Darcy/Sousa
Darcy was so relieved she almost started crying. Jane actually was crying if the shaking shoulders and sniffles coming from her direction were any clue. But it was familiar, so heartwarming familiar that even Darcy felt the sting of hot tears prickling at her eyes even as she was smiling.
Daniel looked… Well, he looked a little bemused. Not upset, though. And why… Why was he even there?
But that was a question that would have to wait for later, because bodies were starting to swarm them. Large bodies with hugs and kisses and laughter and a few sniffles on their side.
It smelled different. That was the first thing Darcy noticed. They were obviously in Tony’s lab, it hadn’t really changed much in the years that she’d been gone, but this was a carefully environmentally controlled space, and the air smelled like nothing instead of the paper and wood of the office she worked in, or the metal and faint bitter chemical scent that never left Howard’s lab.
Darcy pulled her head out of Thor’s chest and turned to gesture behind her. Daniel was still standing there, still looking bemused but ready to roll with it? Well, she hoped so. “This is Daniel,” she said to everyone and no one.
Of course… Thinking about it, it made a lot of sense. Peggy was made the director of SHIELD, and she’d never even heard of Daniel before despite his being the chief of their branch of the SSR. So maybe he was supposed to come with them.
His eyes locked with hers and she moved towards him, wrapping her arms around him. She knew exactly how he likely felt, that lost, stranded feeling. “This is where I’m from,” she whispered, although she wasn’t quite sure it would travel through the noise.
“I figured,” he responded, and there was a slight strain to his voice.