Lunareclipse

cool down

"Don't scare her away! I swear!" Emma was trying to cover up the dark circles under her eyes. She had stayed up late working on the suit design. Peter had looked over the fabric and together with Shuri came to the conclusion that no other combination would work as good as the one they had. She had eventually fallen asleep at her desk in her lab.

"You coming, Emma?" The teen grabbed her phone and a hair tie before running to Happy. On their way down Emma messily put her hair up. Instead of the black Audi Happy always used when he picked Emma up or dropped her off somewhere, Happy walked over to a white one. It would be faster and he had stuff to do afterwards. Emma got into the car and gave Happy Sophie's address before they drove off.

They stopped in front of a house in Ned's neighborhood. Sophie was already outside but she didn't walk up to the white car. She had only ever seen Emma get in a black one. But then Emma rolled down the tinted window. Confused Sophie walked up to the car.

Emma opened the door and shuffled over to sit behind Happy.

"Hey…is your car not black?" After Sophie had fastened her seatbelt Happy drove off again.

"Yeah. But Happy has stuff to do and he likes the white car a bit better. It's faster."

"Hey, Sophie, right?" Happy was looking straight ahead on the road.

"Yeah. So where do you live?" She turned back to her friend.

"You'll see. It's a bit out of New York though."

They talked a bit about their school project and they collected ideas on what to do after they did the school work. "We're almost there. I'll just drop you off, okay?"  The girls snapped out of their conversation as Happy interrupted them.

"Sure, thanks." After seeing the outlines of the compound getting rapidly closer Emma turned to Sophie to give her friend at least a little warning. "I told them to not overwhelm you or anything but you honestly never know what they'll do. So don't freak out."

Just then did Sophie notice that they were pulling up in front of the Avengers and SI compound. Were they picking up Peter or something?

"You coming?" Emma opened Sophie the door.

Reluctantly she got out. "Are picking up Peter or something?"

Emma shook her head no before she dragged Sophie into the lobby. She walked them straight towards the elevator. As it started to move Sophie snapped out of it. "Wait don't we need badges or something? Like when we visited the Tower?"

"Nope. You'll see why. It's hard to explain." The elevator doors slid open and revealed the common kitchen. Emma pushed her, literally, towards her room. 

Sophie sat down on her couch as Emma searched for her StarkPad. "Emma. Why are we in the Avengers living quarters in the compound? And why do you have your own room?"

Emma finally found the tablet and sat down on her bed. "'Cause I live here." Emma deadpanned. And finally Sophie's mind caught up.

"Wait! You live here?! That means your parents live here. That means your parents are Avengers. But no one of the Avengers has Smith as their last name…" "...me either."

Just as Emma wanted to elaborate a certain brunette walked into her room. "Oh, Sophie's here. Hey, I'm Tony." 

Sophie just stared at him. She had met him before but that was two years ago. After a few embarrassing seconds she waved shyly.

"Can you get out now. We wanted to work on school stuff, dad."

Tony put his hands up in surrender while he walked out of the room. Thankfully he closed the door.