Felicity and Tony had spent four hours working on the suit, Tony was spending the majority of his time fixing it and making sure that Karen was functioning correctly again, whilst Felicity spent her time creating the new improvements.
"Looks like it took some pretty big hits," Felicity said looking over to Tony to observe his reaction, "Was this from.." She trailed off as Tony had interrupted her before she could even finish her sentence. "Thanos" He told her, not looking at her and just focusing on his work. Felicity followed suit and put her attention back onto her work. Felicity knew Tony better than to press him for more information, if he wanted to talk about it he would eventually.
After another couple of hours Tony and Felicity had finished the suit. "Right, well underoo is going to be here later on, so will you be free later to go over it?" Tony asked her.
"Yeah sure, I know what you're like on your rampages, I had basically filled out the whole day for you." Felicity smirked at Tony, "I still remember some of the summers when I used to come visit you and you'd either be working nonstop in the lab or partying."
"The days before Pepper put a ball and chain on me," Tony laughed, "Whatever you do don't tell her I said that." He warned her, facing at her now. Tony threw Felicity a towel so that she could wipe her hands on, both of them were covered in grease and dirt.
"You know, I still don't understand why she is with you. I mean comm'on Stark bunny!" Felicity and Tony laughed leaving the lab and heading up to the common room.
"So, this underoo as you call him, is this the same kid that calls you Mr. Stark?" Felicity asked, seeing a slight smirk on Tony's face.
"Yeah that's the one!" Tony chuckled, and Felicity then smirked, how could she resist not teasing him now.
"Wow, you're old." She rolled her eyes at Tony, "I thought as long as you lived you would never go by the name of Mr. Stark as it reminded you too much of Howard." Felicity had never really called Howard and Maria mum and dad, mainly because she had been so young when they had died.
"Shouldn't that be dad to you?" Tony raised his eyebrows at her, Felicity knew she needed to be careful with what she said next. This had always been a touchy subject for the two of them, especially when it came to Maria.
"Technically yes, but its kind of hard when you don't have any memories of them. I mean geez, even stars and stripes knew my father better than I knew him." Felicity said as she entered the common room with Tony, the common room was unfortunately empty and felicity could only pray that Tony would drop this conversation.
"Well at least you still had me, kiddo." Tony said as he turned to make some coffee. Felicity tried to stop herself from scoffing but it slipped out.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Tony said, crossing his arms and facing her.
"Tony, it doesn't mean anything." Felicity said, trying to cool down the situation.
"No, say it" he continued standing there with his arms crossed, You've done it now Felicity
"Tony, you were in your 20's when I was born. I hardly ever saw you," Felicity tried to calm down the situation, but she knew it was failing. Tony was getting ready for an argument and if she wasn't careful his reactions would only egg her on to cause one. "Tony, seriously. What do you remember about dad?"
Felicity watched as Tony thought about his answer, "He was cold, calculating. Never told me he loved me, never even told he liked me. I still think to this day his happiest day of his life was shipping me to boarding school."
Felicity noticed that Happy was on his way towards the common room, with who she assumed was underoo. She spotted Steve, Bucky and Sam walking with them obviously just coming back from the gym – judging by what they were wearing.
"And you know what Tony, you did the exact same thing to me." Felicity told him. He looked like he was about to argue, but stopped himself, he stood there in silence for a bit longer.
"It's not the same," Tony finally said looking at her, "he was my father."
It was too late now, that comment had gotten completely under skin. Felicity no longer cared if anyone heard them arguing. "No Tony, you're completely right." She started to raise her voice, "It's not the same. It's must worse. My own brother, left me to be raised by people he had employed. He copied what his own father did." Felicity paused as Tony looked towards the entrance of the common room, seeing that Happy, Underoo, Steve, Bucky and Sam were standing there watching the interaction. Felicity continued to making her point, not caring who heard what was said, because frankly she wasn't the one who needed to embarrassed. "While you were out fucking everything that moved, Pepper was the one who would pick me up from boarding school with Happy, while you were having those stupid parties every night I would be staying over – she was the one who looked after me." Felicity's anger now took the better of her and she could see in the corner of her eyeline Steve preparing to intervene and cool down the situation. Felicity pointed her finger at Tony, "You may think that just putting on a suit makes up for all the terrible things you've done, but it never will. Not once did you ask me if I wanted to help you out with running Stark international, I found out through Pepper telling me you had spoken to shareholders. Thank god for Iron man, without that you would be nothing." Felicity left Tony standing there in shock while she stormed past the others who were standing by the common room entrance.