Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Nicole was miserable. She hated being a spirit and being stuck on earth. Since she had died…Well, things had been weird. She remembered the battle easily. And then, all she could remember was a bright white light and then she woke up in Tony's house as a spirit. Why she had woken up in Tony's house of all places, she didn't know, but it definitely sucked. Part of her 'luck' was that she was condemned to either staying in Tony's house or following him. She couldn't leave his house if he didn't. It actually got pretty boring after awhile, and it also got rather sickening, especially when Tony decided to bring a girl home…

Okay, more nausea, Nicole thought as she watched Tony get ready to leave and her eyes fell on the slumbering blonde bimbo in his bed. She knew Tony was getting ready to go to SHIELD, and she had no desire to follow him, so she was going to stay in the house. She loathed all those sluts Tony had dragged home over the last few weeks. Each time he touched them or visa versa, her stomach clenched angrily, hell, Tony had been her property. It was pure torture being stuck where she was and not being able to touch Tony or feel him touch her.

Nicole sighed and floated through two floors to Tony's workshop. She liked to spend time in there. It was actually the only place in the house she ever had any peace. Being a spirit had given Nicole new abilities. She could hear what people were thinking, and she could also move things with the flick of her hand. She didn't mind the telekinesis so much, but the mind reading she loathed. She absolutely could not control it. It was disturbing to her every single time Tony brought someone home…

Ugh, okay, do NOT think about that….

Instead, Nicole floated over to one of the places in the room that gave her the biggest sense of pride. After their last battle together, Tony had restored her armor and hung it on iron scaffolding right beside the Iron Man Mark II armor. She wished she cold feel the armor on her skin again, but like everything else she tried to touch, she just floated right through it.

She exhaled deeply and floated to the couch. She hovered above it as she looked around the basement workshop. There were certain things she specifically avoided thinking about, like the table where she and Tony had first fooled around and Jarvis had interrupted them, and the chair that now had two restraints attached to it from when she had gotten revenge on Tony for screwing around with her in her club. Thinking of those two things just annoyed Nicole even more because it reminded her of Tony's touch. The last thing she wanted to think about was his touch, especially since she couldn't feel his touch even if she tried.

It sucks being a spirit stuck on earth, Nicole thought with a groan.

"I sure hope that's you groaning down here, Nicole," Tony said as he appeared at the bottom of the staircase. Nicole smiled mischievously as she saw him. She loved the way he dressed when he was either going to work or going to SHIELD. He wore a crisp suit along with his finest dress shirt and a tie. Nicole longed to just grab Tony by his tie and have him take her right then and there, but of course, then there was the problem, she was dead!

'Hopefully Fury will be able to give me some answers as to why Nicole's actually haunting me,' Nicole heard Tony thinking. 'Then we can both rest in peace….'

Nicole sighed, knowing that Tony couldn't hear her, "I love you, Tony."

Less than an hour later, Tony pulled his Audi R8 up to the SHIELD headquarters building. He was going to stir up some hell if Fury didn't have any answers for him. Tony stormed straight into Nick Fury's office, completely disregarding Fury's aged secretary.

"Where's Nicole's body?" Tony demanded.

Fury gave him an amused look, "What do you mean, Stark?"

"Nicole's spirit has been fucking haunting me for the last two months," Tony snarled. "She can't move on and it's hurting her spirit."

"Her spirit needs to stay earthbound," Fury said, turning away from Tony.

"Why?" Tony asked.

"If it doesn't then we can't revive her."

Tony's expression changed to one of confusion, "Excuse me?"

"We're reviving her, Stark," Fury repeated.

"Were you planning to inform me?" Tony inquired, crossing his arms across his chest.

"Not until we were ready to do it."

"And you're waiting for….?"

"Tell me, Stark," Fury changed the subject. "Have you heard of Elektra?"

"The assassin or Carmen?"

"The assassin," Fury nodded.

"What about her?" Tony asked, his patience a little short.

"She was also killed once," Fury said. "But she was later revived by the great Sensei Stick. He is the one that we're calling upon to revive Nicole. But it has been a little challenging to locate him as of now."

"So, in other words, Nicole has to suffer until you and your gang of feds can actually locate Stick."

"Only if you want to have any chance of her being revived," Fury said reasonably.

Tony shook his head, "This isn't right, Fury."

"It's our only option, Stark. We need to revive her for the sake of helping you."

TBC!

AN: So, I got a little of the Elektra movie hinted in there. I never saw all of it, but that's why there's Wikipedia! Have an Amazing weekend!