Chapter 14

Daisy had her tactical suit back on and was standing by the front door waiting to leave. She turned back around after placing her bag down to wait for Clint. Laura was right there with Nathaniel on her hip.

"Do you have everything?" She looked a little worried now, and Daisy couldn't stop the warm feeling in her chest that only being worried and asked after by someone who cares about you can create. Daisy nodded her head, bending down to tickle Nathaniel's stomach. She had gotten more used to the baby over the last three days. Nathaniel giggled and patted her hand. A smile lit up her face as she watched him.

Clint walked up not too long after, his own bag and tactical suit, now recently stitched up, with him. He smiled at his son and kissed his wife's cheek, setting his things on the ground. Daisy heard the pitter patter of little feet and looked down to see Lila beaming up at her. She smiled and bent down until she was eye to eye with the little girl who had seemed to claim her in the short time she had been there.

"So I know you have to leave to go beat up bad guys, and I don't know when you're coming back." Lila frowned at this, but shook it off to smile again, pulling a piece of paper out from behind her. She handed it to Daisy. "I made this for you, so you'll remember to come back and visit."

If Daisy's heart wasn't breaking before, it did now. She took the picture and looked at it. It was a picture of what looked to be two birds and a spider hanging over a cauldron that was sitting next to a single flower. Well this little girl was going to be the death of her it would seem. The symbolism not escaping Daisy, she opened her tac suit and folded the paper.

"I'm gonna keep this in my pocket all the time. That way I'll never forget." Lila beamed up at her as Daisy folded the picture into quarters and fitted it into her pocket. "And I'll come visit whenever I have a chance. And I'll call even more often than that." Lila nodded excitedly as a slightly taller shadow appeared above them. Daisy looked up into the blushing face of Cooper.

"Uh, here you go… Daisy." He held out his hand, and clutched tightly there was a single flower that the boy seemed to pick himself. Daisy smiled and took it; she winked at Cooper.

"Thank you, Cooper. This is so sweet. I'll have to wear this in my hair on the way back to base. After we kick bad guy butt, that is." She put it on the top of her ear, like you would a pen and smiled at him. "How do I look?"

He blushed and nodded his head quickly, just as Lila gasped and screamed, "You look so pretty! Mommy I want a flower crown!" Lila turned to look for her mother, and wrinkled her face in disgust. Daisy looked up to see what had caused it and had to stop herself from laughing out loud.

Nathaniel had been placed in his bouncer thing and Laura and Clint were in the middle of an intense make-out session. Laura even had leg hoisted up on Clint's hip. Daisy looked down to Lila and gave her a questioning glance. Lila shrugged.

"They do this when daddy is gonna go on a mission. It's gross, but it just means that they love each other." Lila explained; because she was the smartest six year old that Daisy had ever known and would ever know. Daisy smirked and cleared her throat. When that didn't seem to catch either of their attentions she looked down to Lila and raised her eyebrows. Lila waved her off.

"I can get them. Watch this." She cleared her throat before saying in an overly peppy voice. "Aunt Daisy can I see your gun!?" Clint and Laura sprung apart and looked around for their daughter, only to come across a smirking Daisy and Lila and a laughing Cooper. Laura tried to fix her hair, blushing tiniest bit, yet still trying to look dignified as if she did not just get caught making out like a teenager with her attractive husband. As was her prerogative. Clint could not look more unapologetic; his smirk lighting up his face.

"Now that that's over, can we go? We still gotta get the data from the base." Daisy said this with a smirk, only increasing Laura's blush, which in turn increased Clint's smirk.

"Sure, let's get out of here. I got something I gotta do when I get back." He winked at Laura, while Daisy groaned.

"You two are disgusting." She just grabbed her things, making sure her flower was still in place, and began to walk out to the car. Laura caught up to her and gave her a hug.

"Please make sure he comes back." Daisy could only nod, knowing that this woman who had made her feel so welcome and accepted in her family deserved her husband back.

Laura smiled at her, a small smirk coming back onto her face. She leaned in to whisper in Daisy's ear. "Good, cause he's right. He's got some work to do when he gets home." Daisy blushed and stormed out, shouting a grossed out, 'Oh my God' over her shoulder. She could hear Laura's laugh all the way to the car.