[RP] You can know my code name, I can meet you on the sly

[ibelieveinarrows]

Coulson was not supposed to be here. Or at least not for long. The plan was to show up just long enough to say hi and surprise his daughter with the part where he's off early (or as off as he ever is anyway). Then he got sidelined when he walked in, got sidelined again after getting a location, and got sidelined yet again when he went to where she had been (but wasn't anymore, apparently). Now he's been here almost forty minutes and has no idea where to look.

Because they are children and apparently he gets to play babysitter when he comes to visit.

He isn't stopping for anything else, though. He is going to find his daughter and no superhero, spy, overgrown children, or mixture thereof is going to stop him.

... It's a nice thought, really it is. Just an unlikely one.


Clint may have been part of why Coulson kept getting sidetracked, but even annoying his favorite handler/boss/overseer of all things Avenger is only entertaining for so long. He's up on the roof now. He likes the roof, and that's pretty visible from the amount of things up there that are his: targets and a few discarded arrows from prototypes that really weren't worth the time to fix up, balls that can either be tossed as targets or just tossed around for the hell of it, a gameboy that's basically been given up to the roof since he keeps forgetting it up here.

He's ignoring all that right now, though, for playing a balancing act on the edge of the roof, his eyes on his feet. His quiver and bow are slung over his shoulder, so he can grab one of the appropriate arrows if he missteps -- but he's pretty confident that he won't.


And Steve, well, he has a television. He's not entirely comfortable with how much down-time being a superhero leads to, but it's certainly helped in the whole 'get Captain America familiar with current pop culture' campaign half the team seems to have launched.

He's not actually watching anything in particular, just flipping through channels until something looks interesting. Mostly he is watching commercials or news stories. Somehow getting himself familiar with the news and the products feels a little more useful than getting himself familiar with the media in general.

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[theytookmyipod]

"True," she agrees and holds hers up. "But I bet I shoot him first." No, she does not care that her dad is actually trained in shooting and she isn't. She can totally do this.

"Uhm, starting a bonding experience with your team? Besides that, I've just been hanging out with Pepper and poking at some of Tony's new toys."

[forthoseilove]

"Are you challenging me?" he asks, raising an eyebrow and not looking to be against the idea at all.

He pauses for a moment, considering, before he asks, "Is shooting each other, even with non-weapons, really something to consider a bonding experience?"

[theytookmyipod]

She grins back. "Maybe I am."

She considers. "I don't know, I think laser tag counts as a bonding experience and this is just with water instead of lasers."

[forthoseilove]

"I don't think you're ready for that," he tells her, trying not to laugh.

He shrugs "I guess it counts, then. I heard you were terrorizing Stark, too?"

[theytookmyipod]

"You're old," she counters. "I can so beat you."

She pouts. "Not terrorizing. I just...was getting him to get out of the lab. By shooting at things that probably weren't meant to be wet."

[forthoseilove]

"I'm experienced," he corrects, and squirts at her to punctuate it.

He grins, shaking his head. "Fine, if you say so. You didn't destroy anything, did you?"

[theytookmyipod]

"Pfft, that's a nice way of saying you're old and sad and I could beat you any day of the week." Could she really? Probably not. Does she care? Nope.

"I...don't actually know." She grins, this time a bit sheepishly. "I kind of ran out of there before he could assess the damage. Y'know, just in case."

[forthoseilove]

"No, it's a nice way of saying you don't know what you're doing." Well, he might let her win. On actual skill... probably not.

He shakes his head. "I think we would be hearing it from here if anything did happen, but I'll check in later. Just in case."

[theytookmyipod]

She sicks her tongue out at him. "Believe what you want In your heart, you know the truth."

She nods. "You are a brave man. I'm...probably not going to visit him for a little while." She grins and laughs.

[forthoseilove]

"I certainly do," he says calmly, and ruins it completely by grinning.

"Probably not a bad idea," he agrees. "Especially if something did turn out to need fixing. I'll find out tonight."

[theytookmyipod]

"Awesome, thanks." She grins. "I figure if I don't hear from you, I'll find Pepper and ask if she had to sedate him or whatever it is she does to get him to stop flipping out."

[forthoseilove]

"I think I'd be less surprised to hear she does sedate him than that she doesn't," he muses, more to himself. "I'm not sure how else she gets him to calm down, sometimes."

[theytookmyipod]

"Aaand now I wonder if she would let me play with the rugs. Think she would? I'm...thinking not." She sighs, mock wistfully. "I want to be able to say I knocked out Iron Man."

[forthoseilove]

"I think you're out of luck there," he says, dropping her hand to wrap an arm around her shoulder instead.

[theytookmyipod]

"I know," she sighs dramatically. "My life man, nobody knows the troubles I've seen."

[forthoseilove]

"Would dinner help?" he asks, patting her arm lightly. "You can tell me all about the things you don't get to do while we eat."

[theytookmyipod]

"Dinner always helps," she points out with a cheerful smile. "You pick this time?"

[forthoseilove]

"I think it's a diner kind of night. Should we try one of the ones here or go closer to home, do you think?"

[theytookmyipod]

"Can we go to the place by the house? I want their strawberry kiwi pie." She smiles hopefully. It' a bit of a drive and she had been planning to spend the night here, assuming Tony didn't find her and kick her out but well, plans change.

[forthoseilove]

"Whatever you want." He drags her a little closer with the arm around her shoulders, pausing to lean over and kiss her on the forehead. He's smiling when he straightens up again.

He misses her, when he gets busy with work and barely even goes home to sleep. He loves his job and he wouldn't trade it for anything, but she's still his little girl. It's nice to spend some time with her.

[theytookmyipod]

She grins, moving to press a kiss against his cheek and smiling wide. "Do you have the whole night off or are you on call or something?"

[forthoseilove]

"As close to off call as SHIELD lets me get. There's a chance they'll call, but it's slim-to-none. Anything they might pull me in for tonight is going to be something you need to get to a safehouse for anyway."

[theytookmyipod]

She nods. "Got it, you're on cal for the apocalypse."

Then,upon thinking about it. "Do they have safehouses for the apocalypse?"

[forthoseilove]

"Depends on what kind of apocalypse it is."

He smiles, but he isn't actually joking.

[theytookmyipod]

"That's...good to know. I think." She shakes her head "I really want to say something about being paranoid but considering our lives, I don't think I can."