I sighed as I was making my way to dad's lab through the recently wrecked house. I passed agent Coulson as he has walking in the opposite direction.

" Agent Coulson." I acknowlaged him.

" Miss Stark." He greeted me.

" Is dad in his lab?" I asked and ran my hand through my red-brown hair. It's a nervous habit.

He nodded.

" Yes. He's currently going through his father's stuff. You might want to join him." He told me and walked away.

" Grandpa Howard's stuff?" I murmured.

Okay. This I simply had to see.

I reached the door and put in the code. I saw dad briefly looking at a blueprint and putting it away.

" Dad?" I said carefully.

He turned to look at me. I smiled weakly. Things were kinda rocky between us right now. Well, he wrecked our house the other night fighting Rhodey, so it was no wonder.

" Hey. Look, I'm really sorry about yesterday. I put everyone in danger. Especially you. I'm so sorry, Bri." Dad said. I saw on his face that he was really worried.

I shrugged.

" What's done is done. I just wish you had told me." I said and took a seat on the floor next to him.

He made a grimace.

" Not an easy thing, telling someone you're dying. Someone you love, at that."

Good point

" What's all this?" I asked, changing the subject.

He pulled an old film out of the box.

" Some stuff my old man left behind." Dad said and pulled the film out of its packaging. There was also a projector, which he took out as well.

" Help me set it up."

We got up and set up the projector and put the film in. It started playing granpa Howard's speech about how everything was achievable through technology. Then there were some outtakes.

" And now on behalf of everyone here at Stark Industries, I would personally like to show you...my ass."

I smirked at that. Dad took his eyes off the screen for a moment a took a sip from his drink.

" Tony." Howard said into the camera. Both of us turned our head to the wall on which the picture was. Dad's eyes went a little wide. Granpa continued.

" You're too young to understand this right now, so I thought I would put it on film for you. I built this for you."

He gestured at the Stark Expo model behind him.

" At some point you'll realize it represents a whole lot more than just people's inventions. It represents my life's work. This is the key to the future."

I looked at dad briefly. He didn't move one muscle. Hearing granpa Howard talk to him like this was something that didn't happen very often, if ever, when he was a kid.

" I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out. And when you do, you will change the world. What is and always will be my greatest creation, is you."

And with that the film ended. I could swear I could see dad's eyes glistening. I gently took his hand.

" See? He loved you." I whispered.

Dad cleared his throat.

" Yeah. He could've shown or told me that from time to time." He said when his voice came back to him.

Touché.

" So what now?" I asked.

"Now I'm going to my office to pick up that expo model. If it's the key to the future, I wanna see it. And maybe it could cure me from the paladium poisoning. It's all I got right now." Dad said and grabbed his car keys.

" Want me to come with?" I asked him.

" No, I got it. Entertain yourself in the meantime. When I get back, we have work to do." And with that, he left.

I sighed. I loved working with him, but I was afraid this was going to be different. That he would get frustrated and explode in anger. It was his life, after all. I had JARVIS play my favorite TV show and watched two episodes when dad called me.

" Yeah." I said, picking up.

" Come up and give me a hand with this, will ya?"

" Comming." I said and ended the call.

We put the 1974 Stark Expo model together and looked at it for a bit.

" JARVIS, if you'd kindly scan this, I need a manipulatable projection." Dad told JARVIS.

The A.I. did as told.

" 1974 Stark Expo model scan complete, sir."

Dad took a swivel chair and sat on it. He flipped the model scan so that it was facing us.

" What does that look like to you, Briana?" Dad asked me.

" Looks like an atom." Was my answer.

" That is correct. In which case, the nucleus would be here. Highlight the unisphere." JARVIS did just that and dad made the unisphere bigger. We both kept looking at it.

" Lose the footpaths. Get rid of them." Dad said and swiped them away with his hand.

" What is it you're trying to achieve, sir and miss Stark?"

" We are discovering, correction, we are rediscovering a new element." Dad said.

" Lose the landscaping and the shrubbery there. Trees." I said

" Parking lots. Exits, entrances." Dad carried on.

" Structure the protons and neutrons" dad said.

" Using the pavilons as a framework." We finished together.

JARVIS didi all that and we looked at the model. Then dad threw it all around us with his hands. You could see all the atoms. I smiled. This could work.

" Dead for almost twenty years. Still taking me to school." Dad said.

" The proposed element should serve as a viable replacement for paladium."

Dad laughed and clapped his hands together, making the model a small glowing blue ball.

" Thanks, dad."

" Yeah. Thanks, granpa Howard." I said.

" Unfortunetally, it is impossible to synthesize."

Dad stood up.

" Uh huh. Get ready for a major remodel, fellas, we're back in hardware mode." He called to the robots and me, I guess. I smiled. This was going to be great. And epic.

Some time later it turned out I was right. We were able to synthesize the element and it worked with the new arc reactor perfectly. It even cured dad's paladium poisoning. I couldn't be happier.

Then the showdown with Vanko happened, but fortunetally dad managed to survive that. With Rhodey's help. You could say it all ended well. We were a family again.

Yeah, I'm guilty of enjoying Tony's daughter fanfics. Here's some info about Briana, because I'm weird like that.

Name: Briana Juliet Stark

Actress I based her on: Katherine McNamara

Eyes: Light brown

Hair: Red-brown

Father: Anthony Edward Stark (obviously)

Mother: Bethany Camilla Cabe (deceased)