"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe

Tony's POV

When Percy and I were rescued, Rhodey refused to leave my side, and since I refused to leave Percy's side, we all stayed together. The first thing Rhodey said to me was, "How was the FunV?" Then he noted Percy's presence there.

"She's a friend, she was trapped with me."

Rhodey nodded in appreciation and looked to her. "Anyone brave enough to be friends with Tony is a friend of mine." It was then that he saw that I was supporting her and he found the bullet wounds. "Let's get you two fixed up and back to civilization."

Percy was able to get the bullets removed from her leg, and stitched up the bullet holes and the graze on her neck, which they had to patch up with bandages instead of stitches. The medical team said that it was a miracle that she was even alive, if the bullet had been even a fraction of a centimeter to the left, it would have hit the major artery connecting her head's blood flow to the rest of her body. She might have bled out in that cave, she's lucky to still be here at all.

They gave her a cast and a boot and some crutches so she could get around better, and they gave me a sling for my arm, which had gotten damaged landing in the sand like I had. And from the explosion. They gave us new clothes, and some food and water, but I gave my food to Percy, who seemed to need a lot more food than I did. We didn't have much food when we were there, but now, she was eating like it would be the last thing that she ever ate. She was also plenty nervous about being up in the air. When I asked about it, she told me 'I don't belong in the sky, it isn't my territory.' Something along those lines.

After hours of flying, all of it spent by Percy's side(Rhodey had gone to sleep while Percy and I stayed up talking, me trying to calm Percy down whenever there was slight turbulence), we finally got ready to touch down in California, Rhodey waking up and coming to our side to help us off the plane. Percy was more than happy to get off of the plane, and she was curious about everything. She hadn't properly seen California since she was a teenager all those years ago. Even then, she didn't have time for the sights, seeing as each time she was there she was trying not to die or trying to save a friend. She wanted to know what my life was like before I had been taken to that cave. Like her, I had shared some of my stories, but they seemed like far off distant memories, almost like a fantasy world, whereas this was reality. It would never be the same ever again.

Walking out of the plane, Rhodey by my side and helping Percy, we went back into the world. There were people waiting for me, and from their reactions, they certainly didn't expect me to be helping a woman out of the plane.

When I saw the stretcher, I looked at Percy and she shook her head.

"Are you kidding me? Get rid of this." I said, dismissing it and the people pushing it took it away.

I also saw Miss Potts waiting by a car and walked us up to her.

"Your eyes are red. Few tears for your long lost boss?"

"Tears of joy. I hate job hunting." Miss Potts replied with a smile before looking to Percy standing next to me awkwardly. "May I ask who this is?"

"I'm Percy." She kept her introduction short.

"Pepper Potts. It's nice to meet you Percy," Miss Potts said with a small smile.

"Okay, vacation's over, let's go," I said after a few moments of silence.

We all got in the car, with Percy in the middle and that's when Happy spoke. "Where to, sir?"

"Take us to the hospital ple-"

"No."

"No?" Miss Potts questioned. "Tony, you("No is a complete answer.") and Percy have to go the hospital("I don't have to do anything.") Tony the doctor has to look at you!(We've been in captivity

"For three months. There are two things I want to do. I want an American cheeseburger. And the other("That's enough of that.") Is not what you think, I want you to call for a press conference now.("Call for a press conference?") Yeah, Hogan, drive. Cheeseburger first."

And Happy started driving us to Burger King while Miss Potts called to set up a press conference. Percy just sat there awkwardly in the middle, but I heard her stomach rumble so I knew that Cheeseburgers first was a good choice. We got the burgers and Percy got three of them with fries and a drink, courtesy of me having money to get food like this again. Then we were off to the press conference, Hogan holding the food hostage for now since the meeting place was only five minutes away from the Burger King. When our car rolled up, People started clapping and Obadiah walked up to my car door, opening it and pulling me out into a hug.

"I thought we'd be meeting you at the hospital," he told me as we released one another and I turned back to the car to help Percy out of it, even though I knew that she probably didn't need the help. When she came out, I heard the people whispering, but I didn't care what they had to say about Percy. She was more important to me at the moment than them, the press could go and shove it for all I cared.

"Well, whose this?" Obadiah asked with an undertone of amusement in his voice. "I'll talk about it later, lets go." And we all went into the conference center, me still helping Percy, and grabbing the Burger King from Happy on the way in.

When I went up to the podium, I felt like eating instead so I just sat down in front of it. Percy stayed next to Miss Potts eating her own food and I just got the press meeting over with. Everyone exploded into questions when I said that I would be shutting down the weapons manufacturing of Stark Industries, but I just left, Percy by my side and Pepper saying that she would be going to my house to try and work some things out.

Percy and I ended up standing in front of the big ARC reactor at the Stark Industries warehouses.

"So you made a smaller this?" Percy asked, waving her hand at the big one.

"Yup." I confirmed. "ARC reactor technology was never explored, this big one was a publicity stunt by my dad. But they all told him it was a dead end so he stopped at this." I explained it to her.

"Well, they were obviously wrong." She said, smiling at me. But then she frowned. "Sort of..." She added on after a few seconds.

I didn't get to ask her what she meant by that because Obadiah walked in. 'Sort of'? What part of it were they correct about?

Percy's POV

When I had said that, I know that it confused Tony. They were wrong sort of. Not completely wrong though.

I could feel it. The device, the miniature ARC reactor... It was slowly poisoning his blood. I'd have to explain that to him later.

I had a gut feeling about Obadiah. And I definitely didn't like what my gut told me about him. He's bad news. So I would rather speak to Tony when he's not around.

"So, Tony, are you going to tell me who this is?" I heard Obadiah ask suddenly. That was when my name, my full name, popped into my head.

"Perseus Barnes, nice to meet you." I said before Tony could answer the question. Obadiah turned to me when I spoke and I held out my hand. He shook it and smiled.

"Ah! Well, do you know how you got that name? In the Captain America museum, Perseus was the name of James Barnes' twin sister, were you named after her for sharing their last name?" I widened my eyes at this information.

"Oh, no, I was named after the Ancient Greek hero. I've never actually had the opportunity to go to the Captain America museum."

Obadiah looked confused. "Wasn't the Greek hero a man though? Why would you be named after him?"

"The name Perseus may have originally been given to a man, but it's a gender neutral name. It meant 'Avenger' or 'Destroyer' depending on how you wanted to look at it." I explained.

Tony spoke up. "Then why were you named after him?"

"I was named after him for his story. A really simple part of the story actually." I paused. "Perseus lived. Not many Greek heroes could say the same for their stories."

That made Obadiah pause to look at me. Then he took a breath and turned to Tony.

"Remember to stay out of the public eye for a while." He pat Tony's shoulder and left.

Tony stared at me, calculating something until Obadiah left. "What's your brother's name?"

"James Buchanan Barnes." I told him after a few seconds.

"Did your best friend's name happen to be Steven Grant Rogers?" He asked and I nodded, giving a little 'mhmm.'

"How'd you know?"

He rubbed his hand down his face and sighed. "Because, Steve Rogers and James Barnes were part of the Howling Commandos. Your friend made it into the army, he was Captain America. That museum was dedicated to him after he took a swan dive with a plane filled with explosives."

He stopped to let that sink in, waiting for my reaction. A tear made its way down my cheek, but I quickly wiped it away.

I took a breath before looking at Tony. "So... Am I going to be able to see your oceanside mansion?" I asked lightheartedly, changing the subject away from Steve. Tony saw that I was breaking inside and nodded.

"Sure. Let's... Let's go."

For a finalized answer of who Percy's going to end up with I got three options now, so that narrows the field a bit.

Percy x Loki

Percy x Natasha

Percy x Tony

Give a deciding vote, cause I have made endings for all three and each of them is great and I just need a finalized answer for who it is going to be.