The First Day

Plot: Rebecca attends her first day of kindergarten and Phil makes sure it goes well.

"Do you have your backpack ready to go Becca?" came the voice of her father from the kitchen as Rebecca prepared for her very first day of school. Summer had gone by quickly, full of fun and memories both would remember forever. Today was one of those memories.

Dressed in her newest blue dress, black button shoes, and black coat; Rebecca looked ready for the day ahead of her. "Yes daddy! I gots my Dowa notebook, my Bubbwe Guppies bookbag. I weady to go!"

"Are you sure? You have a pencil to write with today?" Coulson asked as he walked in from the kitchen. In one hand he held a bag of donuts for breakfast and in the other he held a brown paper sack with Rebecca's name across it for her lunch. It wasn't that he was trying to make sure she had everything, he was more worried about if he could take empty days alone when he was off of work.

"Yes daddy, I suwe," she beamed as she swished the bottom of her dress against her hands, "You wowwied bout me?"

"No I'm not worried about you," scoffed Phil, though it was far from the truth. "I know you'll do just fine. I even packed your favorite lunch."

"Peanut buttew and anbanana sammich?" Rebecca asked hopefully, her eyes bright.

"Yes a peanut butter and banana sandwich," Phil replied with a smile," Plus I have chocolate donuts for breakfast." He sat the bag down on the living room table and sat in his favorite chair, "Are you excited for today?"

Rebecca took one of the donuts out, biting into it. With a mouthful she replied, "Weww, I kinda scawed. Dese peopwe be nice to me?"

"Of course they will. You'll make new friends and you won't need me anymore," Phil joked though he was half serious. The older Rebecca got, the more she would realize that she didn't need him. He almost dreaded what her teenage life would be like.

"Daddy I aways need you!" Rebecca replied, tossing her arms around his leg. "You my daddy!"

Phil chuckled and ruffled her hair, "Do you want me to drive you to school or do you want to ride the bus?"

Rebecca looked down at the bag of donuts before looking up at Phil with a timid look on her face, "I…I guess you couwd dwive me if'n you wanted…" Deep down she was a little nervous about her first day of school. She had never spent a full day away from her apartment or Maria Hill who looked after her when her dad couldn't. It was a bit overwhelming.

"Of course I can drive you," Phil almost leapt for joy when she asked. He put a hand inside of his suit jacked to withdraw his keys. With the other he took her hand once she had picked up her bookbag and led her to the black Sedan in front of their apartment complex. He opened the back driver's side door for her, helping her to get into her car seat. "Safety first princess!"

"Safety aways fiwst," Rebecca nodded in agreement as she allowed her father to buckle her in. She unzipped her bookbag, producing Cap'n from it. She hugged the eagle close to her and stared out the window. "Cap'n go wif me schoow?"

"If you want Cap'n can go to school with you. Just take very good care of him," chuckled Phil as he got situated in the driver's seat. He adjusted the rearview mirror to be able to see behind him before pulling out onto the street. "Now, I'll be back at school to get you at one when you get out. If you wanna go home before then, tell your teacher. She will call me."

"You not be to busy and fowget me?" asked Rebecca, honestly thinking that Phil would run off one day while she was at school.

"I'll never be to busy for you pumpkin," Phil replied with a kind smile and a glance into the rearview mirror. "Even if I'm at work, I'll drop everything for you."

"Evewyting?" Rebecca asked, eyes wide, "I dat impowtant?"

"The most important thing in my life," Phil confirmed as he pulled into the school parking lot. He turned around in his seat, looking at Rebecca, "Do…do you want me to walk you to the door?"

"Pwease?" Rebecca pouted as she looked at her father.

Phil didn't need to be asked twice. He parked the car and got out before he helped Rebecca out of the car. Taking her hand, Phil made sure that Rebecca had her backpack on and Cap'n in her hand. He hadn't imagined that the first day of school would be so difficult for him to let her go but as he led her to the classroom, his eyes brimmed with tears. "You…you'll have a good day?"

"I twy," she nodded with a reproachful look, "you no cwy otay daddy?"

Phil smiled and knelt down to hug Rebecca, "You'll do just fine today pumpkin. You'll make lots of friends."

Rebecca nodded and scuffed her feet against the tile, "I be otay daddy. I go now?"

Phil nodded, kissing her forehead before he stood. "You go have fun." He watched her enter the classroom before turning his back and leaving for work.

X X X

"Agent what are you doing with that computer?" Commander Nick Fury demanded as he stood on the bridge of the S.H.I.E.L.D helicarrier. He could see down where the agetns were doing work with the computers: be it tracking down super humans or keeping an eye on those they already knew of.

Coulson looked up at Nick Fury, a sheepish look on his face. The computer screen in front of him showed snack time at the kindergarten class where his daughter was a student. "Well Commander Fury…it was her first day and I just wanted to keep an eye on her…"

"By her you mean your daughter Rebecca, don't you Agent Coulson?" Fury questioned the man.

"Yes sir," Phil sighed. He knew he shouldn't have done it, put a mini-spy camera on Rebecca's backpack that is, but he was just so worried.

"I see. Finish up this day but don't let it happen again," Fury instructed, turning away from the sight before him.

Maybe Phil would make it through this day after all.