Some fights and some plans
'Nat, try get you bokken slightly higher while in start position next time, otherwise you'll immediately be at a disadvantage. Daisy, come on. It's been three months, your focus should be on your opponent, not your footwork.' Colleen sighed, Daisy's technique was great, she just always doubted herself and then looked down. Nat on the other hand, was great in hand-to-hand combat and often forgot that even she wasn't perfect. These two both were great and experienced fighters, not to mention some of her only clients who might be able to sneak up on her and stand a chance in the fight.
That was always Colleens most important goal. Get her students to the level that they could beat her. No matter whether they were fighting in a team or alone. Colleen had been considering introducing these two to the hand, but somehow she suspected that the two women wouldn't like the hand. Then after a while she'd figured out who they really were. 'Nadine' had in fact been Natasha Romanoff - the black widow- and Daisy was also known as Quake. Even since realizing that, Colleen had slowly started introducing new methods to train them. For Daisy; control, trust in her own abilities, awareness of her surroundings, and more focus on the technique behind the fighting. For Nat; speed, awareness of her weak points, and ways to take down much stronger opponents.
Colleen thought back to how she had met Nat, the woman had been fighting over 20 trained Hydra operatives, Colleen hadn't known who the woman in front of her was, but when she saw someone fighting people yelling 'Hail Hydra!' it didn't take much convincing for her to help. After the fighting, Colleen hadn't been able to stop herself from pointing out some mistakes the spy had made and a week later the woman had just shown up saying: 'If my technique isn't perfect, then please help me improve it.' Nat had meant it as a way to intimidate Colleen, but Colleen had just given her a form for a try out period, and afterwards they'd continued to train.
Colleen knew that Nat could easily sneak up on her, kill her, etc. Nat also was better in some non-eastern fighting styles. However, when it was about Japanese, Chinese, Thai, or any other fighting style from Asia, there weren't many people in the world who could beat her.
When Daisy and Nat were done with their common training session, they walked back to the bus station. Before they could reach it however, they were jumped by a group of watchdogs. Daisy looked at Nat.
Nat just raised her eyebrows in return.
Both women sighed.
'So, who do we have here? Quake and a friend? What a coincidence we just stumbled on you!' Then the watchdogs attacked.
Naturally, Daisy and Natasha fought back. Daisy wasn't wearing her gloves, and she didn't want to worry Natasha, so they only fought hand-to-hand. Natasha knocked out the leader and then threw him at two others. Daisy kicked another one where it hurt, then on his head. When he fell down she turned around the punch another out of consciousness. When two others tried to beat her up, she ran towards a wall and took two vertical steps before summersaulting over the watchdogs heads. Ducking a punch from another idiot, who then didn't dodge Natasha's punch, she dive rolled in front of one of the last ones. Daisy's footprint ended up on his T-shirt and maybe temporarily in his chest as well.
There were still two men standing, one of which punched Daisy in her gut. For a second, Daisy couldn't breathe. It felt like her bloodstream had stopped and goddammit, it hurt. It took all Daisy's training not to fall back, not to cry. Both of which were her main instincts at the moment. Instead, Daisy just responded by returning the action, to the man who hadn't had that training and thus fell on his knees. She and Nat finished of the last two standing and then Nat called the police. Both woman could not believe their luck. How had they been found. Daisy had been wearing a hoodie whenever she came or left, and they always avoided camera's and other security measures.
When both ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. agents walked away, neither of them noticed Colleen standing in a dark corner. Sighing. Because with all their training, they really should've noticed her. Their fighting was good, but still could've been better. Especially at noticing how well they truly fought together. Really, it wasn’t any of Colleen’s business, but at this point, their ignorance was just painful.
Daisy was on her way to the apartment, she had promised Pepper to help with some bookkeeping. Pepper had needed some assistance and Daisy could definitely use a distraction. Or two actually, she'd just gotten back from training with Peter and even that hadn't been able to get her mind from one thing.
Natasha.
Daisy had technically finished high school at twelve, even if she'd pretended to still follow classes at school to 'keep up the guise of normal' until she'd finished senior year. By her 22nd birthday, she'd earned 6 Pads before deciding she was bored. By 26 she'd earned her 9th, and then she didn't exactly have much time to continue. Of course, her subjects had been Software engineering, Nanotechnology, Biochemistry, Applied Physics, Nuclear Physics, Data Analysis, Computer Science, Business & Management and Marketing (The last two because Pepper had threatened her of course.)(It had been a pain hiding her intelligence from Fitzsimmons.) Her subjects hadn't been 'How to deal with feelings for an internationally feared spy and Avenger from who I've seen footage saying she thinks love is for children, while this is your first time realizing you have feelings for a woman.' Of course, that was a rather specific subject. But it could still be more specific like. 'How to survive a friendly date with previously described woman.' Because once they had finally gotten on the bus yesterday, after having been attacked by the watchdogs, Nat had suggested they would go out to a fancy restaurant. Which was tonight.
Needless to say, Daisy was experiencing a bit off stress. Of course, she couldn't go to Rodhey or her father for aid, as they were Natasha's colleagues, but Pepper was safe, Pepper wouldn't betray Daisy.
When Daisy opened the door, she immediately got hugged by Pepper before being given a stack of paperwork. Daisy sighed. She had a PhD in Business & Management (against her will) but that didn't make the paperwork disappear any faster. Unfortunately.
While they were working, Daisy explained her dilemma. Pepper laughed and shook her head.
'Only you, Daise. Only you can succeed in falling in love with an even more impossible person than your father was. However, if I succeeded in winning over your fathers heart, I have no doubt you will convince Natasha. I do think that she's bi.'
Daisy let the doubt show on her face. Pepper saw it.
'You need to have more confidence.' Daisy was confident. Right?
Working together, the two woman succeeded in making the stack of paperwork disappear on the 'to do' side and grow on the 'done' side. With one final greeting, some encouragement from Pepper and a plea not to tell Tony from Daisy, Daisy left for the mall. The inhuman could definitely use a new dress.