❝ You're just keeping me here for your own selfish reasons. ❞

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THE WHOLE TRIP BACK TO THE NEW STARK RESIDENCE was (Y/N) screaming in utter excitement. Uncontrollable giggling occupied her mouth as she energetically inserted herself into her bedroom window with a huge grin.

Before her foot could touch the floor, the lights opened.

"And where have you been?"

She gulped and turned to see the man with a dispirited look on his face. Just by his body language, she knew she was in trouble, but with acceptable reasons as to why she was gone, there's a chance he would brush it off.

"Dad! Okay, you won't believe what I did today, I went to Peter Parker's place and got th—"

"I don't wanna hear it."

"But—"

"Don't make me repeat myself."

"I got the thing that you wanted." She finally let it slide out since he didn't wanna know the context behind the item she was holding.

(Y/N) presented him the object with full enthusiasm but his mood didn't change one bit. Not even a hint of approval or a glint of happiness in his eyes, it was the same old click of the tongue.

With his clothes and dried hair, she guessed he came from the lab and saw that the things that she was working on were gone and were used today.

"What the hell were you thinking, (Y/N)?" Tony began walking closer to her. "You know what would have happened to you if you went out? You could've gotten hurt, or worst, killed."

She took offense at his approach. It's almost as if he's calling her weak to even recognize her own potential as someone with powers. It's unfair. Why was she even treated this way? A man so rich, but she's treated so poorly.

"But I didn't. And I was careful about it too! I didn't die at least." (Y/N) tried her best to maintain the atmosphere's peaceful dilemma, but with everything that has been going around, Tony mistakenly lets out her anger at her.

"And what if you did, huh?" Tony objected, raising his tone a bit. "You think the world is just some sort of magical land full of nice people? False alarm; It's not."

"What does that anything have to do with me being a teenager?"

He grunted quietly. He realized how much of a mistake it was to let her do this mission. She was able to compare her life with the other kids her age.

Tony knew he could give her that life, in fact, he could give her anything she wanted, he gave her everything she wanted but those weren't enough to satisfy her needs. But the problem was that she's just not the same as other people. She wasn't ordinary; she was different. She's a mutant. She shouldn't be even here in the first place.

"I deserve freedom too like any other kids my age."

"I can't let you do that. I'm not even allowing you to do those stuff yet you runaway at midnight! You need to stay here, guarded."

"Guarded, huh? That's what you always say." (Y/N) scoffed walking away and placing down tbe object to her vacant table.

"I raised you and already forbid you from furthering yourself outside. Once a mission is done, it's done and here you're back again in this room."

"Then why? Why can't you tell me why?"

"You're my daughter, and you're in need of protection."

"From what?!"

Tony couldn't answer. He didn't have the answer. Did he really just do this for his own good or for her own good?

To his surprise, an angered face with tears started gliding down her face. She was exploding with emotions considering that she was tired after everything that has happened for tonight.

She hated crying, especially when she's in front of the man she hated the most.

"You're just keeping me here for your own selfish reasons."

She muttered, stomping her way out of the room.

Pepper appears in the scene but (Y/N) completely ignored her existence and walks out of the room to sleep somewhere else.

Tony groans in exhaustion. Disagreements like this would happen most of the time, but seeing her in the verge of tears was something new and he would never imagine he'd see. It completely shattered him because he knew nothing of being a good father.

Pepper lets out a concerned frown on the man who was rubbing the crook of his nose while sitting on (Y/N)'s bed. "You shouldn't treat her like that, you know? She does have a point." She advises taking her spot next to him.

"Teenagers." He groaned exhaustingly.

"And she's being immature." He answered in response, his eyes refusing to let down any signs of sadness. Tony is a hard-headed man but his daughter was one of the few that could make him soft.

"Tony, she's just a 15-year-old girl." She reminded. She was the only person that could recognize situations and handle them maturely, bearing in mind that she used to be the personal assistant of Tony Stark.

It was no mistake that she was perfect for a complicated man like Tony.

"You know... You need to tell her the truth if you want her to understand you."

Tony looked back at her as if it were the easiest task that he could do. He stood up to recollect his thoughts. He examined the web-shooter that she had obtained from Peter Parker's apartment.

'Maybe I was a little too harsh on her.'

"I know. It's just... I don't want her to be hurt." He discloses grabbing the item from her desk and planning to take it with him to his room.

The sympathy that he had for the girl at that time of that battle was the reason why she was here in the first place. Who knew that an orphaned girl that became a threat to the city would grow such an attachment to a heartless man like him.

Pepper approaches him and holds his hands. She squeezes it in a reassuring way that made Tony less strained over everything that has been happening. "And it will only hurt the both of you if you continue this."

"I'll go talk to her while you gather your thoughts."

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(Y/N) (L/N)

I hate him. I used to look up to him as a kid and it sucks to grow up because you see him as this flawed person instead of the same great man he was inside my head. I don't know if it's even right to act like this, but I couldn't let him see me completely bawling my eyes out.

"(Y/N)?" Pepper's voice came out of the door.

"How d'you find me here?"

"This where you would always go when you upset..." She joked.

"Were you crying?" She questions while I quickly wiped away the remaining tears. "I'm not."

She chuckled while I sniffed and laugh at her comment. She comes in knowing that my smile approves of her stay inside.

"Sorry about your Dad. Guess he's a bit stressed out with everything that's going on."

I remained quiet. It's selfish to say this, but what about my feelings?

Pepper saw my cast down face as I let my chin swallow inside my knees that I was hugging with my arms.

"Why has he always thrown off my feelings like it doesn't matter? I've been longing to go outside, people around here don't even know who I am. I have dreams too! I wanna have a profession and not just some sort of prisoner on my own home."

"I wanna be just like him, Pepper... I wanna be a hero, I want people to look up to me. Is that really a bad idea?" I explained.

Pepper looked at me sympathetically and stroked my hair. "You know he's doing this because he loves you, right?"

"'Loves me'... I guess we both have different definitions for this so-called 'love'."

"It will get better... Just be more patient, (Y/N)." Pepper hugged me tightly as my tears stopped flowing.

'Just how long do I have to wait?'

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Fun Fact: Tony sometimes sneaks into her room to continue whatever she was doing and find the flaw in her engineering. He would even fix it himself or just redo her calculations without her knowing.

A/N: IMPORTANT: ok i don't want to make it seem like tony is a bad guy to y/n. he's a really protective dad and there's a reason why he is that way that will be further revealed in the story. i have a description already said in a previous chapter.

we also gotta take note that this happening during the civil war and tony was seen as the 'antagonist' for that round.

i love tony/iron man and just like any other story, between y/n and tony there will be character development u guys just need to be little more patient. as we progress to the story the dynamic of the two will be better just trust me guys lolol.

QOTD: What's a good memory that you have with your family?

freezing in the snow and riding a snow track lol