A/N Fast updates day #2! Going well so far. Only wrote the rest of this today and I'm seeing (babysitting) my cousins tomorrow so I may not update tomorrow, but I think I can get this done by 2015.
How am I supposed to admit to my only friends that I'm a big fat frickin' liar? They've been asking me what's up since I went to Canada with Natasha. I need to tell them about my life, how I've lied more times than I can count. I know Tony said I could tell them but... I don't know how. "Yana?" Hayley says, clicking in my face. "You zoned out again. What's up? And don't say nothing. I'm not stupid."
"Are you both free after school?" They both nod uncertainly. "Can you come to my house? It's weird and I need to explain a lot." All three of us get out our phones and text parents, Tony's completely fine, which is good. Can't back out now. "Meet me here after school and I'll explain everything." The bell rings interrupting Hayley from whatever she was about to say.
I meet Max and Hayley after school in the spot where we eat lunch. "I lied." I tell them.
"About what?" Max asks.
"Everything." I reply. "Edited the truth. And I know you never believed me, Max. I said I lived in Russia, that was true, with these people who were basically my sisters, yes, but we met because our parents had been purposefully killed by a man who forced us to call us to call him uncle and trained us to be perfect assassins, in the Black Widow program."
"Isnt that an Av-" Max interrupts.
"Please can I finish? And the assassin thing, that's the first thing. I could kill you at least ten ways with a paper clip." I take a breath, in which Hayley tries to say something. "Hear me out, okay? So this man, he'd been training girls like me for years. When I was first brought in, at the age of two, the best assassin he'd ever produced escaped. Natasha. A couple of months ago, Natasha's sister got captured by him, and Natasha came to rescue her, swapping herself for Anya. We knew that she'd try to escape, Klara, Olga, Irina and I. So we asked for her help. The next day Olga and Irina are both dead and the Avengers are bombing the facility. Klara and I escaped." I pause, wondering how my tears haven't spilled yet. "You've heard about S.H.I.E.L.D., haven't you?"
Max nods, "The government place that was all over the news in March."
"They're rebuilding it in Canada. Klara went to work there, and Natasha works there from here, and travels a lot. So Natasha's friend, who lives in the same building adopts me. And yeah you were right. The Black Widow's an Avenger. Natasha's the Black Widow. She's also going out with Hawkeye, but that's not important. And Tony Stark adopted me. That's the second thing, Tony Stark's my dad."
I think Hayley's eyeballs are going to fall out of her head. Max seems more composed. "And we're going to meet him?"
"Yep. He's picking us up in a minute." I asked dad to come to the school a little bit late. But dad doesn't come. It's Clint. I wave my friends forward.
"I don't think that's Tony Stark..." Hayley whispers. "Wait..." She realises, "it's Hawkeye isn't it?" I grin as Clint opens the door.
"Clint Barton, Hawkeye, Archer extraordinaire, also happens to be a chauffeur on this fine day." I raise my eyebrows. "Sorry. Got a bit carried away there. I'm Clint."
"Come on." We all squish in the back of Clint's car, and Clint chats happily, although mainly to himself, becoming more and more comfortable with Hayley and Max. And they are becoming more confortable with Hayley and Max.
When we get to the Tower, dad's doing some experiment, Natasha training, and Clint joins her, so Steve and Bucky are the first people we meet. The fact that Bucky's not an original avenger and has a metal arm is slightly off putting. But still they are nice and it is only when we get to my room that Hayley realises that Steve is Captain America. Max and I roll out eyes, of course he's realised straight away.
About half an hour later, Tony knocks on my door. "Hey," he says as the three of us look up. "I'm Yana's dad. Just wanted to come and say hi." Silence for a moment. "I'll go now." He leaves.
Hayley turns to me and says, "You really do live with the Avengers, don't you?" I smile.
Max turns to her and says, "So you just thought she lives in the Avengers Tower, with Hawkeye and Captain America, and no other Avengers? Really Hayley?"
"Yep. I don't really know. It just seems so strange. Like a world out of a movie has suddenly become real." It's probably the truth to her, except to me it's like my life is a movie, and its coming to the end, I've had the backstory, the bad bit, now things are fine, and they're about to turn bad, ready for the finale. We continue just to chat, and do (very little) homework, before it's time for Hayley and Max to go home.