Robert quickly learned that when living with the Avengers, any simple task could become an adventure. Some are funny, some are life threatening, and a few are crazy-insane. He'd heard the tall tales about them, like the one that said getting Tony Stark to go to his own board meetings was nearly impossible. Now Robert didn't believe it at first; "How do you not go to your own board meetings? It's your company," he thought. He quickly realized Tony doesn't like board meetings, not at all. Robert learned that Tony hates board meetings; he loathes them, in fact. Tony would rather be in a room with Justin Hammer and the I.R.S. and listen to Barney the Dinosaur than be at a board meeting.

The team has tried to get Tony to go meetings, but even Natasha's death stare and her very detailed threats are losing their effect on him. Pepper has begged, pleaded, threatened, yelled, and cried for him to go the meetings. Bruce has threatened to hulk out on Tony to go the meetings, because he sick of hearing about it; Clint wants to shoot him, Thor wants to whip Mjolnir at him while Tony isn't wearing the suit (OUCH), and Steve has lectured him over and over about going to the meetings and being responsible. Fury and Maria even want to Tony to go to the meetings; they're tired of Pepper finding their top-secret locations and interrupting team meetings to force Tony to sign paperwork.

Last of all, J.A.R.V.I.S., poor J.A.R.V.I.S., has reminded, begged, asked, and begged even more for his creator to go to them. J.A.R.V.I.S. has tried turning off the power to the labs many times; one time, he even remote-controlled an Iron Man suit to grab Tony and take him to a meeting. (Fury - and a lot of other people - were not happy with that one.)

Although, according to Pepper, the look on Tony's face was priceless.

One fine day, Robert was at the table eating some breakfast with Thor, Tony, Loki, Bruce, and Steve, while Clint and Natasha were on a mission. They conversed lightly about what was going to happen, during the day together. When a familiar sound broke the morning's peace:"ANTHONY EDWARD STARK!" Tony froze before getting up to run to either the lab or garage.

"You move and I will hunt you down," Robert said, just as Tony was motioning to get up; he looked at the agent with a raised eyebrow. "Go ahead, I dare you. It's too early to deal with this shit," Robert just stared at him. Tony looked to the others, for help, for support; he wasn't getting any of that. Tony sat back down.

"There you are," Pepper said as she walked into the room. "You have a stock meeting this afternoon at three o'clock." Everyone just moaned. (Robert swore he even heard J.A.R.V.I.S moan a little.)

"But Pep, you're the CEO. That's your job," Tony whined.

"It is Stark Industries, we've been over this a thousand times. You need to appear 4 times a year for the meetings to make your investors happy," Pepper said, pouring herself a cup of coffee.

"But I have important stuff to … do with my science bro," Tony said.

"Actually, we have nothing planned for today that can't wait," Bruce replied.

Annoyed, Tony glanced at him. "Traitor. Um ... I have weapons training with Steve today."

"Yeah, that's a load of bull." Steve shot back.

"But, but, but I have to..." Tony stuttered.

"Shut up, you'll be there," Robert said. "You have nothing planned for the day. You can take an hour and make people happy, considering you don't even have to leave the building,"

Everyone just stared at Robert. "Agent Hall, how do you work this magic?" Thor asked.

"Please, if you have an answer I would greatly appreciate it. Having to listen to his whining annoys me." Loki said and rolled his eyes.

"Pepper, let me see your schedule." asked Robert and Pepper handed him her schedule. "What's the meeting at two?"

"There is an important client meeting, and Tony should be there, but I would rather him just be at the stock meeting if I had a choice," Pepper sighed.

"Got it. Don't worry, I got this," Robert said.

"Okay then, later guys." Pepper said as she walked out of the room

"Everyone please leave us alone for a little while," Robert asked, and to Tony's horror, the team got up and left without conflict. Soon only Robert and Tony looked at each other. Robert didn't say anything; he just sat there and stared at Tony.

After a few minutes of silence, Tony looked very confused. Robert just stared at him and said nothing; he didn't move. (Well, he blinked, but that was about it.)

Tony started to get up. Robert still didn't say anything and didn't move, so Tony moved to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee. He heard a sound and turned around ... there was Robert, again, just staring at him. Tony looked at Robert and snorted, "You think a little stare will get to me? Ha!" and walked away.

Tony went into his lab and started to work on something with Bruce. After a few minutes he felt odd. He looked around and jumped a little ... it was Robert still staring at him! The stare oddly seemed harder, which Tony did not think was possible.

"Why is he doing that, Brucie, he's been like that for an hour," Tony commented.

"I don't know. It doesn't bother me or the Other guy," Bruce replied. (Bruce knew what Robert was doing.)

It was ten in the morning the next time Tony checked, and when Tony looked up, he saw that Robert was gone. "Okay maybe he gave up," he thought, before he noticed that his coffee was empty. "I'm going to get more coffee. You want any more?" he asked Bruce, who just shook his head.

Tony went to the kitchen to get more coffee ... as he turned there was Robert just staring at him again! Tony almost had a heart attack. Robert's face showed no emotion, no change, but his eyes, his amber eyes, actually started to bother him a little.

As Tony walked back into the lab, he sipped his coffee, and there was that feeling again in his stomach. He looked around and to the left. There he was again, outside of the lab, just staring! Tony tried to focus on a project but he couldn't. It was eleven o'clock, and Tony looked up to the left and right, but he was nowhere. Tony took a breath.

"Hi, Tony," came from behind him.

Tony yelped like a schoolgirl and jumped on the table. There he was, behind him! "How the fuck did he do that? How did he get into the lab?" Tony thought.

Then the feeling in his stomach returned. He looked up after slowing down his breathing and Robert was gone, but Tony turned around … and Robert had moved to the left of him! "How the hell is he doing that?" Tony yelled to Bruce.

Bruce looked up. "I don't what your problem is, he is just looking at you… Ah! That's what he's doing. He's reminding you about the meetings," he stated.

"Well, it's working. I'll go to the meetings if he leaves me alone!" Tony exclaimed.

"You've said that before, and you didn't go." Bruce replied.

"I'll go," Tony said.

Two hours later, after 5 almost-heart-attacks and 2 close strokes, Tony couldn't take it anymore. He walked up to Robert. "Okay, jackass, you proved your point. You have the hardest stare ever. If I leave now and go to both meetings, will you leave me alone?"

Robert smiled. "I won't do this anymore, as long as you attend the meetings you need to go to."

Tony said. "Fine." and went upstairs to get cleaned up.

Bruce came out of the lab, smiling, walked over to Robert, "I must say I am very impressed. By the way, how the hell did you learn to stare like that?"

Robert just smiled, "I was a parent, well, I might be one again,"

Bruce just smiled back and returned to the lab.

Pepper was running around like a nutjob: the photocopiers all had broken, the network had gone down, they ran out of coffee, and some of the investors were being real assholes about it all. Darcy was trying to fix the network, and Jane was helping too, but nothing was going right.

Darcy and Jane both looked at each other. They did not know what to do. "Well, I guess we should tell her we failed." Jane said.

"Yeah, damn, she's going to be disappointed," Darcy replied.

Then they heard a voice that made them smile. They turned and saw an angel, come to rescue them.

"Hey ladies, how are we today?" Tony asked. He was shocked when the two rushed over and bear-hugged him. "Okay then … miss me much?"

"Where's Stark? That jackass, he doesn't care about this company. His father would be ashamed by this mess! Stark Industries is supposed to be a well run machine!" a senior board member said.

"Things are broken and the network has failed. Pepper Potts, I am most disappointed," another board member said.

Pepper was trying her best, but even she had her limits. Then the power flashed off. "For once, where is my hero?" was her only thought. "Tony is probably in a lab laughing and joking," was the next one.

Then the lights came on. "Very sorry about that everyone. We are having some minor issues, but the network up and running again!" said a voice from the middle of the office. Pepper turned around and saw Tony Stark, in a suit, nonetheless, stood on a desk. She could have cried.

"Stark! What the hell is going on here? Monkeys could run this place better!" a board member yelled.

"Excuse me? All you saw here was a minor hiccup and you're losing faith in a well known company? I assure you, Ms. Pepper Potts cares very deeply about this company. After all we have a 45% profit. Name another company that comes close ... except you can't because there is no other company that close," Tony defended.

"Now, attention, everyone, let's get these problems fixed! I'll have coffee, donuts, sandwiches and water here in fifteen minutes for everyone. Ms. Potts, if it's alright with you, I'd like accompany you to your meetings for the rest of the day," Tony said with a glowing smile.

"Yes, Mr. Stark. That would be excellent," Pepper said, holding back tears.

Tony had come through after all.

(She'd have to buy Robert some flowers or something.)

The next day, Robert came into his apartment, it was late. He had been in DC that day for some meetings, he was tired and stressed. He felt like crap, but that changed when he turned on the lights. He saw note on the table, 'open the fridge please'. So he went to the fridge and opened it. There was a bottle of Yuengling Lager next to a plate of lasagna. that was covered in plastic. Behind that plate was a piece of strawberry cheesecake, with a note, he just smiled and enjoyed the meal.

"Thank you for the Miracle'