Chapter Twenty Nine

Kayura didn't like the huge amount of security that looked her over. The limo was forced to wait out at the edge of the island, and she smiled at the officers. Their eyes were hungry as they looked her over. The Oni was actually at Steve's place, and she kind of cursed herself for not having it but she was weapon herself. Surprisingly they let her through and she was excorted through the prison. She could hear men cat calling her and she felt suddenly dirty. She wasn't normally flustered, but she had never been in a prison before and then was a Super Max. Where the worst of the worst went away for a long time but sometimes she reminded herself that she was pretty bad herself. She had killed, stolen, and murdered. She wasn't any better than these men, she just looked like she was.

They came to a private room, that had no windows and a camera in every corner. The room was divided by scratched plexiglass with a speaker in the center where the two chairs were positioned. She sat down quitly and crossed her legs and the door opened, the man smirked as he saw her.

Wilson Fisk was a large man, larger than even Kento, and evne though it looked like fat, she knew for a fact that it was all muscle. She had once seen him bench press a car, albeit it was a small Honda fit but it was still a car. His face was fierce but it was set in round features that made him look a lot nicer. He had no hair and broad features. If he hadn't been wearing prison clothes she might have thought of him as a butcher but he was...just in a more sinister way.

He sat down, "Miss Tanaka, I presume."

She nodded, "Hello, Mr. Fisk. I just wanted to thank you for all your support during my schooling in the US."

He snorted, "oh...I could easily tell them what that schooling was in."

"Please, don't."

"I won't, it won't do either of us any good," he said quietly. "I'm guessing you noticed the monster in the shadows."

She nodded quietly, "yes."

He smirked, "you want a name?"

"Why're you being so helpful."

"In hopes that you'll owe me a favor in the future," he said. "Will you do that, Miss Tanaka?"

"If you have a future."

"I certainly will," he chuckled. "His name is Smythe. Allistair Smythe, son of Spencer Smythe."

She remembered a nerdy young man who was part of Fisk's group who was a lot like Rowen in many ways, "do you know who I am?"

He stood up, "Miss Kayura Tanaka -Stark- Rogers."

She gulped as he emphasized Stark and Rogers, and called for the guard to get him. The guard escorted her out to the limo and she slid in next to Steve, making Maria sit next to Tony. She shivered, "how is that a man can be completely immobilized by chains, and behind a pain of glass, and makes me feel like I'm still human."

Maria looked at her, "Fisk is not a person you should have gotten involved with."

"Yes, please, berate the younger me who thought Warlords were above petty human politics and crimes," she said with a snarl.

Tony looked at her, "he freaked you out?"

"He's like Talpa, human incarnate. His soul is black night. His eyes burn with..."

"We ge it," Maria said Steve wrapped an arm around her and she laid her head against him as limo left the island. She didn't want to relive her memories of the demon who ruined her life. "So what did he say?"

"He gave me a name, Allistair Smythe."

Maria and Steve looked at each other uncomfortably, and she said, "he's the son of the man who used to work with my grandfather. If anyone would know about the armors, that would be him."

Kay was going to have a long talk with Steve later about details, and Tony said with a grumble, "wasn't he an intern for Rowen? I think he left when his father got into accident at Os Tech."

Steve saw Kay go pale as ghost and she stammered, "what did you say?"

"Yeah, he worked for Ro."

Maria looked him up on her tablet, "wow, Stanford...why didn't you hire him?"

"I tried, honestly I did but it was the first time anyone passed me up for Rowen. No offense, I've been passed up for Osbourne once or twice, and a few with Pym tech before it blew..."

"Tony," Maria said harshly.

"But never Hashiba. I give him one thing, he invested in Cho when I didn't think..."

"Tony," Maria said harshly again he noticed Kay was shaking.

Tony saw tears slowing running down her face as Steve hugged her, he didn't realize that Rowen was going to be a touchy subject for her. He saw her hand clutching at Steve, her fingers turning ghostly pale because she gripped him so tightly. Steve was whispering something in her ear trying to calm her down but she broke down in his arms. Tony said to Happy, "let's go to the mansion."