Monday morning, bright and early Lennon Williams was at Stark Tower waiting in her office. She was much too nervous to wait any longer, and had showed up to work an hour earlier than she needed to.

So as the time came for the regular arrival time, people slowly began to file into the office. Lennon still sat at her large desk with her legs crossed and her fingers tapping away at rhe desk top.

It was still hard to believe that the two people running Stark Industries had chosen her to take over Ms. Potts position. She still wasn't able to quite believe that it was all real.

That is until, about eight o'clock, hurried whispers were going throughout the office and people were shuffling around to make themselves look busy. Lennon Williams could only think of one thing, or person rather, that would make the entire office nervous.

It was at the moment that he strolled into the office and plopped down in a cushioned chair in front of her desk. "Morning kiddo." Her mouth tightened and she felt herself frown. It was slightly degrading to always be called 'kid' or 'kiddo', especially when holding such a high position.

However she bit her tongue and gave the man a smile, all nervousness now gone. "Good morning Mr. Stark."

He sat up in his chair and leaned forward, giving her a look over. "See, now your outfit is appropriate." He even gave a small non commuter wave at her person.

With a short laugh she sat forward and placed her hands on the table in front of her. "Thanks for the fashion tip." She paused and he let out a laugh as he stood up and walked around the office. "Is there anything I can help you with, Mr. Stark?"

He circled the room before walking over and leaning against her desk, looking down at her. "I was actually just sent to fetch you, the lovely Ms. Potts would like to see you." His sarcastic manner made her laugh lightly as she stood up.

"Well we better not keep her waiting." Standing up, Lennon passed by the man and walked out of the office. He followed closely behind her as she walked to the elevator.

The security guard at the elevator pressed the button before turning back to the two waiting. "Good morning Mr. Stark." He just looked at the man and gave him a nod.

Lennon took the time to look back at the office. They were all trying to pretend that they were busy with work, but she knew that they were all watching. She would catch an eye here and there, but they would quickly look away.

It was beginning to make her slightly uncomfortable, for all they knew, she was being fired. Mr. Stark never came to their office. It was an oddity in itself.

The elevator dinged and Mr. Stark stepped to the side to allow Lennon to walk in first. As he stepped in the doors closed and a voice spoke over the speaker. "To the top Mr. Stark?"

Lennon's eyes went wide and her head shot up to the speaker. "Yes Jarvis." He paused and looked at the woman next to him. "Jarvis, this is Lennon Williams, she will be working with Ms. Potts."

Lennon looked over at the man and laughed lightly, this was unbelievable. Granted, he was a genius, and could have whatever toys he wanted. But she never experienced them, the rest of Stark Industries was pretty normal. "Very nice to meet you Miss Williams."

Her mouth dropped open and she didn't know how to respond. "You too." Tony let out a chuckle as the elevator stopped.

The doors opened to reveal a giant room, more like a living space, with giant glass walls looking out over the city. Lennon was in awe, nobody was allowed clearance this high.

Tony Stark stepped passed her and walked to greet Pepper Potts as she entered the room. Lennon, still looking around the large room, finally exited the elevator and was, met by Ms. Pepper.

She reached out and grasped her hand in hers with a large smile. "Good to see you Miss Williams." All she could do was nod which caused the older woman to laugh. "Why don't you come and sit, we can go over some things."

Mr. Stark kissed the woman on the head and muttered something quietly in her ear before walking off, leaving the two women alone.

Lennon followed Ms. Potts over to the large couch and sat down on the opposite side of her. The elder woman pulled a tablet off the side table and began swiping around before all the information they had on Lennon Williams pulled up.

She took a moment to look it over, leaving Lennon sitting there, feeling oddly exposed. When she looked up she gave Lennon an apologetic smile. "I apologize for that Miss Williams, that was rude of me." She then placed the tablet down in her lap and turned toward the younger woman.

Lennon gave the woman her own little smile. "Don't worry about it, comes with the job I suppose."

Ms. Potts nodded but still held the apologetic look. "It does, unfortunately taking this position will leave you with hardly any privacy." She paused and looked over in the direction Tony had gone. "Especially with him."

Both laughed at that before Lennon became serious and looked the older woman in the eye. "Not that I don't appreciate all of this," she waved her arms around before placing them back in her lap. "Its just, I'm curious as to why you chose me."

Ms. Potts let out a little laugh as she leaned back into the couch. "I didn't, actually." Lennon's mouth dropped open as she stared at the woman. "Tony chose you."

Lennon could feel her mouth pull into a frown before she could stop it. "Okay, but why?"

The smile didn't leave Ms. Potts face as she stood up and motioned for Lennon to follow. The younger woman quickly got to her feet and hurried after the woman.

And as she reached the balcony her mouth dropped open in disbelief, the view was incredible. She hadn't seen anything like this before.

Ms. Potts was leaning against the balcony over looking the city, and as Lennon came to stand next to her, she gave her a smile. "Great view, huh?" Lennon just nodded, still waiting for her answer. "Tony sees something in you Miss Williams. He has since the day you interviewed for the H.R position."

That still didn't really help answer Lennon's question, but she had the feeling that, that was all she was going to get out of her. "You can call me Lennon." She told her.

The older woman turned and gave her a friendly smile. "Only if you call me Pepper."

Lennon looked out over the city for a moment, taking in everything. Everything was going to change. She looked back at the woman and smiled. "Deal."

6 months later

Lennon was sitting at her usual bar after a long week with Dean when she had gotten a call from Tony. He had told her that he needed her to come back to the office. She of course, refused, but then he told her that it was an emergency and that they needed her immediately.

That is why she was currently walking down the busy New York street trying to push her way through the crowd going in the opposite direction. It was all push and shove until she was about a block away from the tower.

The entire crowd was stopped and looking up at the tower, where there was now a large lit up sign. "You have got to be shitting me."

She continued to shove her way through and had finally made it to the tower. After waving off the security guard she made her way to the elevator and pressed the top level.

About half way up she called for Jarvis. "Yes Miss Williams." The AI had responded.

Lennon leaned back against the wall and sighed. "This isn't the emergency that Tony was talking about, is it?"

"I don't know what you are talking about Miss Williams." Lennon rolled her eyes as she stood up from the wall and crossed her arms.

"Jarvis." She had said, in a manner almost as if someone were scolding a child.

"I'm sorry Miss Williams, I am not at liberty to speak." That was all that the AI had said before the elevator reached the top floor.

The woman just rolled her eyes as she exited the elevator, and there she found Pepper and Tony sitting next to a little table drinking some champagne. That enough, answered her question.

With a sigh she crossed over to the two and grabbed the glass that Pepper was holding out to her. "I suppose we're celebrating Tony's name in lights?" She asked with a sarcastic tone as she drank her champagne.

The man in question looked up and shot her a smirk. "My name should've been in lights long ago."

Lennon shot Pepper a look to which she just smiled before Lennon went and sat on the couch. It was then as she sat, Tony got a strange call, and only moments later there was a man in a suit was strolling in through the elevator.

Tony had said something about a security breach, and to Lennon, it was. He was a complete stranger. However it was Pepper who got up and walked over to him with a smile. "Phil."

Tony quickly got up and followed after the woman, Lennon who was still confused as to who the man was, continued to sit on the couch. The trio shot words and what not back and forth, Lennon was only able to pick up a few words here and there. Something about the Avengers, and Tony not playing well with others.

It wasn't until Tony began to walk off into another area of the room that Pepper room the chance to beckon the younger woman over. She put her glass down on the floor and walked over to the two still standing in the middle of the room.

Pepper motioned to the man in front of her before giving Lennon a smile. "Lennon, this is Phil Coulson." Lennon just gave the man a short nod, but he held his hand out to her.

She shot Pepper a look before grasping the man's hand and giving a firm shake. His facial expression never changed as he looked her in the face, "Nice to meet you Lennon."

It was then that Tony took the chance and called over to Pepper, she apologized to the two before walking over to the two. The remaining two stood awkwardly until Phil Coulson spoke. "So you work for Tony."

Lennon took a step back, realizing their close proximity and nodded. "Yeah."

The man places his hands behind his back and continued to look at the woman. She felt as if she were being judged, but he seemed like someone you shouldn't question.

Lennon was just going to try and make small talk, when all of a sudden the entire room was filled with different clips. Some were of a giant green thing, smashing different things, one of a big guy with blonde hair, and another of a man, wearing a strange suit of stars and stripes. Lennon was extremely confused. One common thing in all the clips was there was chaos, all were filled with some form of chaos.

Lennon didn't know what to think about any of it, it was all pretty crazy. She looked over to Tony and Pepper to see them speaking before Pepper started walking over to her and Phil.

She heard the two speaking about a ride and a girl, but she was having a real hard time focusing on anything other than what she had seen on Tony's screens.

The two were walking to the door, and she went to follow but Tony quickly called out to her. She turned back around to see him still standing in the same place, but now he was watching her.

Lennon sighed and walked over to the man, she had a bad feeling about all of this. As she reached him, he motioned to the clips all around them. "Do you know about any of this?"

Crossing her arms, she felt goosbumps form as she saw what looked to be a giant robot being fought by the blonde man. "No Tony, I have no idea."

He sighed and ran a hand over his face. "Agent Coulson is trying to recruit me to this band of misfits here." Tony motioned to the screens as he told her that.

Her stomach dropped at his words, there had to be a reason for recruiting these powerful beings. "What's going on Tony?"

Tony's head whipped around to look at her, she didn't mean for her voice to break, but she couldn't help it. "There's a bad guy here." Even in a serious situation, Tony still couldn't drop the sarcastic act. He switched the main monitor to show a man, with dark hair slicked back with a green and black outfit, he even had a cape. He held a bright blue, glowing staff.

"This is Loki, apparently." He motioned to the screen where he had just blown up a car with the glowing staff. "He's our bad guy."

Definitely. There was just an evil look to him. She sighed and looked to Tony. "Are you going to help?" He just shrugged and continued to watch the clips play. She began to step away, since he was preoccupied, "I guess I better go pack."

She had only taken a few steps when Tony called out to her. "You're not going." That had completely confused her. She was supposed to be going with Pepper to Washington.

"Why?" She was now facing the man fully, and waiting for his response.

Finally he looked away from the screen and gave her a half smile. "I'm going to need you here to help me out." Lennon was still confused, "This is big, and if anything happens, you're still technically the head of H.R."

It was finally starting to fall together. "You need me to be here to do damage control."

"Bingo." His eyes had drifted back to the screen and was taking in everything that was happening. She had seen this part of him many times while working with him. He becomes completely engrossed, borderline obsessive.

Lennon sighed and finally took her leave, it wasn't until she had reached the pavement outside that she decided to call Dean. "Hey, I'm just going to go home. I've got a busy day tomorrow."

"What, come on!" The intoxicated voice of her best friend shouted through the phone. He had been having fun without her.

"Yeah, I'll talk to you later." There was no use trying to explain to him now, in his inebriated state. He wouldn't understand.

As she slowly walked the street home she thought about what she had learned. And at the time, she tried to be calm. In the world there was Tony, who was now Iron Man, why couldn't there be other worldly beings.

Such as this Loki, who was deemed the bad guy. The big green thing didn't seem too human either. It was all a little much, but when you work for Iron Man, you've got to expect things to be a little different.

The rest of her walk home was spent mulling over all that she had learned that night. She imagined that it wasn't really information that she should go spreading around, so she would have to keep it to herself.

It wasn't until she was entering her building that the thought crossed her mind if it would have just been better to have kept her previous job. Things were a whole lot less complicated, and she was able to live happily in ignorance.

Tony Stark was rushing around the woman that was perfectly comfortable sitting on his couch with a beer in her hand. He was wondering why he had even called her over, she was of no assistance.

"I don't pay you to sit on your ass and drink beer." He was on the verge of a breakdown, there weren't very many people who got to see that side of him. Previously, Pepper was the only one, but now the young woman sitting on his couch was added to the short list.

She just let out a mocking laugh and raised her hands in a mock surrender. "Whoa ho ho." She placed the beer down on the floor and stood up. "I can't make this decision for you, you jackass."

"I don't think that's how you're supposed to speak to your employer." As she approached him he glared at her. "I should fire you."

Another laugh left her lips all while giving him a pat on the shoulder and turning. "By all means, Tony."

Lennon had gone over and taken her previous place on the couch, her beer was now warm and useless to her. Warm beer is disgusting.

"Fine, I'll do it." She knew that he would. Even though Tony was an ass, he wouldn't just let the 'bad guy' stroll in and destroy things. He had a heart, well kind of.

He began rushing around and yelling things at Jarvis, and Lennon took that as her cue to leave. Sure, his extremely large home, with never ending booze was great, but she was beginning to miss home. She hardly had any time to spend there anymore.

Lennon slowly put one foot in front of the other, trying to make her way to the elevator without being noticed. She had made it to the elevator and tried to press the button, but it wouldn't open.

"I'm sorry Miss Williams, but I've been told not to let you leave the building until further notice." Oh that ass.

She was definitely going to be needing another drink. Lennon stormed over to the island that held Stark's booze as she pulled out her cellphone. His number was her fourth contact, and was used quite often.

Lennon was pouring her Rum when he picked up. She could hear air whooshing on the other side. "Why am I being held captive in your home?" Her calm voice asked as she took a sip.

"Well, you see." He let out a little yelp, "Bird." That must have been explanation for the tell. "I need you to be at the tower just in case there is anything I need."

There was nothing he would need, he had the suit. "Tony, I like you, but you are stretching my patience my friend." She literally had no life anymore.

"I know." He was silent for a moment. "How about a bonus, or a raise. You like money right?"

She couldn't help the laugh that escaped. "Better be a good one too. No five cent shit."

His own chuckle could be heard through the line as she walked back over to the couch. "You got it." He paused for a moment and she thought he hung up. "The guest room is set up, and call Pep, give her the update. I gotta go." And with that the line went dead, and she was sitting on the couch, in Tony Stark's extravagant Tower, all alone.

With another sigh Lennon picked up her feet and placed them on the couch, slowly sipping her drink. She took a few moments to herself before she called Pepper and gave her the news.

Pepper was like her, she knew that he would do it too. She had also told her how everything else was going back home, there was still a lot of buzz in the streets about the new addition to Stark Tower, meaning the large 'Stark' that was now lit up on the side of the building.

And Pepper had told her of all that was going on in Washington. Pepper was trying to downplay the whole thing, but she knew it was a pretty big deal. Or at least it would have been. Pepper was going to give Lennon her shot, and let her run the meeting in Washington. But when Tony requested that she stayed, she did.

Pepper tried to tell her that she could have the next one, but with all that was going on now. Meaning the invasion by Loki, she doubted that she would. Whenever Iron Man came out, it was a big ordeal with the press, and that required Pepper's handling.

After going over a few things and Lennon helping Pepper work out a few kinks in her speech, they decided to call it a night. Talking to Pepper had helped calm Lennon's anxiousness, anxiousness she didn't even know she had until it was gone.

Again it went back to Tony, sure he was an old sarcastic ass, but she didn't want him die. She really enjoyed his and Pepper's company. And although she always complained about having no life anymore, she had to be honest with herself. She hardly had one to begin with, Dean was her only actual friend.

So yes, even though she always let the thought of what would have happened if she didn't take the promotion roll around in her head, she knew one thing for sure. She definitely made the right choice, Pepper and Tony were great, she got to chill in the top of the tower, great booze, and the fat paycheck was pretty nice.

Downing the rest of her drink, she placed the empty glass next to the warm beer and stood up, stretching her arms up over her head.

As she slowly padded down the hallway to the guest room she remembered that she wasn't completely alone. "Goodnight Jarvis."

"Goodnight Miss Williams. Pleasant dreams." She let the smile slip onto her face and continued until she reached the room.

Inside she flopped onto the bed, and didn't move, within seconds she was out. Her last thoughts being that even though Jarvis wasn't a person, it was still nice to have pleasant wishes wished upon you, and she did, have pleasant dreams that is.