Felicity showed them the new renovated rooms. She had managed to transform a few guest rooms into a high tech rooms. Oliver's and Thea's room though were untouched. Due to the renovation there were less room where they could sleep, so Clint took one, her dad second and Steve third. She and Oliver could sleep in one, but there weren't another two rooms, so Nat and Bruce had to share too.
As soon as that was cleared they started to wonder what would happen now. Felicity tried very hard to not think about Sara but that was something impossible. They were gathered in the main room. Felicity was trying to connect to a network without Ultron detect them while her dad was trying to install Friday. Friday was like replacement for Jarvis which Tony and she created after the battle of New York. Oliver was talking with Thea over the phone while the others (minus Nat and Banner) were trying to figure some plan.
"Thor didn't say where he was going" her father said but it was more like a question.
"Well, sometime my teammates don't tell me things" Steve looked at the billionaire and Felicity glared at the blonde. Steve saw her and immediately looked at his feet.
"Well, give him time" Tony said and smiled at his success installing Friday. "We don't know what Maximoff showed him" Felicity tensed at the memory of the girl. "It seems, though, you walked away alright." Steve looked at him angrily and throw a quick glimpse on Felicity. The captain asked if her father had a problem with that "Well, I don't trust a guy without a dark side, call me old fashioned." Tony snapped back at him.
"Well let's just say you haven't seen it yet!" Steve answered and got up.
Felicity rolled her eyes. Their 'fighting' made her remember the time when all they did was fight because of Felicity. At first her father and Steve were something like friends. Steve knew Felicity's grandfather, well, at least the nice side of him, while Tony knew the dark one. Steve was in love with a woman who had basically raised her father, while for the blonde girl she was known as Aunt Peggy. They managed fine. But when Tony had found them sitting together, cuddling, while watching a movie he became cold to the captain. Their top moment was when they fought for nothing while Loki was attacking the Earth. Since then they managed to behave civilized.
Now, well now Felicity and her father had messed up and Steve was not only mad at Tony, but at her too. She didn't have the same feelings for him like three years ago but she still had some towards the blonde superhuman. He was still sweet and kind to her although she told them they don't have a future together. She saw him stand up and leave and she followed him to the backyard of the mansion.
"Steve, please, calm down!" Felicity said running after him, trying to catch on with his pace. "I'm so sorry for all of this, but it wasn't our attention. Steve, please look at me!" Felicity said the last sentence a little too harsh.
"For all of this?" Steve finally said "I'm sorry, could you be more specific, please?" he turned to face her "For all of which you are sorry? For leaving us, for leaving your father and Pepper, for leaving me? Or for coming back three years later not only with a boyfriend but with a whole new team. You didn't leave us, no you replaced us" he said with an angry voice "Or you're sorry for creating a robot who can kill not only us but the whole planet? Is that all you can do Starks? Built robots?" Steve yelled at her.
She didn't know what to do, she had never seen him like this. She tried very hard not to cry but she couldn't hold it. She felt anger waking up in her, somewhere and without thinking she slapped him on the cheek.
"All my life I was trying to do the right thing, trying to save innocent people, I was threatened to lie in the jail even. Today I found out that one of my friends, a teammate had been murdered. Do you think that I'm happy to had built a super robot who can kill every one of the people in this house? In this world? You can leave right now if you are really thinking these things you said to me, I don't even know how I was able to be in love with someone like you!" she yelled at him. He watched her with a face full of regret.
"Felicity, please, forgive me!" Steve told her in the softest voice he had. "I didn't think all of these things, I think I only said them because I was angry." He grabbed her hands and stayed quiet for a minute maybe. "Today that Maximoff girl played with my head. Do you know what I saw?" Felicity looked at him "I saw loneliness. I saw you leaving my life and me, left alone, without you in it. I know I already lost your love, but please, don't allow me to lose your friendship as well" He tried to hug her and she let him.
She knew right now she had to be mad at him but she couldn't. She just hugged him back.
"You talk like an old man." She said and they both laughed.
"I really am sorry for your friend!" Steve smiled at her and she thanked him.
Oliver stood at the porch and watched Felicity and Steve interact. He won't lie and just admit that he was full of jealousy but he had to try and understand that they were friends. Now he could understand what Felicity felt last year while he was with Sara. His phone beeped and he saw he had received a message from the one he was waiting for.
He walked back in the house and saw a black guy with only one eye looking at him. Actually all of the people in the room looked at him. Even Natasha and Banner had joined them.
"It's a pleasure to finally meet you Mr. Queen. My name is Nick Fury." Oh, that was Nick Fury. Okay, yes, he understood now, the guy really looked scary. A hand was lifted at Oliver's direction and he took it and they both greeted. "Ah, Miss Stark, so glad to see you, it's been a peaceful couple of years." Fury smiled.
"Hey, director!" Felicity smiled at him and hugged him. Apparently she hugged everyone today "I missed you too, you know. After SHIELD fell there was nothing interesting to hack, I mean I think all of the Pentagon's information is really boring"
"So, as I said, it was really peaceful. Glad you turned into Stark's copy." Felicity frowned at him.
"Oh, well, thank you for the compliment!" Felicity said. Oliver didn't quite get why this would be an assault but the others laughed so he thought it was some kind of an inside joke.
It took them at least an hour to get prepared for the dinner. They ordered some food and sit at the enormous table at the dining room. Oliver couldn't hide a smile when he saw the table was almost full. There had maybe a couple of years or so when he saw the table full. Nick Fury was talking about Ultron while Oliver and Clint were playing darts. Tony watched them with such an interest that if you didn't know who Tony was would think that he was not listening to the director.
"Is he trying to get his metal hands on the codes?" Felicity asked.
"Yes, he is trying, but he is not making any progress" Nick answered and that attracted Oliver's attention
"But I cracked the Pentagon in high school on a dare! Hell, Felicity managed when she was a little younger than me" Everyone looked at him "A few moths younger!"
"Well, I contacted our friends in the Nexus about that" Fury said looking at Felicity "The codes are constantly being changed."
"By whom?" Felicity asked
"Party unknown" Fury said.
"Um, sorry, but what is the Nexus?" Digg asked. Actually this was the first time he spoke since Fury got here.
"It's the world Internet hub in Oslo. Every byte of data flows through there. Fastest access on Earth." Felicity answered him.
"So we have an ally!" Steve spoke
"Ultron has an enemy, we don't know if it's an ally or not!" Fury said. "But we have to figure what is his next step and we have to do it fast"
"Ultron said he wanted Avengers extinct. He is talking about a global destruction" Oliver said as he took his arrows from the darts. "So what does he wants?" Oliver asked
"To evolve!" Banner broke the silence that had been on since Oliver's question. "He wants to become better than us!"
"We have to contact Hellen Cho!" Felicity said and jumped for her computer.
Everyone turned their attention to Felicity but it was quickly stolen by another thing, sorry, human! Flashes appeared in the room and a guy in a red suit stood in the center of the room. He smiled at first.
"Hey, guys, sorry I'm late" Barry said waving at them.
"And who are you exactly?" Tony asked.
Barry got a message from Oliver. Whoa, really, Felicity didn't tell him that she was Tony Stark's daughter! He should be offended. Well, not that they were best friends or share secrets but they had their fair share of events that kind of made them closer. The thing that he didn't expect was that neither Oliver, nor Digg knew.
So as soon as he got the text he called Cisco to do a quick research on the Avengers for the past weeks. Wow, they were very productive! They found a secret evil organization's base and retrieved something very interesting, then the Tony Stark, ladies and gentlemen, the billionaire, head of Stark Industries, Iron Man created a deadly robot. Nice! The team had made a big scene in Wakanda. Whoa! Green Arrow was spotted there too. Well done, Oliver! They were reported missing after that. Well, they were not, at least not for Barry. He took his suit and rushed to Starling City.
He got lost, trying to find the Queen manor. As soon as he reached the location he stopped for a minute or two just to take a quick breath. He was going to meet The Avengers, he shouldn't be panting, showing them he can't run something like 200 miles for 2 minutes and be tired, no. After he took his fair share of rest he ran into the dining room. Well, he first ran in the living room, but nobody saw him because, well, he found out where they were really fast.
"Hi guys!" He said still wondering if that was the right phrase. "Sorry I'm late." He smiled and waved. And then Tony Stark asked him who he was. Ohmygod!!! Tony freaking Stark. Barry tried very hard not to fangirl around them. "I-I'm the Flash" Barry said.
"Oh, you're Felicity's friend!" Steve Rogers said. Captain America knew about him. Barry was exploding inside.
"Guys, this is Barry, he, um, has similar, I think, powers to the Maximoff boy" Oliver said. What? Oliver had said his name. Well, this was the Avengers he's talking about. He should trust them, right? Right! So he took his mask off. He heard someone calling his name and saw a very excited Felicity jumping for a hug.
"You sure you're going to be okay with Steve?" Felicity asked as she watched Oliver get dressed. Don't get her wrong, she was not the type that would ordinary watch in their stage of the relationship where they hugged and kissed and cared for each other but haven't talked a minute about it, it's just that we're talking about Oliver and his body!
"Well, I think you two are okay now, if my judgment of your fight slash talk is right." Oliver said harsher than he intended Felicity's face darkened "Sorry, didn't mean it that way!"
"It's okay, I get it!" Felicity said and put her hands on his waist in an attempt to hug him "All I meant was that I was a little worried for you" Oliver smiled at her "Sorry, I lied, I am very worried about this."
"It's okay Felicity, we'll be okay!" Oliver said and kissed her.
"I have something to tell you." Worry appeared on Oliver's face. "I know it's the last thing I should worry right now but there is another bidder for the company. Sorry, Oliver" she said and gently put her hand on his face "We'll figure something, I know although you don't know how to manage your company it means a lot to you" He just nodded.
"Thank you, Felicity!" he stroked gently her hair "I don't know what I'd do without you" he smiled
"I bet you would be dead at least a hundred times by now" they both laughed.
"I'll take Natasha, Clint, Oliver, John, Roy and Barry" Steve said as he took his shield and put it on his back.
"All right! Be good at them. I think you might be a little angry at Oliver for some reason, I saw Felicity slapped you" Tony said and smiled. He was so proud of his daughter. Steve just rolled his eyes. "Remember, strictly recon! I'll take Felicity and hit the Nexus and then join you as soon as we can" Tony said as he looked at his watch. Steve only nodded.
They both waited for the extended team to gather. Tony looked at his teammate.
"Look Rogers, sorry if I've been a little harder on you since the whole you and Felicity stuff, but she is my daughter, so, I think you'll understand" Steve offered him a smile and just nodded. Tony wanted to say something more but he heard footsteps and saw Felicity and Oliver walking in the room. "Okay, that's our que. Come on baby, we have a long flight." He offered another smile to the captain.
"Hey, you two!" Felicity said pointing at Steve and Oliver at the same time "If anything happens to you I would be very angry!" she said and Steve smiled. Tony remembered that this was the line she told him when he was Iron Man and then, after when the team was created every time someone went on a mission these were the words she said.
As they were flying on the plane Tony couldn't help but remember the good times, when he wasn't even Iron Man. He remembered when Felicity went to live with him in Malibu. The first years were the happiest of his life. He was teaching her everything he knew and she took the knowledge so fast sometimes it made him cry. She was just like him, but Tony always tough she had this part in there, the good and innocent girl she took from her mother.
Yes, she had done stupid things but it was far from what he had done. Tony was this ambitious child that wanted to show off to his father because he didn't get enough attention. Tony really hard tried not to be like his father. And he succeeded or at least he liked to believe in that. While Tony was remembering the good old times Felicity was talking to Pepper about something. He could hear how his daughter tried to calm down his girlfriend that they were okay. He was thinking if she should finally propose to Pepper. She was his other half, but sometimes she wanted more than he could offer. And no, she didn't want money or houses and other stuff that women usually want from the rich guys. She just wanted him to stop with the whole Iron Man thing. And he couldn't. Not even from her.
He saw Felicity end the call and walk next to him at the second pilot spot. She smiled at him.
"She is scared. I don't judge her, of course, she had been through a lot." Tony just nodded at Felicity's statement "She also told me you haven't called her in two days." Felicity removed her glasses and looked at him like a parent looks at their child when it had done something stupid. This was wrong, he should be watching her in that way, at the end he was her father.
"Yes, I just didn't want to worry her" Tony said a little ashamed of his actions. There was an awkward silence until Tony decided to break it. "You know, we haven't really talked about what is happening in your life, since, you know, you found out that I knew."
"Yeah? Is there a thing you don't know?" Felicity asked and Tony put his hands in a mocking 'I surrender' type of way.
"Well, I can say I know what happened on every mission that you've worked on, but there wasn't a police report for like, you know, your relationship with Oliver." Tony said and to his surprise Felicity laughed.
"Yeah, I could imagine that" she said, her smile still on her face "Well, he kind of reminds me of you, you know" When she said that Tony put his fake scared expression on his face "No, I mean he maybe don't understand in engineering, physics, technologies"
"Yeah, I know that kind of guy!" Tony interrupted her thinking about how Oliver and Steve actually were very much alike.
"Dad!" She quietly yelled at him "If you want to know, could you please shut up?"
"Yep! Yes! Of courseā¦" Tony said "You know you took that from me. The constant desire to command every- yep," he saw her having her deadly glare "I'm shutting up right now"
"What I meant was that he was not a very good person until something happened. I'm not saying you were bad. What I mean is that I have read all the articles about you" On Tony's face appeared a smile. "He didn't want to be with me, tho" Felicity said sad
"And why was that?" Tony asked, serious face back on.
"He thought being together would made me a potential victim of one of his enemies. Of course that changed after," Felicity made a little pause and her father looked at her "well, after you called and understand that you're my father" They both laughed.
Their flight to Oslo continued as Felicity was telling him about Malcom Merlyn and Slade Wilson, explaining their plans and how they've dealt with the villains. She told him how Oliver came to her with laptop filled with bullets (nine to be exact) and told her he spilled a coffee on it and thought she didn't suspect anything. They both laughed at that. He got a little bit angry at that Oliver made her his assistant, and that his daughter let him. She told her father about the time the Count took her as a hostage and then Oliver saved her. Before they could know they arrived at Oslo.
