Daisy Stark

Tony Stark was just drinking a cup of coffee. He'd gone to a party the night before, even if he wasn't legally allowed to drink yet for another 3 months. Then his phone rang, a man started speaking. It was only after half a minute that Tony understood what the man was saying. He had a two-year-old daughter? That couldn't be right, the name of the mother, Jiaying? Apparently she had been married at the time of the affair, but the husband was assumed dead as well. They hadn't known Tony was the father, it had been kept a secret by Jiaying, but they had ran a DNA test to find any lost relatives, and Tony had won the genetic lottery. Tony vaguely remembered the Chinese woman who he had apparently impregnated. When the call was over, and Tony had said he would take care of the girl, his daughter, he leaned over the kitchen table. He was a father. No way.

The next weeks went incredibly fast, he signed a couple papers, he bought an apartment under an alias, and suddenly he had custody of a little girl, who had been named 'Daisy' by her mother. Daisy Stark, the girl immediately stole his heart. Tony loved her, and he swore to himself that she'd get a much happier and shielded childhood then his father had given him. He'd keep her a secret from the press, she'd go to a normal school, where she'd carry the last name Johnson, and he swore that he'd be present in her life.

 It's been 17 years, Daisy has grown up so much, with some help from Rodhey and Pepper, and Happy of course, Tony has raised Daisy and succeeded in keeping her a secret from the pres, and even S.H.I.E.L.D., somehow. Daisy has surpassed her father with her hacking skills, and currently speaks multiple languages, and can handle her way around engineering. She's also just as much of an anarchist as her father, so today she decided to buy a van and discover the world. Of course, he would never admit it, but Tony had tears in his eyes saying goodbye to his daughter, she had gotten a second ID, this one saying her name was Skye, no last name. It claimed her parents were unknown, and that she didn't have any siblings. This was she'd be even more difficult to track, and no one would know who she really was. This way she could make a name for herself.

Pepper, being Pepper, had tried to get Daisy, or Skye, to promise she would take over the company at thirty. Daisy had said she would decide on that later. The last hugs were exchanged, and Daisy got in her van and drove away.

It had been a couple years since Skye had moved in her van, and joined the Rising Tide, wanting to know more about the mysterious Jiaying, her mother. Tony didn't know much about her either, and Daisy would've believed him, if she hadn't hacked into S.H.I.E.L.D. after they had approached her father. Once she'd gotten in, she'd not been able to resist the urge to find out more about her mother. The fact that the file had been so incredibly redacted had made her even more curious. She had to know more. She hadn't told her father about this, not wanting to worry him. But aside from that mystery, she did believe in some of the beliefs the Rising Tide had, mainly about transparency. So when she got a lead about a project called 'centipede', experiments to create enhanced humans she made sure she found out all she could. 

And if that meant she got to get front row seats to see a man with extreme strength climb up a building and save a woman, well, that only made her more motivated. When that meant she got busted in her van by man in suits, from S.H.I.E.L.D. nonetheless, well, that was a whole different story. However, everything ended up reasonably well, and she got to see the world from a plane called a bus, and found out a whole different side of S.H.I.E.L.D. then her father knew. 

A couple days after she'd joined the group, she realized what she knew the name 'Coulson' from, she debated telling her father, but first she wanted to know why the death had been faked. Never expose secrets until you knew the whole truth.

Skye felt incredibly guilty. She had known this group for so long now, they had survived the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. and they still didn't know who she was, whose daughter she was. Skye had debated telling them so many times, but decided against. She knew Fitz was a huge fan, but she wanted to be her own person, and she felt like she was going to lose that freedom when they knew.

That still didn't mean it hurt any less to lie to them. This lie probably felt even worse than the betrayal of her having still been Rising Tide. Partially because she knew them better now, but also because this lie felt so much more selfish to keep.

 Daisy's head was spinning, her mother had been killed by her stepfather, the person who didn't have a clue she wasn't his daughter. Cal truly didn't know that Jiaying slept with Tony Stark. She hadn't told him differently either. Soon he wouldn't remember her anyways. Besides, the team still didn't know. She had told them she would change her name. It was Daisy now, granted, Daisy Johnson, but at least she could use her actual first name without anyone looking for previous records. Daisy had been so lost in thought that she didn't notice herself losing control again. For the first time in months, she called home. 

'Daisy, what is it, are you alright, I haven't heard from you in ages.' Tony says, worry dripping from his tone.

'Nothing dad,' Daisy says, making sure no one is coming in as she says the last word. 'It's just been really stressful and...' Her voice trailed off. She had to get all scrapes of courage she had in her to be able to say the words. She breathed in and out, closing her eyes. 'Something happened, I have powers, I had to learn to control them. While that happened, I found out that... my biological mother, Jiaying, was alive and... well, doesn't matter, she isn't anymore. I don't know what to think, what to feel, and I just needed someone I could trust.'

'Daise, if you want some time to collect yourself, and come home, you know I always have time for you.' Tony says.

'It's not necessary, not right now, I'm needed here.' 

'Okay, but if you change your mind... I love you.'

'Love you too, and thanks, for listening to me.'

'Not a problem.'

Daisy puts away her phone, wipes away her tears and stands up. Behind her she hears Jemma come into her little room. 

'Daisy, wheels will be up in ten, it seems like inhumans are surfacing all over the globe, we are needed.'

Daisy turns around and fakes a smile. 

'I'm coming.'