The media are practically salivating at the sight of the family as they stand at the podium, Natasha and Daisy standing just slightly behind and to the left of Tony as he stands at the podium ready to make his announcement
Raising a hand to silence the journalists Tony begins to speak "I suppose everyone is aware why this press conference has been called, as of a couple of you may remember several years ago my wife Natasha and I had our baby girl stolen away from us. I stand before you today to make an announcement we have finally found our daughter. Less than 2 days ago we were reunited with our beautiful baby girl, we have discussed it and we have decided to make this announcement in the hopes that by answering any questions now we can be left alone to work on becoming a family once again."
"Mr Stark, Christine Everheart from Vanity Fair how do you know this is really your daughter, and not another imposter like have been reportedly coming forward for the last few years"
However, in spite of the fact that it's Tony who is asked it is Natasha whom replies shooting the reporter an annoyed look as she says "Miss Everheart, I'm sure that you're aware that Tony and I would not be here today if we weren't certain that we had found our daughter, so to answer your question we have verified that this young lady is our daughter and leave it at that"
The next few minutes are spent with the reporters asking questions about how things are going to be run now that Daisy has been found but it all comes to an abrupt end when one reporter gets the guts to start directing a stream of questions at Daisy directly.
This annoys Tony and Natasha so much that simultaneously they practically yell "that's it play times over everyone enjoy the rest of your day"
As they are walking out towards the private access to the tower one of the reporters in an attempt to get an answer to one of the barrage of questions he has been spewing at he grabs a hold of her. A look of shock appears on everyone's face when he grabs hold of Daisy and starts to jerk her to the side, shear shock that he has crossed the line and actually grabbed Daisy, that look is only compounded when without even breaking a sweat Daisy slips out of the hold he has on her before elbowing him in the face and bringing her foot up for a field goal between his legs dropping him to the ground like a sack of potatoes and then calmly re-joining her parents.
Natasha stands there watching stunned by the feeling of déjà vu that she feels whereas Tony claps her on the shoulder saying "well she's definitely your daughter Nat, there can be no doubt of it now"
Eventually they make it up to the private family levels of Stark Tower all the while Tony stands there laughing at the similarities between his daughter and her mother that even though they haven't seen each other in many years seem to have spontaneously developed. Moments after they step out of the elevator they are accosted by one of the Stark Industries (SI) lawyers who says "Mr Stark whilst I understand the need to inform the world of Daisy's safe return do you have any idea how much paperwork it causes whenever you hit a reporter"
"Ahh calm down Jeff, I didn't hit anyone he grabbed Daisy and she defended herself all perfectly legal as I understand it" he says looking at the lawyer before turning to Daisy saying "Daisy this is Jeffery Macalister SI's top legal counsel, he will take care of anything you need in terms of legal matters"
Daisy looks at him a Moment something about him makes her suspicious but she decides to leave it for now and bring it up with her parents later she turns and says "a pleasure to meet you Mr Macalister, you have my apologies about increasing your workload but he deserved it"
"I, understand miss Stark and I accept your apology" he says before turning back to face Tony saying "now the forms you had requested are ready Mr Stark, you will find them in your office when you are ready, simply sign them and Jarvis will do the rest, good day"
Tony turns to Daisy and Natasha and says "come on we have some stuff to take care of" before leading them into a room that Daisy could only describe as out of a dream it was wall to wall tech with everything from holographic tables and projectors to more traditional desktops with advanced graphic display and holographic interface. To say Daisy was in heaven was an understatement and this didn't go unnoticed by Tony and Natasha who couldn't help but pause at her wonderment, their purpose for being there Momentarily forgotten as they watch their daughter travel from one piece of technology to the next. Eventually something brings Daisy out of her reverie causing her to blush slightly at having been caught up in the siren song of new technology.
Natasha looks at the blush on her daughters face and says "there's nothing to be embarrassed about Daisy, your father is exactly the same whenever he comes across new tech"
Tony smiles at the reassuring tone to his wife's voice as he says "actually Daze whilst I remember I actually have something for you" before walking over to the desk and pulling out a small package that looks suspiciously like a laptop and handing it to Daisy saying "open it".
Daisy opens the package and what do you know, it's a Laptop but she can't find anyway to flip up the screen, instead it seems to be covered in illuminated patterns on a black glassy face.
Tony seeing her perplexment answers the unasked question saying "press your hand onto the it"
as soon as she does a scanner appears scanning her hand as soon as it has finished a voice sounds "verification complete, welcome Daisy Stark, I am your personal AI. Please remove your hand to enable holographic projection."
Daisy removes her hand then Moments later there appears a pair of Holograms before her acting as screen and keyboard for the laptop
Daisy looks stunned at the computer before her as she hears Tony ask "so daze do you like it?"
Daisy turns towards her parents and takes 2 steps before throwing her arms around them excitedly saying "oh my god, thank you, thank you, thank you, I love it, it's amazing"
Tony smiles at his daughter's enthusiasm as he says "it's designed to be completely customisable and completely secure, when I was reading your file I noticed that you had a way with computers. Mind you I had to get a hard copy of it, apparently all digital copies have been deleted somehow"
Daisy gets a look like a kid caught with their hand in a candy jar at this as she feigns innocence saying "yeah, I wonder who could do that"
Natasha looks at her daughter who has the same look as Tony gets when he has been caught doing something he shouldn't and can help smile at the young girl before her.
They stand there a Moment just enjoying their being together before Tony says "Daisy there's something your Mama and I wanted to talk to you about"
Daisy looks to her parents' apprehension on her face as she asks "what did you want to talk to me about?"
"I take it that you know since you are our biological daughter we don't need to adopt you legally we are still your parents, in spite of the nuns raising you for several years"
"yeah one of the CPS people told me"
"Ahh good, that save us a little time on that front, what we wanted to discuss with you is what it really means to have us as your parents, you see your mother and I have our fair share of enemies and well we`re afraid that they might come after you as a way to get to us and we don't want you to get hurt so we wanted to discuss a few options with you"
"OK, what sort of options are we discussing here"
"well your mother and I wanted to discuss a number of things like for instance your schooling, we know that you haven't had the best experience with school and so we wanted to offer you some options as to how you wanted to attend, you could go to a school like the tomorrow academy either by remote feed or actual attendance but if that were to happen there would have to be certain conditions, otherwise we can have you schooled by Jarvis or bring in a tutor"
Daisy narrows her eyes as she asks "do I really have to go to school it's not like they teach anything important there anyway"
Tony chuckles as he asks "well in that case I suppose if you wanted to sit a couple of tests while your mother and I fill in some paperwork we could discuss it, but only if you promise to do all the tests to the best of your abilities"
"sure, I'll sit whatever tests if it means I don't have to go back to school"
Several hours and several tests later Daisy walks back into Tony`s office having completed the tests that had been given to her by Jarvis as she walks in Natasha asks "taking a break Daisy?"
"Nope, I'm finished" Daisy says happily
Tony looks at her a Moment before saying ok then let's hear the results Jarvis if you could please tell us Daisy`s test results"
"Certainly Sir" Jarvis says pausing a Moment before continuing "English College level 180/200 points. mathematics college level 190/200 points. science college level; biology 185/200 points chemistry, 175/200 points, physics 186/200 points. Computer science 200/200 points. Sociology 170/200 points final calculated educational level College PHD levels for Sciences English mathematics and computer sciences, all others at Masters level, calculated IQ score 198"
Tony and Natasha look stunned at this before Tony says Jarvis please send off the tests to the various educational institutions and the Department of education. Inform them that Daisy will not be attending High school anymore and see about getting her degrees for the fields she has qualified in" then turning to Daisy he says happily "well Kiddo it seems like you got your wish you don't have to go to school anymore, but did you have to be so damn smart, talk about showing up your old man, these test scores are higher than anything I ever did"
"Yeah sorry but you told me to do my best"
"that I did Daisy, that I did"
Then noticing her mother being quiet for the whole time Daisy walks over to Natasha and asks "Mama is everything alright"
Natasha looks a bit bleary for a moment as she says "yes it`s just, I always wanted to do this sort of thing together and I've finally got that chance, I'm just so happy"
"Mum, something that I've been thinking about, if I'm not going to school, I'm going to have a lot of free time and since I'm not 18 its hardly like I can go get a proper job, so I was wondering if you could train me a little, I mean I assume from what I know from the Internet and what I heard Fury say earlier that you must have some form of training and you were worried about me being hurt by someone trying to get to you so I figured that it could be something we could do together, besides it`s not like I can spend all day fixing dad`s Network Security"
Natasha smiles and says "if that's something that you`d want I'd love to do that with you Daisy."
Tony obviously feeling left out of the conversation says "hey what do you mean fixing my Network security, I'll have you know that is top of the line, no one can get through"
As soon as he begins talking Daisy pulls her phone out of her pocket and activates a program she had written a while back and then just as he finishes speaking over the loudspeakers comes the sound of Friday by Rebecca Black, causing Tony to groan and say "shut it off, please god shut it off, you've made your point" Causing Daisy to laugh as she sees the sulky look he sends her way as he says "ok I see your point just please don't do that again, I don't know if I can endure it again"