Hello. i'm sorry for the wait. now, if you have any ideas, comments, or questions for me that you want answered just PM me and i will answer (hopefully) by the end of the day. also If you have read percy jackson and the olympians i highly suggest my other story"when mechanics meet". it is about tony stark finding out that his mother had another child without the knowledge of tony or his father howard. that child was raised by her father,sammy valdez. she had a child herself. his name was leo valdez. I hope you like both stories and don't forget to review. I want you to criticize this story so that it can be the best that it could be. don't forget to review! :)

Silence filled the room after my unintended outburst. Then footsteps. I looked for possible means of escape but there was none. I would have to face this like a man. Or actually like a woman because I am a girl but you know what I mean. " Creeeeeeeeeck" The noise of the cabinet being opened next to me was heard throughout the room. Any thoughts of the possibility that they may not find the cabinet that I was in left my mind. They WILL find me. Then all of the sudden I was jerked forward. "Ow" I grunted as my head hit the front of the pull out cabinet.

"Well, well. Look at what we have here a little spy…" I glared at him with the ferey of a lion. If looks could kill he would be dead for sure. I have practiced that look on Edward several different times.

"I'm not a 'little' spy. I'm 15. Thats not little" I grumbled with annoyance. I hate it when people treat me like a little kid. It happens all the time at the orphanage.

"Whatever kid." Tony Stark then grabbed her arm and jerked her out of the cabinet and into the open. " Who are you and how do you know my identity?" Tony said keeping his eyes on the 15 year old.

" I WAS RIGHT! YOU ARE TONY STARK!" I said with a victorious look in my eyes. I had guessed correctly.

"How did you figure it out?" He asked with shock clearly on his face

"It wasn't that hard you know. your fake name is Mr. Star which is one letter away from Stark, you have a Stark-phone that looks like the one that they are advertizing to come out in a few months, you're name is tony, you said you live in a tower, extracurricular activities which is obviously Iron man, you talked about a team, and the expensive looking wedding ring." I stated in a tone that said isn't-this-so-obvious.

"what on earth are you doing here" he asked me.

"I live here, If you haven't noticed yet. I thought they said you were a genius?'' I retorted. I just loved to get on peoples nerves. It was one of my most favorite pastimes here at the orphanage.

He rolled his eyes at me and said,''I meant what are you doing here in this ROOM?"

''I could ask you the same thing. What is the great Tony Stark doing adopting a kid at this orphanage? Huh?" I questioned him. I was acting like I didn't care if he was here or not, but I cannot fool myself. I will never be able to say that I wasn't curious as to what Tony Stark was doing in this dump of a orphanage.

" Well if you must know, I want a child. Why else would I be here." he said.

" Can't you just have one with Pepper, Your wife?"

"How did you know I had a wife and how did you know that her name was Pepper" Tony quizzed me. Is he really that stupid? I mean she is right next to him and they are adopting TOGETHER and they both had on wedding rings. also Is he forgetting that he said her name just a matter of minutes ago?

Before i could respond, pepper cut in and said," I'm right here Sweetie. It is kind of obvious that we are married. We both have identical wedding rings and you just said my name just moments before." She then turned to me and said," I'm sorry. Boys, even Genius billionaires, can be sooooo clueless at times" She said with a smile. "And as to your question on why we were adopting, sadly I cannot have children."

"Oh." I said with a look of sympathy and understanding. "Were you born like that?"

"No." she sighed sadly. when she noticed my confused look she added," I'm married Tony Stark. Dangerous stuff happens. I got kidnapped and they infused me with this serum that lets me light myself on fire. When I feel too much pain or if i get too agitated I accidently light on fire. It would be too dangerous with the baby. I highly doubt that I can make it 9 months without lighting on fire and If I were to go into labor it would be so painful that I would surely catch on fire. In the process burning the baby alive. So it is way too dangerous to even attempt to have kids." she concluded.

Out of all of the things that I thought she would say, that was not one of them.

"Soooo, this little chit chat is getting annoying and you still haven't answered my question as to what on earth you were doing in the cabinet." Tony asked me while he tapped the cabinet with his foot pushing it back in a bit.

"Well...Um….I recognized you from somewhere and I was curious to where I saw you from." They nodded in understanding.

"Why didn't you stay with the other kids. Don't you want to be adopted. We never even got the chance to meet you." Pepper asked. Tony nodded to her question as if he were thinking the exact same thing.

I looked at them like they were crazy. Which I guess they are if they thought that I didn't want to be adopted."Of course I want to be adopted. But every time i'm in that room not a single parent has spoken to me. They all rush to the little kids. They don't care about the older kids. You don't care about the older kids. No one wants us." By now I was angry. "All you adopters have ever done is build up my hopes just to brutally tear them down again as you tak e home a younger kid. noone wants us. no one wants me." But my anger turned to sadness as tears welled up in my Violet eyes. "My mother died and my father didn't want me… My mom was the only one who wanted and truly cared about me. So I have no reason to believe that anyone else might even think about me." I said as big hot tears rolled down my cherry red cheeks. I only shedded a few more tears before I regained my composure and started to head towards the door.

"I never did catch your name." Tony said as I reached for the door handle.

"Valerie, Valerie Roswell." I responded dryly.

"Well Valerie, you are one lucky GIrl." he said cheerfully

" What's so lucky about Me? I'm just an orphan" I reminded him with a suspicious glare his way.

"No, former orphan." he said smugly while my violet eyes shined with shock.

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