章 2184: 52
Chapter 52: The Many Strengths of Darcy LewisNotes:
Sup! So since several of you been asking, it's looking like the next project I'm going to be posting is going to be a GoT/AoS crossover. Like I've spent the last few days mocking up some chapters, creating an insanely detailed breakdown of Northern politics..... That said I still have a ton of work to do before it's ready to start posting so I'm going to post just a short series of oneshots of what happens in the Happy Accident's world post series end. Cause this one doesn't need a sequel and frankly I don't have a clue what the plot would be. So my future schedule would be Oneshot collection, GoT/AoS fic that's probably going to get called Old Gods or something like that.
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Darcy stared smugly as Hill read her proposal. "Thoughts?"
"I hate Starks." Hill finally said. She opened her bottom drawer and pulled a bottle of scotch out and filled her empty water glass. "When I find grey hair tonight it's your fault."
Darcy looked pointedly at the bags under the other woman's eyes that were too dark for even makeup to help. "You sleep?"
"Unneeded." Hill leaned back in her seat. "You do realize that once this is done it can't be undone? This is a new manner of war."
Darcy leaned against the wall. "It's a problem that apparently runs in the family. Howard revolutionized war, made us filthy rich off it and as far as i know never lost a wink of sleep. Which is horrifying. Dad...he's a wreck because of it. The amount of death we can bring about, for better or worse. But this would make it a far fairer fight if aliens want to wage war on our planet."
"This will be the new nuke. That can't be controlled." Hill cautioned, the woman looked genuinely afraid of the written out proposal before her.
And...that was fair. "Well portalling energy weapons into enemy spaceships, isn't exactly a logical jump in warfare." Darcy wiped the sweat off her hands on her jeans. "I want a legal agreement that makes portalling technology illegal to be held by anyone but SI, in trust, only to be used with approval of the UN World Security Council."
"That won't keep it out of a world arms race for long. A few years at best." Hill's eyes had sharpened though, clearly putting together a plan in her head.
Darcy winced. "Yeah, but if Janey, Erik and I can make them, then well it makes sense we can find a way to prevent them."
"You want to use the time to make a safety lock." Hill frowned. "It might work, but Darcy these things can't be predicted."
Darcy felt like laughing, not that it was funny. "The fact I'm about to sue a small army of people and companies for calling me an evil slut certainly would have worked as a wake up call that I can't control or predict everything. But tell me we have another option for destroying multiple enemy vessels in orbit without this? A reliable and realistic one."
"We both know I can't say that." Hill pulled out her tablet and started making notations. I'll have Legal contact you. How soon can you and Astro lab have everything ready for this?"
Darcy ran a hand through her hair. "With holo calling so I can work with Princess Shuri on the Vision project….four days?"
"If I assigned you more people to help?" Hill asked.
She shook her head. "Not a good idea considering how much this tech getting out would be horrific."
"I'm going on a vacation after this." Hill pinched the bridge of her nose. "Fucking Starks."
Darcy grabbed the caffeinated beverage out of Bucky's hand. "Marry me."
"That'd break my contract." He deadpanned.
She patted his shoulder while chugging her drink. Espresso, it was pure espresso with sugar in it. She crumpled the cup and chucked it at the trash. It did not go in. Darcy didn't blink. "In my mind that made it in."
"You're one of a kind Doll." The slightest bit of his Brooklyn accent crept in as he stared at her the faintest of amused expressions on his face.
Darcy beamed, it was good to see bits and pieces of who he used to be peek out. "Well I'm off to go create new super weapons that are going to change the course of military strategy. Then bug my siblings into media fluff to keep people from panicking too much and then finally holo-call a princess with my dad to separate a physical aspect of reality from an Android, who is also kind of my step-brother."
"No more caffeine for two hours." Bucky replied.
"Damn, already immune to the chaos." Her eyes narrowed. "I trained you too well."
Bucky opened his mouth and then sighed. "Super weapons doll?"
"Huh, well I already made them. My arch reactor stuff. When they exploded before I fixed them they were kinda terrifyingly powerful with drastically less radiation than a nuke. So most of the boom for none of the ecological disaster. Yay!" She gave jazz hands.
He swallowed. "That's not military strategy game changing on its own. It's just a new cheaper bomb."
"It is if we portal them into alien spaceships. So you know, being able to bomb anywhere in all of the mathematically calculatable universe in seconds from uh...this room." Darcy did jazz hands again. Fuck it, jazz hands worked and were worth doing more than once.
Bucky stilled completely. He didn't even breathe. "Holy Shit Doll."
Darcy let her head drop on Tony's shoulder. "I tried, I really tried."
"Downsides of brilliance in times of chaos." He replied absently while re-reading his notes on the making of Vision.
She groaned miserably. "I'm anti-weapons development. All about the peace and love Poprocks."
"Spawn you made an environmentally friendly nuke and are planning to make it technologically and legally cockblocked before it can get out of hand. And you did it on accident while working on clean energy." He patted her head. "Your hippie, hug the puppies street cred remains."
Darcy snorted, but didn't lift her head off his shoulder. "You ever invent weapons on accident?"
"It's a rite of passage when you've got brains like us. Though you know who can make the most innocuous things weapons of mass destruction? Romanoff. I can never look at a spoon in the same way again." He paused. "Spawn, you got any brilliant ideas that will mean we're not showing up to group project day with the Princess without anything useful?"
She considered hitting her head against a board. "No. And I'm useful with the hardware. I'm not the software expert in this family."
"You can hack into the pentagon." Tony waved off.
Darcy looked up. "Come on, our group project where we're the lazy ones who aren't carrying our own weight is calling us."
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Peter's cheeks felt hot as he shuffled slightly. "So Ned and MJ kinda know everything now."
"You can tell people if you want to." She squeezed his hand. "They're your friends." Daisy seemed to consider something. "Does this mean they're panicking and going to show up?"
Peter scratched behind his ear. "I've been texting them so I don't think so?"
"But MJ marches to the beat of her own drum." Daisy finished for him, but she was clearly amused. It was funny, she'd seemed...oddly delighted by things since she'd gotten back. Not that she'd been back for long.
He dropped down next to her on the couch and folded his legs under him. "Are you...are you ok?"
"Yes?" Daisy looked at him before signing and poking at her black eye. "Bruises heal."
Peter shook his head. "No that's not...that's not it." He looked at her, his brow furrowing. "You left and came back. But you...there's no doubt this time. Like it was just you and the team in the future. And now it's like...I don't know."
"Oh." She leaned back slightly as she processed that. Daisy took a deep breath and stayed quiet as she organized her thoughts. Finally she began to reply. "SHIELD gave me a family. A home, people who believed in me. I love my team. And I know they love me, and we all believed and were willing to do anything, even die for the cause. For each other. But it wasn't...Coulson's...he's my dad."
Daisy swallowed before continuing. "But I will always come after SHIELD to him. He cares, he hates it, but he will always pick SHIELD over his own wants or those of the people he loves. And May...I'm her rookie, one of her charges. She's always been there, always will be. But I'm not her first, or even her second priority in a situation. It's the same for everyone. And that was fine. It was fine until I came here, and you gave me a second family."
"I didn't do…" He started.
She cut him off. "You did." Daisy stared him in the eye. Refusing to let him look away. "And I chose you and this family months ago. I haven't lost my SHIELD team, but when we were there, in the future, in space, all they could think about was getting home and saving the world. But all I could think about was coming home. I wanted to be here."
Peter's throat felt thick as he looked at his sister. "We wanted you back. It was terrible without you here. I felt like I was flying by the seat of my pants."
"That never goes away." If her face wasn't so soft he'd have considered her expression a smirk. "And you did amazing."
His cheeks heated at the compliment. "I'm glad you're back. Everything feels like it's seconds from going wrong constantly without you there."
"Short of an alien invasion I don't think anyone is going to let me fight anything more dangerous than a popcorn maker for a few weeks." Daisy used her powers to nudge him ever so slightly. "I think it's still going to be the Spiderman adventures alone for a bit longer."
Peter's eyes lit up. "Well just because you can't fight anyone till your stitches come out, doesn't mean I can't beat your butt at Mortal Kombat."
"You're on." She reached forward and fluffed his hair.
"Darcy wants us to put our masks on?" Peter looked at Daisy in some horror. "I thought we agreed no more videos?"
Daisy shrugged. "I mean it can't hurt to do as instructed till she gets here?" She grinned. "And we agreed you don't make anymore videos."
"You're just saying that because I'm winning." Peter still hopped to his feet to go find their masks. "Don't get up!" He glared. "You're supposed to be resting!"
They both glanced up as Wanda came out of the bedroom. Daisy smiled. "Finish your recorded speech?"
"I did, hopefully it meets the requirements." Wanda had one of her massive textbooks tucked under one arm.
Peter bit back a smile as Wanda slid between Daisy and the arm of the couch. He could see how they both softened around each other, the shift of focus. So he politely didn't say anything as Wanda began to trail her fingers through Daisy's hair as she opened up a text book. Or when Daisy leaned into the touch, unspeakingly offering her back to her girlfriend. It was kinda cute...totally gross if they forgot he was there, but usually kinda nice.
"Why are you both wearing your masks?" Wanda looked between them, though her eyes flickered with red light and amusement as her eyes caught Peter's.
He flushed, shit she'd picked some of his thoughts up then. "Darcy said to."
"Ah, well I suppose we should expect my brother then." She lightly kissed Daisy before focusing back on her book.
His nose wrinkled, did his sisters have to be dating? "Do you want in for a round?" He offered the controller out.
Wanda shook her head. "I have to have this chapter read by tomorrow morning."
Daisy shot him a look. "Come on, I want to get a lethality on you."
"You're far too excited to rip my heart out." Peter grinned though, he was totally better at this game.
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Darcy paused and leaned against the wall as she watched the sight before her. Despite her presence surely being noticed, no one reacted to her. She was glad of it. Smiling, she just took a minute to rest and watch. It filled her with a soft satisfaction at seeing her siblings happy and at peace.
Peter was perched on the kitchen counter, mask rucked up to his nose as he licked batter off of a spoon, a large bowl of some baking adventure in his lap. He looked perfectly happy. It was hilarious seeing him in a nerd t-shirt, jeans, ratty tennis shoes, and his spidermask. Also for some reason he'd put on his spider gloves. But his head was bobbing to the music as he happily cleaned the bowl.
But it wasn't Peter who drew her attention. Nor was it the red light curled around a spoon that was stirring something on the stove. The lights also lit up the sink as the dishes were being washed by actual legit magic. It was some Harry Potter shit. No what drew her eye was her sister. In the center of the kitchen were Wanda and Daisy. They were laughing as they spun around, dancing to a playlist on someone's phone. It was so painfully clear they were happy and in love.
Daisy was leading them, she really was good at dancing thanks to Agent May loathing being undercover. Sure Daisy had an awful black eye, had bandages on the back of her neck, stitches on one cheek. But she looked radiant all the same as she spun them around, her eyes focused on Wanda as Wanda threw her head back laughing brightly.
Well, no question of who was dating who. Or whether or not they were in love. Darcy's lips twitched as she watched. Well, she'd chosen the right evening to do a video, even if for all the masks being on, they clearly didn't know they were on camera already. Speaking of, Darcy waited till the song came to a close, Wanda and Daisy ending up laughing while hanging onto each other. "Sup! I said put on masks but I don't remember saying you should have one of your weird cooking dates."
"You're just jealous." Daisy looked over. "And what the fuck, you said put on masks like two hours ago?"
Darcy shrugged unrepentantly. "Astro lab science waits for no woman."
"Uh...why do you have your phone on?" Peter asked, slowly lowering the spoon from his mouth.
She grinned. "Because I'm filming you idiots."
"Hey, way harsh." Daisy stepped away from Wanda to pull bowls out of one of the cupboards. "Does this mean you don't want an ice cream brownie sundae? Cause ambush PR means no ice cream brownie sundae."
Wanda levitated another bowl out. "Should I be expecting anyone else?"
"The Buckaroo, Birdman and your idiot brother should be along. The Buckaroo switched me to decaf coffee without warning me. It's a grave betrayal so I've tasked him with hunting down the others." Darcy kicked the door shut behind her. "And I'm saving us all from more witchy pouting from assumptions of you riding a patriotic disco stick."
Daisy's face twisted up while Peter made a dying sound. "Really? Do you have to be disgusting?"
"No, but it amuses me. Also you have a Cap bobble head on your desk. If anyone finds out incorrect assumptions will be made." Darcy set her phone on the kitchen island with care. "Besides, your girlfriend was going to kill you if you kept snickering over her irritation at the polls over which Avenger you were dating."
Daisy shrugged. "It is pretty funny."
"What I want to know is why I'm not even on the list of options." Wanda grumbled while pulling out silverware.
Peter shrugged. "I don't know. I nearly got murdered in the suburbs by a guy in a metal bird suit, got saved and then suddenly everyone thought I was dating my sister. It doesn't make sense." Peter added before sticking the chocolate brownie mixing spoon into his mouth.
"It's cause you're both huggers." Darcy ticked off fingers as she went through points. "Quake is an overprotective mother hen. You cling cause everything out of her mouth is full of angst and near death misses. And it was kind of the most hysterical method of keeping your identity secret. Perils of having a civilian life that'd be fucked if your name got out. Do you enjoy not having to do classes online? Cause online college is an option." To be fair, Peter was going to be taking college classes in the afternoon starting next year.
He pouted. "You made a photo album of Spiderquake art."
"It's my duty as the plucky comedic relief and tech support character of your guys's epic superhero story." Darcy grabbed a mug out of the cupboard. "Is that homemade hot chocolate?"
Daisy laughed as she pulled ice cream out of the freezer. "Of course it is. Only way to have hot chocolate."
"Excuse me, you thought two packets of chocolate mix was the only way to do it. You called my stove version 'bizarre amount of effort for bitter weirdness'." Wanda shot a look at Darcy. "Ladle is in the second drawer to your right."
Daisy pressed a quick kiss to Wanda's cheek. "You were right, as always. And you actually put more than a sprinkle of sugar in it now."
"Americans." Wanda rolled her eyes, but she was clearly fond as she said it. Leaning into Daisy ever so slightly she brushed a light kiss against Daisy's lips.
Peter looked at Darcy. "I don't get it." He was clearly baffled and clearly considering fleeing if their sister and her girlfriend were going to start kissing properly.
"See no my question is did this hot chocolate event occur on one of your cooking dates, which thank you. Quake set my kitchen on fire twice before you two got together. Or did hot chocolate event just happen?"
Daisy snagged a floating mug and served herself hot chocolate. "Middle of the night nightmare cure. And what are you doing? Shouldn't you be doing something for PR before you pass out?"
"I am, you'd be surprised at how little of this I'm gonna need to cut." Darcy groaned as she took a sip of her hot chocolate. "If I'd just stuck you two on the couch and asked the top ten questions you'd have gone all stiff."
Wanda paused from where she was cutting the tray of brownies. "If this is the PR part why on earth are you dragging all the available Avengers in the tower to my apartment?"
"Monopoly and charades night, duh." Darcy beamed over the edge of her cup.
Peter's head snapped up. "You're my partner!"
"You don't want to be teamed up with Sam?" Darcy teased.
He dumped the bowl into the sink. "We're already going to lose to them." He gestured at Daisy and Wanda.
She nodded. "Fair, it'll be hilarious to watch Pietro and Buckaroo attempt to keep up." Darcy hummed. "We'll give them Sam and make it a team of three. Make it more fair."
"Legit evil sabotage." Daisy laughed while scooping ice cream on top of brownies in the various bowls. "What did the boyfriend do?"
Darcy tossed her hair over one shoulder. "Nothing."
"Your relationship baffles me." Daisy passed a bowl to Wanda without looking.
Darcy lowered her mug. "That reminds me, next month, the Maria Stark fundraiser, it's a masquerade and you're my date. Pietro's got work that night."
"Sure...is this so no one thinks you're cheating?" Daisy asked.
She shook her head. "Fringe benefit. You just are the best dancer after Natasha. And Spiderling you've got chocolate on your chin."
"Huh...shoot." Peter wiped at his chin before pulling his mask back down.
Daisy reached out and messed up Peter's mask. As he grumbled she sent a quake at him knocking him off the counter.
Yelping, Peter vanished over the side, his feet the last part visible before there was a thud. His voice came from the otherside. "I'll remember that!"
Wanda's red light zapped Daisy's arm. "No rough housing in the kitchen."
"Sorry." Daisy grinned at her girlfriend with absolutely no remorse. In fact she looked completely smug.
Darcy laughed at Wanda rolling her eyes as Peter's head peeked back up over the counter. This was what a night with everyone should feel like.
There was a crashing as a box of Lucky Charms fell out of a cupboard and into the tray of brownies. Everyone froze. Wanda turned slowly towards Daisy. "Really?"
"Hey, I haven't even been back for a week. Totes not mine." She was holding her hands up, but it was clear she thought this was hilarious.
"Pietro." Wanda's eyes narrowed.
Darcy snickered into her hot chocolate. "Well guess I'll be single sooner than expected."
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