Sitting on the top seat in the long glass dining table, Tony Stark also known as Iron Man, confusedly stared at the extra plate on his left, "Pepper? Did you sleep well last night?" he asked his partner, Virginia "Pepper" Potts, who is sitting on his right, opposite the unusual third plate.
"Yes, why?" Pepper answered while forking a sausage from a platter in the center.
"Why do we have three plates? Unless, you invited your mom for breakfast." he laughed.
Pepper shook her head at him, "You really have no clue, don't you?" Tony shook his head saying no while drinking his coffee which is a wrong decision for it spilled some droplets of coffee on his white and grey striped pajamas. The woman sighed and said, "It's for Dani, she arrived earlier this morning."
This caused Tony to choke on his coffee, "Dani?!"
"Yeah, hi." a 5'1" tall girl with dark brown wavy hair wearing a plain black shirt and grey yoga pants popped out of the dining entrance answered, rather gloomily.
"Hey, Dani sweetheart! Take a seat!" Pepper greeted her. She took the empty seat, the one that have been judged by Tony earlier. She didn't made eye contact with Tony but she gave Pepper a smile back. She glanced at Tony and saw him muttering "How much have I lost track?" to himself. She mentally rolled her eyes.
Tony cleared his throat and managed to say, "Good morning." Dani only nodded for she has not completely decided how she would treat him for the next 65 years.
The whole breakfast was silent except when Pepper would ask Dani things about school, since it was also where Pepper took her bachelor's degree, to make the atmosphere less awkward for the family of two. Seemingly, Tony Stark had swallowed his tongue. Dani had not been very comfortable the whole time, it has been 13 years after all. She quickly finished her small amount of food that she planned to take just in case the moment gets awkward, and it did. "I'm going to my friend's house, might come home late." She told Pepper, and also, if he cared, Tony.
"Oh, okay, don't go too late~" Pepper sweetly replied. Dani just smiled and went off.
As soon as she was far enough to hear their conversation Tony blurted, "Why didn't you tell me she's gonna visit?!"
"Visit?! She already graduated!"
"What?! I thought it was on the first Monday of next month?!" Tony demanded.
"Yesterday was the first Monday of the month next to the month that time." She tiredly answered. "I reminded you two days ago but you just nodded to me and said 'yeah, I'm just gonna apply some finishing touches on my bouncing badass baby' so I just assumed that you don't really care at all!" the woman exclaimed, annoyed at the man in front of her. She have witnessed how he had made his daughter feel in draught, not just for his attention but also his affection over the years.
Tony was taken aback, unbelieving how stupid he could be sometimes. Although he knew that this is how other people would see his relationship with his daughter, but not Pepper. She was there all of the time, she knew how he actually felt or so he thought, everyone has their own limits anyway. "And I thought... you're the only person to..." he sighed, "understand."
She exhaled, "That was before, Tony," she expected that this time would come when she'd finally say how she really see the situation even if it would hurt him, the truth shall set you free they say, "at the first 6 months, yes - I do not know how you were like before you technically gave me the job of sending her to school - but sixteen years of cold treatment? That's too much." Her faced went into a pained look, "Sooner or later you need to man up and face her again like how you said you did sixteen years ago!" There was silence, usually during arguments they would make a big noise all over the house as Tony is the human form of sass, instead he just stared at her looking actually hurt by the truth. The silence seemed forever until Pepper quickly cooled down and retained her composure, she apologetically looked him in the eye and held his hand. She saw Tony force a smile that almost went as a straight line than a convex curve that it should be. He knew Pepper was right he just couldn't spit it out of his mouth. Pepper stood up and kissed his cheeks, "I'll be driving myself to work-I'm lending Happy to Dani for the mean time. I'm sure he missed her too." She said and went upstairs to get ready for work.
"Right, he would." Tony told himself.
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Dani lied. She didn't have a friend to visit since she didn't made any throughout her school years, except for Deadpool. She dialed his number, only to be answered by a recorded voice of Wade Wilson, "HI! I'M KIND OF BUSY RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I'M ON A VERY IMPORTANT MISSION! BUT IF YOU WANT TO HIRE ME JUST LEAVE A MESSAGE AFTER THE BEEP AND MAYBE I'LL TAKE A LOOK ON MY VERY PACKED SCHED! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. No, that ain't the beep yet, this is the beep: BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP" Deadpool's titillating voice screeched.
"Please. For all I know you're just going through your Bea Arthur VCDs. Wade, I know you don't have any gigs today or tomorrow or any other day because you don't actually make schedules, okay." she smirked, "Please call me back A-S-A-P, I'm mentally and spiritually dying in here. Help me!!" she killed the phone and threw it on the wide bed she was lying on. She breathe an exhausted groan as she stared on the pallid ceiling. 'What is this feeling? I feel... home sick. But I AM at home. So why am I?' She thought to herself. She stared at it for a few more seconds until she decided to take a shower. She threw herself up when she sensed something that gradually moved from her left, from the broad glass window that oversees the sea.
{as swift as a tiger}
She approached the glass scene and to her surprise, something red and black slithered across the narrow path outside the window.
{as sneaky as a teenager}
As she went nearer to find out what it really is, it showed up and it made her scream in shock.
{PEEK-A-BOO}
"What the actual fuck!? Wade Wilson!!!" she shouted, "Can't you make a proper entrance even just for once?!". Apparently the person was her friend, Wade, who perfectly sneaked inside the Stark compound about 33 minutes ago.
"PIZZA DELIVERY!" the man shouted as she grabbed her chest in pure shock.
Dani rolled her eyes at his disheveled humor, "You know I can't let you in, right? Like literally." She lied, trying to make fun of her friend. She's on the lineage of great geniuses with vast knowledge on different kinds of technologies so how could she not know.
"What? You're gonna let your handsome best friend out here to die?" he whined, the thick glass making it sound a bit muffled for the person inside. Dani groaned. "Plus I brought pizza! It's a bit cold already though... what took you so long anyway?"
"You mean you've been in here since like..." she trailed, "I dunno... earlier?"
"Hey! Are you implying that I've been stalking you ever since you left your dorm?!" Wade exclaimed, accidentallly, foolishly, letting his secret go.
{oops}
[idiot]
"You've been following me ever since I left the dorm?" Dani raised her eyebrows in disbelief.
{worry not! for we have prepared for a situation like this}
[whatever]
"I don't know, you're repeating yourself." Deadpool replied.
"I thought I was repeating you."
"I thought you were talking to yourself and I was reading your mind." He scoffed.
She groaned, unsure of what just happened. He's trying to make fun of her and she knew it. She decided to just drag her joke on him. "I just really don't know how to open this robotronic-electronic-super-high-tech window, okay!"
"Fine, I'll find a way in. Me llamo El Fugitivo!" Dani gave him a smug look, but she really felt like bursting from the laugh she's trying to contain inside her chest. God knows what kind of booby-trap-like alarm he'll get himself into.
[that's not even real Spanish]
"Yeah, tell me about it," she said unbelieving, crossing her arms in front of her, trying to keep herself from laughing. "How many times have you been busted by Fantastic Four again? Five? Ten? Twenty?"
"Well, let me tell you about Tactical Fall Back, little miss," he Deadpool menacingly said. "Only Pro-Mercs know how to do it."
"Whatever. Just shout if you're inside or text me if you gave up and wandered off already. Imma take a shower I'm freaking exhausted." She replied not buying him and walked to her bathroom. Wade Wilson is many things for her, bestfriend, older brother, father, even her personal slapstick comedy performer.
He scoffed and slinged the pizza tied like one of his swords hanging from his back ignoring the fact that it would ruin the baked good. "I've infiltered more secured places than this sweet mansion," he arrogantly said.
[our teleporter could have been handy right now]
[if only they didn't took it out of the comics]
{what comics are you talking about}
"Just watch and see, young lady! I'm gonna show you the way of the ninjas!" he proudly shouted behind the glass window as Dani was just inside the bathroom, sniggering.
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Author's note:
I promise guys it gets more action and dad!Tony in the next issues!
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