Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 31 of Iron Maiden. I want to thank those who have left reviews for this story. It truly does mean a lot to me that you guys are enjoying this story. I hope that you guys will enjoy this next chapter. What will happen at the party that Tony had made and Natasha is making him realize the dark path he's about to go down? Will Abby like her brother this way or hate him this way. Without further ado Chapter 31. ENJOY!

Chapter 31

Abigail looked on in worry as she watched Tony next to Pepper. She chewed on the inner part of her cheek as he drunkenly stumbled about.

Rhodey entered the party looking around before spotting Pepper and Abigail. "Hey Pepper. Abby…"

Pepper looked at Rhodey and let out a breath. "I'm going to get some air."

"What's wrong?"

Pepper showed Rhodey how Tony was acting. "I don't know what to do."

Rhodey sucked in a breath through his teeth not believing what he was seeing. He couldn't believe that Tony was drunk. "You gotta be kidding me."

Tony fell over.

Abigail shook her head lightly.

"That's it, I'm making…."

Abigail looked over at Rhodey alarmed. That was the last thing that they needed. "No, no, no. Don't call anyone."

Rhodey looked at Abigail like she was insane. He put his hand on her shoulder. "This is ridiculous. I just stuck my neck out for this guy."

"I know. I know. I get it. I'm gonna handle it, okay Just let me handle it." Pepper said as she moved towards Tony.

"Handle it. Or I'm gonna have to."

"Rhodey…" Abigail said softly looking at Rhodey knowing that he was rather torn in what to do.

"Abs this has to be taken care of. We need Iron Man…"

"And I need my brother safe. Iron Maiden could look out until Tony is better. But right now…"

Rhodey eyed her for a moment his brow raising slightly. "You know something don't you?"

Abigail took a breath. "Just trust me on this alright?"

"You know, the question I get asked most often is, "Tony, how do you go to the bathroom in the suit?" Just like that." Tony said into the microphone in a rather even worse drunken stupor than Abigail had seen him in.

"Does this guy know how to throw a party or what?" Pepper said into the mic.

"I love you." Tony said looking at Pepper.

"Unbelievable! Thank you so much. Tony, we all thank you so much for such a wonderful night. And we're gonna say good night now, and thank you all for coming."

"No, no, no, we can't … Wait, wait, wait. We didn't have the cake. We didn't blow out the candles."

"You're out of control, okay? Trust me on this, okay?"

"You're out of control gorgeous."

"It's time to go to bed. It's time."

"Give me another smooch…" Tony said trying to kiss Pepper.

"You're not going to be happy about this."

"Come on, you know you want to."

"You just peed in the suit."

"I know. It has a filtration system."

"It's not sexy."

"You could drink that water."

"Just send everybody home, okay? It's time to…"

Tony let out a breath. "If you say so."

"Okay. I'll take this, you take that…" She said taking the bottle from Tony handing him the microphone again.

"Pepper Potts. She's right. The party's over. Then again, the party was over for me, like, an hour and a half ago. The after-party starts in 15 minutes. And if anybody, Pepper, doesn't like it, there's the door." He accidentally shot the door. "Yeah!"

Abigail shook her head and headed out of the room. She couldn't believe that Tony was this out of control and it wasn't a good sign. Things could get that much worse and it was bad enough that she had Shield on her ass. She had a feeling that it had something to do with Natasha telling him something. She just knew that something was off.

She turned her head seeing Rhodey in the suit that Tony had made for him. "Oh for fucks sake." She said with a groan. She should've known that this was going to happen. She let out a huff as people began to run out of the house from the party.

Pepper got out of the house thanks to Happy helping her. Pepper panted softly looking at the young woman. "Ever since Natalie got here…"

"I know." Abigail said with a nod of her head. She grabbed her phone out of her pocket. "I'll take care of this. Just…" She took out her phone with narrowed eyes. She hated the fact that this was getting out of hand. She looked at Pepper. "Just be careful…"

"What are you going to do?" Pepper asked softly.

"Honestly the only thing that I can do." She admitted softly as she walked away from Pepper bringing her phone up to her ear. "Yes, this is Agent Stark." She said into her phone as she walked away. "Look boss, I don't know what Natasha did, but she sent Tony out of whack… he never drinks this much… No… it's not because of that." She groaned angrily. "I have been watching him just fine… You can't blame me for how he's acting right now." She angrily hung up her phone knowing that this was going to be much worse and it was something that she wasn't quite ready to deal with the fallout from what Natasha did.

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This is the end of Chapter 31. I hope that it turned out well. I tried my best to write this chapter out to make it as good as I could. It's hard to write out certain scenes because of trying to fit Abigail into this without it being too much. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. I'll try to update soon with the next chapter. Until next time.