Prologue

With Back in Black by ACDC blaring through the speakers in his lab, Tony works on his projects for his new creation of the Freedom Line for Stark Industries, but his mind was elsewhere. It's stuck on a certain someone who was no doubt fighting for her life at this very moment in Britain (as she seemed to do every year before summer) and he hated it. Once more - read: the hundredth time in the last hour alone - his eyes trail to the multiple pictures of Tony and Lady Anastasia Potter-Black that covered his desk and any other surface around his home. He was three years her senior and he remembered all too well the first time he met her three years ago, when she was thirteen and he sixteen at his parents Gala, the exact moment when he became smitten for the beautiful witch with bright emerald green eyes, and he knew no one would ever compare to her.

He'd spent months convincing her to become his and the day she finally agreed was the happiest moment of his life, but now his heart clenched with fear every time he thought of her as he hadn't heard from her in nearly a year and couldn't help but fear the worst, fear the war had claimed her like it had her parents.

~ Flashback ~

Tony was standing between his parents bored out of his mind at sixteen years old, zoning out to the boring Board member, Zacharias Chapman, a man in his late forties who always looked at younger women and (like Tony's own father) had a wife half his age. Tony had just turned to give a cursory look around the largest ballroom the Disney's Concert Hall had to offer when the doors opened and in stepped the most beautiful girl Tony had ever laid eyes on and who immediately stole his breath away. She had long curly dark brown hair swept over one shoulder, and very distinctive emerald green eyes that held flecks of silver standing prominent from the green.

She was wearing this dusty blue dress with a silver-white lace bodice, sparkly silver peep-toe kitten heels with matching blue eye makeup and cherry lip gloss, and her arm was obviously linked through her father's arm as the man, dressed in a navy Armani suit with a crisp white shirt and a tie matching his daughter's dress, had black curly hair to his shoulders and bright silver eyes, was glaring heatedly at Tony.
"Wow." Tony whispered enthralled, not noticing the father's heated glare as pushed his long dark brown hair out of his face, and attracted his parents' attention.
"Excellent Lord Black." His father crowed, attracting further attention to the new arrivals. "Excuse me Mr Chapman."

As his father wandered over a tight smile appeared on Lord Black's face as he greeted his father (especially as he ignored Lord Black's daughter, not even looking in her direction when she was introduced, just giving a careless nod).
"She's beautiful, Mama." Tony whispered to his mother not taking his eyes off of the beautiful girl who seemed as unimpressed with his father as her own.
"She is." Maria agreed, tucking Tony's king hair behind his ear. "So, let's go and introduce ourselves and make up for your father's slight." Maria suggested, a sly smile on her lips as she looped her arms through her son's.

"Good evening Lord Black I'm so glad you could join us." Maria greeted as she and Tony joined them. "I'm Maria Stark and this is our son Anthony although he prefers Tony. Who is this gorgeous young lady beside you?" She asked genially.
"Good evening Maria Stark." Sirius greeted cordially, kissing the back of her hand, feeling grateful that someone actually acknowledged his daughter properly and with respect not just dismissing her because she's a girl. "It's a pleasure to meet someone who still holds respect for others." Tony couldn't help but to smirk at the jab his father just received watching as his old man flushed with embarrassment and scowled at the Lord.

"I'd like to introduce my daughter and Heiress: Heiress Anastasia Potter-Black." Lord Black said, finally introducing the beauty. Taking a leaf out of Lord Black's book while wanting to impress both father and daughter while simultaneously gaining approval from Lord Black, Tony gently took Anastasia's hand pressing a kiss to her knuckles.
"Welcome Heiress Potter-Black, I'm Tony Stark, I hope you and your father have a wonderful evening, but if you'd like I can show you the drinks table. Don't worry there's Coke Zero for us." Tony quickly reassured, noticing Lord Black's raised eyebrow just as a man who could be Lord Black's twin sauntered up behind them.

"Ahh, Howard, Maria and Tony, I'd like to introduce my younger brother Regulus Black. Reggie, these are the Starks." Sirius introduced.
"A pleasure." Regulus nodded his head towards them, after they had spoken for a while, Regulus seemed to catch sight of something or someone and quickly whispered something in his brother's ear.
"Right, of course." Sirius nodded to whatever his brother had told him. "If you excuse me, I need to make my rounds. Sweetheart, stay with your Uncle Reggie I'll be back shortly." Sirius told Ana in a kind but firm voice as he pressed a kiss to her forehead. With that Lord Black excused himself leaving Tony alone with Anastasia and her Uncle as not long after his parents departed as well.

"Do you always come to these, Tony?" Anastasia asked inquisitively.
"Unfortunately." Tony sighed. "They are so boring, especially as no one wants - "
"- to see you but only your name, money and title." Anastasia finished as if she knew all too well the stifling loneliness, a feeling Tony hated as he didn't want her to feel alone for any reason.

"Yeah exactly." Tony agreed enthusiastically, before he accidentally blurted out his thoughts causing himself and Anastasia to blush and for her Uncle Regulus to clear his throat; a heated glare directed at Tony. "Sorry. I hadn't meant to say that out loud." Tony apologised bashfully, which had the added bonus of breaking the ice between the two teenagers as for the first time all night, the first time at such a gathering they were just two teenagers talking the majority of the night and seemed to gravitate towards each other. They didn't know it yet but it was the start of their love story but one Regulus Arcturus Black knew and he hated it; his niece was too young and too innocent to be swayed by any boy. She wasn't allowed to date until she was fifty.

~ End of Flashback ~

"Sir, Lady Potter-Black is trying to contact you." Jarvis interrupted Tony's reminiscing. At once Tony's eyes widened almost comically as he did a weird juggle as he dropped and tried to catch the phone he had been working on prior to getting lost in memory lane.
"Put her through please, J." Tony requested breathlessly, setting the phone down on his desk as he felt he had just run a marathon with how hard his heart was trying to beat its way from his chest as he waited for the line to connect.

Due to Tony's parents and therefore himself coming from Pureblood families but having no magic themselves as all three of them had been born Squibs (a word Tony loathed, but he also had much more magic then his parents as he could feel it surging beneath his skin but was unable to use a wand; whereas, his parents could not feel their magic), so it was therefore common sense and knowledge that they knew about magic which enabled Tony to create these new phones with Anna for witches and wizards to use.

They, like the Two-way mirrors her fathers James and Sirius had created, had runes hidden within the inside of the phone enabling them to run off of the magic in the environment. The pair had tested it out themselves - modifying when need be - which enabled them to keep in touch while she was away at Hogwarts and in her family manor where the magic was the most concentrated. They were set to release the phones to the Wizarding public together within the next year.
"Tony." Ana's voice was like music to Tony's ears despite the tired and pain-filled qualities it held.
"Ana! Ana, baby, are us alright?" Tony asked worriedly, tears pouring down his face and a hand halfway to his mouth.

It was a sight that made Pepper Potts freeze outside Tony's workshop.
"He's gone Tony. They're both gone!" Ana's sobs broke Tony's heart and he wished he could gather her in his arms. "Teddy is only a month old, he'll never know his parents."
"I'm so sorry sweetheart," Tony sighed sadly, wondering what they had done to attract such pain, heartbreak and sadness, "but Teddy has an amazing woman as his Godmother who will give him the best life you possibly can. Just like Sirius did for you."
"It's finally over, Tony." Ana said instead, she still had trouble accepting she had lost another parent even a year on and nine times out of ten she had nightmares of the sickly green light hitting her Dad, their eyes connecting just before he fell backwards into the Veil of Death.

She had tried to run in after him but both Uncle Regulus and Uncle Remus grabbed her before she could, holding her tightly as she fought against them screaming and crying as she let out a scream so full of pain it had not only made her Uncles cry hearing it but her friends too who had been hiding beneath the Dias watching.
"That man is gone, I stopped him. His terror attacks can't happen anymore and his followers are being rounded up. All of them were tried fairly to make sure no one was coerced."
"I'm glad that it's over but I hate that it was you who had stopped that madman, you're only sixteen!" Tony ranted before he took a breath. "Are you, Regulus and Teddy coming home now?" He asked hopefully.

"I've been accepted to Cambridge University, Tony, but once I've finished there I'll be coming home for good instead of just visiting. Teddy's grandmother, my aunt Andromeda and my best friend Luna, will be moving with me. I can't go back to my old school, that's where they attacked."
"Cambridge?" Tony asked amazed before he crowed with delight as he knew no one attended University that young in England but his love was as smart as him. She wasn't a Ravenclaw for nothing. "That's amazing Ana! I'm so proud of you and I know your Mum, Dads and Remus would all be incredibly proud of you too! I'll be counting the days until I see you, I'm so proud darling. Don't worry about anything, I'll make sure you all have everything you need.

Send me a list of all the things you need urgently AFTER you've slept and I'll tell Rhodey usurer okay. He's been worried sick too. I -"
"I'm so sorry Tony. I didn't mean to... I just.... I just  didn't want them to find you. I couldn't bear if anything had happened to you too!" Ana exclaimed, her anxiety building with each word making it harder to express what she was feeling.
"Hey! Hey, hey, hey!" Tony called, quickly and skilfully calming her down despite the pair not seeing each other since last summer when she went back to Hogwarts after Sirius was murdered and being separated by an ocean. "It's NOT your fault. Rhodey doesn't blame you and neither do I." Tony reassured her. "I love you."

"I love you too." Ana replied through a yawn.
"Get some rest Ana, and I'll talk to you when you wake up, darling." With that they said their goodbyes. The second after they had hung up Tony turned to his PA. "Ah, Pepper, I have a list of things I need you to collect but don't worry about setting it all up I'll do it." Tony told his PA who was feeling distinctly wrong footed.
"O-of course Mr Stark. I have a list of the days dossier for you to look over." Pepper told him, passing over her Starkpad to her boss wondering how things are going to change as already she could see how devoted her boss was to this mystery woman.

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