Anya Antonovna Romanova Stark (anyastark) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-01-08 00:58:00

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anya stark, inactive - swashbuckler, npc - tony stark

Dad and Princess Time.
Once and awhile Anya needed some Dad and Princess time. When she was growing up there was a lot of time with Dad, but as she got older the time with him diminished and now it was almost nonexistent. Dad had a company to run along with a wife and a newborn son to deal with. She had school, a team and a boyfriend and they both had more family members to deal with. Before it was just the two of them for the majority of the time and it was them against the world. Now the team had gotten bigger and it meant less time with just the two of them.

Friday afternoon saw her stopping by the company to ambush him in his office. He had left for work by the time she got home from the Avengers mansion and Steve. Mom had said that he went in to sign paperwork Pepper had been nagging him about. Though Anya suspected it has something to do with Nick being fussy.

She knocked on the door and stuck her head in.

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	Re: The Next Day nextgen_parent 2011-01-09 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	"Very well, Steve. Go ahead and get dressed, then go catch up with Anya." Tony says, taking off his glasses and starting to scribble down some things on his notepad. Suddenly, Tony sets the pen down. "Do you love my daughter, Steve?" Tony asks. "I mean, do you /truly/ love my daughter?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: The Next Day swashbuckler 2011-01-10 12:05 am UTC (link)
	Steve finishes pulling his shirt on in time to catch the question. He holds Tony's gaze. "Absolutely, Sir. There wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about her." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: The Next Day

nextgen_parent
2011-01-10 12:30 am UTC (link)

"No, Steve. I don't think you quite caught my meaning." Tony says, returning that gaze.

"My daughter is a complex young woman. Please know right now that I don't have anything against you as a person, Steve. Your mother and father are two of the best people I know and you're a credit to both of them. You've got Clint's confidence and attitude mixed with Bobbi's caring nature and can-do attitude. You're a good man.

Anya, in that same vein, is just like both of her parents. She's driven, ambitious, and she goes to the wall and beyond for the people she loves. She also has a stubborn streak about thirty miles wide, mostly inherited from her mother, though her mother will tell you that's my doing and that I cloned her. You've probably heard this theory, but I'm here to set you straight.

But Anya knows where she's going in life, what she wants and when she intends to have it. She has, despite my personal wishes for her, determined that she wants to marry you. I never believed Anya to be the type that would engage in 'puppy love', so I believe that she means it when she says that she wants to spend the rest of her life with you.

What I /don't/ have a firm grasp of, Steve, is what /your/ goals and ambitions are in life? I'm not asking for a five-year plan. I am asking if you've given thought to the man you intend to be apart from Anya. She is a very dominant personality and her mind works like mine. We see a problem, we assess it, strip it down and attack it. We don't let up until we have what we want. She's my heir, and I want only the best for her in every area of her life, Steve.

If you don't have your own plans and dreams, your own goals and hopes, you need to take a good, long look in the mirror and think about these things before this relationship goes any further. I cannot tell Anya who to love or be friends with. I do expect, however, that the people she chooses to love and befriend honor her in the way that she honors them: completely.

Am I being clear, Steve?" Tony asks.

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Re: The Next Day

swashbuckler
2011-01-10 01:25 am UTC (link)

"Crystal, Sir," Steve says, flatly.

"Now," he goes on, "I just got back from spending two years of my life fighting so that the human race has a chance, not even knowing if I was ever going to be here to have any kind of normal life again. So you'll have to forgive me if I don't have a ready answer for you about what I want to do with my life right now. Not being in a war zone takes some getting used to.

So you'll excuse me if I'm not exactly feeling charitable about being called on the carpet like this.

But if you think I'm some weak-willed punk who'll just let someone, anyone, Anya, or Charlie, or anyone, just run roughshod over me, then you're not as good a judge of character as I thought you were.

I'm not a planner. I see something, I react to it then and there. I'm a go with your gut kind of guy. I guess I get that from Dad. But there's a place out there for a guy with instincts.

So no, I don't know exactly where I'm going. But I've always been my own person. And when I do figure it out, I'll recognize it then and there, and I'll pounce on it.

What I do know for sure is that I love your daughter. And after having thought I'd lost her forever, there's nothing I'm more sure of than the fact that I want to spend the rest of my life with her. And nothing you do, no amount of scary father or scary billionaire, or friends in high places, or kill satellites you throw my way is going to change that."

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Re: The Next Day

nextgen_parent
2011-01-10 01:48 am UTC (link)

Tony listens to Steve's words, but even more, the conviction behind those words. Steve, like Stephanie, is practically the spitting image of his father, or in Stephanie's case, her other father. Tony can see the confidence in this young man, the old soul behind those haunted eyes and knows that Steve is telling him the truth about who he is, as well as his intentions with Anya.

It is this moment, and only now at this moment, that forces Tony to realize that it's time to let his baby girl go.

Tony stands up now, looking Steve in the eyes with a very business-like stare. A minute goes by, then another. In those minutes, Tony remembers who his daughter was before Steve Baron and who she is now, but also who Steve Barton was before he met Anya. His daughter found someone who made her happy, and want to be a better person. Someone who loved her in spite of (or because of) her Stark heritage.

Steve isn't backing down from him, which was what Tony wanted to see all along. If he didn't back down from Tony, Steve would never back down from Anya, especially if her Stark-genes started to override her good sense.

Tony steps back and extends his hand again to Steve Barton.

"I'll see you tomorrow afternoon, Steve. Enjoy the rest of your night." Tony says. Then he releases the grip and heads for the door, going to his lab to get started. Steve won't see it, but Tony Stark smiles as he leaves the room. He's found a man he can entrust his daughter to.

Welcome to the family, Steve.

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	Re: The Next Day swashbuckler 2011-01-10 01:59 am UTC (link)
	Of all the things Steve had expected in a reaction, that wasn't one of them. But he manages the presence of mind to hold the look and return the handshake. "Thank-you, Sir." He lets out a breath he wasn't even aware he was holding, and heads out to meet with Anya. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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