Chapter 23 :3
ENJOYETH!
Sarah was sitting on the ground, with her Avengers notebook on the floor in front of her. She had gotten the notebook when she was young, about 5, when Hollywood had decided to make a movie about the team. She had loved the movie and had always enjoyed the idea of superheros coming to save her. Most girls that age wanted to get married to a prince, but Sarah had hopes for a superhero. Even into her teen years, she had posters of various supers and T-shirts bearing the logo of her favorites.
Her mom had protested for the longest about the notebook, and Sarah's love for superheros, but Sarah was persistent and finally was able to get the notebook. She had used it as a diary for a couple weeks before she was bored of keeping up with it and the notebook was tossed to the side and forgotten, only to be dug up a few years later, when they were moving houses. Pepper had been promoted at work and it involved them moving to Boston.
Sarah had been 9 then and had used a few pages of it as a sketchbook, before again, it had been lost and forgotten, in the fact that she was beginning her first of many years in college that year.
She had actually found it again when she was on her way to come live with Tony. Now she had it again and she was attempting to turn the jumbled thoughts inside her head into lyrics.
Sarah heard the door knob jiggle and looked up from her spot on the floor. She watched as her mom walked in with two huge bags filled to the top with food.
"Do you need any help carrying things?" Sarah asked, getting off the floor and walking into the kitchen to help her mom put everything away.
"I've got it, plus I've picked up a little helper." Pepper said, pointing towards the door with her head. Sarah walked back out into the hall and saw Kara walk in carrying a jug of milk.
"Sarah!" Kara said, setting the milk on the floor and running to give Sarah a hug.
"Hey squirt, how are you?" Sarah said, returning the hug and sitting on the ground. Kara smiled and sat down next to her.
"The doctors found out what was wrong with me, ooh and I got a puppy, I named him pebbles, also I got an A on my last spelling test, but a C on my math test. I'm not good at math. Are you good Sarah? Could you help me with my homework?" Kara said, talking a mile a minute.
"Okay slow down," Sarah said, "What did the doctors say?"
"Oh, they said that there's a hole in my heart, which doesn't make any sense.. Why don't they just sew it up?" Kara said, seeming confused.
Sarah gasped, "A hole? In your..? Oh my that's not good."
Kara was happily oblivious to Sarah's worries. Kara had gotten up from the floor and walked into the kitchen to see if Pepper had needed any followed her into the kitchen and walked over to her mom.
"How'd you find her?" Sarah whispered.
"She and her family were at the store, and she thought I was you. How do you know her?" Pepper asked her.
"I met her when I went to the hospital for my toes, I'm currently paying for all her hospital bills." Sarah said.
Her mom nodded, "That's nice of you." she commented.
"How long is she here?" Sarah asked, wondering how long she got to spend with Kara.
"Her mom is coming at 5." Pepper replied.
Sarah looked at the clock, 3:45. So I have about an hour to think of some way to help with her heart, she thought to her self.
Just then, JARVIS spoke, breaking Sarah from her thoughts. "Miss. Sttop."
"Yes?" she asked.
"There is a Mrs. Dehnke on the line for you. It's Tony's Lawyer." he replied.
"Oh great, thanks JARVIS."
"Always a Pleasure, Miss."
Sarah picked up the phone, "Hello?"
"Ahh Miss. Stark. I got a call from your father saying you required services?"
"Umm... Yes, you can call me Sarah."
"Okay, well for a case like this, I'll need your rape kit sent to me ASAP." she said, ignoring the comment on Sarah's name.
"Umm... What?" Sarah asked, confused. Sarah heard a sigh on the other end of the line.
"Please tell me you got a rape kit done."
"Would it be bad if I didn't?"
"Very. There would be no way for you to win the case without it. I would suggest you go do that now. I realize you are over 18 but it's still a good idea to bring a parent with you, and you'll want to take any clothes that you were wearing with you. Just go to the hospital and they will get some DNA from you, and test it for James's DNA. They'll also take pictures of any bruises, cuts, scrapes, etc, you've gotten because of him. All the info will be sent to a forensics lab and sent to me from there. Call me at this number when your done so I can give you some more info about what will happen at the trial."
"Umm... Okay." Sarah said as the line went dead. Sarah felt stupid, how could she have forgotten about that?
"Mom!" she yelled, and she heard shuffling as her mom walked into the kitchen.
"What? Are you okay?" her mom asked, seeming frantic.
"I'm fine, but we need to go stop at the hospital." she explained everything the lawyer had said and Pepper nodded.
"We need to go." Pepper said, "Kara lets go." she said.
"Where are we going?" She said, scooping up her math homework that she was going to have Sarah help her with.
"We have to go to the hospital." Sarah said, not really thinking about what she was saying.
"Why? Whose hurt?" Kara asked, stopping in her tracks.
"No one." Sarah said, trying to do damage control.
"Tell me or I'm not moving." Kara said, sitting on the ground.
"C'mon Kara, we need to go." Sarah said, walking over to pick Kara up and carry her out if it came to that.
"No. Tell me. Right now." she grabbed onto the bottom of a stool and lucky for Kara, it was bolted into the ground. "I won't let go until you tell me."
"Fine, Umm..." Sarah said, trying to think of a teeny white lie that would seem probable. "You remember how I broke my toes when I was there last time with you?" Sarah asked her, and Kara nodded, hands still firmly clamped around the stool. "Well I have to go back and get them re-examined. So see, nobody is hurt, we just need to stop there." Kara seemed to accept this and stood up.
"Okay then, let's go."
Sarah smiled at the fact that she was finally cooperating, "Okay, I'll meet you down in the lobby, I need to get shoes and a jacket."
"Okie Dokie!" Kara said, she followed Pepper out into the hallway and into the elevator. Pepper looked at Sarah for a moment and Sarah smiled, indicating that she was fine, and was not planning on having a mental breakdown in front of Kara.
Once Pepper and Kara were in the elevator, Sarah ran into her room to grab her clothes and shoes from last night. She pulled out her dress and shoes and then continued to dig through her closet, looking for a bag to put them in. She had only been at Tony's for a week and a half, but she was already crazy disorganized.
When she finally found the plain black, Nike draw string bag she was looking for, she shoved her dress and shoes into it and ran down stairs, with the bag on her back. She quickly pulled on her black Converse, grabbed a hoodie, and went out to the elevator to meet her mom and Kara in the lobby.
When she walked into the lobby, she heard her mom on the phone with someone. She walked over to her mom, and gave her a questioning look, which was ignored as Pepper continued to talk.
"Yep. Right outside the tower would be good. Great thanks." Pepper said, hanging up the phone.
"Who was that?" Sarah asked.
"An old friend, He's going to drive us." she said, not giving any more details.
"Well okay then, how long till he gets here?" Sarah wanted to get this done and over with so that she could go home and work on her song.
"Not long." Pepper said, looking outside to the road watching for her friend. Sarah watched as a sleek black car came around the corner and stopped in front of the tower.
"Mom. You didn't tell me your "Old friend" was Happy. I know Happy." Sarah rolled her eyes.
Her mom looked confused for a moment, and then realization hit her. "Oh yeah. He did come over that one time. You were extremely young though." Sarah and Pepper had been living in San Francisco at the time and Happy had been given a two weeks vacation from Tony. He had just so happened to take his vacation in San Francisco, and ran into Pepper and Sarah in the middle of a park that was down the road from their house. Pepper had invited him back to the house where they had talked for a few hours, catching up on each others lives, and ended with Pepper making Happy promise to not tell Tony he had seen her. Happy had promised and left, Sarah and Pepper had not heard from him since. Sarah didn't even realize that Pepper still had Happy's phone number.
"So? I still remember it."
"Okay, excuse me for not being a genius like you."
"Your excused." Sarah said, and her mom gave her a look, that caused Sarah to look away smirking. "C'mon Kara! Our ride is here."
Kara slid out of the chair and walked over to Sarah. She grabbed her hand and they walked out of the building together.
"Hey Sarah! Wow, you really grew up." Happy said, as he got out of the car and opened up the door for her. "You look just like your mom."
Sarah smiled at him, "Thanks Happy, you haven't changed a bit."
"How old are you now? 18? 19?" he asked.
"22 actually." she said and he looked shocked.
"You definably don't look 22." he said, looking slightly embarrassed.
"I hope that's a compliment." she said, smirking slightly.
"Okay now you look like your dad."
Sarah got a look of almost disgust on her face, "That's definably not a compliment. I don't want to look like a man." They both laughed and Sarah got into the car, with Kara right behind her.
Pepper walked over to the car, "Thanks for doing this Happy, it's not that I don't trust Sarah behind the wheel it's just.. I don't trust other drivers." Pepper smiled and Happy nodded.
"I completely understand Pep. Is she a newer driver?"
"It's not that, its just if we were anywhere except New York City I'd be fine."
"Ain't that the truth? New Yorkers are crazy."
Pepper nodded and got into the car. Happy walked around the car and got into the drivers seat. He buckled his seat belt and turned around to look at the girls.
"Ready?" he asked. They all nodded and Happy slowly eased out into the traffic, and they were on their way.
Wow. Okay xD This chapter is rather long and kind've boring. More would've happened but I had to rearrange my entire like story line, but for a good reason. I thought again and so yeah. I got a review from someone who's user name I forget and I'm too lazy to look up, but she really helped me and gave me info on the Rape Kit. Which I don't plan in going into TOO much detail. If you want to know more, thats what Google is for.
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