A/N: Oh My Gosh you guys are amazing! Honestly I am the lousiest updater but you still say the nicest things! *reaches to hug screen before remembering how computers work*. Sorry about all the mistakes in the last chapter, my editor took a holiday. This update will probably be 4 months+ after Chapter 4 because, like all procrastinators, I am afraid of work. Also I am going on a singing tour for two weeks and will be unable to write, so if I don't update until Halloween, I HAVE A REASON!
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Previously…
"Why did they kidnap you?" Steve asked stupidly,
"I was a billionaire's daughter, why do you think they kidnapped me?!" Toni snapped before lapsing back into sobs, "I thought he would save me…" she whispered.
Loki handed the still emotional Toni over to Clint and Natasha to be cheered up, he himself had a plan to help with that. He snuck away into the kitchen where he had stored all the food for the screening. Loki was still too weak from… him, to conjure up another emotional controller (he had used these devices many times since he had discovered them on Vanaheim) but he had underestimated the Hulks rage at Toni's past. If he transformed and went on a rampage he could strand them here forever, so he would have to find another method of comforting Toni. His trademark grin graced his face, he had the perfect plan.
-Loki-is-plotting-oh-dear-
Back in the main room, Toni had regained control over her emotions and had cleaned up her face. (She had used her shirt but who cares.) She glanced over at Steve who was white faced and tense but she didn't blame him as he had just been shown several memories proving that one of his best friends had been a complete asshole.
"Hello, anyone in there?" Clint said in a sing song voice, while tapping the side of Toni's head. "We need our traumatized billionaire to pay for all our stuff." he whined playfully, earning him a slap from Natasha. Toni grinned at him.
"And what if I stopped paying for all your fancy arrows because you annoyed me?" she asked, raising an eyebrow and smirking. Clint mockingly fell back, holding his hand over his heart.
"You wouldn't!" he said dramatically throwing himself onto the seats. Suddenly a loud clanging was heard coming from behind them, and was followed by a bang and a shout. All the avengers whirled round to see what was happening and Thor broke the chair by summoning Mjölnir. Loki walked into the room looking disgruntled with a red mark forming on his left temple.
"Stark!" he yelled with a scowl on his face as he stalked over to her. "Get your girlfriend under control!" he growled, and stepped aside to reveal a frightened looking Pepper clutching a fry pan. As soon as she saw Toni she dropped the fry pan and ran to her throwing her arms around her neck.
"Toni! I was on the plane and then I was in the kitchen with… him!" she stuttered out still clinging to Toni.
"Hey, it's okay. Loki doesn't want to hurt us." Toni comforted whilst patting Pepper's back. She looked up at Loki and frowned. "What happened to your head?" she asked eyeing the red blotch that continued to grow. Loki glared at Pepper.
"She hit me with a frying pan!" he snapped rubbing his head. Pepper's head shot up from Toni's shoulder and stalked over to Loki.
"Because you used some magic shit to kidnap me!" she yelled, "Why are you even here? Last time I checked you were locked up in a prison on… wherever you come from!" she snapped and turned to Thor, who up until then, had been staring at the fiery redhead with slight concern. "You" she said walking over to the thunder god, "You were meant to make sure he didn't escape." She said starting to lose her fire and calm down. She started to rub her temples and sat down on one of the chairs next to where Toni was currently sitting and started to hug her again.
"Loki brought us here to show us Toni's past." Steve said, keeping his distance from Pepper.
"And to prove that Steve was a douche." Clint added making Steve hang his head. Pepper pulled away from Toni and stood up,
"What part of her past?" she asked calmly looking at the floor. Clint was the only person who was brave or stupid enough to answer her.
"We've watched five childhood memories so far." he said casually.
"Okay so why am I here?" she asked looking around the room.
"I miscalculated the Hulk's rage at certain memories, I only have one emotional controller, and originally I had planned for Toni to use it in the case of a traumatic memory but if the Hulk transforms we could be trapped here for centuries." Loki said sitting down in his chair with man-spread wide. "You are here to help Toni get through some of her more traumatic memories." he finished, closing his eyes as the red mark slowly disappeared in green light. "Basically, you're the new chair." he stated opening his eyes, which seemed more vibrantly green than when he had shut them. "Now can you all sit back down so we can continue with our screening." he drawled. Pepper blinked a couple of times before reluctantly sitting back down next to Toni. A low grumbling sound was heard coming from the direction of Thor and Steve. Thor burst out laughing while Steve blushed embarrassed.
"Brother!" Thor boomed, "Tell me you have packed food, for my stomach cannot wait any longer!" he laughed.
"Some food would be nice." Bruce said wistfully.
"We should have popcorn!" Clint yelled excitedly. Loki scowled before disappearing into the kitchen and returning fifteen minutes later with six massive bowls of popcorn so everyone, except Toni and Pepper who shared, got their own bowl.
"Satisfied?" Loki smirked.
"Well now that you mention it my back muscles are aching-" Toni started before Loki threw a piece of popcorn at her, cutting her off,
"Shut up Stark." he said before the screen went white.
Toni, who now looked to be about 14, appeared in a laboratory working vigorously on what looked to be missiles. Her hair was oily and straggly, and under her russet coloured eyes were purple-hued bags. It had obviously been days since she had showered or slept.
"Why does it look like you work in a slave camp?" Pepper whispered, shocked at how bad Toni looked.
"Howard needed someone that worked 24/7 for free. Lucky for him he had a genius kid who did everything her 'daddy' told her." Toni said darkly staring at the screen.
A door could be heard opening in the background and an older looking Howard walked onto the screen.
"Tomorrow you are being sent to MIT where you will stay until you graduate. You may return home during the summer holidays to visit your mother and Peggy, but that is all." he said, emotionless. "You will shower and sleep, you leave at 6." he finished, before turning on his heel and left the room.
"Yes sir." Toni muttered, before slowly trudging up some stairs to her left. At the top of the stairs there was a plain, all white room with a single bed shoved in the corner. Toni headed through a door that lead to a small, minimalistic bathroom. The scene cut to the next day, saving The Avengers from watching a pubescent Toni showering. Howard stood stiffly as Toni hugged her mother goodbye. He walked over, pulled her away and pushed her into the car.
"He can't just pull you away from your mother!" shouted Natasha, drawing surprised looks from everyone as she was the one person who had kept her cool throughout most of the memories so far. Natasha sat there with a look that could honestly make the Hulk beg for mercy.
"Uh Nat?" Toni said, poking her nervously, "It's really not the worst that has happened to me." she said, gesturing for Clint to do something. Clint, being the amazing boyfriend he was, threw popcorn at her to cheer her up. Which resulted in a lot of Russian swear words before Nat finally calmed down and the scene continued.
"You will get good grades and you will not embarrass the Stark name in any way, is that understood?" Howard growled in Toni's ear, as her eyes looked straight ahead. He shoved her arm and slammed the car door behind it. Toni took a small picture out of her black t-shirt. The picture showed her and Peggy at Christmas.
"Bye Aunt Peggy." she whispered, kissing the photo. And the screen faded back to white.
Steve frowned.
"Why wasn't Peggy there to say goodbye to you?" Steve asked, sounding like a sad puppy.
"She was on a S.H.I.E.L.D mission." Toni said whilst smiling. "She said when I grew up, I could go and be an agent too." she finished, resting her head on Pepper's shoulder.
"Wait, you knew about S.H.I.E.L.D before we investigated you?" Natasha asked raising an eyebrow.
"I knew both of the bloody founders. Of course I knew!" Toni exclaimed, rolling her eyes.
"But you didn't know Nat was an agent." Clint pointed out and Toni raised an eyebrow.
"Oh didn't I?" she asked and smirked. "No one speaks Latin." she finished before flicking one of the spare hairbands on her wrist at Loki, who was pretending to be asleep. It hit him right in the eye.
"Oh are you done already?" Loki said as he sat up and pretended to yawn. Toni just stared at him.
"Play the next memory." she said exasperated.
Toni looked to be the same age as the last memory and she was fiddling with what looked like a gun but with a lot more metal bits everywhere. She looked like she was in a classroom. Some boys walked up behind her and knocked all her tools onto the ground.
"Hey bitch! I think you dropped something." said the leader of the group, as he kicked all of the tools across the room. Another boy who looked a bit older than Toni, picked up all the tools and brought them over to her.
"That's not very respectful." said the boy, "You should apologize." he finished, standing in front of Toni.
Pepper whispered something in Toni's ear and Toni nodded.
"He always did stick up for you." Pepper said smiling.
"Who's that Toni?" Bruce asked glancing over at the giggling couple.
"You've all met him" she said refusing to answer the question, "First one to guess gets a shopping spree on me" she offered grinning at them all. Instantly everyone turned to the screen to try to identify the mystery child, except Loki and Pepper who both knew exactly who this boy was.
"Is that Rhodey?" asked Steve, looking over at Toni who nodded. "You know I'm keeping you to that promise of a shopping trip." Steve said, grinning for once.
"Did we ask your opinion nigger?" one of the other boys asked, shoving Rhodey backwards. Toni stood up and walked towards this boy pointing her contraption at him.
"That's racist." she said, pulling the trigger and blasting the boy with a beam of yellow, which caused him to drop to the floor spasming. Toni grinned somewhat sadistically. "If I were you, I'd run." she said, pointing the gun at the remaining boys. They both sprinted away, leaving their friend twitching on the ground. Rhodey stared at the boy for a few seconds before looking up at Toni and offering his hand to shake.
"I'm James Rhodes." he said, standing up with his hand still stretched.
"Antoinette Stark, but call me Toni." she said shaking his hand and grinning. "Rhodes huh? I'm gonna call you Rhodey." she laughed.
"Okay." he said pulling a chair up next to hers. "How the hell did you build that?" he asked as the screen slowly faded to white.
"That might be the happiest memory so far." Clint said in astonishment. And you were being bullied at the start!"
"Yeah well my whole life isn't a misery." Toni said rolling her eyes.
"Rhodey was so small back then." Pepper cooed, causing Toni to shuffle away from her in joking disgust.
"Where is Loki?" Thor said, causing all The Avengers to whirl around in search for the ex-super villain. "LOKI!" Thor shouted, looking around the room in every direction.
"Thor will you stop yelling! I went to get hotdogs for everyone." he said exasperated. "I leave for two seconds…" he muttered under his breath.
"Pass me the hotdogs, Lokster." Toni said, holding her hands out. Loki just glared at her.
"Never call me that again." he said.
"I will definitely call you that again." she grinned.
"Damn." Loki muttered, before passing out the hotdogs to everyone.
A/N: this is the least suspenseful ending I have ever written. I am really proud of this chapter and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Please Fav/Follow/Review as always.
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