I need it for sitting on!"
"Yes she can. She waited almost 3 and a half hours for you to come back Tony. 3 and a half hours. She was exhausted. Not to mention she started the work long before you even arrived." He looked at his watch. "And that was 8 hours ago. Where the hell have you been?" He sounded really angry.
"Out. Eating dinner! I was hungry and I needed some alone time, I've just been told I'm supposed to hand over my tower, the tower I built, for them to make it into some kind of house for the homeless. Besides she hates me anyway. Why would I want to be stuck with her for weeks?"
"She's hardly eaten either. Do you know why? Because she was waiting for you to come back! She doesn't know any takeaway places and you don't have any food in the house!"
"I don't need any! And she shouldn't be here. I shouldn't even be here,"
"Well she is. And she's staying. So get used to it."
"Whats up with you. You're a little… Touchy."
"Just go to bed Tony"
"Nuh-"
"Bed, Tony" and with that he walked over to the other end of the sofa, sat down, put his head back and was out like a light in seconds.
"Fine." I muttered and walked to my old bedroom "Take my stuff. I don't mind. Take my tower. I don't mind. Take my whole bleeding life! Guess what? I, myself, do not mind, one bit!" I reached my room and threw myself onto my bed. "Who am I kidding? I hate the world!" I muttered before falling asleep.
I woke up extremely early the next morning after having another nightmare. I just lay there for a while, tangled in my sheets breathing heavily before I finally sat up and rubbed my face. I got off the bed and padded into the elevator.
"Where to Sir?" The cool mechanical tone said. He sounded a bit quieter than usual and when I looked I saw several bullet holes littering the inside of the lift.
"Uuuhh, main room. J, what happened in here?"
"Oh I forgot to mention. Miss Fury was not happy about the message you sent her. She told me she would wipe my whole system if I ever tried it again."
"Ha! Wipe your system? Is she even capable of doing that?"
"I would not doubt Miss Fury's abilities if I were you Sir." The elevator then moved and I arrived in the main room a few seconds later. I walked over to the couch to find both Rhody and Rosa still asleep. I stared at Rosa, she looked so peaceful… And not angry.
Well, that needed to change. What's the fun in life without a little torment and rivalry? I ran back into the elevator.
"Down to the lab J"
"Right away Sir"
As soon as I reached the lab I rushed in, went straight over to the desk and got my most Permanent marker pen. It lasted on skin for about a week, my own invention of course. I rushed back into the elevator and headed back up.
I ran back into the main room and tiptoed over to the sofa where I checked both Rhody and Rosa were both sleeping before leaning over Rosa with the pen and inch above her face then I stopped, deciding what I wanted to draw.
I decided to go with the the goth/panda look and draw big dark circles around her eyes and on her mouth and bit my lip in concentration. My hand hovered just above her face, the pen about to touch when a hand shot out from nowhere, seizing hold of my wrist.
"Don't even think about it" came the authoritative voice of Director Fury.
I jumped out of my skin, falling onto Rosa who then began to stir. I tried to quickly get up and was just standing up when her eyes snapped open. Caught in the act and hesitant about what to do I grinned.
"Morning!" I shouted right in her ear. The next thing I knew, a fist was flying straight at my face. It crashed forcefully into my eye and knocked me backwards.
I flailed about for a while, trying to regain my balance before eventually losing it and crashing down to the floor. I heard multiple laughs coming from around the room and looked up to see who was there.
Rhody, now awake, sat laughing on the couch with Rosa. Fury although not laughing, stood smirking against the wall. And then around the room stood some other familiar faces. Maria Hill stood on the opposite side of the room accompanied by Bruce Banner of all people. They too were laughing. Finally directly above me, hanging out of a vent in the ceiling, almost wetting himself from laughing, was Clint.
"Security breach!" I groaned closing my eyes "How did I not see you?"
"I don't know." Clint wheezed "But all of S.H.I.E.L.D saw you!" He waved a camera cheekily before falling out of the vent and landing about 2 inches away from Rosa on the sofa. Shocked she turned to the man next to her, gave a little squeal and enveloped him into a hug. "Hey Ro" He said hugging her back with one arm and wiping his eyes with the other.
They pulled away from each other and Rosa looked around. She glared when she saw Fury but her glare turned into excitable happiness when she saw Hill. She leapt over the back of the chair and engulfed her in an enormous hug.
"Your dad wants to talk to you" Hill murmured into her ear and pulled away. Rosa then walked outside onto the windy top of the tower. Fury followed her.
"Why are you all here?" I spoke, still on the floor. It was bad enough having little Fury here, let alone the whole bunch.
"We were dropping off Banner and Agent Barton when we saw what you were about to do to Ro" Hill said, yep, she still didn't like me.
"Well why were you dropping them off. I thought this scheme was supposed to be all oooooohh top secret, no one can know, you give me major pain if I let the secret slip" I quipped sarcastically.
"Well it was, until we saw you refused to work cooperatively with Rosa."
"That was just last night!"
"Well now you have some extra help."
"That I didn't ask for-"
"And that you should be grateful for"
I didn't bother replying.
"What happened to visit the tower anytime?" said Bruce. I'd forgot he was here.
"I'm not angry about you being here. We're gonna have fun. I'm annoyed that S.H.I.E.L.D is invading my life."
"S.H.I.E.L.D isn't invading your life" said a new voice. I looked up to see Fury walking in with Rosa. They both looked on better terms with eachother… And on worse terms with me. "You signed the contract. I could walk away now and not help you… But then you'd get in some deep shit because you'd never get it done. I already did this room last night, with absolutely no input from you, do you know how exhausting that was? Can you not just be thankful for even one thing? Or are you too wrapped up in yourself for that?"
I was speechless, not only was that the longest she'd ever willingly spoken to me, but she actually made me feel remorseful for once… Ok, don't judge, it's only the right thing to do, everyone hates me enough as it is…
"I'm… sorry. You're right." I said with my face contorted. hey! apologies cause me pain! now everyone was speechless.
"Good!" said Rosa, completely unaffected by this miracle "So what are we having for breakfast?" She waited. "Helloo…" She waited longer. "Anyone?…" This time when nobody replied she flicked Clint in the side of the head.
"Hey!' he shouted. That shocked everyone out of their state.
"Good, you're alive. What are we having for breakfast?"
"Oh, I don't know, what do you want?" He grumbled rubbing his temple.
"What I asked Jarvis for."
"I have all the food Miss Fury, you just need to cook it." spoke the AI.
"Thanks Jarv!" she said happily. "Who's cooking it then?" She turned to the rest of us. Everyone looked at eachother, each of them willing it onto the next person before everybody eventually turned and looked at Fury.
"Fine i'll do it. Someone else is on dish duty though." He proclaimed and strode into the kitchen.
As it turns out, who knew Fury could cook? And who knew fried mash potato, scrambled egg, sausages and fried bread tasted so good together? I certainly didn't. I started to think, as everyone joked and laughed and stuffed their faces at the breakfast table, that maybe it wouldn't be so bad living with lots of people.
I looked up and started to dig into my breakfast once again when a glob of mashed potato came flying towards me and smacked me in the face. I wiped it out of my eyes and looked to find the culprit. Barton sat grinning at me from a few spaces away.
I was about to get angry at him and stood up when Rosa shouted "STOP!" Everybody looked at her. She smirked before whispering those two awesomely amazing words that I always wanted to hear come out of someones mouth. "Food fight."
Let's just say, chaos ensued.
So, 5th chapter, what did you think? I've now had 1,300 views on this story, maybe thats not even a lot but I don't care because I'm so so grateful of the people I've already got. I also want to especially thank my followers and favouriters you are all really awesome. But yeah, thank you all so so much! Anyway, bye, hope I see you next time! Loves, from me:)