My sincerest apologizes. I was looking at colleges and didn't end up having internet like I expected to. Again, sorry, and I hope you enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 4

Steve offered, but Daisy refused to ride with him to the Triskelion. Last thing she needed was to be the girl who got the job not only because her dad was Iron Man, but because her boyfriend was Captain America. Daisy had enough issues as it was.

The Communications Lab at the Triskelion wasn't very different from the one on the helicarrier, and yet infinitely more complex. All those programs she'd had to install on the helicarrier after finding it lacking were already there, waiting for her. Plus, the files she was sent on her very first day were actually difficult, well they took more than 5 minutes to crack the encryption on at least.

Sure, it wasn't really all that more interesting, and Daisy was still sitting behind a screen going a little bit nutty, but it was better than being on the helicarrier. On the helicarrier she didn't get Steve showing up at lunch. Granted, she also didn't get Natasha showing up on the helicarrier, but the bad didn't necessarily outweigh the good.

"Are you and Steve sleeping together?"

Daisy's mouth literally dropped as she turned to see Natasha standing in the back of her cubicle. She wasn't surprised by her mentor's sudden arrival, or that she'd had no clue Nat was there. She was surprised that even Natasha didn't have more tact than to come out and say it. "What? No! Why would you even…"

"I saw you two at the wedding," Natasha gave Daisy a pointed, disappointed look that said 'you have to hide a lot better to fool me'. "And then he stays and eats lunch in the cafeteria for the first time ever. Are you sleeping with him?"

Daisy's face was bright red, and she really wished there weren't dozens of spies around who were, undoubtedly, listening in. "No! It's not like that at all. He's I mean he's not that type of guy. They didn't do that in the forties."

"I'm pretty sure people were born in the forties so someone was doing that."

Natasha could take Daisy down in a split second, but the girl imagined what it would feel like to slap the senior spy for that comment. "You know what I mean. We literally have had one date, and that was just him helping me unload boxes. But yeah, I like him, and he's my boyfriend. Is there anything wrong with that?"

"Yes," Natasha pointed out, thinking of all the horrible complications that would surely arise from this little entanglement. Yet she liked Daisy, maybe even loved the girl. Daisy had given up her teenage years to study in an attempt to be great like her father. She didn't deserve to give up her twenties because S.H.I.E.L.D sucked everything out of you. Daisy deserved a little bit of happiness. "Just be careful, okay, and tell your father, before someone else does."

Nat left, and Daisy didn't even bother wondering how she'd known that Tony was unaware. Natasha Romanoff knew everything. Speaking of which… "Natasha," Daisy called after her mentor. "Do you know why a S.H.I.E.L.D agent is living across the hall from Steve?"

The look in Natasha's eye didn't say anything, but Daisy couldn't shake the feeling that the answer was no, even after Natasha said, "That's not your clearance level Daisy, I'm sorry. Don't worry about it, okay, and don't mention it to Steve. I'm sure he's there for a good reason."

"She," Daisy replied.

Natasha's still didn't show any emotion, but mentally she was biting her lip. Of course it was a she. "Don't worry about it, okay? Now get to work. You can't be slacking on your first day."

Daisy did go back to work, but the question continued to nag at her. Why would a S.H.I.E.L.D agent be spying on Steve? And why Agent 13? She was only a few years older than Daisy and had only two years in the field. Surely they would have wanted someone more experienced to tail an Avenger? Why her?

Maybe it wasn't her business or clearance level, but she was Daisy Stark. She knew that keeping some information under wraps protected people, and that other information needed to be out there. She also knew S.H.I.E.L.D forgot the second part of that sometimes in their desperate mission to save the world. So what harm could there be in Daisy looking at a another junior agent's file, just to figure out why she was tailing Steve? Daisy had, after all, been given access to all S.H.I.E.L.D files when she re-did their security. It's not really hacking when you created the program in the first place.

Yeah, it was, but Daisy didn't want to admit that, not as she cast a glance over her shoulder and easily worked around her own security protocols to pull up the file.

Once she did, Daisy understood, and didn't have to read any further. The first line said it all Name: Sharon Carter (Agent 13)

"Move on while you can, Carter is coming to meet us and she would not be as approving of you being out after curfew as we are." It had been years since Daisy and Fitzsimmons broke into the Operations Academy and got that little warning. Daisy hadn't thought much of the comment at the time, or of why Agent 13 got in trouble for an event she wasn't even around for, but now it made sense. That 'Carter' coming to meet them was Sharon Carter, Agent 13, Peggy Carter's granddaughter. That was why they had her be the one to tail Steve. Should Steve find out her identity he would trust her, because she was Peggy's granddaughter. She was as close to Peggy as he could get, with the woman's mind long gone.

Daisy felt a twinge of jealousy, which she knew was stupid. Sharon hadn't actually made any moved towards Steve. He didn't even seem to really know she existed. And yet Sharon had been there, probably since Steve woke up from the ice. He met you first Daisy. You'll always be the first person he met in this time.

Yeah, she was the first person he met, and she'd been the one selected because her grandfather was friends with Steve. Daisy was half surprised they hadn't called Sharon in for that one too; Steve was closer to Peggy than Howard.

Now you're being irrational Daisy. It's not some sort of conspiracy to set Steve up with the granddaughter of his first love. S.H.I.E.L.D is just trying to surround him with people he can trust.

So why did that make Daisy trust S.H.I.E.L.D less?

Author's note: I am aware that in the comics Sharon is Peggy's niece, but in Agent Carter Peggy's brother, Michael, died and she did not appear to have any other siblings so… well I've had to change things a bit because I don't know what they're gonna do for the canon explanation yet.