A/N: I got my 100th review on this story! And it has almost 300 followers, I am seriously shocked! Never thought that would happen, so as a thank you to everyone who has reviewed or followed, here is Chapter 11. It's a little short, but AVENGERS... It's starting! Hope you enjoy.
I woke up from my nap, and my memories were just like Papa and Daddy said they would be. I could remember everything since I was deaged and blood adopted, and even though I knew that there was other stuff locked away I didn't miss it. If anything I felt freer, like there had been a dark cloud following me around that was now gone.
As soon as I am awake, Uncle Tony gets all of our stuff together and calls Happy to come and pick us up to take us to the airport. I give both Daddy and Papa a huge hug, and they make me promise to call if I need anything at all. Uncle Tony gave me a small simple cell phone that I could use in case I wanted to talk to them, and explained that it was just for the trip. He said that I was to young to have a cell phone of my own. Though really, I think Papa and Daddy made him say that.
Since Uncle Tony has his own jet, it doesn't take us long to get on-board. Once we get settled, Uncle Tony asks for lunch to be made for the two of us and then he turns on a TV for me while pulling out all of his notes for himself.
Once my stomach is full I quickly fall back asleep, honestly, I don't remember ever sleeping this much. The curse of being in a car or plane, it just sounds and feels so comforting.
When we land, Uncle Tony wakes me up and then leads the way off of the plane. He has a hired driver to take us back to Stark Tower, but first he gives me a driving tour of New York, pointing out many of the tourist attractions. By the time we make it to Stark Tower, it is late afternoon. Pepper is waiting for us in the penthouse, which is where we are staying while in New York.
"Alright Harry, I have to go do some work now. Do you think you will be alright with Pepper? As soon as I am done, I will head back and we can all eat dinner together. You can pick," he says and I give a large smile. I love getting to pick dinner.
"We will be fine Tony. The sooner you leave the sooner you will be back, right Harry?" Pepper says, ruffling my hair. As soon as he is gone, she turns to me. "Well, what do you think we should do now that he's gone?"
"I don't know… what can we do?"
"I think I have an idea," Pepper says, and she grabs my hand leading me down a long hallway. We then take an elevator down a couple of floors, and then turn down a maze of more hallways, before stopping in front of a door. "Well go on," she says giving me a nudge.
I walk into a completely white room, except for the floor, which is black and a trampoline.
"What is this place?" I ask carefully walking out onto the middle of the floor, after taking off my shoes and placing them near the door.
"It's Tony's thinking room. The trampoline, is just something he added for when he's bored. A floor pulls out above it, all of the walls are dry erase boards. And the ceiling is padded so you won't hurt your head."
I don't need much more encouragement than that and I soon start jumping up and down on the bouncy floor. I can't help the laugh that escapes when I fall and bounce on my butt before jumping back to my feet again. Pepper talks JARVIS into playing music for us and soon the two of us are dancing and jumping around each other doing all sorts of tricks.
We stay on the trampoline for a while before I get thirsty and we head back upstairs. After getting a drink and a snack, I talk Pepper into taking me to a park. I know that New York is a city, but she said that there are a lot of large parks here.
It doesn't take long after we get to one for me to find a group of kids playing football, or as they corrected me soccer, and I quickly joined them. I wasn't the best but I definitely wasn't the worst either. Needless to say after an hour or so of that I was more than ready to head back to the tower.
"Alright Harry, do you want to take a bath now or after dinner? After all of the running around you did at the park, I think it's required."
We agree on now, so I head to the bathroom and quickly get cleaned up. Pepper got clothes out for me and put them on the counter so as soon as I am done I quickly change and head back out to the main room, just in time to see Tony land on the back patio and the suit being removed.
"I'm back! Did you miss me?" he says strolling in through the back door, and I rush over to him giving him a hug. "I'll take that as a yes. Did you decide on what you wanted to eat?"
"Pizza!" I yell and he gives a slight chuckle before telling JARVIS what and where to order from. Once we have eaten, we all get comfortable on the couch, before Uncle Tony announces that he wants to go back out and finish the welding on the project that he was helping with today. He says that he thinks he can finish it tonight and so he gives me a kiss on the forehead before going back out in his suit.
I know that I must have fallen asleep on the couch because I don't remember moving, but now a couple of hours later I wake up in my room. I glance at the clock and see that it is just before eleven. I crawl out of bed trying to remember why I woke up. Finally I remember that I heard yelling coming from the main room so I sneak down the hallway towards it.
"… are you doing here? I am busy right now, try coming back in a couple of days," I hear Uncle Tony say.
"Hello Phil, how are you doing?" I hear Pepper add.
"Phil, his names Agent. What are you on about Pep?"
"I am good thank you Pepper. Tony we don't have time for your jokes, this is serious business. Straight from Director Fury."
Who are these people?
"Well I don't have time for Fury, if I remember correctly he said that I do not play well with others."
"A new crisis has arisen. The avengers' initiative has been reinstated, you have been called in. Do you want to look at the file or not?"
"Fine," I hear Uncle Tony grumble. There is a bit of a pause before he continues. "What is this thing?"
"That is the tesseract, and it has been stolen. We need your help to locate it."
"Well Tony, it looks like you have some homework to do. Phil, any chance you could drop me off at the airport. I might as well just head to DC early."
"Of course," I hear the other man answer, and then I hear the elevator doors close and assume they have left. I peek around the corner, and I see Uncle Tony studying videos and notes on multiple different screens. Whatever he is looking at doesn't look all that exciting, so I turn and head back to bed.
I woke up again a couple of hours after that. It takes me a minute to remember where I am, but the moment of panic was enough to wake me up completely. I look at the clock and see that it is only three in the morning. I remember that I had a dream that Uncle Tony was taken and I was left all alone in New York by myself and didn't know what to do. I lay back down trying to fall back asleep but I can't stop thinking about the dream.
I finally decide to just go and check and make sure he is in his room. I walk down the hall, but he isn't in his bedroom. I check the great room but he isn't there either. I finally go into the kitchen, it is empty but there is a note on the table that has a phone number written on it. I decide to try it, maybe he left it for me.
"Tony," I hear the voice on the other end answer.
"Uncle Tony?" I ask. "Where are you? Why aren't you here?"
"Harry? Are you alright? Now isn't really the best time I am sort of in the middle of something."
"What are you doing?"
"Well, I flew to Germany to help obtain someone that SHIELD wants to talk to, but his brother just jumped on our ship and took him. I am trying to get him back."
"Are you going to come back afterwards? I had a dream that you left me in New York and I had nowhere to go. I didn't know what to do. I don't like being here all by myself."
"I know kiddo. Look I am really sorry about leaving you alone I just didn't have any options and you were asleep. I thought I'd be back before you woke-" just then there is a loud boom and the line goes dead. I jump back dropping the phone, and it clangs onto the kitchen tiles. I frantically look around before realizing that the bang came from the phone and not here.
I race back to my room, grab the blanket and Patches off of my bed before I climb into my closet, tucking myself into the back corner. I pull my knees up to my chest and wrap the blanket around me. I start to cry, afraid of being alone and afraid that Uncle Tony isn't going to come back.