Secrets revealed
Daisy walked into her father's mansion, she didn’t really come there often, as she had to avoid being spotted, but her father had some computer parts lying around and Daisy needed more speed for what she was doing. She’d build an entire program to detect where people are using facial recognition on social media, however, she would need a lot more power to get the program to find something before the person had left there already.
On her way here she’d had to avoid being spotted by the paparazzi permanently staking out the most used Stark mention. That had included in climbing multiple trees and fences, and jumping over a rooftop.
She’d considered asking Happy, but apparently, the guy was driving Peter around town to some science fair. Daisy had laughed at that notion, knowing how annoyed Happy would be doing something like that. She'd never heard the head of security not mutter about being used as a babysitter when the not-so-happy had to drive her around. Then again, the boy had gotten into some more problems with criminals, so Tony had decided they had to keep him protected. Even if Peter was perfectly capable of protecting himself.
As Daisy walked in however, the house was dark, weird. She thought Tony went home after 8 PM, it was 9 already. Daisy looked around in the dark, she considered asking F.R.I.D.A.Y. to turn on the light, but she decided against it. Maybe Tony had finally gotten so tired he'd fallen asleep in his workspace. She had to go there anyways, so she tiptoeed to where she vaguely remembered Tony's workspace being.
What she saw there had her heart stop for a second. Her father was curled up on the ground, she could hear him breathing heavily, he was having a panic attack. It took Daisy a few moments to gather her thoughts,
Daisy ran up to him, hear brain trying to remember what to do in case of a panic attack.
She forced herself to calm down, removing the panic from her voice.
'Tony, it's not really happening, you're here, in your lab.’ Daisy noticed her father responding to the sound of her voice, so she continued. ‘'It's me Daisy, I took a break from work, remember? You, Pepper and me ate dinner on my first evening back.’ Daisy continued talking, first about her life since she'd returned, then about her team. She talked about inventions Fitz had made, about her pretending to not understand the machanisms, but actually had, she talked and talked, her father slowly recovering. She made sure to avoid any subject that had anything to do with Iron Man or the Avengers. The fact the attack was so strong meant that it was either of a recent event or something must've warranted a big trigger. Daisy had to stay fully focussed to avoid letting the anger towards whoever had done this to her father show.
Once Tony was fully back to the present he sighed. ‘I didn't want you to find out like this.’
'Find out what?’ All the control over her voice that Daisy had maintained during her fathers attack had dissapeared now. Her voice was shaking, as were her hands. As was the room. Daisy closed her eyes, breathing in, and out, and in again.
‘'What happened.’ Tony said. ‘I actually was hoping no one would find out.’
Daisy signed, her father's need to carry the world on his shoulders easily rivaled her own. She suspected that not even Rodhey nor Pepper knew what was going on with Tony.
Tony took a deep breath and talked, about the accords, about how he'd gone to talk with Steve Rogers and their fight, ge told Daisy about how he'd never tried to kill the captain, how he'd just been angry that someone who he'd considered a friend hadn't told him something so important. How someone who had ended up closer then an ally trusted him so little. How he'd just lashed out but had never wanted to kilk the other man. And then he talked about how he'd been left for death and barely survived.
At the end Daisy was pissed, wanting to find the damn 'captain’ and break his bones. But she also realised why he hadn't told anyone. He had known that aside from Rodhey and Pepper no one would even believe him. She hugged him.
Eventually they stood up, and Daisy decided not to go home, and they worked on some inventions of Tony's and both ended up falling asleep, which was how Pepper found them the next morning. Daisy stayed for breakfast, belgian waffles with strawberries, and after she'd shown Pepper some effective self-defense moves, with Tony laughing from the sidelines, she left by climbing over another fence.
Daisy walked back into the compound, she'd just sparred with Colleen, but she hadn't completely been able to concentrate, her anger distracting her and causing her to focus more on controlling her powers then on the fight itself. Colleem had noticed so they continued with some kata for the rest of the session, focussing on controlled movement and being alert. This reminded Daisy if the Tai Chi she used to do with May, and she'd slowly started to relax. However, she did still feel the need of blowing off some steam and fighting with someone who could handle her. She'd send Rodhey a text and he'd be here in a couple more minutes.
‘Hey Daise, you said you wanted to blow off some steam?’ Daisy looked up, seeing War-machine flying there in all his glory.
'Yes, I'm currently going crazy.’ She sighed. She'd debated to herself whether she'd tell Rodhey what she'd found out, but it was her fathers secret to tell.
'Well we can't have our favourite flower going crazy can we? The healthcare in America is pricey, especially for people we have to sent to mental hospitals.’ Rodhey joked.
Daisy just rolled her eyes in response.
'Well then, Quake, unleash your rage.’
‘Quake?’ Daisy rose her eyebrows.
'Blame the media, you've gotten some news coverage.’
'Oh goddamn it’ Daisy sighed, she grabbed her globes and sent some vibrations up. Not her full powers, obviously, just a warning. Their session started, and didn't stop until both their stomachs were complaining and Daisy'd pinned Rodhey down over 5 times. And he her once.
'Old man.’ she teased.
'Wise man.’ He corrected.
'Keep telling that to yourself.’
Daisy cut up some vegtables, added some meat, and trew it on the grill. Meanwhile Rodhey made some accompanying fish sauce. They talked some more about previous missions from both of them while waiting for the food to be finished. They might've made a little too much but who cared?
Natasha Romanoff stumbled through an unwelcome feeling neighbourhood, but perhaps the reason it felt so unwelcome was because of the bullet in her side. Earlier today, around ten in the morning, the chief of the NYPD had contacted her, about a crime lord that had to be apprehended, but who the NYPD didn’t have the resources for to actually catch him. She’d gone to his place and knocked out most of his helpers, using either her fists or tranquilizer darts, however, once she’d actually reached the criminal, she found out that the chief had neglected to mention something important to her. The crime lord was either enhanced or an inhuman, he had super strength, which, if Natasha would’ve known of, she could’ve just found another way to take him down, but now the tranquilizer darts didn’t work, as they weren’t strong enough, and fist to fist he had the upper hand as well, she’d taken him down, of course, and told the cops waiting outside to get him, but she’d been shot in the meantime.
She’d left before the cops had even entered, and walked towards the nearest Stark compound to get herself some medical supplies. She definitely didn’t like the man, she despised him if she was being honest. The man was so arrogant it was unbelievable, but his money was a great help. Not that she’d ever say so out loud, he didn’t need anyone else stroking his ego.
She remembered there was an old Avengers compound in liberty state park, it was closed, so she wouldn’t have to deal with people, but it would still have recent medical supplies, for nights like these, all strongholds were kept stocked.
As she walked into the compound she was greeted by a delicious smell, reminding Nat that she actually hadn't eaten yet. The Black Widow stopped in her track, why were people here? She heard a man laughing, and a womans voice she vaguely recognised answering. The man sounded like Rodhey, meaning she could trust them. She walked towards the origin of the sounds and smell. Each of her steps hurting her.
Natasha looked around the corner, she'd heard the voice correctly, it was Rodhey, but the woman…
No way…
Daisy.
‘... And then your father decided that a good way to maintain his cover was to dive into the swimming pool declaring that he was Iron Man, worse, it worked.’ Rodhey laughed.
Natasha felt her eyes widening, she had been on that mission. Tony himself had done that. That would mean… Was Daisy Johnson actually Daisy Stark?
Natasha thought back at the day on the terrace, how she'd been thinking about how similar the two were. The russian supposed it made sense now…
She didn't have much time to think about it, as the blood loss in her body had became to much, and she got so dizzy that she face planted into the floor.