Don't You Worry Child

If I Could Change Your Mind

Chapter Summary: Things get interesting when Fury, Natasha and Steve show up to Stark Mansion with a proposition for Samantha and Tony.

Soundtrack: If I Could Change Your Mind by HAIM

Samantha had been home for all of three days – and the majority of that been spent either on her father's beige leather couch or in her bed – when she heard the whirring blades of a helicopter as it landed on her father's front lawn (if you could call it that) "Dad! What illegal tech have you been working on down there?" she called down as she got up to answer the door.

"None at all," he called up to her and she smirked that typical Stark smirk as she answered the door to see Natasha Romanov getting off the helicopter followed by a dark-skinned man wearing a black eye patch (who she assumed to be Nick Fury) and then, much to Samantha's surprise, Steve Rogers followed in the descent from the helicopter.

Samantha ran over to Steve only to be whisked up into the super soldier's arms and spun around in the air whilst she kissed him. "What are you doing here?" she asked as he put her down on the ground.

"Well I was discharged yesterday and Nat and Fury said they were flying in here to talk to your dad about something so I figured why not bunny hop on their trip and surprise my beautiful girlfriend," he answered with a sweet smile as they began to make their way into the house if you could call it that (Palace? Yes. House? Not so much).

"Hmm girlfriend I like the sound of that," she said flirtatiously before calling out to her dad "Dad! Eyepatch, Red and Steve are here!"

"What? I don't get a nickname?" Steve asked feigning offence.

"No you don't. You've given me reason to like you. So don't piss me off," was Samantha's mock warning to him. The group waited for a few minutes before Samantha felt the need to yell down to her father's workshop "Dad if you don't get your ass up here in the next ten seconds I'm sending Red down there to make sure you do!"

"Jeez! I'm coming!" he announced as he climbed the stairs "I thought I was supposed to be the one who yells for you to come out of your room not the other way around," he complained once he'd reached the top of the stairs.

"Well clearly I'm more mature than you," she teased before poking her tongue out at him.

"Yeah, real mature," he mockingly replied before changing the subject "Not that I don't like having the unofficial new stroke old S.H.I.E.L.D. director and a trained assassin in my house but why are you here?"

"In light of recent events at S.H.I.E.L.D. we've had to do some housekeeping," Natasha began and Samantha got the feeling she was about to be interrogated for the second time in a month.

"We have a proposition for you and Samantha," Nick continued being more to the point than Natasha was going to be.

"If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times I will not work exclusively for S.H.I.E.L.D," Tony argued, having only half-listened to what he was being told, as though he were running on autopilot.

"Dad will you at least listen to Eyepatch?" Samantha questioned reproachfully leading both Natasha and Steve to snicker away quietly as they watched the interaction "What were you about to say?" she asked, turning to Fury with a sigh.

"In light of recent events we would like to train Samantha for S.H.I.E.L.D. and recruit her as a part of the Avengers Initiative," Fury finished.

"Absolutely not," Tony stated without a second thought.

"What's the pay like?" Samantha asked over the top of her father.

"Average to start,"

"And who would train me?"