Summary: The transition from high school kids to future Shield agents kicks off with a camping trip–with an unexpected twist! And the slow burn causes sparks to fly.
Notes: *rubs hands together Whether you’re here for plot or pining, hang on to your seats because here we goooo
After Daisy’s 17th birthday, summer passed quickly, and yet, it couldn’t end fast enough for her. Every day, she worked at the dojo and read about cybersecurity and wrote programs to exploit it. She trained with her mom when she was home and hung out with Carol on the days in between. After the strangeness of their recruitment into the Secret Warriors—which they hardly dared speak aloud or even think about too strongly—they didn’t feel so awkward approaching each other. Knowing they would be learning and working together for at least the next four years made it easier to get to know each other at the dojo, and outside of the dojo, to bring each other into their friend groups.
Daisy’s friends were almost all juniors who would be going back to their same high school the next year, so it wasn’t the same as Carol’s group of seniors who were all going their separate ways and saying goodbyes and doing their “last”s together. But it was still odd, like Daisy was already an outsider to her own friends, and she realized that after this summer, there was very little she’d be able to share with them. Some because their experiences would be so different. But mostly because she was joining a secret spy organization and they just thought she was getting a computer science degree at the same university her dad taught at.
