Daisy Stark

Tony was flying home from a meeting, subject: The Sokovia Accords.  Tony was all for groups like the Avengers being kept under control, they were just to dangerous. However, to force enhanced people, either inhumans or otherwise created, to cease such a big part of their identity, or be banned from certain jobs, like police, army, private and governmental security organizations etc. was a whole different story. Especially seeing the fact that enhanced (not inhuman) people, were mainly created within such organizations, and Tony felt the Sokovia accords had to be less strict. Even though he did understand why the laws had been placed. In all fairness, Tony's main concern was for people like Daisy, people who had kept themselves under the radar, and now would be forced on a list. Kindness aside, that could let enhanced/inhuman persons feeling hunted, trapped. Those kinds of lists had been why Jiaying and her inhumans tried to take over the world themselves. Tony was afraid that other would follow.

Of course these thoughts led to his daughter, after the call in which she had told him about her powers, she'd slowly told him more about what had happened, but he still didn't know the whole story. Tony worried about her. 

Like his thoughts had summoned her, his phone rang, caller ID showed that it was indeed Daisy calling, it'd been a long time since she'd last called, she must've been incredibly busy. 

'Dad, I -I know that it has been months since you promised I could always come home, but...' Her voice was shaking, she clearly was distressed.

'Daisy, sweetheart, you are always welcome, you don't need to ask, do you need someone to pick you up?'

'No' Through the phone Tony heard that she was taking a deep breath in. 'I can get home myself.'

'Alright, do you want to tell me what's wrong now or later?'

'Later, I love you dad.'

'I love you too, and get home safely.'

Tony wondered what happened that made Daisy take a break, she'd mentioned before that she didn't want to sign the Sokovia accords, so with S.H.I.E.LD. becoming official again that might play along, but then she wouldn't sound so... broken. He hoped no one had broken her heart. Neither for Daisy, but also for him, Tony knew he'd had to be physically restrained to prevent him from hurting whoever had hurt her.

Daisy got off on the train station in New York, she'd made certain her face had been covered by her hair during the entire trip, and had bought multiple hoodies and scarfs at different train stations, making it certain she wouldn't be traced. She'd be back home soon. Wow. She hadn't physically been home in over two years, since she'd joined S.H.I.E.L.D. to be exact. She was nervous. 

'Come on Daisy,' The girl muttered to herself. 'You've been through too much to feel nervous about going home.'

She felt something inside of her stir when saying home. Yes, the Bus had been her home, for a while, but after that, she hadn't been able to truly feel safe somewhere again. But was this still truly her home? Perhaps that was why she was so nervous, Daisy realized. She wasn't the same girl she had been when she had left.

As she left the station behind her, feeling the fresh air on her face, she saw a familiar look. Happy, with a limousine, at first Daisy was confused, she'd told Tony that she'd get home on her own, so why was Happy here? Then she'd spotted the teenage boy, stepping out of the car, walking towards a group of other teens. Daisy stiffened up, who was he? Daisy decided to walk towards Happy and ask for a ride. He looked surprised to see her, but took her home. On her question as to who the boy was, Happy's answer had brought no clarity.

'The boy is your fathers newest project, and by that I mean, your father took a liking to him, so I have a lot more work on my plate.'

Yeah, Daisy decided to ask her father, or Pepper, about it when she saw them, suspecting that she wouldn't get much more out of Happy. There was a reason he'd been hired after all.

Happy dropped her off at the apartment, for all of Tony's riches, this was what they both truly called home. All other places, no matter the 'private' label, were too public, this was their safety spot. Here they could be completely themselves. Daisy was glad that Happy had left before she tried to open the apartment, her hands were shaking so badly that she was surprised no vibrations were coming off. It took her three attempts to get the keys inside the hole. It took even more courage to turn around the keys and open the door. 

The first thing she noticed when coming in was that the apartment had stayed exactly the same since she left. Daisy suspected that aside from cleaning, which Tony had to do himself here, he rarely came here. The second thing was that Tony and Pepper were inside, talking. Daisy knew that they had no idea when she would arrive. How long had they been waiting? Daisy closed the door and placed her bag on the floor, It was then that Tony saw that Daisy had arrived. He quickly walked up to her and embraced her. 

'Can't breathe' 

Tony lessened his grip, but continued holding onto her until Pepper decided Tony had taken long enough.

'Give your daughter some time to get home.' It was said with a smile in her voice.

Tony released her. So Pepper quickly hugged her as well, Daisy swore she had heard Tony mutter 'hypocrite'.

'Have you had food? You must be starving', 'when was the last time you slept' Tony and Pepper started at the same time.

They led her to the kitchen table, when Daisy answered that she'd taken a nap on the train, but hadn't eaten yet, Pepper warmed up pizza.

While Daisy ate her pizza, it was clear that he was resisting asking her what was wrong, wanting to give her some time to get acclimated again. When she'd finished however, Tony's urges won.

'What happened?' Daisy wanted to buy herself some time.

'Who was the boy I saw Happy drop off at the train station?' She asked back.

Tony went still for a second, considering.

'Spider-man,' He confessed. 'Your turn, what happened.'

Daisy decided to tell them, this way she'd at least told both Pepper and Tony, one of those would brief Rodhey, so she wouldn't have to tell it twice. She told them all about Jemma, who'd gone missing, The team finding Jemma again, finding out Ward was still alive and kicking, Hive, and everything else that had happened, with Lash and Lincoln dying. At the end she was crying, and Tony gave her a hug. It had gotten late and at some point she must've fallen asleep, as she only woke up the next day.

'These gloves are quite ingenious, of course they could still be improved, but the person who made them clearly knew what he or she was doing.' Tony said, they had just eaten breakfast, and Tony was inspecting the gloves Daisy had showed him, explaining why she needed them had been an issue, as Tony could take a lot of pain himself, but really didn't like hearing about his daughter suffering. 

'You know what?' Tony continued, 'With the Avengers having split-up, we've got way to many compounds empty, how about you use them to train, and further improve your ability's? You can also see if you can find martial arts classes somewhere nearby as well, that way your physical fighting won't suffer from you leaving S.H.I.E.L.D.  there probably are some excellent teachers near, perhaps not as good as that Melinda May of yours, but enough to continue improving.'

Daisy didn't know if she had the energy, or the stamina, to do so, but she did see the necessity of continuing her training. So she found herself looking through a big list of martial arts trainers, the most appealing being a woman named 'Colleen Wing'. It was in a less rich part of town, but the ratings of her place were good, so she decided to step by later that day.