Chapter 1

A young woman with long red hair and blue eyes walked over to a young man at a party, she wore a revealing black dress and had her eyes set intensely on him.

"Tony Stark." She said.

The man turned around at being addressed, he took in the woman and gave a smile.

"Hello, I don't think we've met." He said, holding out his hand.

"We haven't." The woman said, shaking his hand. "My name is Jessica James, but most call me Jess." Jess' eyes then seemed to flash but Tony waved it off as a trick of the light. "You know, it's polite to buy a woman a drink."

Tony gave another smile and turned to the barman.

"A drink for my lady-friend."

The barman took the money and gave a drink to Jess.

Later on that night Jess and Tony ended up in bed together, and a few days after that Jess found out she was pregnant.

"You're going to keep it?" a girl aged fifteen asked Jess, she had short, spikey blond hair and blue eyes.

"Of course, I've always planned on having a child, it's just happened earlier than expected." Jess answered, rubbing her belly. "Should have checked the asshole was using protection."

"You also said that you wanted the father to be around, I doubt Mr Stark will be willing to join the business, let alone for a woman he met with just to have sex."

"I know that. I guess my child will just have to live without her father, it would be hard to find one willing to be in the business and care for a child anyway."

"Speaking of business, what we stealing next?"

Jess grinned. "A large diamond from a pig-headed collector."

"I'll go gather the others."

The teen left the room while Jess went over to the wall, she pressed a button and part of the wall swung around to reveal many guns and other varying weapons. Jess took a few of them and attacked them to the suit she was wearing.

"When you are born you are going to be the perfect little thief." Jess said lovingly, rubbing her belly.

Jess heard people enter and she turned around to see the other members of her team, who were either in their teens or early twenties.

"Let's go." Jess smirked.

Jess sat on the floor with a four-year-old girl with short black hair and blue eyes, the child was holding bits of metal while Jess was instructing her on how to put them together.

"This part goes here, and then this part screws into here, and you're done." Jess said in a soft tone.

In the child's hand she held a hand gun.

"Well done, Jack, you've made me so proud." Jess said happily, picking up the child and hugging her.

"I really did it, mommy!" Jack laughed, looking in awe at the gun in her hands.

Jess looked at her daughter with proud eyes.

"What next? What next?" Jack asked with excitement.

"Slow down, I'll teach you more later. Right now you're filthy, it's bath time."

"No!" Jack yelled and struggled to escape her mother's grasp.

"There's no use resisting, you will be clean." Jess said, standing up and heading towards the bathroom.

A six-year-old Jack sat on her bed in her room, looking at some blueprints while fiddling with some bits of metal. Suddenly, the door to her room burst open and Jess ran in, her face full of panic. Jack dropped what she was doing.

"Mom, what's going on?" she asked, slightly scared.

"We've been found, it's too late to run." Jess explained.

Jess crouched in front of her daughter, Jack was starting to get very scared.

"Listen, I'm going to give up and take the fall for everyone, which means I might not be able to see you again."

"No, mommy, no!" Jack cried, latching onto her mother.

Jess pulled Jack away from her. "Listen to me very closely, people are going to ask you questions but I don't want you speaking to anyone about your life here, not about me, Alex, any of the others, or what we do. And remember, no matter where either of us are, no matter who you end up with or my fate, I will always love you. Now, get your emergency bag and all your important things and wait for someone to come and get you."

Jess gave her daughter a big hug and then left the room, locking the door on her way out, she gave a big sigh before heading to face those breaking into her home. Men dressed in uniforms burst into the room wielding guns and shouting loudly, Jess put her hands behind her head and kneeled on the floor, a few seconds later she was cuffed and dragged out of the room.

In her room Jack sat crying on her bed, she and a backpack that was full to the brim beside her and a teddybear wearing goggles clutched in her arms. Jack let out a scream as the door was busted down a scary people in uniforms came in, upon seeing the girl they lowered their weapons and one came forward.

"Hey there, little girl, it's okay, we're gonna get you out of here." He said in a gentle voice.

Jack just whimpered and tried to get as far away from him as possible. The man sighed.

"You guys go and check the rest of the building, I'm going to need some time with her."

The other men left. The man took off his helmet in an attempt to get Jack to calm down.

"Hey, wanna wear this?" he asked, holding his helmet out to Jack.

Jack stopped sobbing and looked at the helmet, after a few minutes she took it and placed it on her head, it was much too big for her and covered her eyes but she laughed.

"Hey, what's your friends' name?"

Jack tilted the helmet to look at the man and then looked down at her teddy but she didn't speak, her mother told her not to.

"Alright then, I'll guess. Is it Teddy?"

Jack shook her head.

"Sam?"

Another shake.

After a few more guesses the man finally got it.

"Tony?"

Jack nodded.

"Okay then, nice to meet you Tony." The man said to the bear. "And what's your name?" he asked Jack.

Jack said nothing but looked towards some letter stuck to the wall, the man looked at them and read the name they spelled.

"Jacqueline, that's a very nice name." he said.

Jack pulled a face.

"I guess you prefer something else. Jackie?"

Jack shook her head.

"Jack?"

She nodded.

"Okay then, Jack, I'm gonna need you and Tony to come with me. I'm afraid you can't live here anymore." The man said.

Jack reluctantly let the man pick her up.

"Is there anything you'd like to bring with you right now?

Jack pointed to her backpack and the man picked it up. He then walked out the room.

The man kept his helmet lowered over Jack's face as he walked so she wouldn't have to see the damage done to her home and her mom and the people she thought of as family been taken away in handcuffs.

Jack sat in a colourful room filled with toys, she did nothing but sit with her bear clutched tightly in her arms. Outside the room she was watched through a one-way mirror.

"Who is she?" A woman asked the man who had taken Jack from her home.

"The daughter of Miss James." The man explained. "Miss James told us that she had a one-night stand with a man and ended up pregnant and decided to raise her despite her lifestyle. She also told us that the other people in her group are innocent people who she controlled using special powers she has."

"She admitted to that?"

"She said that she may have controlled them but that she didn't want them getting in trouble for something that was out of their control. What are we going to do with Jacqueline?"

"If we can find the father we will and if he's suitable then we'll see if he's willing to take her in, if not then she'll have to go into foster care. She'll also have to have therapy, there's no telling what has been conditioned into her mind by that woman."

Outside the Malibu home of Tony Stark a black car pulled up outside, a woman stepped out and then pulled Jack out from the back seat. She held onto Jack's hand with one hand while pressing the buzzer with the other. The door open to reveal a woman with ginger hair.

"Can I help you?" she asked.

"I need to speak to Mr Stark about a personal matter." The woman holding Jack said.

The other woman looked down at Jack and put the pieces together and groaned.

"That idiot." She said.

The woman invited them in.

"I'm Pepper Potts, personal assistant to Tony." The woman introduced herself. "I'm guessing the child has something to do with him."

"To do with who?" Tony Stark asked as he appeared from his lab.

"Mr Stark, this is Jacqueline James." The woman said, motioning to Jack, who remained silent.

"Ah, my alleged daughter." Tony said.

"It has been proven." The woman said.

"It has, I wouldn't be taking her in it wasn't."

Jack looked up at her supposed dad and frowned.

"Tony?" Pepper asked in a warning tone.

"I'll explain later." Tony waved her off.

"So, you'll be living with Mr Stark now, what do you think?" the woman asked Jack.

Jack looked up at her and spoke for the first time since she saw her mum. "I think that I was better off with mum."

Tony laughed at her comment. "I like her." He said.

Later on the woman had left Jack with Tony and Pepper with promises to return the next day. Pepper had dragged Tony off to the next room but Jack heard their conversation.

"A kid, Tony, really?" Pepper asked.

"I had to, her mother is in prison and she was sort of forced on me." Tony answered.

"Why not put her in a foster home, you're not qualified to raise a child."

"The ones who gave her to me did. Besides, I was going to but then I saw her, she wouldn't do well in a foster home, I can tell. We can hire someone to care for her anyway."

Jack stopped listening at this point and began exploring what she could and tried hacking into the places that she couldn't.

In the end Jack ended up staying with Tony, cared for by various nannies.