Chapter 4
Elizabeth grace stark or just Beth was never great with following orders.
After receiving the treatment that fixed her body and made her stronger she adamantly refused to work where the woman agent carter worked, instead preferring to stay by her younger brother tony.
After the treatment Beth’s dark brown hair had lightened to an amber color and instead of being limp it was wavy, her once dark and brooding green eyes had changed to a shamrock color with a ring of brown around the pupil making her eyes seem almost hazel.
She had also grown so now she was the same height as her brother instead of shorter than him by a foot and a half, she teased her brother about actually having grown larger than him by an inch but JARVIS had actually proven they were the exact same height down to the inch.
She played down the stories in the paper about her doing plastic surgery and all that BS instead choosing to live the high life with her brother and keep him mostly out of trouble, though she found she was unable to get drunk she didn’t care though she did look it up in the file, supposedly her metabolism burned twice as fast as normal.
While the serum was enough to fix her major health issues like her immunity and her defective heart, it didn’t fix everything, more often than not she still had to use her glasses to read, though it wasn’t as high of a prescription anymore, and shed get headaches from time to time but using her normal glasses or sitting in a dark room for a while was enough to take care of them.
She started working with her brother at the company, while she wasn’t as good or smart as him she still got a degree in engineering when she was 23.
R&D became her playground and she had fun though she didn’t get real big into the weapons, she designed the armor to protect the vehicles and soldiers, and the few times tony asked for help with the weapons she didn’t hide her complaints, the agent still tried to get her to join the agency she had retired from, but every time she refused.
The first time she didn’t is when tony was kidnapped by the ten rings.
Rodney was just walking toured a transport when she marched up to him “not this again” he said and she glared “don't even try it platypus, he's my little brother, I'm going” she marched passed him and into the plane “you’re gonna get me court marshaled!” he complained following her onto the plane “boo fucking hoo I’ll buy out the general and get you reenlisted with a bump in rank” the man fell silent the asked “up or down”
She looked at her and Tony’s longtime friend and smirked “depends on what mood I'm in” it didn’t have as much heat as it usually did so Rodney knew she was blaming herself for what happened to her brother, thinking if she had been there shed have been able to help her brother when in reality she would have wound up just as dead as the soldiers.
She saw all this running though his mind and realized even though he knew her and tony so well he didn’t know her at all.
Her brother had been gone for a month at this time, it took another two trying to find him, he was walking through the desert and the moment she saw him she bolted out of the plane even before it landed, she sank up to her calf in the sand but still ran toured her brother as he collapsed to his knees “god tony, tell me you’re alright, please please please say you’re ok”
Her arms surrounded her baby brother holding him tight enough she feared she hurt him, she herd him mutter some kind of affirmative and she pushed him away slightly, she wouldn’t deny the tears wetting her face then she saw the blood on his shoulders “my god” she whispered.
He pulled her hand away “you should see the other guys” he joked weakly she sniffed and pulled him close again their hands still trapped between them as she held on for dear life.