*Age 13*

Margo frowns at the sight of her dad on his cell phone, this is their vacation, he shouldn't be on his phone. He promised he wouldn't even bring the stupid thing.

"Dad!" Margo whines from her spot in the resort pool. "You promised you wouldn't bring your phone!"

Tony glances at Margo and places his finger on his lips, indicating for her to hush. Margo groans, her dad's been too into work lately for them to actually spend any family time together; when Margo had mentioned this family time to Tony he'd laughed and said "we spend all kinds of time together", which was a lie. He's been so into his work recently he's barely even spoken to Margo, which is why she proposed a family (strictly her and Tony) vacation. Margo's off school for a week and her dad's been needing a break, which is how they ended up in some fancy resort in the Florida Keys.

"Daddy." Margo whines again once Tony is off his phone. "You promised you wouldn't bring your phone."

"I know Princess, but it was an important business call." Tony reassures his daughter.

Margo rolls her eyes, a habit that's getting more annoying than Tony would like, and mumbles. "Every call is an important business call."

Tony narrows his eyes at Margo, something he rarely ever does. "Stop rolling your eyes young lady! You know how much I hate it." Margo rolls her eyes again and Tony grits his teeth, the older she gets the more she turns into Tony (smartass attitude and all). "Dammit Margo stop!" Tony's trying his hardest to not yell at his daughter in front of the few people that are actually at the pool (most of the guests are at the beaches). Margo's eyes narrow and she swims away from Tony and to the other side of the pool. "Margo Evangeline Stark! You DO NOT walk away from me when I'm talking to you!" Tony can see Margo visibly flinch at the use of her middle name.

Margo turns slightly to look at Tony, grinning cheekily at him. "I'm not walking Dad, I'm swimming."

Tony glares at his daughter but says nothing else, right now is not the time or the place for their arguing.

"Margo, Princess, it's time to get out of the pool we've got dinner plans at 7:30 and we both have to shower." That's the first sentence Tony's said to Margo in over two hours.

"No." Margo says, continuing to lounge in the now empty pool.

Tony stops in his tracks and turns to Margo, what did she just say? "Excuse me?"

"No." Margo repeats. "I don't want to go."

Tony rubs his temples and sighs, what's got Margo acting like this? And that's when Tony realizes that Margo is thirteen, she's a teenager, teenagers act like this. Tony groans at the realization that he's got another seven or so years to deal with this. "Fine." Tony barks at Margo. "We don't have to go to dinner, but you're still getting out of the pool."

Tony doesn't like being like this with Margo, but this is part of being a parent. Pepper's set him down multiple times and explained to him the line where best friend stops and Father begins, this is one of those times where he needs to be a Dad.

"I don't want to." Margo repeats again, standing straight in the pool and glaring at her father.

Tony's thankful all the other residents of the pool are gone. "I don't care, you're getting out."

"Make me."

"Margo." Tony warns, voice stern. "Get out of the pool."

"Still not doing it Dad." Margo replies lazily swimming around.

"That's it!" Tony yells, and once again he's thankful no one is around. He grabs Margo's arm (she was a little closer to him than she realized) and yanks her out of the pool.

"Hey!" Margo yells, obviously annoyed with her father.

"Don't 'Hey!' me young lady." Tony shoves a towel in Margo's hands. "C'mon Margo, we're going back to our room."

Tony nor Margo say a word to each other the remainder of the night, they even went to dinner without saying a word.

Margo pulls on her pajamas, glancing around the flat, because what they ware staying in really can't be considered a room, it was more like an apartment. She sees Tony laying on the couch, flipping through TV stations. If she doesn't say it now, she won't say it at all. Margo walks up to the couch, standing awkwardly next to Tony.

"Daddy?" She questions. Tony doesn't glance up from the TV, he just hums in acknowledgement. The worst punishment Tony can give her is ignoring her, or rather just not looking at her, it drives Margo nuts. "Daddy...I wanted to apologize."

"For?" Tony asks, he glances at Margo out the corner of his eye, but not enough for her to notice.

Margo looks at her feet. "Acting like a spoiled little brat."

Tony smirks slightly, at least she knew what she did. "Right." Is all he says though, not another word more.

"That's it?" Margo asks. "That's all I get? Not even an 'apology accepted' just 'right'?"

Tony finally glances up from the TV and looks Margo straight in the eye. "I forgave you the moment I yanked you out of the pool, hell I forgave you the moment you started the argument. That doesn't change the fact that I'm disappointed in you, that'll take a little time to get over." Once Tony says his piece, he turns his attention back to the TV.

Margo sighs and walks back to her bedroom. She sits on the bed and brings her knees to her chest, tears in her eyes. "I didn't mean to..." She mumbles, wiping away the few tears that run down her face. "I really really didn't mean to disappoint you." She's knows Tony can't hear her as she cries, or as she mumbles, but it helps her feel better. Some vacation this is turning out to be.