Back at the hospital...

Pepper and I followed a nurse that led us to my fathers room, where he sits in his bed watching the Television He seems to recall what happened to him that night, because, the nurse edged on about us not asking him about it after having some difficulties with his behavior I stand by the door way as Pepper sits in a chair next to his bed. "Look at this! Can you believe this!?" He exclaims I look to the screen, he's watching the news. My heart starts to race as it shows a picture of Justin Hammer, I quickly race over to the bed remote and turn off the T.V. Pepper doesn't intend on asking a question, course, I know I'm in for a ton later. "Who are you people?" He asks with a slight grin.

Pepper extended her hand to him, "Pepper, Pepper Potts."

He nodded and shook her hand, "Pleasure, Ms. Potts." He says grinning a bit more. He looks over at me curiously, "And you, sir?"

I'm silent for what seems like three minutes, I blink and look at him. "Tony," I pause, not knowing if I should give him my last name. I decide to give it a try, "Tony Stark." I add. His eyes focused on mine, he looked shocked. He swallows.

"S-Stark?" He stutters.

I nod slowly, "Yeah." I huffed. I did and didn't want to talk to my father. Course, it's been more then ten years since we've even seen each other. He started to smile, Pepper smiled as he did.

"You're Emily's son...?"

"Yes."

He chuckled, "You look just like her."

"Funny. She said I looked like you."

He frowned, " 'Said'? She's dead?"

Mentally, I'm hitting myself, I didn't want to tell him that my mother had died. Frowning, I nod slowly. I look at Pepper who sighs silently.

"When?" He asks sadly looking away from me now.

"Three years ago."

"And...I wasn't there." He mutters.

I shake my head, deciding I can't take talking to him any longer. I walk out of the room, Pepper follows. "Good to meet you, Ms. Potts." He says to Pepper who's following me out of the room. I go into the hall and taps my chin. Pepper takes my hand and goes around the corner of the hall.

"Is everything okay?" Pepper asks.

Suddenly, I was furious with my father, "No! Everything is NOT okay," I say through my teeth "HE left for fifteen years of my life, Pepper. My mother had to take me to HIS door step and tell him that I was his son." I rub my chin lightly with a sigh, "Do you know what we did for 'Fun'?" Pepper shook her head frowning, "He took me on his little 'Captain America' search."

"Captain America? Isn't he working with the Avengers...?" She asks.

I nod. I go to the elevators and go down to the car, as does Pepper. We both get into the car and ask Happy to take us back to the house.

Back at the Stark house...

We pull up to the house to see a few police cars sitting in the drive way with their lights on, I see a glass window broken. I quickly rush out of the car and up to Rhodey who is talking to the police.

"Rhodey," I call walking to him. "Rhodey, what's going on?"

"Someone broke into your house, nothing is stolen. Nothing out of the ordinary so far."

"Any idea who it was?"

"We have a pretty good guess," He says looking at as if it were obvious. "Come inside, I have to show you something."

I nod, Rhodey takes me down where I keep my suits, enters the code and then goes over to my desk where the video feed from the house after we left shows. "Watch this." He clicks the play button on the video feed, I watch a small, thirteen year old girl break a window and run inside the house. I'm surprised. Rhodey rewinds it and plays it again this time pausing it on the young girls face.

"Hammer?"

Rhodey shook his head, "I can't be for sure. But I am sure of a few things, her name is Melody Hudson. Strait A student in school. Went missing about a month ago."

"What mindless moron would kidnap a thirteen year old girl?"

"Do you have any enemies?"

I give him an obvious look. He hit his head with his hand, "I meant one that's not wanting to actually kill you, Tony!"

"Mmmm...someone that's NOT wanting to kill me, none. Someone that want's to steal my work and tear my company to ruins? Tons."

"Well, that narrow's it down."

"Isn't there some kind of machine that can track this girl down or something?"

"Unlike you, Tony. We don't have machine's to do everything." He sighed quietly.

"Is that a yes?"

"Okay, yes. We can track her. But, it might take awhile."

"How long is awhile?"

"Normally two-to-four days." He said leaning back into the chair.

"Days?"

He nodded as I sighed, "Keep me updated." I say walking to the code locked door. "Don't I always..?" He says following behind me, I open the door to find the police have gone, Pepper sits on the couch looking a bit exhausted. I sighed and walked to the kitchen, Rhodey walked to Pepper and started asking questions like "Do you know anybody that would want to harm Tony, that I haven't already come across as a deadly person." and, "Do you think you know anything about this girl Melody Hudson." All answers were the same from her. "No." I stand in the kitchen leaning against the counters. After Rhodey is finished, he stands and walks to the door slipping his navy blue hat onto his head again, "Take care." He said walking out. I go over to Pepper and sit next to her.