Chapter 1

Based around my story A Place to Call Home, this one shot takes place between the first one and the sequel. :) If you haven't read the actually story I really encourage you to do so. This won't make much sense if you don't. I know it's a lot to read just to read this one shot but I promise you won't be disappointed… Or- at least I hope you won't be disappointed. XD

If you have read A Place to Call Home, then I hope you enjoy this one shot! Again- this takes place between the first one and the sequel. First chapter here might be slow but I will try to update it as soon as possible :)

I ran down the stairwell and onto the communal floor. Heading for the kitchen counter I grabbed my jacket and hurried to the cupboard to grab breakfast.

"Kate, hurry up" I glanced over and saw Dad pop out his head out of the elevator in his stealth suit. "14 minutes, let's go!" He smirked.

"Mmaurdphmb" I mumble as I was holding a pop tart in my mouth, seeing the weird look he gave me.

"I'm sorry, was that English?" He chuckled as I was hopping towards the elevator as I pulled my shoe on. I pulled the shoe on and grabbed the pop tart.

"Sort of, how come we're leaving so early this morning" He was pulling his gloves on before he lifted his foot to tighten his combat boot.

"Fury wants us working with new recruits" He says, causing me to groan and let myself fall back against the elevator wall. I saw him smirk before he stood up straight and sighed.

"I'm just excited as you are" I saw him look down at me before he looked back at the door.

I kept making a pop noise with my lips as the elevator kept going down.

"Did you finish your mission report from New Jersey-?"

"Yeah Dad" I rolled my eyes. "You asked me that twice yesterday" I look at him as the door opened and we walked out of the elevator and walked towards the doors before walking outside onto the roof.

"Well I feel a need to remind you, since last time Fury put you on desk duty when you 'forgot' to do it" He sent me a quick look as we walked into the quinjet.

"I did though!" I argue, throwing a hand in the air. "...mostly" I mumble at the end. I saw him send me another look as we walked to the front and the ramp came up.

Seconds later it took off and we headed towards the Helicarrier.

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Several hours on the Carrier had gone by and I was studying for a mission assessment that was coming up at the end of this week.

Some junior agents and I had to take these monthly tests and I hated studying for them.

Why do this when I could be out in the field solving problems instead of taking tests on how to solve said problems? It's a waste of time.

I had gotten into my suit when I got here. You never know when you might be needed so it's always good to be prepared.

"How's it going?" I looked over my shoulder as Clint walked over.

"Eh" I mumbled.

"I had a feeling" I heard him laugh before he leaned over to my left and look at the computer screen. "Test is Saturday right?"

"Yeah, and I can't wait" The sarcasm was clear in my laugh and his smirk widened.

"I'd go over some of the weapons and tactical stuff too. Sometimes they surprise you with those" He says before pushing off the table and walked around to the computer opposite of me.

"Alright" I clicked on a few file notes and started to read a bit. He sat down across from my and I could hear him typing.

"Did Steve give you your packet of reports?"

My head shot up.

"Excuse me? Reports? With an S?!"

"Yeah" He laughed. "You forgot to file the last few from the mission you went on with him. Those out of country missions require a lot of paper work to be filled out"

"No! Dad didn't even tell me!" I blurt out and Clint started laughing.

"Sucks to be you" He sighed and got up with a grin. "Have fun with those" He patted me on the shoulder before walking out. I let my face fall into my hands and groaned.

Thanks a lot Dad. Real nice job.

I quickly got paper copies of all the reports I had to write- including the ones Dad failed to mention and walked for the door.

It took a few minutes but I got down to the training gyms and went to Gym C.

I saw Dad chewing out another recruit as I walked over. Yeah- he's pretty hard on them surprisingly.

"Dad" I start; walking over.

"What Kate?" He didn't even look at me as his attention was directly on an Agent. I recognized him immediately. Jason Barrington. One of the Agents that thought it was funny as hell to pick on me at SHIELD. Something told me Dad knew he was involved in the whole bullying thing with me because almost anytime I saw him in the same room as my Dad he was either chewing him out or making him work twice as hard. It was funny as hell to watch I'll say that right now. "Drop and give me 40" He ordered. Jason rolled his eyes and glared at me. I glared right back as he walked over to the mats on the other side of the gym and got down and started doing pushups. "Rest of you- partner 2 start doing laps, Partner 1 get on the mats" He calls. The new recruits started to split up and follow the orders given to them.

Dad pinched the bridge of his nose and mumbled under his breath.

"That rhymes" I whisper with a grin. I see him lower his hand and roll his eyes before he looked over at me.

"I've been waiting for you for almost an hour, where've you been?" He mumbled and took the stack of files I was holding. He started to flip through it.

"Oh you know- just working my ass off to finish up the reports due tomorrow from the France mission" I give a sarcastic smile. I saw him freeze and he let the stack fall back down before he looked at me with wide eyes. He didn't even seem to notice I said a bad word. Yeah- You know how he gets with those.

"Oh my god I completely forgot" He breathed. "Honey, I am so sorry. I'll tell Fury to extend their due date" He says quickly but stopped as I started laughing.

"It's fine, I'll have Natasha help me" I shrug. "Clint actually reminded me so thank him" He nodded before looking down at the stack of files before he handed it back to me.

"I need a hand with some of the recruits over on the mats, think you can give them a hand?" He asked; looking down at me. I hesitated to answer and looked down. I could feel his eyes on me as he waited for a response.

"Kate..."

"I think Maria needed some help on the bridge" I smile and turn but he easily grabbed my arm and stopped me from leaving.

"C'mon, I know this isn't your favorite thing in the world. But I really could use the help here" He says. I let out a huff and nod. "We talked about this" He says; looking down a bit farther with a smile so I would look at him.

"Yeah I know" I mumble.

"You have more heart and skill than anyone in this room. If there's anyone they should be taking tips from its you" I could hear the friendly amusement in his voice but I just gave a small smile and a nod.

"K" I sigh.

"Thank you sweetheart" He smiled before giving me a quick side hug. "They'll most likely be short with you so you have my permission to snap at them or be physical" He gave me a nod and a smile before handed me the clipboard with their individual training notes and training session details.

"If you had lead with that I would already be over there" I grin and start walking towards the training mats. I caught him rolling his eyes as I made my way over to where the recruits are.

"Alright, get in line" I call, getting their attention as the all looked over at me. "Ok what have you been working on so far today?" I looked through the clip board Dad gave me.

"Blocking punches" One girl says.

"Well that's boring" I mumble, thankfully not loud enough for anyone to hear.

"Let's work on blocking kicks then" I shrug before tossing the clip board aside. "Get in groups of two and do 4 rounds each of practice kicks. Don't full blown try to knock the teeth out of your partner please" I add. "If you think I'm escorting someone to the nurse you are sadly mistaken" I heard a few chuckles.

Within about a minute they all partnered up and got to work on practicing kick blocking. I occasionally walked around to overlook them and point out any flaws if necessary but otherwise they were alright. No one gave me a hard time either. Meaning I unfortunately didn't get to knock anyone on their ass for being a butthead.

About 15 more minutes went by before the session ended and the recruits left to get a transport back to the academy.

Dad walked over to me as I was picking up my mission reports and the clipboard.

"They do ok?"

"Yeah, they were alright. No one gave me a hard time so I didn't get the amusement I was looking for" I shrug. He smirks before nodding as I stuck my phone in my pocket.

"You up for a little training session or are you anxious to get home and work on those reports" He asked. I looked at him or a moment and then around the gym. No one was here besides a few other higher agents getting some gym time in between missions.

"Aren't you busy?"

"Does it look like I have anything to do?" He laughed. I looked him up and down for a moment.

"At the moment? Yes it looks like you're about to leave or do something of importance" I state. He rolls his eyes before taking his shield off his back, putting it down to the side of the mats before he backed up onto them.

"C'mon, I promised you I would teach you a few tricks" He says with a shrug.

"That was last week" I smirk. He didn't say anything for a moment before looking around.

"...yeah. But not the point. Chop chop I don't have all day" He smiled before backing up a few more steps. I finally put down my stack of papers and threw the clipboard on top before I took a few steps onto the mat. "Anything in particular?"

"Nah" I gave a quick shrug.

"Alright then, let's just do a quick round of disabling your opponent and then maybe later today I can have Natasha do a few rounds with you too" He says but I ended up groaning. He scrunched his nose in confusion and smirked. "What's wrong with that?"

"You always beat me!" I argue. "Not a fair game" I cross my arms. He laughs before nodding and stood up a bit straighter.

"I'll go easy on you" He laughs. I finally nod and get into a fighting stance. "But no ability" He adds quickly. I huff and just roll my eyes before nodding.

"You have to act like what I do actually hurt though" he laughed before nodding.

"Alright"

"But don't make it so easy to the point where I'm falling asleep"

"Can we start?" He deadpanned. I rolled my eyes before giving a nod, taking a few steps to the side.

Within seconds I dodged a kick and dropped before rolling to the left. Doing a kip up, I dodged a few punches before throwing a few of my own, finishing with a kick. I jumped out of the way of another kick, my back hitting the wall before i ducked a punch. Taking advantage of his brief exposed side I slid past him and kicked his legs out from under him- actually knocking him off his feet, which was a shock.

He quickly rolled over and got back up and blocked both kicks. I lost my balance just for a split second and didn't have time to block his punch as he stopped about 6 inches from my face.

"Damn it" I grumbled. Dad smirked before lowering his fist and helped me get back on my feet.

"Good job, I was surprised" He smiles. I roll my eyes.

"You went easy on me" I remind him before walking over to pick of the reports I left beside the mats.

"You managed to knock me off my feet so that's a really good start, I wasn't expecting that" He puts a hand on my shoulder as we walked towards the door.

"I feel like you're lying" I laugh.

"I'm not" He shrugs. "And I know you can tell when I'm lying so I've got nothing to hide" He smirks and looks down at me as we continued before walking out the door.

End of chapter one of this one shot! Yay! :D I think most of my one shots will naturally be more than one chapter- like little short stories in between. :) Please review if you liked it!