There's one thing I loved about school. Being home schooled. Being the daughter of Tony Stark himself was stressful and going to a public school with a billions of kids....might be....well....insane. So, my father decided to keep me at home and be home schooled by a teacher he hired. Well he kinda knew her and by knew I mean slept with her once and found out she was teacher after.

"Math shouldn't be a subject." I muttered. "It makes no sense." My teacher sighed and looked at me.

"You still have to learn if you want to pass and get good jobs in life." She replied.

I sighed, "I know but I'm not some genius like my father. I don't know half of what we're doing."

"But you have to learn-"

I started writing down random stuff as the answers cause I just didn't care anymore.

"I'm done! I finished my work!" I stood up and handed the paper to her.

"But Kelsey, you just started it 4 minutes ago. Did you even check your answers?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Uh, yeah, obviously. I finished it, so can I go?" I asked started to go out the door.

"Yeah, sure whatever." I smiled when she answered and walked out.

The truth is I'm actually good at math and I had to admit it's one of my talents. But that teacher, I just didn't like her. Don't get me wrong, she is a nice lady but I just never really liked anyone my dad previously dated or hooked up with. It just reminds me that....I'll never get my mom back.

Enough of the sad talk though!

I walked to the lab to see what my father and Bruce were doing.

"The Gamma readings are definitely consistent with Selvig's reports on the Tesseract. But it's gonna take weeks to process." I heard Bruce's voice say as I walked into the lab.

My dad had been working on the screen.

"Hey honey, want a blueberry?" My dad asked me and I walked over.

"Uh, yes! I only ate breakfast today and I'm starving!" I took a couple of blueberries and dropped some in my mouth.

"Why don't you go to the cafeteria and get something?" Bruce questioned while not taking his eyes off the screen.

"I don't know where it is and I don't feel like asking anyone."

"If we bypass their mainframe and direct route to the Homer cluster we can clock this at around six hundred teraflops." My dad turned one of the screens to show Bruce.

"All I packed was a toothbrush." Bruce scoffed.

"I just have a sweater." I took a seat in one of the chairs and took another blueberry.

My dad giggled, "You know, you should come by Stark Tower some time. Top ten floors all R and D. You'd love it, it's a candy land." Dad offered Bruce.

"Thanks but...last time I was in New York I kind of broke...Harlem." Bruce said uncomfortably.

"Well, I promise a stress free environment. No tensions, no surprises."

"That is so not true." I muttered.

Dad then stood up and zapped Bruce in the side. Uh what the hell is wrong with him?

"Ow!" Bruce exclaimed.

"Hey!" I heard a shout and looked towards the doorway, to see Steve walking in.

"Nothing?" Dad shrugged.

Steve approached us, "Are you nuts?"

"Jury's out!" Dad turned to Bruce. "You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz, bongo drums, huge bag of weed?"

"What's weed?" I looked in confusion.

"Don't worry about it." Dad pointed towards me.

"Is everything a joke to you?" Steve walked closer to Dad and Bruce.

"Funny things are."

"Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship isn't funny. No offense, Doc." Steve nodded at Bruce.

"No it's alright. I wouldn't have come aboard if I can't handle pointy things."

"You're tip-toeing, big man. You need to strut."

"And you need to focus on the problem, Mr. Stark."

These two don't seem to like each other very much, which is strange because apparently my grandfather and Steve were good friends. But Steve was right, everything was kinda a joke to my dad. Its just his sense of humor.

"You think I'm not? Why did Fury call us in? Why now, why not before? What isn't he telling us? I can't do the equation unless I have all the variables."

"He's kinda got a point. There's just something about Fury that confuses me. He seems secretive." I turned towards Steve before I put my arm on the counter with my hand resting on my face.

"You think Fury's hiding something?" Steve asked me.

"He's gotta be. The man is the most secretive person ever. I...I just sense something weird." I sighed.

"He's a spy. Captain, he's THE spy. His secrets have secrets." Tony gestures towards Bruce. "It's bugging him to, isn't it?"

"Uh, aah, I just wanna finish my work here and.." Bruce seemed to he very concentrated in his work. He liked to get work done and do it right. I wish I was him, I look at one piece of homework and I don't want to do it.

"Doctor?" Steve quizzed.

"A warm light for all mankind", Loki's jab at Fury about the Cube." Bruce fixed his glasses.

"I heard it." Steve nodded.

"Well, I think that was meant for you." He gestured to my dad, who offered Bruce a blueberry. "Even if Barton didn't tell Loki about the tower, it was still all over the news."

"The Stark Tower? That big ugly-" Steve stopped what he was saying. Me and my dad gave him a look.

"-building in New York?" He finished.

"Do not insult one....of...my many homes." I pointed to him.

"It's powered by an arc reactor, self-substaining energy source. That building will run itself for, what, a year?" Bruce put his hands in his coat pocket.

"It's just the prototype." Dad looked over to Steve. "I'm kind of the only name in clean energy right now, that's what he's getting at."

"So, why didn't SHIELD bring him in on Tesseract project? What are they even doing in the energy business in the first place?" Bruce said. All I'm getting is that the tesseract blew up the base and it's on Loki's hands.

"I should probably look into that as soon as my decryption program finishes breaking into all of SHEILD's secure files." Dad said casually like it was nothing.

"I'm sorry did you say-" Steve started.

"JARVIS has been running it since I hit the bridge. In a few hours, I'll know every dirty secret SHEILD has ever tried to hide. Blueberry?" Tony held out the box or whatever of blueberries to Steve.

"Yet, you're confused about why they didn't want you around." Steve started to get tense.

"An intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome."

"I think Loki's trying to wind us up. This is a man who means to start a war and if we don't stay focused he'll succeed. We have orders, we should follow them." Steve spoke like a sergeant in charge.

"Following's not really my style." Of course it's not his style. His Tony Stark.

"And you're all about style, aren't you?" Steve retorted back.

"Out of all the people in this room, which one "A" is wearing a spangly outfit and "B" not of use?" My dad was right that outfit is very old school. It could be better.

"Steve, tell me none of this smells a little funky to you?" Bruce spoke.

"Just find the Cube." Steve ordered and exited the lab.

"That's the guy my dad never shut up about?" Dad questioned. "Wondering if they shouldn't have kept him on ice."

"Guy's not wrong about Loki, he does have the jump on us." Bruce spoke up.

"Give him a break. You're just mad he got more time with grandpa and you didn't." I sassed.

"No I'm not and shush your mouth, young lady." He pointed at me and I rolled my eyes. "And don't roll your eyes."

He turned towards Bruce, "What he's got is an ACME dynamite kit. It's gonna blow up in his face, and I'm gonna be there when it does."

"I'll read all about it." Bruce commented.

"Mm, or, you'll be suiting up with the rest of us."

"Now, you see I don't get suit of armor. I'm exposed, like a nerve, it's a nightmare." Bruce explained.

"If it makes you feel better, I think Hulk is pretty badass." I commented making Bruce look at me confused.

"Uh, thanks I guess."

My dad looked towards him, "You know, I've got a cluster shrapnel, trying every second to crawl it's way into my heart. This stops it-" He tapped the arc reactor that he had on his chest.

"-this little circle of light. It's part of me now, not just armor. It's a terrible privilege." He finished.

"But you can control it." Spoke Bruce.

"Because I learned how." Dad admitted.

"It's different." Bruce said.

"I agree. Having a thing on your chest keeping you alive and turning into an enormous green rage monster, is very different from each other." I explained.

Dad wiped clean the screen between the two men, that Bruce had been working on.

"Hey, I read all about your accident. That much Gamma exposure...should've killed you."

"So, you're saying that the Hulk...the Other Guy...saved my life?" Bruce questioned in confusion. "That's nice. That's nice sentiment. Saved it for what?"

"I guess we'll find out." Dad replied.

"You may not enjoy that." Bruce admitted.

"And you just might."

"I'll enjoy it! I love raging monsters. It reminds of horror movies with the villain." I smiled and they looked at me in confusion.

"What?"

"Nothing, sweetie. Nothing." My dad laughed a bit.

"I'm going to go and talk to Nat. I want to ask her if she can teach me some moves. You know the one she did last year to Hammer? That was so freaking cool!" I exclaimed before walking out to go find Nat.

But I couldn't help but get the feeling that something bad was about to happen. Maybe it was just me though.

Hello my loves! I haven't updated this in a while, and I'm sorry about that. I'm trying to focus on my stranger things story Happier because I want to finish season 3 so I can move into season 4!! But don't worry, I didn't forgot about this book and I will be updating more soon. It just might have slow updates because I'm focusing more on Happier.

I also hope you all had a wonderful Christmas or whatever you celebrated!! I was going to post this yesterday but I was spending time with family and I kinda forgot. But here it is now!!

Anyways, hope you all enjoyed this chapter and more is coming soon for Kelsey. Next chapter something big is going to happen with her! So stay tuned.

Love you all!

-Mary💕