nextgen_adult:

Friends in high places are wonderful things.  It's even better when they owe you.

The men loyal to Tony Stark have mostly been weeded out over this last month.  Some quit.  Others went to "promotions" within shell companies.  Her Department of Defense friends have already offered potential contracts and as for designing them?  There's always some smart, ambitious kid that wants to make a name for themselves and enough to pay back their student loans.

Margaret Donovan-Stark is at a cocktail party tonight socializing and selling the Stark brand.  Many people here knew her father and brother.  She's selling the old Stark - one that knows and loves America, one that has the company in mind rather then a bunch of "citizen of the world" Avengers, and one that sure as hell doesn't marry Russian spies.  She has the added ability of being every man's fantasy in here - a woman that hunts, fishes, loves money more then shopping, goes to church just enough to claim the Christian label, and is a single former beauty queen.  She sips her wiskey on the rocks and looks out on New York - the town she's beginning to own.