I AM SO SORRY! Yes. It has been a month since I lasted updated, and its not all my fault. First of all, I have had about 10 minutes a day of free time if I'm lucky everyday for the past month. And then! I had this chapter written, ready to upload, was going to upload it as soon as I got home from practice, get home to find out my computer crashed and I lost everything. But its all fixed now, hopefully, and I have almost two more chapters done, and soccer is just about over, so that equals much more free time for me! So hooray!

Sarah watched as her dad and Steve got ready to leave on a mission. Not even twenty minutes before she had been telling them that they had to go, and now that they were, she regretted telling them. She didn't realize how much she would worry for them. They could get hurt, they could die and this could be the last time she ever saw them. She bit the corner of her mouth subconsciously.

"We'll be okay, you know." Tony said, he had the whole suit on, minus the mask. He was over at the bar making himself a drink.

"Should you really be drinking and flying?" Sarah asked, teasing him and took the drink from his hand.

He waved off her sentence, "I'll be fine." he whined and reached for the glass.

She wasn't in the mood to make him suffer. She sighed and handed the glass back. He smiled like a little kid being handed a cookie and took a sip.

"So what's wrong?" he asked her.

"Why would you automatically assume something is wrong?"

"Because you didn't even fight me about the drink." he said, taking another sip.

"I don't know. I guess I'm just worried for you guys." she shrugged her shoulders.

"We'll be fine, we always are."

"Except when someone decides its a good idea to throw a nuke into an intergalactic portal, and almost die."

"Hey, that was once." Tony said, defending himself. "And how do you even know about that? It was before you were born."

"There are so many documentaries on that battle it's crazy." she responded simply.

"So your telling me not to save the world?" he asked smirking.

She smiled "No, go save the world, just be careful."

"I will." he gave her a hug and walked outside to the platform. "C'mon cap! Time to go!"

Steve walked into the living room, fully dressed in his uniform, minus the mask also. "I'll be there in a second." he called back. He turned to Sarah, "You'll be okay?"

"Of course, my mom will be home in less then an hour probably."

He smiled and gave her a hug. "Be careful." she said again.

"Stop worrying, I'll be fine." He pulled away and kissed her forehead just as Tony walked in.

"Hey, hands off my daughter." he said, watching Sarah blush, he smirked, "Besides we need to leave now to get there in time." They walked out onto the balcony and prepared to leave. Sarah waved at them and they both waved back and she watched as a small three-person plane appeared, from almost no where, And they took off into the afternoon sky.

She turned around and looked at the emptiness of the living room. It was so plain and boring with no one else in the house. She let out a "pfft" and spun in a circle, plopping onto the couch.

"Okay now I'm bored." she said to herself. "and talking to myself." She lay there staring at the ceiling, thinking of something to do.

"I should work on my song.." she said, thoughtfully, she raised her legs to look at her feet. "Or I could paint my toenails."

She sat up and walked to her room. When she got there, she dug through her pack of polish, looking for the colors she wanted. She pulled out the colors and went into the living room.

Now that she was alone, her mind wandered. It took her back to the events of last night and everything that had happened in the past 24 hours. Crazily, she felt like the good outshone the bad. Sure James had hurt her and she would never look at him the same but she had learned that Steve has feelings for her too. She touched her lips, remembering the kiss from earlier. She was practically giddy from the memory. It had been nice. It wasn't an over-the-top kiss, it was simple and nice. She felt like a teenager after their first kiss. She uncapped her red sparkly nail polish and carefully began painting her toe

nails.

Meanwhile, Steve and Tony were on their way to Afghanistan to meet up with the team. They had called ahead to let them know they were on their way and also so that Natasha didn't come drag them out.

"So... You and Sarah?" Tony smirked.

"Shut up Tony." Steve said, blushing slightly.

"Nah, I'm actually happy for you. You deserve it after.. Everything." Tony said, referring to how he had lost his last girlfriend when he was frozen. He hadn't had a real girlfriend since then and it was about time he was happy.

"Yeah.. Thanks." Steve said, rather awkwardly. Sure he and Tony didn't hate each other anymore, but they weren't exactly soul sisters either. Talking about their feelings was not something they did regularly, not to mention the fact that they were men, feelings were not their fortay.

Tony nodded. He wasn't lying. He was genuinely happy for him. He imagined it what it would be like to literately be robbed of everything he loved. The team, his suit, Pepper, Sarah. It hurt him to think of losing Sarah, especially when he just got her, figuratively speaking. He had spent the past twenty-two years, completely oblivious to her existence. There had been little appearances of her, an article here and there about her random college acceptances and achievements. It wasn't until almost four years ago when her business really took off that she really dropped onto his radar. They had become business enemies then, always trying to bring each other down with the better technology. Always trying to out do the other person.

Now he knew the truth about her, who she was, and it had changed everything. The whole world knew that she was his daughter now and that would boost both of their stocks, not that that was the reason for announcing the news, but it was a plus.

Tony was not a very sentimental man but learning there was another human being in the world who was literally a part of him had changed him. He was more responsible, and careful, he now had someone who worried for him. This had happened when him and Pepper had been dating the first time. He had become more responsible, not so reckless, but when she walked out, he had stopped caring again. So what if he died, he had no one that cared. The team had made it clear, rather quickly, that they cared and needed him and his dangerous tendencies slowed down a little.

In the week and a half that Tony had known Sarah, she had definably changed him for the better, especially last night. It had physically pained him as he watched her cry, it made him want to wring James's neck. She was a good person, sure she could be snarky and sarcastic, but she was free-spirited and was almost always smiling and laughing. Why was it always the good people that get crazy shit that mess up their lives?

"Landing in Afghanistan in T minus 20 minutes." the pilot said from up in the cock pit.

Tony stood up from where he had been sitting. He woke Steve up, who had been in the middle of a peaceful nap, and got his helmet on. He locked the helmet into place and watched as it turned on, various icons flashed on the screen.

"JARVIS, you there?" he asked.

"You ask that every time and I'm always here." the robot replied.

"Just checking." Tony replied, "Can you give me video feed of the tower?" he asked. He knew that Sarah was okay, but he was still just as worried about her as she was for him. "I just need to know for sure." he said, mostly to himself.

"Of course, sir." JARVIS brought up feed from the tower, Tony had cameras installed in every room except bathrooms, in case he needed to check on something, or on long missions to make sure no one had gotten in somehow. He searched the many video feeds until he found the one that featured Sarah. Except she wasn't alone.

There was a little girl with her and they were sitting in the kitchen. The girl was showing Sarah something, and Sarah looked at the girl with concern and worry, that was clearly etched onto her face. The little girl looked very familiar, like he'd seen her recently somewhere, but he couldn't quite place or why she looked so familiar. Maybe he just thought she looked familiar. He was no longer worried though. The little girl wasn't a threat, so he had to get ready to go.

"Alright JARVIS, you can close them down." he looked over at Steve, "You ready?" he asked him.

Steve nodded and the plane hit the ground. "Let's go." Steve said, and they got out of the plane.

When they walked out, they noticed that the other members of the team were waiting for them.

"About time you got here." Clint said. Tony had the helmet off again, and smirked at Clint.

"Sorry, some stuff came up." he said, "Anyways, we're here now, so where have you guys looked?" he asked.

"I feel like we've looked everywhere but obviously that's not true, we were hoping you might contribute some insight as to where it might be." Bruce said.

"Luckily, I actually have a hunch as to where it might be." Tony said, staring off into the horizon. This area seemed really familiar, but that's not saying much. Most of Afghanistan looked the same. "How deep into the mountains have you looked?" he asked, staring at the mountains in the distance.

"We've searched the outer parts of them, but not gotten very deep. We didn't want to get lost in them." Natasha explained.

"Alright, well I'm gonna say that's probably where their hide-out is." Tony said, "If we head that way now, we may get there by night fall, we can set up camp, and then search in the morning.

The team nodded and followed Tony as they made their way towards the mountains.

Again. Sorry that it took me so long to get this chapter up, But my computer is fixed so updates will come much faster.

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