Hello there readers! if you're not new you know the drill... I was supposed to be working on my final project (which is not done yet dammit) and I went to see Thor:Raganarok with my best friend and when I got home I couldn't focus on my project anymore so I said to myself, I'll try to write something short to diffuse the tension... of course that didn't work and thus this new story was born.

If you're new, welcome, I have too many stories in progress and will update them all...ALL OF THEM DAMMIT... when I finally finish my final law school project... In the meantime, enjoy this first chapter of what is hopefully my first foray into something angstier than anything I've ever written.

so have fun!

Alex (I'm not dead just procrastinating life)

ps. This Story will be cross-posted in AO3 under my account LadyNoir (I love tagging stuff in AO3)

ps 2. and if any of you have a Tumblr and wish to ring me up and ask me about meta or anything im in tumblr as alexandra-scribbles

Stark Tower. 2012

Too soon after the Chitauri Invasion.

Alexandra watched the imposing tower in front of her and sighed before walking in after the well dress Agent that was escorting her, she had woken up several days ago in a hotel room looking seventeen and thoroughly confused. The hotel staff had called the local authorities and she had lied and told them that she didn't knew why she was there, after a thorough search of her hotel room the authorities found her birth certificate and her school and apparently degree papers, she had gotten her first master's degree at fifteen, which of course was eerily convenient.

Her mother had been Rosalind Noir, and according to the database had died during the invasion leaving her alone in the world, although that was not all, even though there was no mention of her father (or her real father back in her universe) according to Rosalind's diary Alexandra was Tony Stark's daughter, not that Rosalind ever told him or anything as this universe's version of her mother had been pretty well off in her life and didn't need Tony Stark or his money to raise a child. Alexandra also found out that she had a stepfather, well a dead one anyways, who had also died during the invasion, Alexander Noir, had been a British businessman that had loved her like his own, or at least that was the story.

So there was Alexandra walking into Stark Towers about to meet her real (in this universe's case anyways) father. There had been several paternity tests done, as Tony's legal team wanted to make sure that she was the real deal and not someone trying to win easy money, but all tests had been positive, she was Tony Stark's daughter. In two weeks she had gone from being a thirty two year old successful UN ambassador to being seventeen again and an orphan, then not, then apparently the antichrist, and not that she hated Tony Stark, she didn't he was her favorite avenger, she adored and respected Tony Stark as a fictional character with every fiber of her being, just not as a dad.

The agent led her into an elevator and she fiddled with the straps of her backpack as they went up, once they had reached the top floor, they were greeted by Pepper Potts who apologized for the mess, they were renovating.

"You must be Alexandra" Pepper said trying to be polite, Alexandra nodded. "I'm Pepper, I run Stark Industries and mostly Tony's life, so I'll be around to help you with everything that you need, don't be shy to ask questions"

"Miss Potts, I thank you for your presence but I was informed that Mr. Stark was to be here to receive his child" said the Agent, Pepper nodded.

"Mr. Stark is currently overseeing one of the labs, you are welcome to wait for him in the living room" Pepper said pointing at an open space, the Agent nodded and motioned for Alexandra to walk, she sighed again and did as she was told.

Tony Stark joined them seventeen minutes later, dressed in an old Black Sabbath t-shirt and grease smeared jeans, Alexandra couldn't help but to smile when she saw him.

"Huh, so you're the squirt," said Tony as he walked in, Alexandra nodded "Are you mute?"

"No sir" she said, Tony frowned.

"None of that kid, call me Tony, I've been told you're going to be staying around after all"

"She is staying Mr. Stark, although we are-"

"It's Doctor" Alexandra said looking at the agent, the agent frowned "His correct tittle is Doctor Stark, not mister, he has several Doctorates, its only respectful that you use the correct tittles to address him" she explained, Tony was fighting off a smile while the agent looked uncomfortable.

"Yes, excuse me Doctor Stark, we are concerned of your custody of the girl, but seeing as she is indeed your daughter there is not much that we can do about that, although we will be overseeing her wellbeing closely" the agent said as Alexandra rolled her eyes, she was not a child and being treated as such never sat well with her, the agent stood and said his goodbyes, Alexandra kept fiddling with her fingers.

"I was told that you were kind of a rebel too, you're not going to try to escape if I go back to work?" Asked Tony, she shook her head.

She had read her file, according to it she had tried to escape from home twice at fourteen while she was getting her Master's Degree, a genius at fifteen, she had been found in the Swedish border at the time and returned to her mother, she had been a little shit.

"So seventeen and already a Master's Degree in international law, Impressive, will you opt for the doctorate?" Tony asked trying to make conversation.

"I don't know" she said softly, Tony placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Well whatever you decide to do just know that I support you kid" he said and Alexandra couldn't help but to smile at him.

"Thank you, it kind of means a lot" she said, Tony nodded as Pepper joined them.

"I see that you met each other" Pepper said with a smile, then looked at Alexandra "Your things will be delivered to Malibu, as the Tower will be under renovations and I doubt that you want to live here while they work"

"Yeah, its no problem, I kind of like warm weather" she said, Pepper and Tony smiled at her.

"Perfect, please make yourself comfortable then, the jet leaves in two hours is there anything that we can get you in the meantime?" Asked Pepper, Alexandra fidgeted.

"I'd like a coke please" she said.

Eventually Tony and Pepper left and an assistant delivered her coke and a bag of Doritos, Alexandra wanted to laugh at the irony, in those two hours she kept playing on her phone, an old iPhone that Tony glared at before declaring that no daughter of his would use that kind of technology. When the time for leaving came a helicopter took them to the airport. Alexandra was surprised to see that both Pepper and Tony were traveling with her.

"You are a minor, we can't send you alone to Malibu,"

Pepper had said when she asked, Alexandra had spent most of her trip setting up her new phone and getting to know Tony, they shared their music preferences, or some of them and she liked cars, so Tony started telling her about the cars he had in Malibu and about her getting her license as soon as she could.

"We can make this work, right kiddo?" Tony asked, as they landed, Alexandra beamed at him.

"Yeah, we will" she said.

The Malibu Mansion was huge, and she knew that, she just wasn't expecting the sheer size of the place, her room was next to Tony's, or at least in the same hallway as the doors were extremely far from each other and she could see the ocean from it, it was lovely, there was a king bed facing a TV and two black bean bags on the floor, the room screamed wealth and modernism, her bathroom was huge too, a shower on the side and a small Jacuzzi and to the right it opened to a walk-in closet where her bags were waiting for her.

She opted for a quick shower and a change of clothes before heading to the kitchen; Pepper was there and placed a plate of pasta in front of Alexandra as soon as she sat on the breakfast counter.

"Thank you, Miss Potts" Alexandra said as she dug in, Pepper smiled at her.

"It's Pepper, trust me, you'll get tired of that Miss. Potts business very quickly" she said; Alexandra nodded.

"Where is, err Dad?" She asked after a while, Pepper sighed.

"You'll also find out that your father is really bad at taking care of himself, hopefully we won't have that problem with you, huh?" Alexandra grinned at Pepper.

"Nah, I like food too much, I know how to cook too, so maybe we can lessen our intake of takeout maybe?" She asked, and Pepper nodded happily.

"You decided what you wanted to do now?" Asked Pepper as they ate, Alexandra shrugged.

"I don't know, I have a master degree and I'm only seventeen, I'll turn eighteen this summer, but I just, I want to get to know my dad, have a little bit of domesticity," she said carefully, Pepper nodded and Alexandra continued "I always knew that my stepfather wasn't my dad, and it was cool, he was a really nice man, but I thought my real dad was dead, and I have been given another opportunity, I don't want to go away so soon to pursue a PhD, I still have time right?"

"All the time in the world Alexandra," said Pepper.

"It's Alex"

After lunch Pepper took Alexandra to Tony's lab, where he was working on a new suit, afterwards Pepper left them after making them promise that they would play nice. Alexandra watched as Tony worked, asking questions about the mechanics of the suits, even of she didn't really understood them completely, Alexandra also met Jarvis and the bots, Jarvis who had been silent until that moment.

"Its a pleasure to meet you Miss" the pleasant British voice said.

Alexandra smiled and listened attentively as Tony explained Jarvis and the bots to her, he also talked about his cars and answered all of her questions about Iron Man.

"So that would make Jarvis my little brother, right?" She asked after a while, Tony stared at her with a weird look on his face.

"Sure, why not, one rule, no teaming up on your old man" he said, Alexandra only smiled innocently at him.

When she hit her first week mark at the Malibu house she could say that her life was alright, Tony was fun to be around and she had discovered that Jarvis had a wicked sense of humor, although she made him promise that he'd never go Skynet on her. She made it her business to keep Tony well fed, always sneaking him fruits and food.

Her relationship with Jarvis was another thing that she adored, while she wasn't the best hacker or programmer out there she could always count on Jarvis to help her; her AI brother was overjoyed by the fact that there was a physical Stark taking care of Tony, so when she told Jarvis to keep a few of her secrets and to help her with her little projects the sentient AI had jumped straight into the bandwagon.

Alexandra knew that Summer would not last forever and that come Christmas the Malibu house would be destroyed, or would have been, there was no way she was going to let Killian destroy the Malibu Mansion, she loved the hell out that place and if she played her cards right she could manipulate the universe to her likeness, she was after all a Stark. She just needed to play her cards right and Tony had just taught her to play poker.

With the aid of Jarvis they had managed to hack into AIM's mainframe, she knew of the threat and now Jarvis did to. Tony for his part had been following the steps of the Mandarin, Alexandra knew that timing was everything, so she couldn't just out everything she knew, she was a minor and she was not prepared to have Shield or Hydra breathing down her neck, no, it was best if she played to her abilities and waited.

"J what can you tell me about the Jericho?" She asked as she walked into her room, Tony was out for the weekend, visiting the SI Tokyo HQ, Alexandra had been left alone at the house, after much reassuring that she would be okay, she had turned eighteen in august, two months ago, no need to keep Pepper or Tony from their duties.

"The Jericho was a high caliber missile designed by Sir in 2009" Jarvis explained, Alexandra nodded at him.

"Could there be a chance that Dad has a few of those laying around?"

"Sir has currently seven Jericho Missiles in the California Storage Unit" Alexandra paced around her room as images of the storage unit appeared in her windows-turned-screens.

"Any chance we can get those here? I've been thinking about adding an extra security layer run by you J, these Mandarin attacks are getting bolder and Dad might become a target" she said, the AI seemed to think about her words.

"According to my calculations the actual threat to this house are a mere twelve percent" said Jarvis, Alexandra frowned.

"Did you take in account any rash decisions that Dad could make in the next few months? He tends to be volatile, he took a nuke into space J, I have noticed the panic attacks" she argued.

"My calculations are being made again, if we take into account Sir's behavior they rise to... Sixty seven percent" Jarvis said slowly, Alexandra snorted.

"That's what I thought, now is there anyway we can add missile launchers to the rock beneath us without Dad noticing?" She asked, her screens flickered as Jarvis gave her a visual on the lab and several suits coming to life, she grinned "You're the best brother ever J!"

"The delivery will take thirty minutes, would you like to look at the blueprints of the site so you know where you want them?" He asked carefully, Alexandra grinned.

"So we know J, it's you and I, open a secret file on our server, Operation code name: KDS" she said.

"What does KDS stands for Miss?" Jarvis asked, Alexandra pressed her hand to the glass, a smile firm on her face.

"Keep Dad Safe"

When Sunday rolled in Jarvis and Alexandra had created actual missile launchers underneath the house, Jarvis doing all the heavy lifting, she also added cameras to the surveillance pointing at the ocean, Jarvis had questioned her, but she answered with the threat of a potential aerial assault from that side and Jarvis had agreed with her, they needed to keep Sir safe at all costs, that was primary protocol.

When Tony returned at night he found Alexandra in the kitchen, lasagna already cooling; with Dummy, U and Butterfingers on the other side of the counter, their cameras fixed on her. She was talking to the bots about foreign law and the United Nations, the bots attention seemed to be solely on her and Tony took a picture before walking up to her.

"Dad!" She greeted.

"Hey kiddo" he said taking a seat, she smiled at him and placed a plate in front of him "you're going to make me fat" he joked, she rolled her eyes at him.

"Nonsense Dad, you're underfed enough as it is, where's Pepper by the way?" She asked; Tony raised an eyebrow.

"Pepper had a few things to do at SI before coming, but I'm sure she will appreciate the food" he said before taking a bite of his lasagna "Shit kid this is good"

"Oh I know, I made it, of course is good," she answered as she served her plate and took a seat in front of Tony.

"Modesty is a virtue" Tony said, eyes twinkling, she grinned.

"I learned it from the best" she quipped back.

After their dinner Alexandra cleaned up and then sat with Tony in front of the TV, they watched Star Wars and Alexandra wondered if it was possible to make a light saber. Tony then proceeded to explain all that would take to make one but promised to try to figure it out for her nineteenth birthday; she smiled at him before retiring for the night.