Do I have other things I should be working on? Yes. Do I have time for this? No. is that going to stop me? What do you think?

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Chapter 1

If their men knew what they were up to, no one said anything about it. No one was even sure how the idea was proposed, or how anyone was invited. All they knew was that at precisely 8 o'clock on the last Thursday of June, only weeks after the Battle Sokovia, a half dozen women met up in the penthouse of the Avengers/Stark tower.

"How did you get Stark to let us use this?" Natasha asked knowing the man hated to give anything up on principle. "It's his baby."

Pepper chuckled, "It's the old baby, Tony is busy at the new facility taking care of the new baby. Besides, I told him we were having book club here whether or not he left for the night- that was enough to send him packing."

"So what book were we supposed to be reading?" Laura Barton asked looking around the incredibly building. Clint was watching the kids for the night so she could be here, but she was still uneasy. She didn't even know half anyone but Natasha, and the whole situation was just odd.

"No book," Natasha clarified plopping down on one of the spectacularly soft couches. "That's our cover of sorts, just a way to keep the boys from knowing what we're really doing."

Jane Foster stood at the door, Darcy at her side. "And what are we doing?"

Maria gave the scientist a look before laughing, "We're talking about them of course, and getting drunk, but mostly, for tonight at least, we're talking about them."

It took everyone a little while, and a case of beer, to get comfortable, but by the time the doorbell rang, Laura and Nat were sharing riveting tales of Clint's stupidity. (There were some places arrows just weren't supposed to go.)

"Who do you suppose that is?" Wanda, who'd been quiet thus far, pondered allowed. "Who knows we are here?"

As far as these women knew, no one, hence why it was combat ready Natasha who went and opened the door. "May?"

The door opened, revealing four SHIELD agents. "Wait, May, you know Black Widow?"

"Please," May laughed letting them in and helping Bobbi, who was still healing, to a chair. "To me she has always been Nat."

Natasha rolled her eyes and studies the new arrivals. Jemma was the only one who looked slightly terrified, but when the scientist's eyes landed on Jane Foster all her inhibitions slipped away. Being in the presence of your idol can do that.

Hence why Skye was speechless before Pepper Potts.

"Everyone, this is Melinda May, an old friend of mine," Nat knew that didn't even begin to cover things. She'd been partners with May for a few months after Clint had gotten himself shot bad, the times they had. "Who are your friends?"

"Skye, Jemma Simmons, and Bobbi Morse," Maria, who quickly realized she had some explaining to do covered. "I invited them. Figured we need someone here who can talk about the trouble Coulson gets himself into."

Pepper looked up confused. "Gets? Coulson been dead for years."

Skye looked over at Maria and began laughing hysterically. "You haven't told them? Coulson's not dead, he'll kill me for telling you that but he hasn't gotten around to it in three years so… Yeah, Coulson is not dead. Actually, he's the director of Shield, which isn't destroyed by the way, just non hydrafied."

Everyone took the news in stride, though there was a lot of Russian cursing from Nat's side of the couch.

"So that is how I found out my SO, who I had been crushing on for months, was secretly Hyrda," Skye told them all taking a sip of the spectacular margarita Darcy whipped up. "On the bright side, I shot him a few months later, and felt much better for it."

Nat raised her glass to that one. "There is nothing like shooting a guy who breaks your heart. Next time I see Bruce, three slugs right in the chest. I don't even have to worry about them hurting him too, which is always a plus."

"Don't you have to worry about him, I don't know, smashing you?" Darcy asked leaning forward on her stool. These were the kinds of stories she longed for, and man were they spectacular.

"One thing you need to know about Nat," May spoke up for her old friend. "No one can smash her. She also can't get smashed, so don't challenge her to a drinking contest."

Skye's lips turned up at that one. "I discovered that I can pull the energy from alcohol out of my body and direct it into my powers, so I'll take you up on that."

"I can as well," Wanda muttered from the corner. Everyone had all but forgotten about the quiet girl until that moment, but when Skye locked eyes with her she remembered half the reason she'd come.

"Yeah, that's actually something I want to talk to you about, I think I know what you are," Skye informed the girl who looked shocked at the prospect. "But for now, how about this drinking contest?"

Laura looked over at Pepper, and they concluded that yes, they were the only adults in the room. "This is a terrible idea, isn't it?"

"Well, on the bright side, at least we don't put on iron man suits and destroy our house when drunk," Nat reminded Pepper thinking back to Tony's birthday.

"Skye no!" Jemma, who saw the mischievous look on her friend's face, called out. "That is a terrible idea."

"Sounds like my kind of idea then," Nat concluded heading over to the Shield agents. "So what's this idea."

Skye pulled her legs up on the chair before admitting to what she was thinking. "Well, I sorta, I might, I might be able to hack into Tony's systems and activate any suits he has here…"

"That is definitely a terrible idea," Pepper confirmed remembering the time Rhodey put on the suit. If Tony freaked out at that who knew how he would react to a bunch of strangers taking one of his suits out for a joyride."

Maria, however, shrugged. "Tony fired me after he found out I was still working for Fury, who in case someone hasn't gotten the memo is also not dead. I say let's do it."

If Tony asked, Pepper didn't try out the suit, but every member of the book club knew it was she who accidentally-on-purpose flew right in front of the 'Tony Stark is an idiot' sign and took a picture.