The Stark Paradox

"So, you and Mia... huh?" Tasha walked to the bar and ordered two glasses of wine for herself and the man she just met. Although it seemed that the other party was not in the mood to drink, there was always etiquette.She raised her eyebrows and raised her voice in a gossip tone, and when the other party lowered her head slightly in acquiescence, her tone became playful and ambiguous, "Oh... Dominic is really lucky that you didn't kill you?" You must know Dominic But he loves his sister very much.

After realizing that she couldn't get rid of this man, she stopped to inquire, and was surprised to find that he had some connection with her former friends, so she readily agreed to talk to him and chose the nearest one on the side of the road bar.

"Actually, this is a long story." The man named O'Connor watched Tasha raise the glass, and seemed to have the urge to stop, but in the end he didn't do so, but said another sentence, "I An FBI, Los Angeles Division."

"..." The connection between these words and the previous background really shocked Tasha a bit. She raised the cup to her lips and paused, but she still insisted on taking a sip.Feeling the slightly spicy taste in her mouth, she put down the glass and stretched out a finger, "Oh, it's really lucky that Dominic didn't kill you." This time she used a completely declarative tone without any emotion.

It she knew Dominique Tretto a few years ago when she was still at MIT, and what he did was not very legal. She ran a business in Los Angeles for a while, had a brief acquaintance, and then she founded Stark International, since then there has been no news of Treto, until today it has been five or six years.

However, no matter how long the time of no contact was, one thing Tasha was sure of was that Dominic was definitely not a person who liked to deal with notes.So it was self-evident what method the other party used to get close to him.

This made Tasha very unhappy.

"Yeah, I guess meeting Mia made me run out of luck in my life."

"..." Tasha looked at the other party's expression seriously when the other party said this, trying to figure out what the other party wanted to express, and then she realized that the other party's expression when he mentioned Mia was like Jane's. When Nate had to break up with Pym, Reed's expression when he broke with Sue during the Civil War.

It's a pity.

Playing undercover and playing yourself in this plot does not seem to only appear on the TV screen.

When Tasha was secretly thinking this way, she unknowingly missed the other party's words. When he came back to his senses, the other party looked at her with a sad expression.This made Tasha a little bit behind the plot and she made a hand gesture "Wait, what did you just say?"

"Letty is dead." The man named O'Connor repeated his central idea to her in the shortest possible language.And it used a tone of 'please mourn'.

She hates this kind of tone. When Howard and Maria died, others also used this tone to inform her, as well as Clint, Thor...

Her brain seemed to freeze for three seconds, and then she slowly began to digest the question. She smiled and shook her head, "It's impossible. I saw her a while ago."

"That's why I came to you, Ms. Stark." O'Connor sighed, looking at this expression that couldn't digest the news.It seemed that the other party didn't know anything, but he still finished the sentence, "I found out through my channel that she had been to New York once before she died, and she was photographed at a high-end dinner party."

"So?" Tasha frowned slightly.

"You're in no trouble, of course," O'Connor clarified. "Nothing happened at that dinner party. Whatever she was going to do, I guess you stopped her." Watching Tasha "But I'd like to know what happened, maybe it will help Letty's coroner's investigation."

"... Does Dominic know?" But Tasha didn't give him the answer he wanted, but continued to ask with a frown.

"...I don't know. Dominic has a big case, and the FBI has been looking for him." O'Connor shook his head. "...Mia presided over the funeral, but I didn't see him." But that doesn't mean he did not return.

O'Connor stuck that last sentence in his stomach.At the same time, he was also sure that his trip was indeed in vain... If the other party didn't even know about Treto's situation in recent years, then she probably didn't know about Letty either.So he stood up politely and nodded, he still had a case to solve urgently, "Then I'll go first, wasting your time, Ms. Stark." Then he was about to turn around and leave... But after thinking about it, he suddenly After a while, another gentle tone was changed, "If you have time, can you go and see Mia?"

"Of course." He quickly got a nodding answer from the other party.

*****

"Tasha, what happened?" Since Tasha followed the kid who followed them to the bar, the guy who came out did not follow them anymore, but Tasha's expression changed slightly.

And very suddenly asked him to drive to Los Angeles with her.

Of course, he would never object to Tasha's request, but obviously this was not a trip that was included in her itinerary, which made Jazz feel a little worried. He didn't know what that person said to her, and even Tasha Less obsessed with driving himself, asking him to go straight into autopilot.

"..." After a long silence, Jazz thought she would keep silent for so long... This is not a good sign, it means that the journey from New York to Los Angeles will be a long journey.

Slightly worried, he mobilized the internal surveillance camera, and then he noticed that Tasha's eyes had changed from a divine blue to a completely thick black—living with her for so long, if he still doesn't understand that Extremis is a What the hell, that was really a failure.

Then, he saw that from Tasha's nostrils, red blood slowly flowed out, spread across her lips and headed towards her neck.The other party was obviously immersed in the data flow and did not notice this problem.

The Jazz stepped on the brakes directly for this.

It is obviously unkind to step on the brakes casually on the highway. Although the Jazz has excellent performance and can achieve efficient braking, sudden braking is not a good feeling for people sitting in the car, especially if they are not wearing seat belts. .

Tasha's body jerked forward and hit the steering wheel.The shock was enough to tense that nerve in her brain.She got up from the steering wheel in a daze, her eyes turned back to blue, and she blinked "Oh... parking indiscriminately on the highway... Sir, do you need to retake your earth road traffic class?" Then she took a picture Tap the steering wheel "What's up, buddy?"

"I should ask you this, Tasha, is this normal?"

"Oh..." Tasha wiped her chin belatedly at this time, looked at the blood on her hands and curled her lips, "Maybe she hasn't had a good rest recently." Then she grabbed a tissue to stop the bleeding. nose "Let's go."

But obviously Jazz didn't listen to her this time, and stepped on the brake resolutely, "Are you sure everything is normal?"

"...well...not..." Realizing that Jazz's preparations are endless, she rubbed her aching temple and shook her head, "well, I'm not very good...no one will hear from their friends It feels good to be dead after the news."

Everyone has a time when they were young and frivolous, and when they were young, they did some stupid things and broke the law.Tasha was raised as an uneasy, crazy kid with a good mind, a rich family, and negligent parents-this could easily lead her to a less righteous path, and Tasha has always been I suspect that if it wasn't for being a girl, Howard might have given up on her long ago.

Apparently she never went through puberty in her life, and S.H.I.E.L.D. has always rated her as jealous, conceited, and mentally unstable.Captain America was also angry more than once for her disobedience in combat.

And since none of these can change her in the slightest, it is obvious that waking up from death once and discovering that she has returned to her youth and penniless can't change anything.

Tasha bought a used car with her first fortune, put it through a week of refitting -- even a genius can't improve any efficiency when there are few tools at hand -- and then drove her beat-up old car. The car went to win a Porsche.

She improved the illegal vehicles for the rich rich second generation, so that those incompetent guys have a sense of speed superiority, so as to earn her money to go to MIT.

Then she made a name for herself in this circle, and because of some things, she met Dominique Tretto, a gang leader who illegally raced cars.

Of course, instead of her real name, she used 'Natalie'.The Letty I met before also met at that time.

Dominic is a very disciplined person. He didn't mean to pull her into the gang, and Tasha didn't ask about his gang. They simply communicated through technology.Tasha has to admit that she likes this friend and feels guilty for hiding her identity.

It was hard to say whether her old friends now knew who she really was.And at least she said goodbye to her friends formally before the drag circle got serious about starting a business.

Tasha thought so relieved.

But, in truth, she felt no relief at all.

*******

Mia remembered Natalie...of course, she was a nice person, someone who knew cars, had a good relationship with her brother, and a good relationship with Letty.Her brother had invited Natalie to dinner a few times, and although it had been many years, she couldn't quite remember Natalie's face, but she couldn't mistake the face of the woman who rang her house at midnight .

Natasha Stark... this is a celebrity that pops up in the media and tabloids every now and then.

Then she dully realized a problem.

--Oh my God.

She didn't know whether she should cover her mouth to express shock at this moment, or hug the person in front of her... Considering that she had just lost someone who was like a relative a while ago, and the dusty person in front of her was obviously the same as her brother. Came for a purpose.