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My Best Girl (5/?)

Summary: Tony Stark and Pepper Potts fell in love as teenagers and had a kid, Maxine Stark, who would grow up to be a bio engineer. Here she was, now an adult and learning how to navigate the world she wanted to live in, as well as the one her father lived in. Enjoy these slices of life moments that happen throughout different periods of time along the MCU timeline.

Pairings: Tony Stark!Dad x OC Maxine Stark Steve Rogers x OC Maxine Stark (romantic pairing)

Chapter Index

TW: alcohol, angst, canon-level violence, cursing.

A/N: hiiii friends. had most of this sitting in my google docs for a while and just got the motivation and inspo to finish it up. This is one of my favorite scenes from all the avengers movies because it’s just so nice seeing them ~live life~ lol. I love these two so FUCKING much. Like they take up such a big part of my heart. Hope you enjoy this little chapter, let me know if you’d like to be tagged!

Word Count: 3.7k words

May 2nd 2015

The party at the Avengers tower was lively and loud. Close to 200 people were invited and that meant 300 people showed up. Tony wasn’t a stranger to these types of events, but it was out of his element not having Pepper there to help coordinate. Luckily Happy and Rhodey along with some of the maintenance staff really helped pull everything together.

“Where are the ladies?” Agent Hill joked.

“Pepper is off running a billion dollar company” Tony bragged.

“Jane is in some country or other. I believe she was nominated for a Nobel Peace prize.” Thor tried to one up Tony.

“and I’m right here.” Max’s voice chimed from behind them.

“Ah! My girl!” Tony cooed and wrapped his free arm around the girl as he lifted the other one with a drink in it.

Rhodes smiled at the girl he considered a niece. “Good to have you around, Max.”

“Yes, little Stark. It is a pleasure.” Thor smirked knowingly and corrected himself. “Max.” He lifted his drink and tucked his head a little to cheers her and apologize.

“What no galas, conventions or lab research tonight?” Tony said looking at his daughter who used those excuses many times in the past.

“I’m actually wrapping up my research for a bit so I can go along with about 7 other engineers and doctors to Sokovia.” She took a sip of her own drink hoping Tony didn’t flip out.

“What’s in Sokovia?” Rhodes asked, seemingly interested.

“About 100 amputees and thousands of underserved people who could benefit from the research we’ve already conducted. We unfortunately won’t be giving them restorative or regenerated limbs just yet but some will be a part of a trial while others we plan to provide them with advanced level prosthetics. I, personally, will be conducting the trials.” She explained.

Thor’s eyes widened in astonishment along with Rhodey while Agent Hill smiled.

Tony turned to the group, “My daughter, the helper.” He smiled knowing he had out done Thor.

“I’ll be making my rounds just wanted to say hi to dad.” Max interrupted their testosterone fest. She gave a quick kiss to her father as she slipped away into the crowd, starting conversations with the next group of people on her list of rounds.

Sam and Steve were walking up the stairs to the second floor of the party having a small conversation about this and that. As they reached the railing they began looking around at the party below them. It was out of both of their elements. Sam, who just entered into this life while Steve was still adapting to life out of the 40s.

Steve’s eyes traveled the room seeing all of his friends interacting and drinking, laughing and having a good time. His glance came to a halt when he saw her. The first thing catching his attention was her laugh. That fucking laugh. It gave him goosebumps hearing it again, along with flashbacks to the night they last spent together. Followed up by the rejection she gave him, which he was understanding of, but he’d lie if he said it didn’t hurt.

The second thing he noticed was the small band of color in her hair that most would miss at a glance, but not Steve. It was a signature for her. Then his eyes moved to the all black outfit she had on. A black tank top with lace peeking through tucked into black jeans. In a sea full of women who were in dresses, men in suits, she stood out while fitting in perfectly.

“You find a place in Brooklyn yet?” Sam’s voice brought Steve back to the moment in front of him.

“I don’t know if I can afford a place in Brooklyn.” Cap laughed.

“Yea,” Sam chuckled. “But hey, home is home.”

The comment made Steve move his eyes back over to the girl. The words Sam said repeated in his head until he decided to pull himself away and join Thor with a couple of the veterans Tony invited.

They began shooting the shit, talking, and drinking. Typical party behavior. Thor brought out a flask of liquor from Asgard for him and Steve, pouring it into their cups.

“Hello boys. Saving some for me?” Max’s voice caused Steve to look back where she was standing. He thought it’d be awkward, since the last time he saw her was that night. But he should’ve known better that Max wasn’t one to make anything weird.

“This is not a drink for mortal men.” Thor boomed with a smile. “Or women.”

“I’ll try my luck.” Her confidence was bold.

Thor nodded and gave the girl a healthy amount of the drink, but not nearly the amount he gave to Steve or himself.

“So little Stark, how have you been?” Thor asked now that he was able to really converse with the girl.

“Alright, you know just working.” She shrugged.

“You’re telling me, with your young life, your Stark life, you aren’t out having any fun?” Thor rolled his eyes.

Maxine’s eyes darted to Steve with a devilish glare, and then back to Thor. “Trust me, Thor. I have my share of fun.” Her hand raised to his arm as she leaned over and placed the finished drink in front of him. “Plenty of it.”

With that, she walked away to the railing and looked out over the party, much like Steve was earlier.

“That girl is trouble.” Thor laughed, finishing his own drink. “But she’s wildly smart.” He looked over at Steve. “Apparently she’s going to Sokovia to heal their people.”

Steve looked at Thor with a frown. “I thought she was working on that regenerative health project.”

“She’s taking that research and applying it over there, or something of that sort.” Thor briefly explained before he excused himself to sit on the couch.

Steve’s eyes moved over to the rail where the girl was now hunched over, not standing straight like before. He immediately made his way over to her.

“You alright?” He quickly moved his hand around her waist to help her stand up properly.

“I don’t feel so hot.” She said, gripping her hand around his shoulder to keep her balanced and standing.

“Alright, come on, I’ll get you some water.” He said maneuvering her against him so they looked normal side by side as they walked down the stairs.

“Don’t tell Thor.” She laughed as she clung to his side. “Or Tony.” She laughed again.

Steve chuckled at her comments. “I wouldn’t dare.” He plopped her onto the bar stool as he went to go get water for the girl across the bar.

She sipped the water and it brought life back into her. “So I guess he was right that stuff isn’t meant for us average women.”

“If you were to ask me you’re anything but average.” Steve said, sipping a beer he grabbed, still standing behind the counter.

“Are you flirting with me, Captain?” Max’s eyes opened a bit wider as her lips pressed against the bottle of water and she wiggled her eyebrows.

“Just stating facts, is all.”

There was a brief silence where the two just stared at each other for a minute before Steve spoke up.

“Heard you’re going to Sokovia.”

“Word travels fast around here. Tony’s learning from Pepper’s PR skills.” Max sighed. “I leave technically tomorrow.”

“Happy for you.” Steve kept his thoughts and comments short and brief not wanting to come off too strong. He did already flirt with her.

“Yea, I can see the happiness all over your face.” Max could read Steve like a book.

“It’s not that.” Steve shook his head. “I just don’t want you to think I’m coming on too hard.”

“I haven’t heard from you in over two years, Rogers.” Max shook her head. “If that’s you coming onto me, things were really different in the 40’s.”

Before Steve could respond he was being called over to a group of people.

“I’ll be right back.” He said with sympathetic eyes.

“I’ll be right here.” She moved her arms across the table.

The minute he had his back turned the girl was leaning over the table, grabbing herself a beer without waiting for the bartender to return. The action itself earned her a very awkward and uncomfortable conversation from someone who liked her “boldness” and “not like other girls” vibe.

The man moved his hand up to touch the girl's bare arm when she jerked it away. As she jerked back, about to go off on the man, she felt another set of arms wrap over her shoulders.

“Hey Rumlow, thanks for keeping my girl company over here.” Steve was towering over the man while holding Max close. “But I got it from here. Why don’t we get out of here, Stark?” He looked down at the girl and back to Rumlow who was standing there with annoyance in his eyes until he heard the word Stark.

“Stark?” He looked at the girl. “Maxine Stark. Bio Engineer and daughter to Tony Stark.” She smiled and wrapped her other hand around Steve so she was engulfed in a hug with him.

“Excuse me.” Rumlow properly left as the two moved upstairs.

“I thought you were trying not to come on too hard.”

“I thought you didn’t feel too hot.” Steve pointed to the beer.

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The Avengers, Agent Hill and Max were now all gathered in the upstairs lounge scattered across the multiple couches. The party had died down and it was just them relaxing and having a good night. Max was sitting on the floor leaning next to Cap’s leg, back to drinking like normal.

They began joking about Thor’s hammer, all of them claiming they would wield the weapon.

“Little Stark?” Thor pointed to the hammer. “I doubted you once today, but seemingly the liquor didn’t affect you too hard.” He frowned.

She smiled and squeezed Steve’s calf as she responded.

“What can I say, I'm not your average woman. But I think I’ll sit out the King Arthur moment, thanks.”

“Steve?” Thor questioned and the man got up. He took a couple seconds to roll up his sleeves.

“Go ahead Steve, no pressure.” Tony said sarcastically.

“Whoo, bring it home, Cap.” Max clapped as she adjusted her position.

Steve gripped hard and for a half of a half second the hammer seemed to wiggle slightly but no such luck lifting it. Steve lifted his hands in surrender and walked back to his seat where Max settled in against his leg again.

“That shit is rigged.” Tony said annoyed.

“Steve, he said a bad language word.” Agent Hill joked.

“Did you tell everyone about that?” Steve asked Tony with a hint of annoyance and humor in his tone.

“You did the bad word thing again?” Max looked up at him.

“Oh this is common behavior?” Agent Hill lifted her eyebrows.

“In D.C. he did the same thing to me when–” Max realized she let out too much information but it was too late to go back now. “When I dropped my coffee.” She lied straight out of her teeth. She felt Steve tense up underneath her and she quickly moved off of him.

A couple eyes moved to Tony as the tension filled the room. “You two hung out in D.C., huh?” He asked now standing versus sitting.

“I ran into him at Starbucks before the Biotech Convention.” Max answered calmly, trying to keep her voice level.

“Interesting.” Tony said, turning back to Bruce and Clint who he was talking with a couple seconds prior.

A loud shrieking noise that hit everyone's ears caused the conversation to come to an immediate halt. An ominous voice was heard by the doors that caused them all to settle down. A rogue robot came from the shadows, dripping oil on the ground and it’s wires sparking. Everyone stood up slowly, getting in a stance of defense.

“Stark.” Steve called out to Tony as he pushed Max behind him.

The robot started talking about it’s plan, the reason for its purpose, and how it had killed someone.

“You killed someone?” Steve stepped forward again, still keeping his hand behind him to shield Max.

“Dad.” Max called out to Tony who was frantically on his phone and remote trying to deactivate the robot.

Robots began flying out from every corner of the room. Steve quickly thinks on his feet, literally, by kicking a table at them which ended up sending him and Max backwards. He grabbed the woman in the air pulling her so she’d fall on him and just as they hit the ground he pushed her under a table and immediately jumped onto one of the robots in the air.

Max wasn’t one to sit idle while the heroes played. She crawled to one of the tiles she knew held internal wiring and smashed the glass container open, exposing them. She quickly dissected which wire did what before cutting down a couple wires with the knife she kept on her. This powered down two of the robots but it confused her why it didn’t shut down what she thought was Jarvis completely.

As she got up she was met face to face with a suit that was cut in half, it’s hand up ready to blast her through the window, which if the hit didn’t kill her, the fall down 81 floors would. The robot scanned the girl’s face and said the girl's name.

“Maxine Stark. Not a threat but related to the threat.”

Before it could finish it’s statement, Steve was taking it apart with his bare hands.

The remaining robots were put down by the Avengers, the last one standing was Ultron. Max quickly ran to her father’s side to help him up off the ground, assessing his wounds as Ultron continued talking.

“I’m fine.” Tony waved her off and made his way over to Ultron.

Max moved back over behind Cap, she hated being afraid but when you were going up against artificial intelligence, having no super powers per say made you a pretty easy target. Her arm reached up to grab Steve’s bicep as she hid behind him. It was an act of nerves but also to let him know she was there. His head turned to look, giving her a glance over before he turned his attention back to the robot.

“There is only one path to peace…The Avenger’s Extinction.”

With that, Thor’s hammer was being thrown through the air and the collision of that against the suit had clanked extremely loud, causing Max to jump and grip onto Steve even harder. His hand instinctually pushed her completely behind him and he brought his shield up to protect them both from any debris, even though he would have easily taken debris to the face to protect Max.

After the initial shock of the noise was gone, Steve was looking at Thor in disappointment almost, probably wishing he had a couple more seconds to ask a few more questions to the threatening suit.

Steve quickly turned around and looked at the girl making sure there were no marks on her, and she shook him off.

“I’m fine, Cap.” she smiled and squeezed his hand. And while that was true, it didn’t stop Steve from wiping the small amount of blood that had dripped down her face from a miniscule cut. It wasn’t a big deal, in fact, it honestly could’ve happened anywhere, anyhow. But Steve knew how it happened and that boiled his blood.

The group of them gathered in Tony’s lab. There was tension, there were arguments. All their work was gone, Ultron cleared them out. Between that, the fight, the fact Tony went behind their backs, and the chance that the evil AI could access nuclear codes, it was all just a lot to take in. Max was now in an oversized hoodie, hair up and out of her face, a butterfly bandage over the cut, which was an over exaggeration but insisted on by Tony, Cap, and Natasha. She was looking over the computers with Bruce, trying to dissect exactly what happened and what was next.

“He said he wanted us dead.” Natasha explained.

“He didn’t say dead, he said extinct.” Steve said, hands resting on his hips. A tell-tale sign that he was angry. “He also said he killed somebody.”

“There wasn’t anyone else in the building,” Agent Hill spoke up as she patched up her foot.

“Yes there was.” Tony spoke for the first time since they entered the lab, throwing up JARVIS’ AI program to the hologram.

Max gasped. It was a weird feeling, while JARVIS wasn’t a real human, he had been a part of her life for a large portion of it. He was family. And now, he was gone.

Bruce and Max stood over the hologram, Bruce more so taking it all in while Max was looking around figuring out if there was anything salvageable, anything they could do to bring any trace of JARVIS back.

“JARVIS was the first line of defense.” Cap understood as his arms crossed against his chest. “He would have shut Ultron down.”

“No, Ultron could have assimilated Jarvis. This isn’t strategy, this is rage.” Bruce answered.

“There’s gotta be a way to bring him back?” Max was now crouched down looking at the bottom trying to piece together something.

“Not worth your time.” Tony barked, causing Max to stand up, a little hurt.

Max was going to snap back to him but Thor was stomping his way into the lab and over to the older Stark, grabbing him by his neck and holding him up in the air.

A squeal left Max’s mouth and out of habit she went to help her father. While she understood Thor’s rage, she couldn’t condone it.

Steve stepped in quickly, leaving Max to tend to her dad, who brushed her off again as he stepped back up to Thor explaining how the situation was funny. A hoot even. Classic Stark way of trying to prove that they’re right and everyone else can’t see the bigger picture.

“Dad. Maybe we should cool down.” Max said.

Tony laughed and turned around. “You’re out of here. Next flight out, that’s where you are, in fact I’ll get you a Private Jet, no waiting around, you’re gone.”

Steve was quick now to defend the girl, but in his own way.

“The avengers were supposed to be different than SHEILD.” Steve stepped closer to Tony.

That was one thing that would never get old to Max, the fact that Rogers was never scared to stand up to her father. For her, for himself and for the greater good. She appreciated that.

After a few more back and forths, Steve bringing the hope to the conversation, mentioning they’ll deal with it together and they’ll lose together if it came to that, Tony walked out.

Steve approached Max, now that half the room had dispersed.

“You alright?” His hand reached up to touch the cut on her face but so lightly it almost tickled her. Max’s eyes closed as she leaned into his touch.

“I’m fine.” She hummed.

“I don’t just mean the cut, I mean you.” Steve let his hand drop as he looked down at the girl.

“That was nothing, trust me. Tony and I have a complicated father daughter relationship, and in all honesty that was one of our more calmer toe to toes.” Max explained.

Steve nodded, not believing it but not going to push her since she’d been through a lot tonight.

“So what’s your plan? You can set up in my room at the tower if you want? Get some rest, I can take one of the spare rooms, no problem.” Steve kindly offered.

Max felt her heart grow a size but was quick to make it go back to normal size.

“Thank you, really, but no.” She took a deep inhale. “I’m on a flight to Sokovia. 1AM. Technically tomorrow, remember? That was always the plan. Dad knew that but if he can throw something in my face and make it seem like his idea, he can’t miss out on that opportunity.” She chuckled and looked down at her feet.

“You’re going to go back to work?” Steve worrily asked.

“I’m a Stark, remember?” Her eyes met his, and she wiggled her eyebrows to ease the tension.

Steve wanted to argue it but he knew he wouldn’t win, so he figured he’d take the sweeter approach, “It was good to see you.”

“It was good to see you. Don’t go that long without talking to me again.” She pointed at him.

Steve laughed and nodded. “I can take you to the airport if you want?” Now he was just reaching for any excuse to elongate their goodbye, any opportunity to get one more minute with the girl.

“Max, let’s go, Happy’s downstairs, he’s got your bags packed.” Tony had reentered the lab to inform the girl and waved the tablet in the air that showed Happy waiting in the first floor lobby.

“I’m coming.” She said in a normal tone as he exited again leaving the two of them now completely alone in the room with the large amount of tension between them.

Their eyes stared at each other and Max decided to break through the wall of tension in a split second and hug the man. “Thanks for everything today.” The hug was over just as fast as it began. Steve was practically reaching out to reconnect the hug, to feel the girl in his arms again but she was already walking out of the lab.

Steve stole one more glance at her hoping to catch her smile one last time, before turning around defeated, which is exactly when Max looked back over her shoulder trying to steal one more look at him before leaving but also feeling defeated as he was already with his back to her.

That was typical for the two of them, though. Right place, wrong time. Right time, wrong place. All in all…just missing the opportunity, yet again, that potentially could have changed their lives.

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