Convincing Stark *COMPLETE* | By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter Crossovers > Het - Male/Female Views: 4840 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Hermione had gotten up earlier than everyone else, she made a nice healthy breakfast with eggs, sausage, bacon as well as some fruit and freshly squeezed orange juice and some coffee. She floated all the food to the nearest conference room (his apartment had more than one) and then ran back to her room asking JARVIS to wake Tony and tell him that he had a meeting. Once he was doing that she changed in to a silk skirt that was above the knee and a matching blouse that was a little too low cut for her liking but wouldn’t look planned.
“Ah” Tony said, as he walked in the conference room in a hastily buttoned up white shirt and black slacks “When JARVIS claimed he didn’t know who my meeting was with I thought it was a bit odd, but I see you’ve been messing with his database with your magic”
“I couldn’t even begin to imagine how to use my magic to influence JARVIS” Hermione told him as she floated a plate filled with a little bit of everything over to him “His personality is all his own, the jealousy, pettiness, sarcasm and flirtation…yeah, that has nothing to do with me”
“It appears that he’s got everything except a body” Tony said, sitting down and looked at the food “But I’m working on that”
“Why?” She asked “Why give him a body?”
“Because I’m bored” He answered “So, why are you serving me breakfast in a conference room so early in the morning?”
“It’s 9 o’clock” She told him “Only early to you” She hesitated for a moment “I want to talk to you about Malfoy, Inc. I want…”
“I want” He talked over her “I want to talk to you about working for me”
“Work…for you?” Hermione repeated “Doing what?”
“I don’t know” He answered honestly “An assistant of sorts, helping me navigate a world of magic” He appeared pretty please with himself for thinking of that one on his own.
“Oh” Hermione thought for a moment “So you are interested in joining Malfoy, Inc.?” She knew that wasn’t what he said but that didn’t matter “When you do join you’ll get a magical assistant”
“That’s not…” He started.
“She or he will make sure that you get all the books you need” Hermione continued on quickly “Plus bring you to magical places that hold significance, it’ll be like a magical tour guide…”
“Hermione!” Tony snapped, causing her to jump in her seat and look at him “Stop. That’s not what I met and you know it” Hermione bit her lip and looked away at the food across the room “Why are you pushing so hard for me to join Malfoy…I didn’t like them. They obviously can’t function without you holding their hands and…” He’d have to tread carefully here because he didn’t want her to know that he’d been eavesdropping “I just…feel that they don’t treat you right, that they only use you and soon they’ll cut you free with no more than a passing glance”
“They won’t…” Hermione started but her conversation with Ginny was still fresh in her mind. Ginny was correct in her assumption that while Lucius had changed, he hadn’t changed that much and was still a Slytherin to boot which meant that he would do whatever was necessary “I don’t think they would…”
“I am offering to do business with you” Tony told her “I’ll give you the start-up fee for our company. We can make things for the magical and the regular world, you could take the worlds by storm…with me”
“I’ll think about it” Hermione promised him “Is that a suitable answer?”
“It will have to be” He smiled “Would you like to go Christmas shopping with me today?”
“Oh…you don’t strike me as the type to shop for Christmas” Hermione snorted “But, yes. I have a few people I still need to shop for, including Ginny”
“Good” He answered standing up from the table “You’re a very good cook and we will leave at eleven”
“O…Okay” Hermione stuttered, feeling a little like she’d just lost some kind of match “I’ll be ready”
~~((@))~~
Ginny roared with laughter as Hermione pulled on a pair of tall stylish winter boots over her tight jeans. She’d been laughing for almost twenty minutes, claiming that Hermione had just been hypnotized by Stark in a matter of minutes. Hermione tried to, unsuccessfully, tell her what really happened but the red-haired witch was far too amused to listen. She scowled at the younger woman as she pulled on a light blue sweater and then re-braided her hair.
“Are you quite finished?” She asked, tapping her foot in annoyance.
“I’m sorry” Ginny giggled a little.
“Mr. Stark doesn’t want that kind of relationship with me” Hermione assured her “He just wants to be decent and help me”
“And hopefully” Ginny said with a devilish grin “Get a blow job”
“GINNY!” Hermione hit her “I hate you so much” The clock told her that she still had about fifteen minutes so she deflated down on to the bed “Now, that’s all I’ll be thinking about”
“Just think about his huge…” Ginny started but Hermione hissed at her “Finances helping you take on the world” She smiled at her friend “At least think about working with him, Hermione. Remember what I said about Lucius using the thing you want most to make his family name look better”
Hermione promised that she would then happily fled the bedroom. Her happiness was short lived as her nerves took over, it would be the first time she’d be alone with Tony and she found herself as nervous as she’d been while getting ready for the Yule Ball with Viktor. What would they talk about, would they have anything in common and more importantly would he hound her for an answer to the question he’d asked earlier. However, they met at the door and got in the car with hardly any conversation, the drive was uneventful, he seemed lost in his own thoughts so she allowed herself to get lost in hers as well. She entertained the idea of only going to England to say goodbye to her friends, coming back to New York and living with Tony. Helping him acclimate to the new world that was being opened to him, it made her smile but she knew in her heart that she would never be able to leave her beloved England for too long.
“What are you thinking about?” Tony asked as they neared an underground parking lot “You look all serious”
“Just thinking that if I join you in the business endeavor” Hermione told him honestly, he opened her door for her a second later with a smirk on his face “I’ll have to leave England”
“Why?” He asked “I work from the comfort of my own workshops, I can work from any country and Bruce will follow me wherever I go”
“And Steve?” She asked, surprised by his words “What about him?”
“He can come with us” Tony answered, leading her in to the nearest store “Or he can stay here, doesn’t matter”
Shopping took longer than it would have if Hermione had been alone. She always chose presents that had a practical use, a sweater for the cold or a jacket and gloves, a pillow if one is needed. Tony on the other hand bought pointless and overly expensive presents like a set of diamond hair clips for Ginny. He then insisted on paying for everything that she picked out, they fought over that but he won she picked out a sensible cream colored sweater for her friend Tony pushed and pushed and soon she was leaving the store with a whole wardrobe for the girl and feeling ridiculous. Over the course of a few hours Hermione got loads of presents for Harry, Ron and even Draco plus Molly and Arthur though she was sure the real present for Arthur would be when he got to meet Tony in person.
“When did this start?” Hermione asked him as they walked towards where his car was parked ignoring the clicks of cameras, she was looking down at their hands which had become joined at some point.
“I don’t know” Tony said with a small grin, he knew when it happened. They’d been leaving the last store about three miles away and she slipped on some ice, he caught her hand to keep her from falling and she never pulled it away. He’d been too giddy about the ability to hold her hand to let go or say anything about it so he left it alone “Is it okay?”
“If we’re going to be working together” Hermione said, only just now accepting the position of working with him aloud “I don’t think it’ll be such a good idea to hold hands, flirt or date”
“Oh” He said, she pulled her hand away from his and he opened the car door clenching his teeth. He hadn’t given the thought of dating getting in the way of business any consideration “I guess you’re right”
~~~((@))~~~
Hermione got back to the apartment later than planned, she’d had a good time but she felt the sudden drop in temperature between them after the holding hands fiasco. She thought she was making a good decision, one shouldn’t mix business and pleasure because that was when things got tricky. As she walked further in to the apartment a small voice in the back of her head pointed out that she’d actually been entertaining the idea of marrying Draco…wouldn’t that have been mixing business and pleasure? She knew that Tony was mad at her, he wouldn’t look at her, stopped conversing even but that was how she felt and she refused to be bullied by him…maybe deciding to work for him wouldn’t be such a good idea.
“JARVIS” Tony greeted as they walked off of the elevator “Find someone to wrap the presents I bought”
“I can do it” Hermione offered.
“No” Tony said “JARVIS…find someone” With that he walked towards his workshop, leaving the witch to stare helplessly after him in confusion.
“He has me hire people that are looking for work or homeless, Miss Granger” JARVIS informed her “He pays them very generously”
“Oh” Hermione said “Thank you, JARVIS” She picked her bags up and made her way to her bedroom, she put her hand on the handle of the door leading in when there was a light buzz.
“Miss Granger” JARVIS said “I wouldn’t go in there…”
Hermione ignored his words and pushed the door open, flicking the light on at the same time she entered the room. Her mouth dropped open with a surprised shriek as the scene slowly started to make sense to her, Bruce had fallen off of the bed and was pulling a blanket around him. Ginny was lying in the bed pulling a sheet up red faced and giggling while Banner tried to stutter out an excuse as to why he was in there. Having dropped the bags now, Hermione covered her face laughing and muttering ‘oh my god, oh my god’ repeatedly, finally she turned and walked out of the room leaving the bags where they fell and closing the door. Tony was jogging towards the bedroom when Hermione walked out, she was still red-faced and laughing, of all the things she’d expected to see when walking in to the room, Banner and Ginny having sex hadn’t even been on the radar.
“I told you not to go in there, Miss” JARVIS said in a dry sort of tone.
“What’s going on?” Tony asked, Hermione could see the iron glove that was covering his hand as his eyes danced around the apartment waiting for danger “What’s happened?”
“Nothing to concern yourself with” Hermione laughed.
“Hermione” Ginny came out tying her robe with Banner, doing up his pants, walking behind her “I am so sorry, I didn’t realize that you’d be home and JARVIS never warned us”
“It’s okay” Hermione said around another bout of hysterical laughter.
“You guys were…” Tony looked like he was going to be sick “In my apartment?”
“One of us should be” Bruce muttered.
“Where is our Nanny-Goat?!” Tony asked, Hermione knew from stories from the last couple days that ‘nanny-goat’ was a term of ‘affection’ that they used when referring to Steve as he usually made sure they were making good choices.
“I don’t know” Bruce answered, Tony walked off and with a small embarrassed smile at both women Bruce followed him to find out what his problem was. Tony never missed a chance to pick at Bruce for one reason of another so obviously something was off.
“Shall we talk?” Hermione asked with a sigh “I have a feeling we both need to”
“Yes, we do” Ginny bounced down the hallways giggling.
A/N: Took forever but I have been busy with life so here it is and I hope you guys like it. Please review!!!!
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