What happened in Budapest
Unfortunately, Nat was still conscious. She really wished she wasn’t, as this embarrassing moment had two witnesses. Also, it hurt like hell. Nat wasn’t certain which she liked least. Daisy ran up to Natasha and turned her around, she saw the bulletwound and ran off, probably to get the bandages. Rhodes cursed before shoving her shirt up just as much as necessary to get a good look at the wound, judging from Rhodes expression, it didn’t look well. Not that that was surprising, after all, she’d been walking with the wound for over 20 minutes now.
Daisy came back with the first aid kit, and started to clean the wound, she barely even flinched when seeing the wound, only confirming the spies belief that the apparent young Stark was a whole lot more interesting than she pretended to be.
'Fuck’ Natasha cursed when the iodine touched the wound.
Daisy looked apologetic, but stern at the same time. 'Sorry, but I will still need to clean the wound.’
'I know’ Natasha replied.
Rodhey was staring, probably realizing that she and Daisy had met before, knowing that Natasha wouldn't show a weaker side of herself to someone she didn't know well. It was clear that the man wanted to ask but decided to wait.
Daisy worked fast, and Natasha found herself bandaged just after Rodhey had removed the food from the stove. Daisy took three plates from a cabinet and divided the food and Rodhey helped Natasha walk to the table.
'I can walk myself, I walked all the way to this compound after all.’
Rhodey didn't respond.
Daisy sighed, she was eating with two Avengers, both of which she deemed friends, and both of which were looking at her to explain how she knew the other. How was she going to get out of this?
'So, I guess you both want an explanation so I'll start with how I know Rodhey as I suspect you've already figured out most if it.’
‘'You're going to pick someone else before your godfather?’ Rodhey asked, feigning feeling insulted.
Natasha's head came up. 'Godfather?’
'Yeah, I explain…’ Daisy sighed.
First she told Nat who her father was, Nat admitting she had figured as much from what she'd overheard, then she explained to Rodhey how they both ended up going to the same dojo and how they were paired up together.
They enjoyed the food and eventually Rodhey left, no doubt going to Tony immediately to tell him what he'd found out.
That left Natasha and Daisy in the kitchen. It was now that Dais told Natasha about her powers, and she ended up demonstrating them. As Natasha wouldn't be able to walk home in her current state, she took a room in the compound.
‘Daisy, Daisy! It's not real, it’s just a dream.’ Daisy woke up and realised the building around her was shaking. She'd had a nightmare. First it had started with Lincoln dying, following by him saying that it should've been her. Then the scene had changed, she saw Captain America walk out of the building, leaving Tony on his knees, like she'd seen in the video. But this time Tony had looked at her and said; ‘You weren't here to save me.’ The building had collapsed and this time, Tony hadn't gotten out.
Natasha was still staring at her, holding her hands. Daisy realised the shaking was hurting the previously injured Russian and she paled. Daisy closed her eyes and willed the shaking to stop. 'Oh my god Nat, I'm so sorry.’
'It's not your fault Daisy, it doesn't matter.’
But it did. Her anger at Steve Rogers had been undermining her control all day and it was dangerous. She looked at her alarm clock, it was six already and Daisy knew she wasn't going to be able to sleep. She got up and picked some clothing from her closet.
'I'm going to do some Tai Chi, are you going to try and get some sleep? You need it.’
'I haven't gotten much sleep tonight anyways, I doubt I'll be able to sleep now. Do you mind if I join you?’
Daisy smiled. 'Of course not.’
After the Tai Chi, Daisy had made breakfast. Nat had called Colleen and canceled today's session, Daisy on her turn soon got a call from Colleen, to also cancel the session. She'd had to act like she didn't already know, like it hadn't been her that had forced Nat to have a calm day.
By the way, convincing Nat to take it easy on her own body was hard. Like, trying to empty a bucket with a teaspoon while it rained hard.
Daisy told Nat a bit more about her background, even going as far as telling her she worked at S.H.I.E.L.D. after the fall. While talking about the team she was careful to not mention Phil's name once.
She did sometimes say 'AC’. When Natasha asked who that was, she'd just replied, ‘His name is a mystery, it was highly classified before the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. and he never actually broke the secrecy afterwards.’
It wasn't a lie. Technically.
However, Nat seemed satisfied, probably thinking that now that Daisy was forthcoming on so many things, that that would mean she was forthcoming on everything.
Nat might be trained at lying and spotting lies, for Daisy it had become a second nature.
Nat also told her about multiple missions, at the end of one story she said something that made Daisy's attention go sharp.
'It was worse than Budapest.’
Daisy had heard that specific mission being referenced before. Many times in fact. Always in similar contexts.
'What happened in Budapest?’
'We don't talk about Budapest.’
These exact words had been said by Coulson so many times that Daisy sighed.
She would never find out what happened in Budapest.