Tony was on his way to the lab when Katie stopped him. "Dad? Can I talk to you?" Tony raised a worried eyebrow, putting away his HoloPad. He had been working on some upgrades to distract himself form the craving for alcohol. It had been going on six hours since since he had some and it was already getting difficult. He went to Katie. "Yeah sweetie? Something wrong?" Katie frowned. "I'm assuming your planning to stay with mom now since she isn't gone?" Tony looked mildly sternly at her. "Yes, Of corse. That was never a question." She shook her head. "But why? She very obviously cheated on you right under your nose. You deserve someone better." He looked sternly to her. "I'm not leaving her and that's final Katie." She glared. "How can you stay with her? After what shes done?" He sighed, rubbing the bridge between his eyes. "Katie, I've already explained this to you. I am not exp lining or discussing this again." Katie looked away. "Then I can't stay here." He looked up a bit shocked. "What do you mean can't stay here?" She started to make her way upstairs, he followed. "Katie!"
At that moment,Kim was coming out of Quinns room, having put her down for a nap. She frowned. "What is going on? I hear yelling." Katie glared. "You. How could you do that to dad? To us?" Kim frowned. "Katie, calm down, please." "No, I...I can't ok? I just can't calm down! I can't stay here where you all seem to think this is ok." She huffed, going into her room, slamming the door. Kim felt her eyes water. Tony saw this, walking to her, holding her. "Angel.." She sniffled. "I'm sorry..I've broke our family." He shook his head. "No. No you didn't. Katie just needs time to calm. I'm gonna give her some time then I'l talk to her, ok?" Km nodded, leaning into his chest, lightly fingering her reactor necklace. He smiled softly."Your still wearing it?" She smiled weakly. "Yeah. I haven't taken it off. Thou you haven't explained to me why it pulsates like it does." He smiled weakly. "lets go get some coffee then I'l tell you all about it." She nodded, letting him lead her downstairs.
She sat down, watching as he turned the coffee maker on. Catching on to the subtitle but jerky movements, he was jittery. She frowned. "Tony? Are you ok?" He sighed, turning, putting his hands in his pockets to hide the shakiness. "Yeah. Fine." "Your shaking." He looked away, she realized. "Have you had anything to drink?" He looked to her, shaking his head, almost ashamed to say it. Feeling so damn needy to it. He felt weak. She had a soft look of understanding, walking to him, holding his wrists gently. "Why didn't you tell me you stopped cold turkey? You didn't have to stop so soon, so fast." He let out a shaky sigh. "because I need to be strong for you. For our family. I can't let something like alcohol bring me down and make me weak." She smiled softly. "Baby, you've already admitted you have a problem and are taking steps to fix it. Thats the strongest any addict can do." He leaned his forehead against hers. "I don't know what I would do without you." At that moment JARVIS chimed in.
"I hate to interrupt but Katie is currently packing her bags." Tony quickly let go of Kim, going right upstairs to Katie's room, knocking. "Katie, open up. Lets talk about this." Inside her room, she huffed. "Go away dad." "Not until we talk." She frowned. "Fine. Come in." Tony walked in, looking worried. "You can't leave." She glared. "Why? I already talked to Steve, he's more then willing to let me stay long as I need to." Tony shook his head, walking closer. "Can you please stop being angry with me? I want to talk about this calmly without trying to claw my or Kms eyes out." She frowned,sitting. "I just don't know how she could do that or how you could accept her after it."
He sat next to her. "Sweetie, like I have already told you-" "shes the best thing to happen to you and you don't have enough self-worth to find someone better, yeah I heard." He paused, frowning, feeling a bit hurt. "Your really that upset over this?" "Yes dad, I am. Please let me go live with Steve, at least until I've calmed enough to come back home." He sighed, bringing his arm around her. "You know we love you right?" "You do." "Your mom does to." "then she wouldn't have done what she did." He shook his head, kissing her head, wishing he knew what to say to calm her down.
Katie made her way to Quinns room, after asking JARVUS is she was awake or not. She went in gently. "Quinn?" She saw her baby sister sitting on her bed, holding her Iron Man plushie with a soft frown. Katie walked to her, sitting on the bed. "Hey.." Quinn spoke quietly. "Hey.." "Are you ok?" Quinn shook her head, Katie then brought her into her lap. "Whats wrong?" Quinn looked down at the plush in her hand, her eyes watering. "Your leaving." Katie sometimes forgot her little sister had psychic abilities. She sighed. "Yes I am but only for a little bit, I promise." "Why are you leaving?" "Because I'm mad at mom. Sometimes when people are mad at each other they don't want to be around that other person." Quinn's lip trembled. "Is that why Clint left to?" Katie sighed, putting some of Quinns dark hair behind her ear. "He was trying to steal mom away, he had to leave." "But this is his home." Katie frowned, holding her sister closer. She knew Quinn was too young to understand why he left but the feeling of abandonment was growing and Katie wished she could fix that. "I'm sorry princess. I promise I'll be back and we can talk on the phone and I'll be back before you know it." Quinn nodded, wiping her tears away.
It wasn't long until Tony was carrying Katie's bags as Kim came to see what was happening. She frowned. "Katie?" Katie looked over enough to glare before walking to the door. Tony looked to Kim, her heart broken expression breaking his own heart as he lead Katie out the door where Steve was waiting. Katie turned to her dad with a frown. "I'll be back I promise, I just need to calm down." He nodded,hugging her. "I understand. I love you sweetie." She smiled. "I love you to dad." She walked to Steve, Tony following with the suit cases. Steve went to him. "Hello ." He smiled weakly. "Hey Steve. You take good care of her, ok?" Steve smiled. "I promise, I won't let anything happen to her." Tony nodded. Watching Katie get in, Steve putting the suitcases into the car. He waved to Katie as they drove off.
Tony hated the feeling that was growing within him. Abandonment along with a little guilt mixed into it. He knew Clint would have had to leave but now Katie to. It felt like everyone was leaving him even thou his rational mind told him otherwise. He walked back in, seeing Kim waiting for him, tears in her eyes. He went to her quickly, hugging her as she started to cry into his shoulder. "shh it'll be ok.. she'll be back.." "I drove our daughter away. I drove our bodyguard away. It's all my fault." He kissed her head, bringing her into the living room. "shh no, it's not. It's mine, I should have been there more, I know I've missed a lot that I shouldn't have." Kim started to calm, still leaning against his shoulder. "Maybe we should stop this blaming game. It's not getting us anywhere." Tony nodded. "we can certainly try." Kim sighed, fingering her reactor necklace again. "You still haven't told me about this." he smiled weakly, reaching over and grabbing It gently. "I made it. It's got this wireless transmitter that's hooked to my own reactor. So that pulsating.." she smiled, looking at it. So it's your heartbeat in a sense." He chuckled. " In a way, yeah. If for whatever reason something happens, that will shut off. If mine goes out so does that." She nodded before smiling. "I don't ever want it to go out." She paused before speaking. "How are you feeling?" He looked at her. "Fine." She gave him a look. "Tony..."
He shrugged. "What am I supposed to be? I'm obviously not fine but I'm not gonna just blurt that out." he hadn't realized he had snapped, sounding irritated. He saw the hurt look on he face. He started rambling. "Angel, I'm sorry, I didn't mean for it to come out like that." She sighed. "I know. It's the lack of alcohol making you irritable. It's ok." He shook his head, standing. "No, it''s not ok. I hurt you, I snapped at you and all you did was ask a simple question. Thats not ok.." He started trailing off, his breathing becoming shallow, suddenly everything felt like it was coming in on him. She saw the start of the anxiety attack, getting up, going to him quickly, bringing him to the couch, holding his face to look at her. "Baby breath, it's ok. Just breath." He was shaking and felt like his heart was going to burst out of his chest any second. He leaned his head on he shoulder, starting to breathed deeper, taking them in carefully. She held him, petting his hair. "shh that's it...easy." It was moments later when he calmed that he wrapped his arms around her, letting silent tears fall. "Angel, I need help." She smiled weakly, sadly. "Then I'll help you."
AN: so I'm sorry if I post these a bit fast b ut there easy to write because it's already In my head and since my RP online ended suddenly I want to get to where I ended it off at fast so I can continue it.