What if...

...Tony adopted Harley in Iron Man 3 (part 1)

2013
Harleys pov

I walk through the doors of my shed/lab but when I step through I see a familiar face

"Tony!" I shout and run over to hug him "what are you doing here?"

"I've spoke to your mother, Kid" he says looking down at me "she's given me permission to take you to New York to live with me and pepper, only if you want to of course"

"Yes!" I shout "I'd love to"

"Ok cool" Tony says smiling "we'll move your stuff later, let's go"

"Now?" I say "ok let's go"

I say and follow him out the door

2014

I've been living with Tony and pepper for a year and they want me to start school so they're sending me to a private middle school in Queens for really smart people so I should fit in Tony said

I walk into the front door after leaving the car happy brought me in

As I walk down the hall people stare because they know I'm "Tony's kid" as people call me but I still go by keener and spend a lot of time back in Rose Hill with my family during the holidays

I walk into the reception where I'm supposed to meet a student who will show me around

"Hi you must be Harley Stark" the reception says and I roll my eyes, this happens a lot

"My name is Harley Keener" I say "Tony is my guardian but my mom and sister still live in Tennessee"

"Oh I'm sorry Mr Keener" the receptionist says "Flash here is going to show you around and here is your timetable and locker number" I take the two pieces of paper

"Thank you" I say and walk over to the boy who looks around my age

"Hi I'm Flash" the brown haired boy says "you're Harley yeah?"

"Yeah it's nice to meet you flash"

Flash shows me around the school and brings me to my locker, we quickly find out that we both have almost the exact same time table so we stay with each other for the rest of the day

Flash seems pretty cool and turns out he's popular so by the end of the day I've made loads of friends which is pretty surprising because back in Tennessee I had like 2 kinda close friends and I was bullied a lot

I love it here already

2016

Flash and I have been best friends for years now and we're starting high school now

Everyone knows that Tony Stark was like a dad to me for ages and in the last year him and pepper officially adopted me when my mom said I was no longer Weldon with them in Tennessee

I walk through the doors of Midtown tech my new High School, me and Flash both got lockers next to each other because of my dad

We both have the same teacher for home room, Mr Dell

"Hello class" he says when everyone is sitting down "we all know we have a somewhat celebrity in our midst, Harley Stark, you are very welcome to our humble abode"

I just stare at the teacher mortified and I see flash snicker so I look at him and mouth 'what the fuck' he just shakes his head with a chuckle

"So anyway, class I'll call the attendance and then Ms Ayres will make the announcements" Mr Dell continues "Liz Allen"

"Here"

"Betty Brant"

"Here"

"Michelle Jones Watson"