A/N: here's chapter 12. Just to let you guys know, I'm in Rome forthis week so it may take a bit longer to update, sorry.

Disclaimer: still no

Cars. Cars flying everywhere. Some weren't even intact.

She could feel the ground underneath her but she didn't know where she was, the smoke clouded her vision, clogged her throat. She couldn't see, she couldn't hear, she couldn't breath.

Through the smoke she saw a light, a round circle at chest height, it had to be her father, right?

2 lines joined the circle, they flashed and sparked like lightning, twirling through the air like snakes. She knew deep inside her it wasn't her father but she held onto hope.

A man emerged from the smoke, the round circle on a harness on his chest was an arc reactor, the Lightning were whips.

When he raised his whip to kill her, Orna screamed. And woke up.

She sat bolt upright in bed, sweat poured down her face, but she realised she was in her bedin Malibu. She was safe.

She could normally tell between her dreams and her visions but this time it was hazy, it felt real, but at the same time impossible. Her father was the only person who knew how to make an arc reactor. The only person with enough resources to make it work.
Impossible.

She calmed herself down enough so that Jarvis wouldn't be alerted by her heart rate, before she lay back down and studied the ceiling.

They were leaving for Monaco in the morning, with a diseased man, a new CEO, a PA who spoke Latin and knew how to fight, and a girl who doubled as an assassin. What could go wrong?

They pulled up outside the 'hotel de Paris' to the roar and cheer of a crowed all hoping to catch a look at Tony Stark, his CEO and his supposed successor.

Her father waved at the crowed while Orna stared resolutely ahead and together they walked up the steps to the hotel.

"Whatever happens in the next 20 minutes just go with it" her father said.

Orna knew her father well enough not to question him, but Pepper said "go with it? Go with what?"

Natalia appeared from the crowed, wearing a gorgeous red dress that showed off all her best assets. Frankly, it was making every woman in the room jealous of her.

"Mr stark... was your flight?" She asked softly with a smile.

"Great, always nice to see you," her father replied, taking a drink from a waiter, Orna followed suit, she could legally drink over here.

"We have one photographer over here if you don't mind" she said, removing the drinks from their hands. Orna very well did mind! She just flew across the world, didn't she deserve a drink?

She took the picture, while Pepper and Tony mumbled at each other incoherently through their teeth.

They were handed back their drinks and made their way through the bar.

"What's on the to do list?" Her father asked.

"You have a 9:30 dinner," Natalie supplied.

"Great I'll be there at 11" he was so annoying sometimes. Couldn't he do anything like a normal person?

She went to sit down at the table, but her father and Pepper walked off so she followed unhurriedly a few paces behind them, lost in thought.

She didn't know why her father had wanted to come to Monaco but she knew he was going to do something stupid, he was a dying man. And he was Tony Stark for gods sake. He was bound to do something that would gain the papers attention.

They found themselves at the bar, Orna had already finished her drink and was half way through ordering another, when an unwanted head appeared from behind someone's back.

"Anthony!" Hammer said.

Here we go.

"Is that you?"

"My least favourite person on earth" Tonysaid winking at Orna.

"Your not the only rich guy here with a fancy car," he said obnoxiously, couldn't he just take a hint and find someone else to bug, "hey, do you know Christine Everhart?"

"Hi.." Said Pepper.

"Btw, big story" Hammer said pointing at Pepper, "new CEO of stark industries. Congratulations"

"I know, my editor will kill me if I don't grab a quote for our powerful women issue, can I?"

"Uh... Sure" Pepper said, not used to so much attention after only being a PA.

Hammer started gushing about something stupid so Orna decided now would be the best time to slip away, "your wonder child's leaving Anthony" Hammer said.

"Piss off Hammer" she said, and walked off. She wasn't in the mood for his fake smiles and belittling comments. Honestly, he was worse than the girls her father used to bring home.

She sat at the table next to Natalie and Pepper joined them shortly after.

"God he's soooo annoying" Orna whined to the older women. "Seriously, that man needs to get a life and stop getting involved in every one else's."

Pepper nodded, but didn't add anything.

"Did I tell you that last time I saw him he tried to get me drunk?! Seriously, I was drinking water all night but he wouldn't stop trying to loosen my tounge. And I'm under age in America!"

"Uh huh" was Peppers only reply, she was watching the TV.

Orna snapped her fingers in Peppers face, "Peppeeerrr" she complained "at least pretend to listen to me whine and complain."

"Any way, he's a total douche..." "Orna" "...he don't deserve my time and..." "Orna!" "...he ain't getting it. He..." "ORNA!" Pepper interrupted again.

"WHAT" she replied in the same tone But Pepper just pointed to the TV in front of them.

"Ah shit" Orna said.

Because Tony Stark. Her father Tony Stark. Was on that TV, decked out in navy blue racing gear and waving at a camera. He was about to race.

She was gonna kill him.

A/N: bit of a cliff hanger although you probably already know what happens, as I said at the start, I'm going to Rome for a few days so I won't be able to update as usual but after that it should fall back to normal, as long as there's no other spanners thrown in the works.

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