Chapter 2
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Three weeks Later
Ever since Ultron was defeated the Avengers have been working together to plan a new facility. In that time Maria Hill has learnt about Clint, Natasha and Melinda, and their daughter, as well as about Tony and his connection to Melinda and Coulson, all of which she didn't already know, and wouldn't know, if she didn't walk in on Steve trying to get more answers from Fury.
After the call she has just received Maria has headed to where The Avengers have breakfast, which is the only meal they always have together, although when she arrives she sees that Wanda, Pietro, Vision, Rhodey and Sam aren't there.
"So, I just got a call from Coulson." Maria says as she walks in, the fact that Coulson is actually alive is something that Steve was recently told, and Natasha, Clint and Tony already knew.
"Has something else happened?" Natasha asks as they have been informed of the almost war with the Inhumans and Coulson losing a hand.
"Maybe. Has anyone heard from Melinda in the past two weeks?" she asks, her eyes lingering on Fury, Tony, Natasha and Clint.
"Nope, can't say I have." Tony answers as Natasha, Clint and Fury shake their head, "Why what's going on?"
"May left S.H.I.E.L.D two weeks ago, saying she was going on vacation." Maria reveals but before she can say more Clint cuts her of,
"Mel doesn't take vacation." He comments.
"Which Coulson knows, but Andrew has been around so he assumed that she was going away with him." Maria explains.
"Andrew?" Steve asks Tony in a confused whisper.
"Millie's ex-husband, her attempt at trying to move on from Clint and Natasha a decade after they ended their relationship. Didn't end well." Tony admits.
"But Andrew's now at the base helping the team with some recent issues, and he hasn't heard a word from Melinda." Maria explains, "Phil's getting concerned." She explains and as she does Natasha grabs one of the tablets and looks something up.
"She's been to the storage locker." She says to Clint after about a minute.
"Do you think she's found something?" Clint asks Natasha, an undertone of hope to his voice.
"She would have called if she did." Natasha tells Clint, both of them knowing that for a fact.
"Yeah, we should go check in." Clint says, wanting to start to really search for their girl again.
"Yeah." Natasha says, "Call if you need anything." She says to Steve before she and Clint get up and leave the room, both knowing exactly where they will find Melinda.
"What just happened?" Steve asks confused.
"Barton and Romanoff left to join May down the rabbit hole of trying to find their daughter again." Fury explains.
"Will that end well?" Steve asks, slightly concerned.
"Usually doesn't." Tony comments, knowing that Clint became completely deaf in one of his ears and partially deaf in the other because of something that happened when he tried to find his daughter, "but maybe it will this time." Tony hopes, "Don't worry I'll go out there in a couple of weeks and see what shape they're in." he says, hoping that he doesn't find them in the same shape that he found Melinda in almost four years ago.
June 2011
As he had spent the previous few months attempting not to die, something which resulted in Natasha having been assigned to work undercover at Stark Industry to make sure that no one, including Pepper, discovered that fact, Tony hadn't really been talking to many people. As soon as Tony realised that Natasha was undercover he started to purposely use that to amuse himself, something which started as soon as he saw Natasha and got the idea to have her fight Happy just so he could see her knock him to the ground. Due to the fact that he had been so busy Tony hadn't thought anything strange about having not heard from Melinda in a while, not until both Natasha and Phil asked him if he had.
So, once he was no longer dying of palladium poisoning, and once he dealt with the aftermath of what happened at the Stark Expo, he made a trip to Washington DC so that he could check on the person who is practically his big sister.
Once he arrived at Melinda's apartment building, having used every trick that his mother taught him, things that he forced himself to remember after everything that happened with Obadiah, to make sure that he wasn't followed or watched Tony knocks on the door and waited.
"Who is it?" Melinda's voice asked after about a minute.
"Tony." Tony said and a few second later the door opens and Melinda let him in.
As soon as he walked into Melinda's apartment Tony felt his concern grown as there where papers covering every surface, old food lying out, and Melinda looked like she hasn't slept in days, which was true as, unknown to Tony, Melinda had spent the last week going to work in the Admin department during the day then she went home and spent all her time working to find her daughter.
"Don't touch anything." Melinda informed Tony, as she made her way back to the floor in the centre of his apartment.
"Okay." Tony said as he looked around, "You doing okay, Millie?" Tony asked concerned.
"I'm fine." Melinda said in response as Tony slowly made his way across the room to Melinda, who he sat down next to.
"What are you doing?" Tony asked curious.
"Trying to find my daughter." Melinda said in response, her voicing making it seem like that was the most obvious thing.
"Right" Tony said in response, as he realised that he now had the job of needing to get Melinda to have a rest and each some real food and he had no idea how he was able to do that, but eventually he did figure It out and was able to help.
After they realised what Melinda is doing it takes Natasha and Clint not even fifteen minutes to pack some stuff before they are on the road, and a few hours later they arrive at the same place that Clint brought the Avengers.
"She's definitely here." Clint comments as he and Natasha get out of the car they drove and see a motorbike sitting by the porch.
"Yep." Natasha confirms and the two of them head inside.
The second Natasha and Clint walk inside they are greeted by Melinda's raised gun and a living room, and some of the kitchen, covered in papers.
"It's just us." Clint says as Natasha looks around, trying to make sense of what Melinda is doing.
"Hi." Melinda says as she puts her gun back on the floor and her attention turns back to the paper she is reading, though she had a brief look of joy upon seeing Clint and Natasha.
"Have you found anything? Any leads?" Natasha asks curious as she and Clint both drop their bags in the hallway, by the stairs, and walk over to Melinda where they both find space on the floor to sit down.
"No, not yet." Melinda says as she puts what she is reading down so that she can look at Clint and Natasha, "Theirs's an agent on our team, Skye, she's been looking for her parents her entire life, about as long as we've been looking for our girl, and when I first found that out, I…"
"Thought she was our girl." Natasha realises, knowing that that must not be the case as otherwise Melinda would have told them.
"Until Phil got the declassified files on her and I learnt that a DNA sample was run through the S.H.I.E.L.D database and provided no match." Melinda says, not knowing that an Agent on Avery's team was Hydra and made sure that the sample was lost and never run, while being recorded as having been done, but then he was killed before he could take Skye to Whitehall.
"Our girl's DNA is in the S.H.I.E.L.D database." Clint says.
"Yeah." Melinda says with a nod, "She's found her parents now, after so many years, and if she can do that I have to believe that we can find our baby, and this time I'm not going to stop until she's found." Melinda says, looking at Clint and Natasha, wanting them to understand, as four years ago Tony forced to stop before she destroyed herself, but this time she's not going to stop.
"I'm not going to either." Clint says, after everything that has happened, after meeting The Twins, he needs to find answers about his girl, and Natasha nods, all three of them knowing, without a doubt that they aren't going to give up until they find out what happened to their daughter, no matter what it takes, or what they have to do.
Two Weeks Later
For the last month Skye, who has started going by Daisy, has been trying to ignore this nagging feeling she's been having that is telling her that Cal and Jiaying kept something from her. Usually it would have been something that she would just casually say to May during a Tai-Chi session in hopes of May telling her that she was just being stupid, but May's gone and even if she was a base there is a chance that she wouldn't talk to her after everything that happened.
As she sits in her bunk Daisy finds herself having a lot of difficulties focusing on the code that she is creating.
"Maybe I should just get Simmons to run the test see if I'm right." Daisy thinks to herself, "If I'm wrong it's no big deal." She thinks, "And if you're right? Could you really go back to not knowing?" Daisy asks herself, "I don't know. But I think I need to know." Daisy thinks and realising that she knows that she should do it now before she loses her never and so she gets up and heads to the lab.
When Daisy arrives at the lab like she doesn't see Simmons like she was hoping but she does find Bobbi.
"Hey." Daisy says walking over to Bobbi who is sitting at one of the workstations.
"Hey, Skye." Bobbi says, looking happy to see her, "Sorry, Daisy." She corrects.
"It's okay, I know it might be confusing." Daisy says with a smile, "How you doing?" she asks Bobbi as she has only started working in the lab a few days earlier.
"Better, I think. It feels good to be in working, even if I can't be in the field." Bobbi admits, "Did you need something?"
"Um, yeah. I was looking for Simmons." Daisy explains.
"She's with Fitz and Mack in the hanger. They're testing out some new inventions. They could be a while." Bobbi explains.
"Oh." Daisy says, trying not to look disappointed.
"You know I do have a biology degree I can do a lot of things." Bobbi tells Skye, having noticed the look.
"You're going to think it's stupid." Skye says, as part of the reason she wanted to tell Simmons is because Simmons will understand.
"Try me." Bobbi responds with a comforting smile.
"I don't know if it's just my old insecurities showing themselves again, or whether there is something to it, but somethings Jiaying and Cal said just didn't add up. They seemed a little too rehearsed and I saw them exchange looks a couple of times, like there was something they weren't saying." Daisy explains to Bobbi as she sits down on top of the table across from Bobbi.
"Doesn't sound stupid to me." Bobbi admits, "You've got good instructs and you've been trained by May. So, if you think there was something they weren't saying then their likely was." Bobbi tells Daisy, wanting to reassure her, "But I don't understand what I can do."
"Could you run my DNA against the DNA we got from Cal and Jiaying?" Daisy asks curious, surprising Bobbi.
"You don't think they're really your parents." Bobbi realises, feeling bad for Daisy as she knows how long Daisy has been looking for her parents, so if she were to have found people that she thought were but then turn out not to be it would hurt her a lot.
"I've got a nagging feeling saying that they're not." Daisy admits, "I thought that going by Daisy Johnson might help that nagging feeling disappear, but it hasn't." Daisy reveals as in an odd way Daisy feels more right than Skye did, but Johnson feels strange, even wrong, "I get if you're busy, and…."
"Daisy, it's okay. I'll run the test." Bobbi says, cutting her off.
"Really?" Daisy ask surprised.
"Yeah." Bobbi says with a nod, "Should only take half an hour at the most." Bobbi says, being pretty sure that Daisy is going to be very thankful for S.H.I.E.L.D tech.
"Thank you." Daisy says, gratefully.
"Not a problem." Bobbi says and she stars to do what she has to do to run the test.
For the next twenty minutes Daisy and Bobbi sit in silence, and as more time passes Bobbi realises that Daisy is becoming more and more nervous.
"Have you thought about what this will mean if you're right?" Bobbi asks curious.
"Yeah, I have." Daisy confirms, "And I have a theory that I want to test if I'm right, one that I'm going to need your help with." She requests.
"Of course." Bobbi says, "I'm sorry, Daisy for what happened at the retreat."
"You've already apologised for that. We're good." Daisy assures as she remembers what happened when she visited Bobbi when she was healing;
A Month earlier
After everything that had happened in recent days Daisy hadn't had a chance to do something that she desperately wanted to do but hadn't been able to.
As she arrived down in the medical area of the Playground Daisy wasn't at all surprised when she found Hunter sitting by Bobbi's bedside.
"Hi, um, can I come in?" Daisy asked from the doorway.
"Of course." Bobbi said as she gave Daisy a supportive smile.
"Take my seat, I think I'll go… pretend like I have something important to do." Hunter said because he knew that Daisy and Bobbi had a couple of things that they wanted to talk about.
"That would be good." Bobbi said as she and Daisy laughed.
"How you feeling?" Daisy asked in curiosity as she took the vacant seat Hunter left.
"Like I've been shot." Bobbi said, "And tortured."
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Daisy said, having looked guilty.
"You have nothing to apology for."
"If I would have killed him when I had the chance then none of this would have happened. I'm sorry Bobbi." Daisy said.
"No. This isn't your fault." Bobbi told her, "Nothing Ward does is on you, okay?" she asked and Daisy nodded, "I'm sorry too." Bobbi told Daisy.
"What for?" Daisy asked confused.
"For what happened at the Retreat, I told them to only use ICERS but they didn't listen. I'm sorry." Bobbi told Daisy.
"It's okay. We're good. You called out to me, you're the reason I was able to defend myself. So, actually I owe you a thank you." Daisy informed Bobbi.
"How about we just say we're even and leave it at that." Bobbi suggested.
"Sounds good." Daisy said, "So, do you want the latest gossip?"
"Please." Bobbi said in response and Daisy started to catch her up on everything that she had missed, and once Hunter returned to the room a few minutes later the three of them spent the rest of the afternoon talking and hanging out.
End of flashback
she went to see Bobbi when she was recovering and they talked things through.
"Well, I want you to know that if you need anything I'm here for you." Bobbi promises as she feels herself being rather protective of Daisy, especially after everything that has happened and the part she played in what happened to her.
"Thanks." Daisy respond and the two of them exchange smiles and once more drift into silence. A silence which is broken about a minute later by a beep of the computer.
"That's the results." Bobbi informs Daisy.
"Okay, deep breath, you can handle this." Daisy says to herself.
"You don't have to look, not if you don't want to." Bobbi tells Daisy, having heard what she said.
"No, I want to." Daisy says as she jumps down form the table and walks over to the computer, "What does it say?" she asks Bobbi.
"You were right." Bobbi informs Daisy, "They're not your biological parents."
"Damn it." Daisy says angrily as she wipes a tear, "I thought that I had finally found my family." Daisy says, trying not to cry as even though she was right she hates that.
"Oh, Skye, I'm so sorry." Bobbi says hugging her, "I'm so sorry."
"Thanks Bobbi." Daisy responds as she leans into the hug.
"What can I do?" Bobbi asks as she hugs the young woman who in her opinion has been through far too much.
"Compare my DNA to May's." Skye requests as they break apart, her voice fast.
"Really?" Bobbi asks shocked.
"Jiaying tried to turn me against S.H.I.E.L.D, but she also purposely tried to turn me against May. I can't help but think that there was a reason for that." Daisy admits, remembering that Jiaying didn't even try to turn her against Coulson, but she did try to turn her against May.
"You think that May's your biological mother and you think that Jiaying knew that." Bobbi realises.
"Yeah." Daisy says, not sure whether her logical makes sense or whether that's just what she hopes.
"Okay. I'll compare your DNA to May's, and how about I run your DNA against S.H.I.E.L.D's date base, both case and agents to see if we could get some insight." Bobbi suggests suspecting that if May is Daisy's mom then another S.H.I.E.L.D agent is her father and she is willing to put good money on who she suspects Skye's father is if that's the case.
"Sounds good." Daisy says with a nod and Bobbi goes to do just that. As she does Daisy can't help but think about everything that she has just learnt. She was just getting used to being Daisy Johnson who had a father who doesn't remember her and a mother who tried to kill her but who is she now? Will she ever figure that out? Or is she domed to always wonder.
"Daisy, Daisy." Bobbi says trying to get Daisy's attention a while later, "Skye." She tries.
"Sorry, what?" Daisy asks confused.
"I got you this, it's tea." Bobbi says handing a tea cup over to Daisy, "You looked like you could use it." She explains.
"Thanks." Daisy says as she accepts the cup.
"You're welcome." Bobbi responds, "It will be okay, whatever the tests say it will be okay, and I'll help you." Bobbi says, wanting to do something to help Daisy as she is currently looking so very lost and uncertain.
"I hope you're right." Daisy responds, "And thanks." She says and they both drift into silence once more and Daisy starts to drink the tea.
For about ten minutes Daisy and Bobbi stand in silence until their silence is once more broken by the sound of the computer beeping. Bobbi starts to head over to the computer but as she does she notices that Daisy hasn't followed.
"Skye?" Bobbi asks concerned.
"You look." Daisy requests.
"Are you sure?" Bobbi asks,
"Yeah. Just tell me what it says."
"You're right, again." Bobbi says once she looks at the computer, "May's your Mom." Bobbi says,
"May's my Mom?" Skye asks, looking amazed and thrilled as ever since she started to get to know May she started to think of her like a mother, and this time an another tear comes to her eye but this time it's a tear of joy as even with how shocked she is she is happy.
"May's your Mom." Bobbi confirms with a grin as an alert pops up on the screen, "Oh my god." She says shocked as what's come up isn't what she was expecting.
"What? What is it?" Daisy asks confused as she hurries to Bobbi.
"Your DNA matches an abduction case; you were seven weeks old when you were taken from your parents." Bobbi informs Daisy, "Which was almost two months before the S.H.I.E.L.D found you in China."
"Are you saying that Jiaying and Cal abducted me?" Skye asks, not sure what to think about that, though she does know she feels anger.
"I think so, listen to this." Bobbi says, having pulled up the report, "You were put to bed by your parents in a house in Long Island that you and your parents were staying at, and when your father woke up because it was his turn to feed you, you were gone. Gone from a locked room which had security on premises. There was no evidence, several S.H.I.E.L.D teams looked. No one could, and hasn't been able to, figure out how you disappeared. Though someone in a house across the street insisted that they saw a brief flash of bright blue light coming from the window of your room." Bobbi tells Daisy, "But nothing could be found to corroborate that."
"Gordon." Daisy realises, "He teleported in and took me." Daisy says, looking shocked and betrayed, as it seems like everyone she has let herself trust in recent months lied end betrayed her.
"Sounds like it." Bobbi confirms, "From the addendums to this report it looks like your parents never stopped looking for you." She tells Daisy and even with how confused she is Daisy can't help but feel amazed by that.
"What's my name?" Daisy asks, "I want to finally know, I need to know. Though honestly I was just starting to get used to Daisy." She admits.
"Well, that's a good thing." Bobbi tells Skye, having read that, "It's your name."
"Daisy's my name? My real name?"
"Yeah." Bobbi confirms with a nod, "Daisy Филиппа 尼基 Barton is your full name." Bobbi says, having done perfect pronunciation for the Russian and Chinese names.
"What language was that?" Daisy asks Bobbi confused.
"First name, Russian. Second, Chinese." Bobbi answers, "The English translation is Daisy Filippa Nikki Barton."
"Daisy Filippa Nikki Barton." Daisy repeats to herself, wanting to see how it sounds, "Wait, Barton? As in Clint Barton?" she asks, sounding completely shocked.
"Yeah, he's your father." Bobbi says, sounding amazed by that as even though he has done missions with Clint she didn't know that he had a daughter, or that he and May's relationship was more than just friendship.
"Wow." Daisy says, sounding amazed, "I'm the daughter of Melinda May and an Avenger." Daisy says looking both amazed and shocked, "That's soo awesome." She says and Bobbi can't help but laugh at the look of joy on Daisy's face, but then she notices something.
"Actually, you're the daughter of Melinda May and two Avengers." Bobbi informs Skye.
"Um, I may have dropped out of high school but even I know that a person can only have two biological parents." Daisy comments.
"That's true and you only have two biological parents, but in your file, and the birth certificate that I pulled up, you have three people down as your parents. Clint Barton, Melinda May and Natasha Romanoff." Bobbi tells Daisy, who is becoming more surprised and confused the more Bobbi says.
"What does that mean?" Daisy asks Bobbi sounding completely confused.
"I don't know, but I think I know someone here who does know." Bobbi tells Skye, "Look at the Agents in charge of your abduction case." Bobbi says, pointing to the bottom of the screen.
"Nick Fury and Phil Coulson." Skye reads.
"if you want answers then I think, without May being here, that your best chance of answers is him." Bobbi tells Daisy.
"Yeah, I think so too." Daisy responds, "Will you come with me?" she asks Bobbi curious as she is nervous about finding out more about her history, especially considering the fact that she is pretty sure that her mother hates her right now, and after what she did she wouldn't blame May one bit if she does, so she would like the support and company when she talks to Coulson.
"Of course." Bobbi responds without hesitation, "Do you want to go now?"
"Yeah, I do." Daisy responds and she and Bobbi head upstairs, Daisy hoping to find out everything about her parents that she she's ever wanted to know. She is hoping that finally the questions that she has had for her entire life are going to be answered.