A One Night Stand
You would think things would start getting better and definitely not worse when half of your team decide to betray you and become fugitives. After Rhodey started walking on his own Pepper started calling him more often. She asked him how he was and if he needed anything, he even asked him if he wanted to meet with her. She basically asked him on a date!
Then the kid started coming. Peter would just walk in Tony’s lab, without even Friday asking for permission. Apparently Felicity had told the AI to let the boy whenever he came for no reason… Traitors! Well, to be honest, he was kind of glad that he wasn’t alone. He would hide that fact pretty hard thought! Tony and Peter talked about everything and nothing and he couldn’t lie to himself that the kid behaved so much like Felicity.
Speaking of Felicity. That’s where the peace ended. Well, Oliver had finally popped the question to Tony, but Felicity still was clueless. Every time his daughter called him he was expecting Felicity to tell him that Oliver had proposed her, but no such luck there. He was happy for them and could actually see why the blond had fallen for this guy. What he was not happy about was that a Green Arrow was spotted in Star City and that he and his team were out every night, playing heroes.
And the last straw was Friday telling him a camera in Star City had spotted no other but Sam fucking Wilson! Oh he had been angry before, you know, for some things like someone hiding the truth about his parents’ death, or for almost killing him, but he was never this angry!
When he saw this he immediately rang Pepper telling her to prepare the jet, texted Peter and Rhodey that his plans for going to Star City for Christmas had slightly changed and took an hour to prepare everything he thought he needed for his ‘holiday’.
He didn’t tell Felicity about his plans though. So he waited not so patiently to land in Starling City and headed straight to the SI building in downtown. When he entered the building all the people who was there stopped doing what they were doing and stared at him. He didn’t care. He headed straight to the last floor where Felicity’s office was and tried to maintain his poker face. When the elevator’s doors opened he put a fake smile and entered Felicity’s office. She wasn’t alone, so he stopped himself calling his daughter the stupidest nickname that could pop in his mind.
“Well, hello there!” he said finally and Felicity and the man stopped whatever they were doing and looked at him
“Da-Mr. Stark!” Felicity said jumping out of her seat. “Um, what a wonderful surprise” she put a fake smile on her face too “This is Curtis, my most trusted worker.”
“Oh well” The Curtis guy’s mouth fell open “If he is the most trusted guy he must know about my baby girl” he told and went to hug her. He wasn’t right, however, because Curtis mouth opened even wider.
“Um, no, nope” Felicity said and made a pause “He certainly didn’t know, not until now”
“Eh, I think at least one person at this building has to know right? Hello Curtis, I’m Tony, Felicity’s dad” Curtis was still with his mouth opened “Friday, could you please save the footage from my glasses? I think Felicity would appreciate it.” He and his daughter laughed.
“I, uh, well… Mr. Stark” Curtis said as if he had seen a ghost “It’s a pleasure to meet you, really, you have been my hero since I was like 6.”
After Curtis left Tony told Felicity about his day but left the most important fact which led him flying to the city. He used the excuse that he was missing his baby doll and wanted to see her. They ordered lunch after that, not wanting to give the press an opportunity for a photoshoot and just stayed at her office. She told him about the problem they had with no other than Damien Darkh and her wife, who was Oliver’s opponent for the position mayor. Then Tony said ‘fuck it’ and they went to Oliver’s office.
Their walk there wasn’t the calmest, not after the paparazzi already knew Tony was in town. Well, let them speak, said the billionaire to himself and made an entrance. They both walked in Oliver’s campaign office and a death silence wrapped the room. It was way worse than when he entered SI. He saw Felicity smiling at a girl, Thea Queen, he guessed. She slowly approached them.
“Hi, I’m Thea, it’s really nice to meet you.” Thea said while she offered a smile
“It’s a pleasure to finally meet you, Thea!” Tony said with a smile and they headed to Oliver’s personal office.
Felicity opened the door and they saw Oliver and another man-boy? Talking. As soon as the boy saw them, he had the same reaction as the workers. He stood from his seat and cleared his throat.
“Tony?” Oliver asked and stood up too, making the boy slightly open his mouth, hearing how his boss talked to the billionaire. “I didn’t know you were coming.” Oliver said with a small but sincere smile.
“Oh, you don’t want me here?” Tony joked and his daughter smiled. “Anyway, I’m here to help" he took of his glasses and took another look at the boy. “For the campaign of course!”
“Oh, yeah, that would be nice!” Oliver said grinning. He looked at the boy as well “Alex, this is Tony Stark, Tony, this is Alex, my campaign manager”
Tony nodded at him. The boy was awestruck but understood Oliver’s manner and excused himself.
“Okay, it’s showtime! Dad, come on, I want to show you what have I done" Felicity smiled and lead him to the hidden elevator. Oliver and Thea followed. When the doors opened, they entered, as Tony would simply explain it, a modern bunker. Felicity correct him and said they called it a layer.
Her daughter showed him around, Tony looking extremely carefully at everything she showed him.
“Well, I am impressed pumpkin! Well, I can’t say that there are some things that I would place and arrange differently, but well, I like it!” Tony said and went to the corner where all the team’s costumes were “Did you get this idea from my workshop in Malibu?” Felicity nodded. Tony smiled proudly “Oliver, be careful, she is becoming a younger, way more attractive version of me, and I have been told that it’s hard living with me”
At that Thea laughed. He liked the girl, although he could see something wrong with her. How old was she? 21? 22 maybe. And she had this look. Her eyes had seen things, and not very pleasant, if he may add.
“So… Green Arrow?” Oliver nodded. Tony decided to sit so he went to the only chair in the bunker, sorry, layer.
“Ah, no, no, nope!” Felicity said “This is my chair!” and sat in it.
“Anyway, does people actually buying that the Arrow and the Green Arrow are not the same person?”
“Well, we had managed to fake Arrow’s death.” Thea said.
“Okay, never mind, tell me about this Damien guy”
“He was once a member of the League of Assassins” Tony raised his brows. Was there more stupid name? “He and Ra’s al Ghul had to fight to determine who was the next Heir of the Demon”
“And are you know? I mean...” Tony cut Oliver “you know, active Heir to the Demon?”
“No, no, I gave that to Malcom Merlin, Thea’s biological father”
“Ooh, it gets more interesting! Felicity, why do you ever leave the most interesting parts when we talk? ‘hi dad, we’re okay, the world is safe, bye!’” Tony tried to imitate his daughter. That got him a few angry looks. “Okay, sorry!”
“He had started an organization, called H.I.V.E, something like H.Y.D.R.A. but he’s not German” Felicity said, trying to get back to the main topic.
“So what is his final goal?” Tony asked
“We don’t know yet. We just know that he robbed some banks, then some weapons” Thea said
“Aah, yeah, don’t call these stuff that Hammer make weapons, please” Tony said offended. The elevator made a sound and they all turned to see a blond woman walking in the layer.
“Guys, are you okay? My phone is lagging from all the reports that says you two guys are breaking up!” The woman said not taking her eyes off her phone. “Oh, and that Felicity’s dad is here” Then she looked at them and saw Tony. She stopped talking and blushed.
“Oh yeah!” Felicity said looking at her computers “Oh my God, they think I’m dumping Oliver because I have an affair with my dad. Excuse me, I have to go and throw up!” she said furious.
“Well, it’s better than all the media talking about my secret daughter!” Tony said “Hi, I’m Tony”
“Laurel! Pleasure to meet you” Laurel said and smiled.
They went to the manor later that day. Tony met with a boy named Roy, who was apparently Thea’s boyfriend. Felicity showed him a guess room and told him that they’re going to start preparing the dinner. His daughter hadn’t asked him yet why he decided to come to Star City earlier than expected, but he knew she thought it was because their late night job starting all over again. That gave him more time to go on so called a solo mission to find out what the fuck Rogers was doing here.
He asked Friday to look at all cameras in the city and went down to the kitchen to join the others. Apparently Laurel had come too, while he was in his room. The atmosphere coming from the kitchen made his stomach ache. He remembered the times when he and his team were in the tower, making – correction, trying to make dinner and then, after a couple of burned ovens and a few small fires they just decided to order.
Tony stood and watched them from a distance. They were happy. Felicity was happy. She had found a team of her own and for now there were no accords or dead best friends that could tore this team. Well, you never know, but he wouldn’t want to jinx it saying that aloud. He joined them and saw that, to his biggest surprise, Oliver was cooking. He knew how Felicity got her talent for cooking from him so she tried to stay as far as possible from the kitchen herself. She, Thea and Laurel were trying to get the table ready while Roy was picking the drinks.
“So, Tony, please tell us about our Felicity. I have always wanted to know how she was when she was a child.” Thea said. They had already taken their seats on the table
“Well, she was constantly talking, never really shutting up” he said and Felicity looked at him angrily, the other all smiled “Other than that, she was just normal kid. Although she really loved hacking into FBI, HS, The Pentagon and so on. When I started working with S.H.I.E.L.D. Felicity wasn’t convinced that I made the right choice. She thought they were scary looking odd spies that didn’t always told the whole story.”
“Oh, no, no, you won’t be telling them this” Felicity cut him off.
“Well, now, we want to hear it even more!” Roy said and winked at Felicity.
“So guess what happened. Felicity hacked in S.H.I.E.L.D. and after an hour or so three agents plus Nick Fury walked into my house. We were eating lunch and they just waltzed in the kitchen. Fury was, well, furious and started accusing me of not trusting him and that I was just like my father and then from nowhere a fork flied into his head” Tony couldn’t resist the laugh, so he stopped for a moment. The others at the table laughed too. “The three agents got their guns immediately and pointed them at Felicity. At this time Fury didn’t know I have a daughter so he was ready to take out his gun too.”
“He said something like ‘Mr. Stark, I didn’t know that your one night stands stayed for lunch too.’ That’s when Felicity totally lost it and if it wasn’t for me Fury would have taken a spoon in his head too. After I explained that Felicity was my daughter and if they use their weapon they would say goodbye to their precious heads everybody calmed down, except for our dear Felicity here.” He said and smiled at his daughter.
“She then got up, went to him and said that she would find out whatever shield was hiding, and she slapped him, telling him she didn’t like when people called her a one-night stand.” Everyone laughed.
“Felicity, you have slapped the James Bond in the real world?” Oliver said finding it hard to believe.
“Is that why he said it was a peaceful couple of years?” Roy asked
“Wait... When have you met Nick Fury?” Thea asked
The moment was interrupted by Felicity’s phone. She jumped out of her chair and went to her laptop in the living room.
“Uh, guys, there was a robbery in an auto parts store, Litchfield Ave.” Felicity said and got her laptop into the dining room.
Steve looked around the room. There had been a fight obviously. Maybe that’s why they left. Maybe they were compromised and had to abandon the layer. The captain walked around and saw a table. There were a couple of green arrows left. As he was acknowledging his surrounding something caught his interest. There was a mask, half black and the other half – orange. The time had played its role and the colors were starting to faint. There was an arrow coming out of the mask. A green arrow.
He had sent Sam for some food and his intentions were to try to clean up this space. Natasha was the one on post. She was hiding in the shadows in case someone tried to walk in there uninvited. He thought she was the best. He was wrong.
“Hello” there was a voice coming from the stairs. Steve knew that voice.
“How did you find us?” Steve asked worried
“You know how Felicity’s too paranoid? She left cameras to every layer we had so she could keep an eye for detectives, killers who were trying to find us or some homeless guys” Oliver asked “So you are lucky I was in the layer when she wasn’t”
Oliver got closer, feet or two between them. The archer was slightly taller than Steve, but if you asked him he would never say this out loud. “Look, I know Tony still think of you as a friend or a teammate and Felicity loves you but I have no such feelings for you. You broke her heart twice, and remember my words that I won’t allow to be a third time.”
“Queen, these are some serious threats. You sure you could live up to them?” Natasha came out of nowhere, just like Oliver
“You know, I have admired you” Oliver said, finally taking his eyes off Steve “There were stories, legends, that I’ve heard about you when I was in Bratva” As soon as Natasha heard the name her eyes changed. The smug and arrogance were long gone. “Мне так жаль видеть, что все бьло ложью.“
“You were her family. She loved you. And now she can’t even sleep without screaming and crying. This is all on you. You don’t have the right to be in this city, let along be here!” he said and walked out of the layer.