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NTS: right now he is 39 she 21 he would have been 19 woman he was with was older by a few years
JARVIS, we talked about what would happen the next time you cut my music off! Tony frowned as he
looked up from his current project. The abrupt stop to his music left a small echo as the sound waves
from the blaring music finished their movements.
Im sorry sir, the automated voice replied, But I thought you would be willing to overlook it in sight of
the information I have discovered.
Grumbling to himself, Tony slid his wheelie chair away from the desk and stepped down from the small
platform his desk resided on. A quick glance at the clock told him Pepper should be home any minute
now, shed only been gone a day or so, but that didnt stop him from wishing she had never left. Its not
that he missed her per say, but he did miss her lips (hed quickly discovered they were his favorite after
the incident with Ivan whats-his-face where the crazy guy had tried to go and blow his expo to kingdom
come)and maybe he missed her laugh; and her perfumeand her hairher eyesokay, he shook his
head, maybe he just missed her.
Whatve you got? Tony asked reaching his hand out for the file image now displayed before him, a
flick of his wrist had the file opening revealing video of some giant metal man shaped robot blowing a
small town inhe checked the notes attached to the videoNew Mexico to smithereens only to be
stopped by a guy with ridiculously long blonde hair and an oversized hammer. He frowned and tilted his
head as he watched the footage that was most likely not legally obtained, What am I looking at? he
asked as he flipped through surveillance footage.
JARVIS took a second to respond as he pulled three files from the several others hed collected, This is
surveillance footage from the situation in New Mexico Agent Coulson mentioned. You asked me to look
into S.H.I.E.L.Ds files on the situation and this is what I have uncovered.
Tony flipped through some random personnel files impatiently, Still, none of this explains why I wont
be making good on my threats sometime soon, Tony turned and tilted his head a little to look at a
different bit of footage featuring three men and a woman dressed as if ready for a renaissance fair as
they walked down the center of the street in the middle-of-nowhere-New-freaking-Mexico.
It was not the footage I found interesting sir, JARVIS answered, It was who was involved.
You mean wonder woman, the three stooges and Barbies wannabe twin brother? Tony mocked,
flicking some of the footage away.
No, JARVIS sounded mildly exasperated, once again he propelled three files directly in front of his
creator, As a result of the situation in New Mexico, three civilians were read in to the S.H.I.E.L.D
organization. The first being a Dr. Erik Selvig, the AI opened the relevant file that listed Dr. Selvigs
personnel information, his published works, his contact information and other things that only a secret
organization like S.H.I.E.L.D would have access to.
Tony blinked in surprise and flipped through the file, Hes one of Dr. Banners friends wasnt he? he
asked, The one with those ideas related to thermonuclear astrophysics isnt he?
Yes sir, JARVIS answered, He was in New Mexico to assist Dr. Jane Foster, the astrophysics you had
me keeping track of. She was also read in to S.H.I.E.L.Ds organization.
Jane Fosters file was flicked open and scanned through, most of it Tony recognized from previous study.
Just because the rest of the scientific community claimed Jane Foster was almost certifiably nuts for the
things she wrote and researched, didnt mean her ideas were worth complete disregard. Much of what
she wrote about made sense, there just had to be something else out there, and there had to be a way
to get to that something else. Tony had been watching Foster since shed first appeared in the realm of
scientific academia, many of times hed buffered her expense accounts and made small donations to her
cause, someday she was going to make a break through, and Tony wanted to be able to say hed known
all along that she would.
What does S.H.I.E.L.D want with her? he wondered mostly to himself as he looked over the blueprint
for something that looked ridiculously similar to a toaster.
It seems Dr. Foster stumbled across this man, JARVIS put up the picture of the long blond haired man
Tony had previously referred to as Barbies wannabe twin brother, who appeared not far from here, a
picture appeared of a large crater with a small mound in the center, After Dr. Foster had picked him up
from the hospital she took him back to her home from where S.H.I.E.L.D later confiscated all of her
technology and personal belongings. It seems that this man, referred to as Thor, broke into the complex
S.H.I.E.L.D had built around the crater, Tony let out an impressed noise, his eyebrows raising, and tried
to retrieve the hammer located at the center. Ultimately it turns out Thor is not from this Earth, and Dr.
Fosters theories were not far off.
Tony smirked, How much does that Dr. Stonyface from that one place we were last year Tony
snapped his fingers as he tried halfheartedly to remember the name of the convention.
You mean Dr. Bridges from the engineering conference you attended in London last year? JARVIS
supplied helpfully.
He owes me money now, Tony whirled around an pointed his finger victoriously at the files JARVIS was
displaying, This was worth while news, he nodded, I guess you get to survive a little longer then
JARVIS, he turned and stepped back up on the platform hed previously left, intending to return to his
project.
Thank you sir, but that was still not the news to which I was referring.
Slowly Tony pivoted on his heel to face the remaining file still being displayed, Oh? he raised his
eyebrows and moved to open the file, revealing a picture of a strangely familiar young woman. Her eyes
were bright blue while her hair was dark brown and she grinned at the taker of the photo with a sense
of sass that Tony couldnt help but be amused by, And who is this?
JARVIS hesitated a moment before answering, Darcy Lewis, sir.
Darcy Lewis, Tony repeated, flipping through the personal information, Born June 6
th
19--, graduated
top of her class from University of New Mexico by age sixteen, Tony tilted his head admittedly a little
impressed, with a Masters degree in computational science and engineering, though it looks like
Tony scanned the amount of classes she took and contemplated what he was seeing, All she would
have needed for a PhD would have been a dissertation, another impressed nod, she took a year off
from school before returning to peruse a Master of Arts in Political Science degree which is what she will
complete following the six credit internship she has working forDr. Foster, Tony blinked, Why would
she work for an astrophysist if shes a poly-sci student? he asked rhetorically.
It was the only internship offered when she discovered last minute that she needed six extra credits in
order to graduate, sir, JARVIS answered.
Tony frowned, Alright, what does this have to do with anything? Why am I looking at her?
Well sir, again JARVIS gave a pause that was unlike the AI, All personnel under S.H.I.E.L.Ds purview
are required to submit DNA for their files.
Uh-huh, Tony nodded noncommittally.
JARVIS waited before continuing, pulling up a copy of Darcy Lewiss DNA, This is Miss Lewis DNA, next
to it a second DNA sequence, And this is your DNA, a feeling dread appeared in Tonys stomach, Sir,
JARVIS went on, unaware of Tonys rising panic, theyre a 99.9998 percent match. It appears you are
Miss Lewis father.
Mouth dry and heart beating a little too fast Tony staggered back a step, barely making it to the stairs to
the platform before collapsing. Slowly his hands raised to press the heels of his hands into his eyes,
Youre certain? he asked a moment later, his mind whirling.
I have checked and rechecked sir, JARVIS answered.
Slowly his hands slid from his eyes to steeple in front of his lips, I have a daughter, Tony muttered to
himself, trying the words out, I have a daughter, he frowned and rose to his feet, But how?
Well sir, when a man and a woman
Remind me to remove your sense of humor later, Tony stated, stepping down an moving once more
to Darcy Lewiss file, What was her mothers name? he muttered to himself, scanning the information
before him before finding what he was looking for, Donna Markum Lewis, he read already racking his
memory for a picture to put with the name, Donna Markum.
Helpful as always JARVIS brought up a picture of the woman, Donna Markum, fourty seven, lives in
Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband of nineteen years Westley Lewis. It appears you would
have been about eighteen when you met her when she was twenty-seven.
Tony, who had been studying the picture intently looked up a little at that, Twenty-seven? he
repeated before shaking his head, I only slept with one older woman when I was that young and she
was only a year olderthanIwas Tony trailed off as he studied the picture once more, It is her!
he exclaimed, Delilah Marks, aka Donna Markum, he paused, She was twenty-seven? Really? he
sounded a little disgusted.
It appears so sir, JARVIS answered the rhetorical question with his usual dry tone, From what her file
says it seems her family wanted nothing to do with her once they found out she was pregnant. She ran
away from her home in Malibu, spent the duration of her pregnancy living in a homeless shelter for
pregnant women