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A/N I'm sorry if this chapters a bit rubbish, and that my updating schedule is a bit non-existent. I'm having a truly shit day, (and that's saying something I don't even swear that much) the details of which I'm not going to go in to, because I wrote it out and it was about 200 words, just believe that it has been utter crap. Anyway enjoy and leave a review to cheer me up!
Pepper takes me out for mother daughter bonding, even though she's technically not my mother, just my dad's girlfriend. I'm confusing myself. Pepper and I haven't hit off like Tony and I have. She's at work a lot and she doesn't understand me , not like Tony does. He's killed people, been captured, like me, but Pepper's more of an army wife stereotype, waiting for him to come home with no clue what's going on.
When Pepper takes me to the mall, I wonder what kind of girl she thinks I am. I don't like shopping, I don't like having money spent on me, no matter how much Tony has, and I don't like crowds. And me being with Pepper could attract unwanted attention. Media attention.
Oh great. We are actually going shopping. Apparently I need new clothes. I head straight over to the section of black, and while Pepper follows me, I know she would rather be in the girly section. I get some black skinny jeans, black leather trousers, a couple of tops and Iron Man pjs for the kicks. Then Pepper manages to drag me over to the dresses section. She picks out a couple for me to try on and the first two don't fit but the third actually looks kinda pretty. I've never really felt pretty before. Pepper decides that I need to get that one, because Tony Stark's daughter and she might need to go to important things. Pepper picks up a couple of things for her and then we go to some fancy pants restaurant. We sit in very awkward silence. "Yana... I know I'm not Tony, and I don't know at all what it's like to be in your position, but I just want you to know that I care about you, as do he, and I know I'm not around much, but feel free to come to me if you need it."
"Thanks Pepper." I reply automatically. "You're the best parents I can remember having." I say it with a smile, as if it's funny, but it's true and slightly sad, because I can't remember my real parents. She smiles too and we begin to talk about Tony, because he's our connection.
I think Tony's glad when we both come home alive. I know she's special to him and they've known each other a long time. He also knows I hate shopping and she took me shopping. Still, it was nice to get to know Pepper a little better.
"She's gonna beat your sorry ass, Birdbrain." Dad says as Clint and begin to play Mario Kart. As it turns out, Clint is pretty rubbish at Mario Kart and I beat him 9 times to zero. It's fun though, playing this game. Tactical, but still fun.
"You should use this as a team building exercise. Tactics and stuff." I say as Clint and I try a team race thing. Tony's always looking for team building exercises, an excuse to play games, and to make Steve and Thor use technology.
"How did you get so good at this, Yana?" Clint asks rhetorically, "You didn't even know what a Wii was a couple of months ago."
"Got bored." I reply, which is the truth. You can play these games on your own, and there's hardly ever anyone around to play with. I win another race which unlocks another level. Which contains Rainbow Road. Clint chooses that one and ends up falling off he road more than actually driving. I lap him three times, I think. Then Thor comes in, exclaiming how the road is like some Asgardian bridge.
"Right. Which one of you punched a hole in the state-of-the-art gym wall and got JARVIS to delete the footage?" Tony asks, not exactly calmly. "Was it YOU Steven? Tell me with a straight face that it wasn't you!" Tony marches up to Steve, looking in to his eyes, which is funny because he's much smaller than Steve. I think he's supposed to look intimidating.
"It wasn't me." Steve replies quickly, and honestly, and everyone knows that the good Captain can't lie.
"Fine. Natashalie? Bird Man?"
"Don't call me that." Natasha snaps, "We didn't do it, Stark. We took Anya and Klara to that new S.H.I.E.L.D. base in Canada and got back a couple of hours ago." Natasha replies, which we can all vouch for. They were gone for a couple of hours. And Anya and Klara aren't here anymore.
"Thor? No? Right then, we can all go down there and measure our fists in the dent, shall we?" Tony says. He's obviously very upset about his wall, of a room that he uses least out of all of us. Everyone uses it daily, Thor uses it weekly and Tony uses it monthly. Well, Pepper does use it less than him. And Jane.
"Okay." Clint says. "Cos I didn't do it." And Clint leads everyone to the gym. He measures his fist, and its too big, as is Steve's and Thor's. Natasha's is slightly smaller, but too big for the dent.
"Who's is it then?" Tony asks, no longer angry but curious.
"I did." I whisper. "I'm sorry."
"How on earth did you manage to make a dent as big as that?" Steve asks.
"Drugs from the other place... I'm sorry. I was bored." A look crosses Tony's face and I'm pretty sure he's up to something.