AN: I can see that I have made a slight mistake considering Skye's age. She was 16 when the team picked her up, she turned 17 a little after she was given the first injection and blood transfusion.
Chapter 27: Uh Oh
The entire room was frozen, Bobbi and Sharon got up and flanked Skye who had been talking to Maria, while Maria had moved in front of her.
"Peggy is that really you?" Steve asked again, then he looked around the room, "Commander Hill, what is going on?" he asked looking even more confused.
"What are you doing here Steve?" Tony asked.
"We were supposed to eat dinner together, did you forget?" Steve answered looking between Pepper and Tony, and then looked back to Peggy who was frozen still.
"When did we agree to that?" Tony asked.
"Last week," Steve said, not looking at Tony, he knew he was rude not to look at Tony when he spoke to him, but he just couldn't look away from the woman in front of him.
"Ah sorry Steve but we have been a little distracted the last few weeks," Pepper said, but it didn't seem that Steve heard her, he was still staring at Peggy.
"How are you still alive, I was told that you died almost 20 years ago, and why do you look so young, and why lie that you have died?" He asked, stepping closer.
That seemed to wake Peggy from her frozen state, "Young Steve? I look like I am in my 60s, instead of my 90s," Peggy said, Steve got so red of embarrassment, just as Maria cleared her throat.
"Excuse us for a moment Rogers," Maria said walking over to the far corner with Peggy, Tony and Pepper following.
"What do we do? We can't just ask him to forget that he saw you," Maria asked Peggy.
"We could just tell him to leave and why can't you just order him to pretend he didn't see Peg, until you get back to the office?" Tony asked in an annoyed tone. "This was supposed to be a family and friends dinner, so Pepper and I could get to know Skye," he then said.
"Tony, I know how you feel but there is no reason to be mean, Steve is a friend too," Pepper said.
"Come on Tony do you really think he would go for that? We all know, as soon as the shock of seeing Peggy blows over he will demand answers, and if we don't give them, he will ask anyone he can think of," Maria said.
"You are right Maria, I think the only option is to explain our situation, or some of it, and tell him he can't say anything to anyone, he will understand in time if we just talk to him," Peggy said.
"Are you sure? He has made his opinion clear on multiple occasions that he is against human experiments and even the serum he has," Pepper asked.
"Relax Pepper, he is a reasonable man, he won't do anything rash if we just talk to him. I know it is not ideal, but right now I don't think we have any other choice," Peggy said.
Maria sighed and nodded "Okay, I trust you," she said.
"Fine, but I am not happy about this," Tony said, walking over to the table and sat down, Pepper sighed and walked to the kitchen. Maria followed Peggy, who also walked over to the table.
Skye watched Peggy, Maria, Tony, and Pepper walk away, looking back over at Captain Freaking America, he was also looking at the people walking away, and Sharon and Bobbi were glaring at him.
So Skye elbowed first Sharon and then Bobbi, who both snapped their attention to her and then to each other and then briefly to Captain America again, before settling their eyes on her again, Bobbi looked sheepishly, but Sharon looked just like Sharon did whenever Maria was pissed at her for teasing her, not a single look of remorse anywhere on her face.
Skye was happy to not have been on the receiving end of that look from Maria yet, she was sure that Sharon would get her in trouble with the Beta eventually, and by the look on Bobbi's face she knew that face all too well, and Skye was wondering if Bobbi had been on the receiving end of Maria's 'you are in deep shit' look; she'd have to ask later.
It was getting uncomfortable between the four, or at least with Captain America standing there. He had snapped out of his daze, and was looking between her, Sharon and Bobbi, but he said nothing, and she knew if she said anything to him it would be a load of babble, so she kept her mouth shut.
Bobbi and Sharon had gone back to looking at Captain America again, but they didn't glare at him anymore, just giving him hard stares, that he seemed not to realize. How could you not realize two people staring you down?
It wasn't long after that that Tony came back and sat down, followed shortly by Peggy and Maria.
"Let us all sit down and eat while the food is still somewhat hot, and after we have eaten, we will talk, Steve," Peggy said, sitting down. Steve could do nothing else then to sit down, he remembered that tone from the war and knew not to question her, he could wait a little while.
Pepper sat a plate, utensils, and a glass in front of him. He hadn't even seen her go to the kitchen to get them, but he nodded his thanks nonetheless.
He looked around the table and saw three people he didn't know, two blondes and a brunet, he wasn't sure how they knew one another, one of the blondes looked familiar but he couldn't put his finger on from where.
And the brunet felt a little familiar. He didn't know why, but he thought of Pepper and Tony when he looked at her.
She looked to be close with Hill and the two blondes that kept looking at her and even with Peggy, but he got the feeling that Tony was annoyed with him being there and even Pepper didn't look very happy either. He also noticed both Pepper and Tony also kept looking at the brunet who sat between Peggy and Hill every so often.
Suddenly remembering his manners, he cleared his throat and looked to the blond woman closest to him and put his hand out, "Hi I am Steve Rogers," he said, waiting, the woman looked over to Peggy, who gave a small nod, that he barely saw, making him curious.
"Bobbi," She said and shook his hand. Then he looked at the other blond. They could not reach each other, but he still introduced himself. "Sharon," the other blond said.
And then his focus was on the brunet, before he could introduce himself, "Hi, I'm Skye," She said with a small squeak, and he got the feeling she was a fan, and by the small chuckle from Bobbi, Sharon, Maria, Pepper and Peggy, he knew he was right, and if the chuckle from the others didn't convince him, the blush on Skye's face did.
"Hello Skye, I am Steve," He said with a smile. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw Tony rolling his eyes and grumbling something under his breath. Pepper gave him an elbow in his side and Tony stopped his grumbling but still looked sour.
When they were done eating, they moved over to the big half circular sofa and sat down. This time Bobbi and Sharon had polled Skye down in between them.
"Steve, what we are about to tell you will be difficult for you to hear, but please just listen," Peggy said.
"I can do that," Steve answered.
Steve just sat staring at Peggy when she was done explaining, "Wolves as in werewolves or wolves, wolves?" Steve asked eventually.
"We look like normal wolves, but as big as dire wolves, and we can change or shift whenever we want," Peggy answered.
"And you knew all along," He asked looking at Tony
"Hey, I can keep a secret; and yes and no, I helped modify it, the one Peggy got was the first that my father, Peggy, and a woman named Jiaying made," Tony said.
"And you five are wolves?" he asked looking at Maria, Sharon, Skye, Bobbi, and Peggy. At their nod, he leaned back into where he was sitting, "Are there others?" he asked.
"Yes, but we can't tell you more until we have spoken to Fury, you only know a little right now," Peggy said.
"And do you all know each other from this wolf program?" Steve asked.
That might have been the wrong question to ask, Steve thought, by how tense and uncomfortable the air got around them.
He saw Tony and Pepper having a conversation just by looking at each other, and then Tony huffing and Pepper looking questionable at the girl Skye, who looked a little startled before giving a nod too.
"Skye is Tony's and mine's daughter who disappeared when she was under the age of one," Pepper said smiling at Skye.
Now Steve understood Tony's sour mood towards him, "I am so sorry to hear that, I didn't even know you had a daughter, and I am also sorry to interrupt what should have been an important dinner," Steve hurried out.
"It is okay Steve; if we weren't so distracted, we wouldn't have invited you today, that is on us," Pepper said.
"Yeah," Tony said, realizing that he himself was partly to blame that Steve was here.
"I can go, if you want? I still have questions, but I think I can wait," Steve said, but Peggy spoke up.
"Wait Steve, why don't you, Maria, and I find a place to talk, while Sharon and Bobbi go down to the car and get our bags and pick an area. I don't think your alpha, Bobbi, would mind you picking, and if she has a problem, we can always say that I picked them out, and Skye can talk with Tony and Pepper," Peggy said, already shooing them to the elevator.
"Okay," and shocked nods were the only replies she got from everyone.
So now that Skye was alone with Tony and Pepper, her nerves were back.
"So….is there any former boyfriend or girlfriends I have to hunt down," Tony asked.
"Tony!" Pepper scolded.
Skye couldn't help but chuckle.
In the elevator Peggy, Steve, and Maria had gotten off, so now Bobbi and Sharon were alone, "I have been meaning to ask how close are the 3 of you, I mean Maria and you with Skye?" Bobbi asked when the elevator stopped.
"What do you mean, how close?" Sharon asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I mean have you, you know..." Bobbi asked shyly.
"Uh, UH Bobbi, seriously we have just learned that Skye is our third and she is 17, why," Sharon said.
"I guess I am just worried she doesn't want me around in that way, I know I messed up, badly," Bobbi said, opening the trunk of the car and taking the bags out and putting them on the ground.
"Yeah, you did, but she has also forgiven you," Sharon said, leaning against the car looking at Bobbi, they had been close when they had been in the same pack, maybe they could again, Sharon thought.
"She is a good person, but I am afraid I will mess up again," Bobbi said, shutting the trunk, and joining Sharon against the car.
"If you do, or even if Maria or I hurt her, I am sure Peggy, Tony, or Pepper will end us," Sharon said chuckling.
"Nah Peggy wouldn't end Maria," Bobbi joined in chuckling.
"Right, forgot about that," Sharon said.
"What do you think Victoria and Izzy will do?" Bobbi asked, causing Sharon to smirk.
"Oh, they will probably kick our butts," Sharon said.
"So, you noticed it too?" Bobbi asked.
"Oh yeah, if it had been anyone else who pulled that prank that Skye and Kara pulled, they would just be getting started on their paperwork," Sharon said laughing, with Bobbi following.
"Come on, let's get these upstairs," Sharon said, picking up 3 of the 5 bags and Bobbi took the last 2.
They decided that they could take one floor, and Victoria's pack could share with Peggy.
When they had put their bags away, they made their way up to Tony, Pepper, and Skye again.
When they exited the elevator, the sound of laughter greeted them.
After Pepper had scolded Tony a little more, she turned to Skye, "Don't mind him, he doesn't always think before he speaks," Pepper said.
"That's okay, in one of the schools I went to, I was friends with this girl, she too just said whatever popped into her head, it was mostly just some weird thing about Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter," Skye said
"Was it a good school, home?" Pepper asked.
"Yes, even if the school was just like any other, it was actually one of the home's that got me into music. I would have liked to have stayed there, they let me keep one of their old guitars, but when I got to the next home it broke," Skye said.
"How old were you?" Tony asked.
"Um, around 12 I think," Skye said.
They talk a little more, answering questions, Skye learned that it was Peggy who had introduced Jiaying to Tony first, and later they met Pepper.
"Wait, how did you two meet?" Skye asked.
"It is a funny story, I was interviewing for an assistant's job, for one of the salespeople, and while I was waiting for my interview, I was nervous and pacing the hallway in front of the door, and then Tony and Peggy walked by, and they were deep in talk and I hadn't seen them, so when I turned I bumped into Tony and he spilled coffee all over me, it was such a cliché," Pepper said with a smile.
"The first and only time Pepper didn't look like she was about to walk the runway for a modeling shoot," Tony joked, and all 3 laughed.
"Wait, you did the interview?" Skye asked with an open mouth.
"Yes, and I got it too," Pepper said.
"Wow," Skye said, and noticed Sharon and Bobbi coming into the room.
"Hi," Skye said smiling.
"Hi, what was so funny?" Sharon asked.
"How Pepper and I met," Tony answered, still chuckling.
"Ah," Sharon said, nodding, she knew the story of how Tony and Pepper met.
AN: A thanks to Fun_size_Tasha for beating.