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Good morning. I'm sick. Bleh. Cough. Enjoy. xD

As they pulled up in front of the police station, there was a bunch of reporters following them. It was always big news when a star went to the police station. It usually meant that something worth reporting would be happening.

Sarah sighed, "Really?" she asked, "Not even thirty seconds of alone time."

Tony chuckled "You get used to it."

"Im used to it, I just don't like it." Sarah said. She had to be used to it. She had been the youngest CEO ever. Even younger then her dad. And if that didn't make her famous, her dating and break up with James had, and let's face it. She wasn't ugly.

Sarah put on her signature sun glasses as Steve opened the car door for her. Always the gentleman.

Another good thing about the sunglasses is that the paparazzi couldn't see her red eyes from when she had been crying with her mom earlier.

"You ready for this?" Steve asked her quietly.

"Yes. I'm ready to put this jerk in his place." she had a look of determination on her face. Or at least he thought she did. He couldn't really tell with the sunglasses. She sounded determined at the very least.

The press around them was going crazy.

"Sarah! Tony! What are you guys doing at the police station?"

"We have business to take care of." Tony replied, flatly.

"Do you care to elaborate on what business it is?"

"No." Tony placed his hand on Sarah's shoulder and led her into the station. The guard at the front of the office managed to close the doors before any one unwanted had entered.

"Mr. Stark. Miss. Sttop." the police sheriff said, as he shook their hands, nodding at Steve, but not really acknowledging him, "To what do I owe this pleasure?"

"I want to report a crime. And I want to sue the criminal." Sarah replied.

"Alright." The sheriff said, pulling out a crime report. "Type of crime, and accused?"

"James Sparkman. Rape." she said, her voice cracking.

The policeman looked unfazed by the accusation. Either he was way out of the loop and didn't know who James was, or this wasn't the first report against him. If it was the latter, then it scared Sarah. Knowing that she had dated him for two years, and he could possibly have multiple charges of rape against him.

"Date, time, and place of crime." The sheriff asked.

"Umm... Yesterday, about 11:30pm, central park."

"Any sort of priar relationship with the accused?"

"Yes, we had a very serious relationship about a year ago, for two years. No contact has been made until last night."

"Any motive or reason for crime?"

"Umm... Well I rejected him last night? Not sure if that was the reason, but he did say I would regret the day I rejected him, so I'm guessing it could be that." Sarah said, her voice barely above a whisper.

"And you said that you want to press charges against the accused."

"Correct."

"Do you have a personal lawyer or would you like to be assigned one of ours?"

"I have my own I will be contacting immediately after this." Tony said, he knew Sarah probably had her own, but his were the top of the top, and they would be using his. Sarah looked over at him, she had almost forgotten that he and Steve were there.

"Thanks." she said, nodding at him. He nodded back, his face serious.

"The accused will be contacted immediately, and a court date will be set up. Thank you for reporting the crime." the sheriff nodded at them. They shook hands with the sheriff once more and left the station.

Of course all of the reporters were still outside the station. They kept firing away questions, but Sarah and Tony ignored them all. They kept their face straight ahead and didn't even react to them. The three of them were in the car, before any one said anything.

"You guys really have to go through that every time you walk out of the house?" Steve asked.

"Not every time, just if we're going somewhere news worthy. For example, if I went to the store to buy milk, they wouldn't care, at all. But when we end up going court, the paparazzi are going to be all over that. It's a big deal." Sarah said. "But, just because they aren't swarming you, doesn't mean they aren't still taking bad pictures of you, they especially like the 'Stars without makeup' whole thing. Lucky for me, I never wear makeup unless I'm on tv, so that will never happen to me. But yeah, you have to watch your back, and always look semi-presentable."

"That sounds... Exhausting" Steve replied, it seemed fame wasn't all it was cracked up to be. "Thank God for the mask, no one cares about me."

"Oh the mask really doesn't help." Sarah said.

"What do you mean, the mask doesn't help?"

"Well okay, it's not the mask's fault, or yours. It's his." she said, pointing at Tony.

"Me? How is it my fault?" Tony said, with a look on his face that said 'Nothing-Is-Ever-My-Fault'

"Well, if you hadn't of pulled the whole 'I'm Iron Man!' Stunt, and if people had more then two brain cells, they would've figured it out a long time ago who you all are. I did after I watched a documentary on the first fight with Loki."

"What are you talking about? Explain." Tony said.

"Okay so the whole world knows that you are Iron Man. Got that much?" She looked at Tony and Steve and they nodded. "Okay well one day Tony is gone for a few days, then next thing you know, he's back and he's with the Avengers. But nobody knows who they are, so nobody really pays attention to them. But then, a couple weeks later, all of a sudden Tony has five new friends that nobody has ever heard of. It wasn't that hard to put two and two together."

"Good thing nobody has common sense anymore." Tony said and Steve agreed.

"Yeah I'm really surprised more people haven't figured out. I mean Natasha, Clint, and Thor don't even wear masks! Then again neither does Bruce, but he's all big and green so it's like a mask." Sarah said.

"People truly aren't the brightest anymore." Tony said, shaking his head.

"The world needs more of us." Sarah said, "And by us I mean genius's. I don't think the world could handle anymore Starks. They could barley handle you!" Tony laughed and nodded his head in agreement.

"And now there's two." Tony said.

"Hell yeah." Sarah said and they high fived, as they pulled up in front of the Stark Tower.

Tony got out of the car and went to his workshop to work on one of his suits. Steve waited for Sarah to get out of the car.

"Do you want to do something today?" Steve asked her. He wanted to spend some time with her and he didn't care what they did.

"Like what?" she asked, she thought of the essays she still needed to do. She really shouldn't put them off any longer.

"I don't know, whatever you want to do."

"Hmm... Well I have two essays I still need to write if you want to help me with those." Steve looked horrified at the thought of school work.

"Urm... Can they wait?" he asked

"No, sadly, I'm supposed to graduate in a few weeks and they won't write themselves. So I really need to get them done. When I'm done, maybe depending on what time." she smiled and walked up the stairs to her room so she could work on her essays.

"Steve, can I talk to you fora moment?" He heard Tony call from his workshop on the other side of the garage. Steve gulped, this couldn't be good. He walked over to the workshop.

"Uhh yeah, what's up?" he said.

"Oh nothing with me. What's up with you and Sarah?"

"Umm..." Steve wasn't sure how to answer without causing Tony to want to hurt him.

"C'mon, don't play stupid, it's pretty obvious that you like her."

"It is?" Steve asked. Like sure they danced together, but that didn't mean anything.

"Oh yes it is." Tony said, with a mischievous look in his face. He liked watching Steve squirm under Tony's stare.

"So..?" Steve said, confused as to what Tony was getting at.

"Sooooo does she like you too?" Tony asked.

"I don't know, I think so." Steve said.

"Interesting. Very interesting." Tony leaned back in his chair with a thoughtful look on his face. They were silent for a minute, Steve standing their awkwardly and Tony sitting his chair, drumming his fingers together and staring at the ceiling.

"Well... If that's it then.. I'll just be going." Steve said, taking a half step towards the door.

"Wait I actually had a point to this." Tony said, "If you hurt her, I'll hurt you. James hurt her last night, and I won't stand for her to be hurt again like that. One tear, and your done. Got it?" Steve nodded. "I trust you, it's just sometimes, shit happens, but you better be nice to her."

"I will Tony, and you know I will."

Tony nodded and turned back to his work. "Your dismissed." Tony said and Steve walked upstairs, shaking his head at how weird that conversation was.

When he got upstairs, he heard the faintest sound of the piano. It was almost as if someone just sat their hands on it and let it ring. He walked into the living room and saw that he was close. Sarah was sitting at the piano with her head on the keys.

"What's wrong?" Steve asked. She didn't reply, but she moved her laptop closer to him. He picked it up and saw that her e-mail was open and it was open to an email from her professor. He read the email. It said

"Miss. Sttop.

The final essay project has been changed. You are now required to write a song to complete the class. The song can be about anything, just record it and email it back to me.

Thanks.

Mrs. Chester."

"I don't see the problem." Steve said. She lifted her head, she had indents on her forehead from where the keys had pressed into her forehead.

"The problem is that now I have to write a song, in two weeks, and I'm terrible at writing songs! I can either only get the words right or I only get the music right. This class was the closest I've ever come to failing a class. I got a B in it."

"Not a B!" Steve said, with mock-shock.

"Yeah a B." she said. "And anyways, if I don't write the song, I don't graduate and I have no idea what to to write about. And I need to graduate!" she put her forehead on the keys again.

"I'm sure you can think of something. It says your allowed to write it about anything, write it about like the sky or something."

"Two versus, a chorus, and a bridge all about the sky? I don't think that would work. I just need to think."

"You'll get it." Steve said, and he got up and left her to her work.

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