My name's Claire. I'm 17 years old, 5"2, I have wavy brunette hair that goes to the middle of my back and blue eyes, just like my dad's.
Oh yeah, my dad is Captain America.
I don't normally tell people that; Rogers is a fairly common surname so no one has ever guessed it either. I can't bear to think about what would happen if I told someone. They'd want to meet him and get autographs and once you've met Captain America you aren't exactly going to keep it a secret are you? Then everyone else would want to meet him and get autographs and all that crap.
But worst of all; there would be people teasing me. Before my dad became Captain America he was just some weedy little dork determined to join the war. He was always getting himself into fights with people much bigger and much stronger than himself because he was always standing up against bullies. He got beat to a pulp every time if Bucky didn't come to his rescue. But anyway, I must have gotten some of his old genes, I'm a weedy little 84lbs girl who can't run or throw a punch for shit. Just like my dad was.
I have quite a lot to live up to.
I hardly ever see my dad anyway; he's always away on some mission for SHIELD. Not normally anything big and life threatening like when Loki brought the Chitauri to New York or anything. Just simple little side missions like freeing a load of hostages or protecting some important official. Sometimes he'll bring me back little gifts though so it isn't all bad. When he'd away I normally stay at home alone in our little 2 bedroom apartment in Brooklyn (where my dad grew up) or I go and stay over with a friend if he's only going to be gone 3 days max.
I don't know who my mum is. Whenever I ask my dad he always says "It's complicated" or "I'll tell you one day". I doubt he will to be honest. But I'm fine with that, I like being able to watch whatever I want, listen to whatever I want and basically do whatever I want when he's away. There's no one to tell me not to.
It does get lonely at time though. Dad's the only family I've got so when he's not here I've only got my mates. And he can't exactly book time off like other parents, so he often misses my birthday and Christmases but when he does he'll always give me a ring on the day and promise to make it up to me when he gets back, which he does. Sometimes he'll take me out shopping, get me that new game I've been begging him for for months or get me loads of new clothes from all the designer brands so I can show off to all them bitches at college or we'll go to the cinema and have a daddy-daughter day but my favourite is when we sit in the living room and cuddle up with loads of blankets and watch all our favourite films all day. We watch some girly rom-coms for me, some of his old movies from back in the '40s and then some modern action ones as well. We have all the lights off and the curtains close so we don't see daylight all day. I love it.
Anyway, my dad's coming home tomorrow; he's been away for 3 weeks now I think. He had to go to some mission in Zambia to protect one of SHIELD's greatest scientists while he was doing some research there. Poor guy, there must be some pretty bad people after his work if the army can't protect him enough that they need to have my dad there.
When he gets back we're planning to go out for a meal at Pizza Express, it's my favourite, really posh pizza cooked perfectly and those dough balls with garlic butter dip... It's to die for. Then he's going to take me to see Independence Day at the cinema, I nearly watched it to many times while he's been away but I didn't want to spoil it for when he gets back, and then we're going to come home and have a few drinks together (it has to be at home, I'm not old enough to drink in a pub yet). I can't wait until tomorrow; it's all I've been able to think about for days.
I've just got to get some homework done before he gets home tomorrow so I don't have to worry about it while we're out tomorrow. I've got some maths homework (unlike most people ever, I'm quite good at maths and I actually quite like the subject), computer science homework and some physics homework (yes, I'm quite a bit of a nerd). Dad can normally help me with math and sometimes physics but he isn't particularly good with computer science, you can't blame him though, he was born in 1918, he wasn't exactly brought up with computers. I should be able to get through it all before I go to sleep tonight then I can enjoy tomorrow with my dad back home.