song: Pope is a rockstar - SALES

Anastasia could feel her eyes slowly crack open by what seemed a loud crash, she heard another loud crash hit the floor. She was wide away from all of the ruckuses.

"What time is it..." She yawned. She peeked at the time, "Who's up at 4:20 am, Jesus."

She looked outside but it was pitch black, no sun had hit the horizon but rain drizzling down the tower. She could feel the cold floor hit the bottom of the soul of her foot, everything stood in place for a second. She quickly put a hoodie on and grabbed her phone putting her flashlight on.

She walked around but everything was silent and still, even the penthouse was pitch black. Anastasia didn't want to wake anyone up by turning on a light, Especially Tony.

Tony has been having trouble sleeping but pepper told her it was worse before she met him. She told Anastasia a story about the time He almost tried to kill her with one of his suits he summoned in his sleep. That is why Anastasia locks her door.

She walked to the kitchen barefoot on the cool icy floor. There was nobody there but a half-eaten cheeseburger, Anastasia inspected the burger. It's been out for a while, it was cold.

She heard faint noises again coming from the fourth floor, She continued to look around for anyone. She follows the sounds only to lead her to the only light that was on in the entire penthouse.

Tony's Basement.

She quickly turned off her flashlight and began to slowly walk towards the door but hidden in the Darkness, he was sitting on his chair with his hand on his face.

He looked exhausted, his eye bags were getting swollen from the lack of sleep he's been abused to. Anastasia walks into the light opening the door. She lays on the door with her arms crossed as she watched Tony, who hadn't noticed the girl standing by the door.

"You should get some sleep." She spoke blowing off her cover, Tony quickly flicks his head up from the sound of her voice.

"Jesus Christ, Bell!" He exhaled, "I'm not shitting you, I'm going to buy you a bell."

"Lower your voice!" She whispered, "You're going to wake up Pepper, she'll kill both of us!"

"Well, you scared the shit out of me!" He got up from his chair whispering back.

"I'm sorry!" She snapped back, The two of them caught their breath.

"What are you doing up?" Anastasia asked staying in silence.

"I should be asking you the same thing." He snapped back,

"I heard a noise, a couple actually." She said, Tony looked confused.

"What do you mean?"

"What's not clear about that?" She sarcastically questioned.

"I hardly even moved from my chair, plus my room is made with soundproof walls."

"What the hell, why do you have soundproof walls?" She tilted her head.

"To summon satan," he sarcastically joked but she thought it was true, she nodded in agreement. "To build my suits without waking up Pepper, Why would I summon satan?"

"Hey man, rich people do some dumb shit." She raised her arms in the air, in surrender.

"But on a serious note, how did you hear it from your room? Is there a camera in here or something?" He looked around the room, scanning for any cameras.

"No, I didn't put a camera in here," He frowned his eyebrow, "what do you want to get another background check for that too?" Anastasia pulled that card out.

"I was just trying to stay safe-"

"From what? a stray?" She cut him off giving an attitude.

"Look, many people have tried to kill me in the past. MANY people."

"I understand why people would try." She rolled her eyes, tony chucked. "I told you the other day that I could hear the slightest little sounds, were you even listening?"

"Kid, I don't even pay attention to half of what you're saying." He laughed but Anastasia rolled her eyes.

"Why are you up Tony?" She asked firmly.

"I can't sleep." he rested his head on his hand.

"Why?" She asked quickly

"I don't know. I don't know." He quickly snapped back, if he doesn't get some rest soon he could get violent or maybe hallucinate.

"Tony, you haven't slept in 3 days tops." Anastasia was genuinely worried about him, if he kept going on without days of sleeping he could get sick.

"You don't think I know." he scoffed

"Okay well, since you're up can we-"

"Nope." Tony already knew what she wanted.

"Why not?" She whined

"Because I am tired."

" Then go to sleep." She squinted her eyes as a joke causing him to stay silent, " Mhm, that's what I thought."

"I'm still not going to do it, it's 4 am."

"Come one for a little bit, an hour! Please, Tony, I need this. I want to go to school and experience Life, this the only way I could get you guys to agree." She begged.

"No." he didn't change his mind, she had to bring out the big guns.

"Fine, I'll just go wake up Pepper and tell her you've been waking up with your sleeping issues." She turns around and opens the door.

"Alright fine, don't tell Pepper." He scoffed, "You Two scare me." sighing in defeat.

"Yes!" she said happily

"go put on some shoes first." She quickly ran out of the room obeying Tony command.

For the next hour, Tony and Anastasia tried to find her ability but nothing worked, only the extensive hearing.

Anastasia yawned, so did Tony, "Hey Tony?" she called him as he wrote some things out on a notebook. He hummed in reply, "Why haven't you been sleeping?" she asked with a soft gentle glance. He had a reason why but Tony tried to avoid it the first time.

He sighed putting his pen down causing him to look at the teenage girl who was sitting on a stool.

"The thing i-" he was cut off by his yawn, "I can't sleep anymore because I'm afraid I won't be there on time to save the people I care most about," he admitted.

"what do you mean?"

"I can't afford to lose anybody, Pepper was the only person keeping me on my feet. I would watch her die every night, over and over again. She made me feel loved, even when I'm a piping hot mess," he smirked, causing her to roll her eyes.

"Like nightmares?-" she questioned him, "-you watch her die?" He simply nodded.

"So you think it's your fault." Anastasia held her head from falling with her hand.

"Pretty much, what's your point?" He gave a confused reaction

"You know for a genius, you're really dumb." she smirked, "Tony, you care for those people. You've saved millions of people, but that doesn't mean you're going to save every life."

He looked at her, "I- I think you're making it worse."

"You're not going to be the only one saving a life. There are other people out there holding your back and picking up the remaining lives you can't take care of." he squinted his eyes, "And for the people you care for, they'll call you when they need you. Don't just expect them to need you to save them all the time."

Tony nodded his head, "plus now you have me!" she posed, causing him to laugh.

"with incredible hearing, Score!" he joked.

"Haha very funny, we will find it." she mimicked laughter.

"All jokes aside, I can't have the people I care for die in my hands." His posture weakened. Anastasia had a thought that lingered in her mind, she had to ask it.

"Am I one of these people?" She asked, leaving a small yawn.

He looked at Anastasia giving her a small smile, "let's take a break, we'll come back later." he said walking to the door.

"Aww, you're not going to answer Mr. Know it all." She jumped out of her chair and walked alongside him, they laughed together.

She checked her phone again, the time was 5:30 in the morning.

She walked to the living room leaving Tony to go his own way. Anastasia began to channel search, soon enough she settled with 'The Office'.

Anastasia laid on the couch in silence along with the show playing in the background, Tony approached her with a cup of coffee.

"nope. Give it to me." she held her hand out.

" Who made you the boss?" he sat beside her.

"Tony." she glared at him.

"no."

"Fine, I'll just tell pepper." Anastasia got up from the couch.

"Okay, okay." Tony handed her the cup of coffee.

"thank you." she smiled as she walked away to the kitchen and poured out the pot of coffee out the drain.

She grabbed a couple of snacks for herself and Tony, to take his mind off of the coffee.

"here." She handed him the bag of chips, she laid in the same place she was before she had to throw away the pot of coffee.

The two laid in on the couch watching the office as they ate chips together.

~

Pepper walked into the kitchen thinking somebody would be up by now.

"Tony?" she called out, "Anastasia?" She walked down the stairs to look for Tony but he was nowhere to be found. Pepper decided to look for Anastasia, she walked to her room finding an empty bed.

"Where are they?"

She walked to the living room to find the two passed out on the couch.

This was the first time Tony has gotten sleep and it was because of her, he felt comfortable around her. He could trust her.

"Aww, this melts my heart" Pepper touched her chest in awe, she pulled out her phone to take a photo of the two sleeping.

~

Anastasia woke up with the bright sunlight hitting her eyes and subsided snoring.  She could feel her silky brown hair draped over her face, her eyes glimmered as they adjusted to the bright light.

She slowly got up taking a second to scan the area, The sun was shimmering around the whole penthouse due to the open patio door. Tony was sleeping on the other side of the couch, Anastasia smiled.

Anastasia could hear cars roaming the city, she heard people's conversations, Things nobody could hear from  afar.

She gets up off the couch and touches the now warm hardwood floor.

She quickly put her hair in a bun and began to walk to the kitchen finding nobody's insight.

She walked to the patio finding Pepper sitting down on a comfortable chair on her phone.

"Hey, pep" Anastasia greeted softly taking a seat next to pepper.

"Hey! Look who's up!" She smiled as she looked at Anastasia.

Anastasia gave her a warm smile, "how'd you sleep?" she heard pepper say along with her finger tapping on her phone.

"good, really good." she laid her head back to intake the sun. " What about you?"

"good as well but I was missing a body." Pepper rolled her eyes, kicking out a small giggle. "What did you do to make him sleep? She asked, she was genuinely curious. "Did you knock him out? You know for a second I thought you killed him." She joked

"I just told him the truth, we just talked that's all." She closed her eyes to enjoy the warmth.

"Well, what did you guys talk about?" Pepper tried pushing her to tell her.

"Nothing much." She pushed it off casually causing pepper to nod.

They sat in the warm sun in silence, the heat wasn't too hot to be in nor too cold. Just perfect to lay in, Pepper was still looking through her phone.

"So what are you doing?" Anastasia asked trying to spark up a conversation

"I'm looking for a school that I think you might like."

"Really?" Pepper shows her the brochure on her phone, usually her father put her into the nearest schools not even looking if it suitable for her. "Wo- wow thank you, I don't think nobody has ever cared for me that much." She was speechless, Pepper noticed but she didn't say a word but give a bright smile.

"So do you have anything in mind?" Anastasia asked, trying to look for her phone, she must have left it on the couch.

"Well, Tony wants you to go to a private school." She was still searching for schools on her phone.

"Really, "She chuckled, "Tony?"

Pepper nodded, "I have never realized how hard this could be just to find the right school." She ranted to herself, trying to believe the risk of putting a child in school. "I- I mean you have to look at the area and the reviews" She was bombarded with all of these issues she suddenly had to take precautions in.

"I mean can you believe there have been 80 school shootings. 356 victims. Since 2009." She pointed to her phone in disbelief, "I mean come one, This could be you. How about we just do homeschooling? " She suggested, her voice sounded concerned.

"It's okay, I'll be okay. I've been to school before and I did just fine." She reassured pepper. "And now I have these powers to protect myself, and maybe I could start to use them as a weapon or self-defense."

"There's another reason, what if you exploded again with your power? You lost control the other day Anastasia, It could happen again. Maybe Tony was right, maybe it's not a good idea to have you go to in-person school." She looked up from her phone.

"I will be fine pepper, how about we figure out my power first and stabilize it before I go to school. Would that ease your conscience?" She pats Peppers's shoulder.

"Yes it would, but Tony is the one who has to worry about all that stuff." She blew out a loud sigh, " But ya, you should be fine, I'll continue to look for more schools" She looked back down to her phone.

"Thank you!" she quickly gave Pepper a quick hug.

"Just to be sure, how about private school? It's nicer and safer." Pepper suggested but Anastasia gave her a look.

"I don't know." She awkwardly smiled, "I've never been to Private school, I'll just feel uncomfortable."

"Well, It's up to you so if you have anything in mind or want to check some schools out, you could use my laptop. Just save the ones you find interesting so tony and I could look into them." Pepper offered.

"Again Thank you, I'm just going to clean up and wait for Tony to wake up but I'll let you know." Anastasia got up from her seat.

"You know you don't have to clean, we have somebody for that," Pepper told her as she watched The girl lean on the railing.

"I know but cleaning keeps me calm, it helps esases my mind." She smiled, The teenager walked to the door.

"I still think Private is a good idea!" Pepper called out before she left inside.

"I'll keep that in mind!" She said with the same tone.

Passing the living room she saw Tony snoring dead asleep on the couch, He was snoring as drool fell off of his lip. She was glad he finally got some sleep after all he worries about.

Anastasia continued her way to her room to change into something a little bit more appropriate for the day. She checked her drawer but only found flared yoga leggings, a black turtleneck, and a brown sweater vest.  

"Great." She mumbled under her breath, she didn't have a lot of clothes. "Side note, Go shopping for clothes."

She put the outfit on, it didn't look bad. In fact, she loved it but it wasn't her style.

After her wardrobe change, she walked into the kitchen to find only the plates overflooding the sink. Before she got to cleaning she made some sandwiches for her and the masked hero. She placed them in a brown bag and left them in the fridge before taking the liberty of cleaning the penthouse.

There is this calmness to cleaning the penthouse, feeling the furniture glide over the wooden floor and the soft sound of the broom as it sweeps. She felt happy, for the first time in years, she felt comfortable.

"When are you not cleaning?" A man's voice spoke behind her, time most have gone by since Tony was up.

"Hey! how did you sleep?" She was asked with a cheerful smile,

"Good, considering you were there with your annoying snoring." he rolled his eyes, "But other than that good."

"One, Ouch I don't snore." She had a finger out as her other handheld the broom. "And two, at least I don't drool." She bursts into laughter.

"Whatever." He said as he took a bite of cold leftover pizza.

"You know you drool, no shame in it." She joked.

"Wel- I just don't care." He grabbed the whole box and began to walk towards the basement, Anastasia placed the broom down and followed behind him.

"Did you say good morning to pepper already?" Her voice squeaked. Anastasia wanted to blurt out her quest but she wanted to make it subtle.

"ya, i hugged her good morning."

"Can we try again?" She blurted out as she tried to keep up with the man him. Tony knew what she was talking about just by her following him.

"No." She could hear the food in his mouth.

"Are we really doing this again, Please!" They were encountering the door yet she still followed,  "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!" She continued.

"Please! PLE-" She was cut by tony. "ALRIGHT!" He screamed back, "This is why I never wanted kids!"

"Great!" She joyfully smiled, " What do you want to work on first?"

"Eat." He said as he continued to eat his pizza.

~

The two worked together trying to find out her ability but found nothing. Two hours past and the two were getting exhausted from failing each test.

"Maybe you just don't have an ability." Tony Rubbed his face.

"I know what felt." She began to feel a little more anxious. "I do have an ability."

"Alright," Tony scoffed. " I have one more test we could run, if it doesn't work then I'm calling it." He began to set up the test. 

He sets up a row of Light bulbs in one straight line, "I cannot believe I'm doing this." The man scoffed under his breath.

"Again, I could still hear you." Anastasia gave him a look.

Tony finished preparing the test, "Jarvis, be prepared to call 911 if something happens to me."

"Always sir." Jarvis said through the intercom.

Anastasia shook her head causing her to hit her head with her palm, "Okay, what do I have to do?"

"Try to turn the light on." He stood beside the bulbs recording everything in his journal.

Anastasia held her hand out trying to control the bulb but nothing happened, "This is useless, It's just not going to work." She lost hope.

"Wait. Try it this way." Tony turned the bulbs on. "Try to turn them off."

"thats in impossible." She began to babble but tony stopped her.

"Just do it." He rolled his eyes, getting annoyed from being in a room with the teenage girl.

Anastasia stared at the bulb, there was an attraction to touch the bulb.
"What if I just..." Anastasia walked closer to the bulb, putting her hand on one of the bulbs. She hung her head, all of the bulbs began to flicker. Just then the lightbulbs shattered but nothing hit the floor, the glass shards sat perfectly in the rim of the bulb. She looked quickly to the bulbs than to tony.

"I did it, haha." He chuckled, "OH MY FUCKING GOD I DID IT." She continued to laugh hysterically.

Tony looked at the bulbs then back to Anastasia, "You're eyes, there glowing." 

"I did it!" Anastasia began to jump up and down, but she lost control of her emotions causing the room to lose outage.

They went quiet, "What just happened?" Anastasia spoke softly.

Tony opened his mouth but Anastasia cut him out before he could get a word out. "Don't even think about it." causing tony to frown. She knew he was going to say something about her weight.

Anastasia's eyes were still glowing red allowing Tony to see where she was.

Tony grabs a flashlight and turns it on. He grabbed his notebook, hd began writing with his hand trying to hold the flashlight as he wrote. "Here let me." As soon as Anastasia touched it the flashlight, the energy drained out of power.

"Sorry." She apologized.

"Wait. What if you could reuse that power" Tony got up quickly to find another flashlight.

"What do you mean?" She asked but she lost tony in the darkness.

"What if you could use the energy you just used, like a light bulb." Tony turned on the flashlight, she found him on the other side of his lab, he came jogging to Anastasia. "Hold your hand out." As instructed, she put her hands in-front of the two.

"Now concentrate what you want to do, concentrate On the light." Anastasia shut her eyes close. Taking a couple moments to focus but tony interrupted,

"You're taking all day," Tony whined, seconds past. "Come one it's not that hard."

"Oh ya why don't you try doing it, Dick." She gave him an attitude backfiring him with an insult.

"I know I'm intelligent it all but i'm not you." He proudly said with so much confidence. "Now hurry, I have other important things to do."

She rolled her eyes, "Just concentrate." She held her hand out waiting for something to happen but nothing did. She wasn't concentrating, "let everything go Anastasia. Feel the energy flow through your body, come on kid." Tony encouraged as he watched the young girl close her eyes, even with her eyes closed he could still see her eyes glow red.

Anastasia felt like she was sinking into a dark void in her body, she was alone in a dark void with bare feet, water sinking in. "Hello?" Her voice echoed.

Just then there was a red flare twirling around her body, almost mesmerizing her. The flare playfully wondered around her body tickling her body making Anastasia laugh.

The red flare began to settle down, Anastasia had a sudden urge to touch it. The red flare touched her bare skin causing it to crawl in her. Her whole body felt a wave of energy rushing in, She tried to catch air but failed. She could feel the red flare coursing through her veins.

"Woah," She heard Tony causing her to snap out of it.  There was electricity surrounding her fingers. "Okay calm down, Ouch! OW!" A flash of electricity struck Tony right on the chest. The strike was strong enough to make him fall to the floor.

"Oh my god!" Anastasia closed her palm causing the electricity to disappear, "Are you okay?" She ran to Tony, the power came back up.

He held his hand out not wanting any assistance, "It's okay, i got it. I'm okay." He held the side of his rib cage as he got back up by himself.

"I did not expect that." He chuckled.

"Neither did I?" She looked at her hands shocked as ever.

"I did it." He exclaimed, "I found your power." He smiled proudly.

"You mean me." Anastasia shot back, trying to stay cool.

"Alright sure, sure you did it too. But I did most of it." He rolled his eyes.

" I didn't see electricity coming out of your fingers." She scoffed.

"So who did the tests and Studied everything, I did, not you. Me!"

"Alright, Alright we both did it." She rolled her eyes as Tony shook his head, "High five!" she held her hand in the air waiting for a high five but tony denied it.

"Nope."

There was a moment of silence while tony wrote in his book trying to figure everything out. On the other hand, Anastasia was jumping with excitement she had to let it out.

"I did it!" She beamed with joy, She couldn't hold in the excitement as she threw her arms in the air.

"Woah Woah, calm down you don't want to cause a black out across the whole city." He cut in.

"I know but I just needed to let it out." She happily smiled with so much excitement. "I feel better now." She began to calm down causing Tony to nod back in response.

The room fell silent.

"So, Can I do it with anything else or just electricity?" She asked as she looked at Tony writing things down on his notebook.

"I don't know, that's what I'm trying to figure out." He scanned through his notes.

"Why aren't you using jarvis or your computers?" She asked.

"Just... just trying to take extra precaution." His head was down looking over the book.

"You touched the bulb and the flashlight giving you the power to obtain the electricity." He tried to connect everything together. "Maybe you could do it to anything, maybe anyone? You seem to intake energy, I think you have an involuntary ability to absorb things."

Until everything clicked, He suddenly became more Adrenaline. "The thing is what else can you absorb?"

"What, what are you thinking?" Anastasia asked as she followed Tony rush through some old files.

"This is thi- this is something I've never seen. It's extraordinary, I'm speechless."

"That's a first." She mumbled to herself.

"You're only 14, is that even possible?" He questioned himself.

"What is going on!" She yelled out trying to get his attention.

"Can you use it on people? Have you been in physical contact with anybody?"

"I hugged pepper for a split second, why?" His eyes widen open,

"Did anything happen?"

"Not that I am aware of, She seemed perfectly fine." Anastasia grew worried.

"Shit." Tony sprinted out of the room, Anastasia quickly followed behind him. Pepper was in the kitchen ordering some food.

"Good you guys are here!" she read the room. "What? What's wrong?"

Pepper's looked 10 pounds skinner almost like something was eating her, her skin was so sucked in that her jaw was visible.

Tony rushed to her and grabbed her face. "What, hey!" she pulled away from tony.

"Are you okay?" Anastasia asked, she hid her hands in her sleeves.

"Amazing actually, I feel like I lost a lot of weight!" She smiled.

"Nothing? no weakness? Dizziness?" Tony questioned, pepper shook her head no.

"Thank god. She didn't hold on too long." He sighed in relief.

"What are you talking about?" Tony looked back at Anastasia. "Do I have some spinach on my teeth?" She swabbed her finger against her teeth, Tony gave her his phone with the camera open.

"Oh my god. What happened?" Pepper rubbed her face.

Anastasia rubbed her elbow in shame, Tony looked back at her again. " I guess you just haven't been eating a lot, Honey!" He smiled, Anastasia looked at Tony "Plus its all those diet pills you've taking. You have to start eating and stop swallowing those pills. It's okay if you're fat, I like a little meat on my bones." He slapped pepper's ass.

"Okay?" Pepper giggled, Tony walked towards Anastasia.  " Well, food will get here in a couple of minutes." She informed the two as they quickly walked back to the basement.

"Did I fucking do that?" Anastasia was shocked, he nodded. Tony wasn't paying attention to her words.

"I'm sorry, I-" She began to Sutter, "I didn't know." She wanted to cry, she hid her hands deep into her shirt.

"What if I held onto her longer?" Her voice squeaked.

"You would have killed her." he hung his head in defeat.

"Oh, my-" she put her hand over her mouth trying to holding back her sobs. The thoughts were accelerating inside her head. Anastasia wants them to slow down so she can breathe but the thoughts were in a rage. Her breaths come in gasps and she feels like she could just blackout. Anastasia's heart kept hammering inside her chest like it belonged to a rabbit running for its skin.

"Kid," Tony rushed to her, trying to keep her emotions stable. "KID! Anastasia! It's fine, you didn't know." he was about to tap her shoulder but pulled it back before he made the contact. Anastasia looked at him, fear swarming her eyes.

"I'll be right back, stay here and don't move." Tony ran out of the room, leaving Anastasia to handle the sorrow.

She sat in fear, "What did I do?" She asked herself, She waited for Tony to come back.

Minutes passed by as Anastasia stared at the door hoping he would come back soon. She sat in silence, looking at her fingers. She looked at her wrist with the marking 003, she tried rubbing it off but it was implanted onto her skin.

"Okay, I'm back." Tony walked in with a pair of leather gloves.

"Here put those on." He threw some expensive leather gloves to Anatasia.

"Why?" She asked him as he watched her put them on.

"It's the physical touch, You get your power from one's touch. They should control it."

"How do we know that it's going to be controlled?" She played around with the gloves.

"There's only one way to find out." He pulled out new light bulbs, Anastasia was afraid. "Go ahead." He reassured her with a simple smile, she nodded.

She touched the bulb but nothing happened, she looked at tony.

"Now touch me." Tony held his hand out.

"What no, Are you crazy?"

"I am many things but I am not crazy, now do it."

"What if I kill you?" She kept a distance.

"Trust me." She walked a little closer, Anastasia grabbed his hand.

Nothing happened, he was fine.

"See, I'm perfectly fine." He smiles awkwardly, Tony was freaking out, "OOOf." He let out a puff of air.

"Are you sure you're okay? You seemed a little freaked out." Anastasia asked.

"Well shit, ya I'm freaking out, I could have fucking died." He held onto his chest.

"You told me to trust you that it was going to be okay!" She blamed him,

"Ya because you didn't want to do it!" He scoffed.

"Well, Fuck tony I could have killed you!" Anastasia was starting to lose it.

"It's fine! We're okay." He reassured the young girl, "Just Never take these gloves off, Only when I tell you too." Tony held onto her hands, Anastasia nodded.

"Okay." She kept nodding her head, "I got this! I totally got this."

"Keep this between us, Don't tell pepper. I'll figure out how to tell her myself." He was taking a lot of pressure off her back, who knows what she could do is she lost her emotions. "Conceal, Don't feel."

"Are you really quoting Frozen right now?" Anastasia held back her urge of laughter.

"What, it was a good movie." Tony shrugged his shoulders. Anastasia bit her lip from laughing, it was killing her.

"I-" She couldn't say anything or it would just come out.

"I am going to make a quick call, Go ahead and get some rest. Don't try and suck the power out of the whole building."

"Who are you calling?" She questioned.

"You'll see when he gets here." She nodded, "Remember what told you!" He shouted before she exited the basement.

Anastasia ran up the stairs and into the kitchen. She quickly looked at the time and back to see Pepper who stood in front of her.

"H- hi."She grew nervous, Anastasia didn't want to hurt her again.

"Hey, the food's here," Pepper said as she grabbed a plate.

"It- It's okay. I think I'm going to eat in my room." She walked to the fridge grabbing the brown paper bag.

"Why?" She walked closer to Anastasia, she tried to touch her but Anastasia dodged her touch. "Is everything alright?" Pepper frowned her eyes.

"Yup everything is peachy, I just made some food and I was planning on eating by myself, in my room, alone." She awkwardly laughed, "Okay well, I'm gonna go." She ran off before pepper could get a word out.

Anastasia ran out of the kitchen and into the elevator. "fuck." She put the bag on the floor, she was losing her breath. The gloves felt like they were suffocating her, she put her hands on her knees as her head dangled.

"ugh." Her body gets up from the lack of energy. Anastasia began to shake her fingers as she screeched her teeth.

The elevator made her nauseous, she finally clicked the button . "not right now. Please not right now." Anastasia kept moving trying not to have an anxiety attack.

"fuck, fuck. FUCK! GET ME OUT OF THIS THING!" Anastasia began to bang on the door.

The door finally opened, she fell on her hands and knees. She huffed and puffed gasping for air, she began to cry.

She had no reason to cry but just felt right. She needed time to breathe and she finally got it, her life changed so much in the past 2 months it was overwhelming.

Anastasia laid right in the middle of the roof watching the stars. She didn't move for a second, she just felt a cold tear roll off her cheek.

She closed her eyes, Her sigh was of a softly deflating; it was as if the tension had lifted yet left her with a melancholy instead of relief.

She finally got up to get the brown bag from the elevator, her body felt droopy and sleepy.

She sat on the edge of the roof overlooking the New York city night.

Anastasia waited for the masked her for over an hour but he never came.

"I guess he's not coming" She got up and for a second she thought about jumping, how her life would be without it.

But instead she just turned around with the brown bag she had packed for the two to eat together and walked towards the elevator.

Suddenly she heard footsteps approach her, "You're seriously not going to leave your favorite guy hanging right?" Crime boy was sitting on the edge waiting for her.

"Well not if he doesn't come after a whole hour passed." She snapped back giving him a grin, she walked back to the edge to sit next to him.

Anastasia was relieved he made it, this was the highlight of her day. He somehow just washed off all of her problems in just a snap.

"Why'd you take so long?" She could feel a gush of wind hit her face.

"Robbery on 10th." they both nodded awkwardly, "What's with the gloves, It's march." He asked, his suit was ripped since it was made with cotton.

"i- um" She tried to layout words, "I just got cold." She smiled trying to avoid the conversation.

"Okay!" She rolls her body over trying to lose contact with the boy, "Here you go i brought you some dinner, I thought you'd probably be hungry from all that fighting." She grabbed two sandwiches out of the lunch bag for the both of them to eat some. Hopefully, he takes it off to eat.

"Wo- I-, " He began to stutter,  "Thank you." He gratefully took it.

"It's okay if you don't want to eat it, I wouldn't be mad but Tony would." She joked but he took it seriously.

"What do you mean?" His voice squeaked with fear, it was like his soul left his body.

"Tony made them for us." She bit her lip from bursting into laughter.

He quickly unwraps the sandwich from its wrapping, he puts his mask to only show his jaw and quickly bites of it.

Anastasia burst into laughter, "You- you actually fell for it." She couldn't get a word out from how much laughter was going on.

"So... So he didn't make the sandwiches." he sounded devastated,

"N- no." She held her rib cage laughing more, almost crying.

"HAHA, very funny." He takes another bite, "Jokes on you, I'm still going to eat it."

She continued to laugh, "Uh that was hilarious." She wipes a joyful tear off her face as the laughter dies down.

"No, it wasn't." He let out a little giggle, her laugh was too contagious.

"See you think it's funny." She giggled,

"What no." he giggled with her, he took the last couple bites of the sandwich.

"Yes, you do." Finishing the conversation. She unwraps her sandwich, taking a big bite.

"So tell me, we were talking about schools the other day. You said you had one in mind, Pepper said if I don't find one tony wants me in private school.

"Oh yes, yes of course." He dozed off

"Hello?" She waved her hand in front of his face to catch his attention.

"Oh ya, It's called midtown high of science and technology? I don't know if you've ever heard of it, it's a pretty good school."

"Do you go there?" she casually asked as she took another bite of her sandwich. She really hoped he'd say yes so she knew somebody there.

"What uh No- no-no but I do know a pretty good guy in that school. His name is Peter Parker, the smartest kid I've ever known. He's been my best friend since birth."

"I thought you only had one friend, Ted was it?" She questioned him, causing him to freak out.

"Uh- ya. He is my only friend." He quickly corrected himself, he got up from the edge. "Well i- I have to go. Just look at the time." He pointed at his wrist without a watch on it, he clearly doesn't do well with pressure.

"You don't need to be home in another hour!" She shouted out loud.

"Wha- What I can't hear you!" He signaled to his ear. "Alright, I'll see you later." He jumps off the building and swings off.

"That was weird." She grabbed the trash and put everything in the brown bag.

She walked to the elevator, "Huh? Midtown high, I like it." She took another bite of her sandwich and reached for her phone. It was hard to type with leather gloves but she managed, she clicked the penthouse button.

She searched up the midtown high on her phone, "4.5 reviews, Seems pretty good, it's a public/magnet school." she screeched her teeth, She sent it to pepper, 'i like this one!' She sent the message.

Anastasia was too distracted to look up from her phone, the elevator opened to find Tony and This blonde man talking to each other.  They didn't seem to notice her, seeming they were too invested in their conversation.

"Shit." she quickly hid and ran to her room.

She made it to her room quickly throwing the paper bag in the trash and changing into her oversized sleep ware making it seem she's been in her room for the past two hours.

Anastasia walked out casually to the kitchen, "there she is, come meet her." She heard from the living room.

"Anastasia?" She walked to the sound of Tony's voice.

"This is point break." Tony introduced, The man shooked his head.

There was a tall blonde handsome man. His smile was so bright, he held his hand out for a handshake "Allow me to introduce myself properly, I am Thor son of Odin."

Anastasia held her hand out but was too scared to touch him, she looked at Tony who gave her a gentle nod.

"Anastasia." She took his hand.

~

THIS TOOK SO LONG. 6,000 words!
I had to post this late (not like anyones reading it but i live writing lol) I was up at 4am but i was to sleepy.

anyways, i just started school and i've been writing so much i forgot to sleep (yes i forget!) so you see my sleeping through school, so i join then pass out then class is over lmao.

it's coming along, im also going to make some changes to the story. Basically rereading everything, perfecting it.

sorry if the dialogue is choppy.