Melody adjusted her earrings and straightened out her body hugging V-neck black dress in front of the mirror before Tony's party. With a sigh, she pulled off the bandage on her arm, knowing her arm wasn't all the way healed, but she didn't want it on at the party. "Jarvis," She called out as she put on some red lipstick.

"Yes, Miss. Barnes?"

"How's the global search coming for Emily?"

"Emily Barnes has not yet-" Jarvis's voice began to diminish until it was nothing, causing Melody to look around with a confused face on, not understanding what exactly what was happening.

"Jarvis?"

Melody's phone then went off. Right when she picked it up, there was a message from an unknown number. The message read: Do you think you're safe? Melody shook her head and took out her hacking device, plugging it into her phone, ready to find out who exactly this was.

Then, her computer turned on. A message was open on the computer reading: Do you think Tony is safe? Melody looked back down at her phone, her breath quickening from fear. Her device then began malfunctioning and then busted, resulting in a loud scream from her.

Her TV then came on with a message reading: We can get you from anywhere. Anytime. And there's nothing you can do to stop it. The lamp behind her exploded, causing her to scream and jump.

Then her door burst open and Tony hurried inside. "Mel!" He went right to her, studying her face, but Melody continued to look around the room. All the messages were now gone, even on her phone. "Are you alright?" Tony asked her seriously.

She looked back to him and nodded, but Tony noticed that she looked like a complete ghost. "My bulb just shattered." She lied quickly while looking back to the lamp.

Tony quickly looked at the lamp, but then looked right back at her. He felt like there was something else she wasn't telling him, but he decided to trust her. "I'll get a new one after the party." Melody nodded and gave him a forced smile. Tony smiled back while stroking her cheek with the back on his hand. "You scared me, kid."

"Sorry." Tony shook his head and planted a kiss on her head before walking out of her room. Melody looked around the room once her phone vibrated again. You've been warned –the boys. Melody clenched her phone tightly and let out a deep breath. "Jarvis, you okay, bud?"

"I'm fine, Miss. Barnes." Melody let out a relieved breath, afraid that whoever had hacked in had destroyed Jarvis. "The hacker isn't strong enough to get rid of me."

Melody was fuming. "The boys" tried to get rid of Jarvis and that was not something she was going to just blow over. "Jarvis," She called. "Do everything you can to find out who 'the boys' are."

"My pleasure, Miss. Barnes."

Tony stared at the marks on his chest as he buttoned up the shirt he was wearing for the big birthday party. He knew that this was just going to get worse and he knew this was mostly likely going to be his last birthday. "Do you know which watch you would like to wear tonight, Mr. Stark?"

He jumped at Natalie's voice and covered his body, buttoning up the shirt faster, not wanting to alarm her. "I'll give 'em a look." He spoke as she began to make him a drink. He turned to look at her once his shirt was fully buttoned up. "I should cancel the party, huh?"

Natalie turned to him with a martini. "Probably."

"Yeah," He spoke as she handed the drink to him. "It's-"

"Ill timed?" She offered.

"Right. Sends the wrong message."

She nodded in agreement. "Inappropriate." He took a small sip of the martini and looked back to Natalie, that same attraction from when he first met her coming back. "Is that dirty enough for you?" She asked in her normally seductive voice.

Tony stood there for a moment, but knew there would always be one woman who was more attractive to him than every other girl in the world. Pepper. "Gold face, brown band." He told Natalie while nodding towards the watches on his dresser. She walked over with the box full of watches, handing them to him as he sat down in a chair.

She sat down on the arm of the chair while looking down at him, putting a little bit of makeup under his eyes, trying to cover up the bags. "I gotta say, it's hard to get a read on you." She continued to put on his makeup, but she just continued to intrigue Tony even more. "Where are you from?"

"Legal."

Tony sighed, knowing he was getting nothing personal out of her. "Can I ask you a question, hypothetically?" She stopped what she was doing and looked at his face. "If this was your last birthday party ever, how would you celebrate it?"

She looked up with a smile, trying to think about the question. "I'd do whatever I wanted to do with whoever I wanted to do it with." She got up from where she was sitting and walked out the door as Tony sat back, mulling that piece of advice over. He picked up his martini and drank the rest of it, deciding he was going to get roaring drunk.

Melody stood at the back of the party while shaking her head as Tony began to work the turn tables. Kyle was trying to make out with her, but she kept pushing him back, trying to keep her eyes on Tony as he danced around the stage. Kyle then grabbed her ass, causing her to push him back. "Kyle, stop!"

"Come on, babe." He tried to move closer to her, pushing her all the way against the wall. "Why don't we go upstairs?"

"Are you even paying attention to what is going on right now?!"

He shrugged while looking back to Tony. "Mom's having a good time for once in his miserable life. Why should that bother us?"

Melody pushed him back again and Kyle looked pissed. "I think you need to go."

"I think," He began as he grabbed her by the ass and pulled her forward as she tried to push him back as hard as she could. "That you need to stand here and take it." He began to lift her dress up while kissing her as Melody screamed and reached he reached her lacy black panties when Melody bit down on his lip as hard as he could. He began to scream as he backed off of her. Blood was all over their mouths and Kyle was looking at her with crazy eyes. "You crazy bitch!" He tried to go for her again, but she grabbed his wrist, snapped it and flipped him over on the ground as people around them backed away.

"And you're an ass hole." A few people cheered as she walked away from him lying on the ground. She had to find Pepper. She had to stop Tony.

When she reached Pepper, she was by the stairs, watching Tony with a worried face. "Nice job over there." She commented while looking to Kyle who was still on the ground. "If he would have touched you for a second more, I would have gone over there and killed him."

Melody shook her head, only wanting to focus on Tony. "We can't worry about that right now." She turned to Pepper. "We have to stop him."

She opened her mouth to say something when they heard, "Hey, Pepper. Melody."

Pepper put a hand on her head, feeling beyond stressed out and angry. "I'm gonna go get some air."

Melody gave him a pleading look so he grabbed Pepper by the arm as she tried to leave while studying her face. "What's wrong?

Pepper took a deep breath and led Rhodey into the room where Tony was going insane. "I don't know what to do."

"You've got to be kidding me." Rhodey spoke as Tony fell off the stage in his drunken mess. "That's it." Rhodey began to turn around, but Melody grabbed his arm.

"No." She pleaded.

"This is ridiculous!" He yelled at her with his jaw dropped. "I just stuck my neck out for this guy!"

"I know." Melody said while looking to Pepper who was obviously siding with Rhodey. "I get it and I will handle it." Pepper gave her a look like she wasn't too sure. "Just let me handle it." Pepper took a deep breath. She knew it wasn't going to work, but something in Melody's eyes shined so bright. It reminded her of the old Melody.

"Handle it!" Rhodey told her forcefully as Pepper nodded. "Or I'm gonna have to."

Melody began to move to the stage as Tony got the microphone. "You know, the question I get asked most often is, Tony, how do you go to the bathroom in the suit?" He began to make a face with his eyes closed and then nodded. "Just like that."

Tony doubled over with laughter as Melody got on the stage, faking a laugh and putting a hand on Tony's shoulder as she took the microphone from him. "Does this guy know how to throw a party or what?"

Everyone began to cheer in agreement when Tony leaned toward the microphone in her hands. "I love you."

Everyone cheered again as Melody shook her head. "Unbelievable!" She laughed out her frustration with Tony, trying not to show it with the crowd. "Thank you so much, Tony. We all thank you so much for such a wonderful night and we're all gonna say goodnight now and thank you all for coming."

Everyone booed and Tony began to protest so Melody put the microphone behind her back while giving him an annoyed look. "We haven't had the cake. We haven't blown out the candles."

"You're out of control, okay?" She told him in an angry whisper.

"I'm not out of control."

"Trust me."

"You're out of control." Melody rolled her eyes and Tony began to lean toward her. "Kiss me on the cheek."

"No."

"I love you. You know you want to."

"I love you too, but, Tony, you just peed in your suit."

"I know," He breathed out. "It has a filtration system."

"It's disgusting."

"You can drink that water!"

"Just send everybody home, okay?" Melody told him forcefully, done with this child like arguing.

"If you say so."

"Thank you." For that, she leaned in and kissed him on the cheek. "I'll take that," She took the bottle from him as Tony sighed. "You take that." She gave him the microphone even though she knew it was probably not the best thing to do in his state. She was going to trust him.

She stepped back as Tony stepped off the stage and into the crowd. "Melody Barnes. The best niece in the entire world. She's gorgeous, isn't she?" The crowd began to cheer so she gave them a small smile before turning back to Tony. "She's right. The party's over. Though, the party was over for me about an hour and a half ago."

Melody shut her eyes while letting out a sigh. "Don't."

"The after party starts in fifteen minutes! And if anybody," He turned in her direction while still looking at the crowd. "Mel," She shut her eyes and let out a sigh, she had actually thought she had gotten to him. "Doesn't like it, then there's the door." He aimed his hand at the door and it shot off, taking off the glass close to the stairs.

The crowd began to cheer and Melody looked to Rhodey and Pepper with a fearful face. Tony began to cheer more when a blonde girl threw a bottle in the air. Tony hit it, sending glass flying everywhere, hitting Melody's arm on her burn. She let out a small scream as her hand went to her arm. Pepper hurried to her and pulled the piece of glass out of her arm as another girl threw another bottle in the air.

Pepper pulled Melody away from the blast zone and Rhodey was nowhere to be seen. Melody looked around for him, also wondering where Kyle had gone. "Come on," Pepper told her as she helped her up the stairs. "We have to get you out of here."

Rhodey walked into the room wearing one of the Iron Man suits, stopping Melody and Pepper, their mouths dropped. "I'm only gonna say this once!" The entire room got quiet. "Get out!"

Everyone began to file out, Melody and Pepper following, looking all over, not really sure what exactly to do. "Natalie!" Pepper called, causing Melody to look over at where Pepper was going.

"Miss. Potts." Natalie called as she hurried to her.

"Oh, don't you Miss. Potts me." She told her angrily as Melody looked back and forth at the two. "I'm on to you. You know what, ever since you got here-"

They were cut off by Tony and Rhodey falling through the ceiling. The three of them jumped back, Natalie running towards the back door and Happy running in to get Pepper and Melody. "You've got to get out of here." He told Pepper, but Melody began running after Natalie. "Melody!"

Melody was tired of this weird feeling about Natalie. She was going to find out just who this girl was. Right as they made it out of the back of the house, Natalie was joined by a man whose back was turned to them. "Natalie," She turned around with wide eyes and looked to the man next to her nervously. "Just what the hell-"

She was cut off when the man turned around, her mouth dropping. He had no idea how to react and she sure as hell didn't know what to do. She didn't even know Clint Barton was in Malibu. "Hey, Mel." He told her awkwardly as she just breathed heavily, not being able to process what was happening.

Melody turned to Natalie, about to ask her what was going on when she thought about Clint again and how he was actually here. She looked to him and then Natalie again, sure that what she wanted was to find out what was happening. "Natalie," She began in a very confused voice.

"Actually," She jumped at the man's voice which was coming from behind her. "Her real name is Natasha Romanoff."

Melody rolled her eyes once she saw him in his stupid eye patch. "Oh god, not you again."

"You visited her?" Clint asked Fury.

"Is it your position to monitor who visits me?" Melody asked him angrily.

He shrugged with a small smile. "It was a few months ago."

Melody was about to say something when there was a loud crash from the house, causing them all to jump and Fury put a hand on Melody's shoulder. "Why don't we get to a safer place where we can all talk?" Fury eased her into the backseat of a town car and as she got in, Clint saw that she was still wearing her Captain America bracelet which made him smile.

Melody laid her head down on the table of the 24 hour fast food restaurant, trying to process everything they had just told her. "Natalie…I mean Natasha is working for SHIELD." She spoke in a muffled voice, her head still down. She popped her head back up and leaned on her elbow while looking straight at Natasha. "And she's Tony's shadow agent which is what Clint was to me?" They all nodded and Melody sighed while adjusting her position. "Why? Why are you all spying on us?"

They all looked at each other uncomfortably and then back to Melody. "What?" She asked in an annoyed voice. She was absolutely done with secrets and she wanted to know all of the truth right now.

They all looked behind her and she followed the gaze to see a woman she hadn't seen in a very long time looking down at her with a smile. She had the same golden locks and the same bright blue eyes. "Hi, baby." She spoke in her English accent.

Melody felt like she was going to choke on her own shock if that was even possible. "Mom?"

Ah! Cliffhanger! Sorry, guys, I just love cliffhangers. Please review!