White lie is harmless, right?

Meet and greet

Penny Parker may seem like any other everyday 13 almost 14-year-old teenager. She has brown, little frizzly hair, big brown eyes and pale skin. She sits in the back of sleek black car with an unhappy looking Happy in the driver seat. The ride to Tower was as usual. She would talk about her day at school and Happy would try not listen or rarely groan, which would probably be addressed to the traffic and not to her. She didn't mind, she knew Happy liked her. After he found out what happened with Toomes and Mr. Stark's plane he was less annoyed with her and this in Happy's language means he cares.

Her relationship with Mr. Stark was also different. After the Homecoming disaster, as she calls it, Mr. Stark was acting differently upon her. Not in a bad way, of course, but just more father-like. He would sometimes call her during her patrol to just check up on her. He would often say that it's because he wants to know how the suit is working. He was also added as a second emergency contact at her school. She would not say it out loud, but she really started to see Mr. Stark as more than just her mentor, she felt like she is safe with him and could tell him anything.

This new behavior also led to another thing. She doesn't want to think about it, it still makes her so embarrassed. She sometimes calls Mr. Stark dad. It happened three times already. After the third slip up, Mr. Stark thought it was so funny that he put a new protocol so F.R.I.D.A.Y would call Penny 'Mini-Boss'. It was pretty embarrassing the first week, but she got kind of used to it. So much that when she had a good day or just a funky mood, she would sometimes say 'Dad, I'm home' whenever she came to the lab and Mr. Stark was buried somewhere in the back. It became their inside joke.

It was pretty uneventful day at school. There was a surprise test from history that she probably aced anyway, with Ned she was planning to purchase another really big Lego set, lunch was edible and she didn't got hit in the face with a ball in P.E. from Flash, so it can be called a successful day.

At the Tower, Tony was working on new-designed thrusters that would allow him to fly faster. His hands were working on autopilot but his mind was somewhere else.
Today was Friday. Penny would come on Fridays. But this Friday was also important because of the fact that the rouge Avengers were supposed to come tomorrow. So this Friday can be the last normal day, calm before the storm. Ross and some other men, which names Tony never bothered to remember, decided that it would be better if all the heroes live under one roof. So, there he was, his emotions were mix of nervousness, excitement, happiness but also fear. Not for himself, he is pretty sure he can fight them of having his tech, but for Penny. In the eyes of Ross, her alter ego was a menace, she was a possible threat and even if she wasn't, Ross hates the idea of not having power over something potentially connected to heroes.

Next reason was that he never talked about Spider-Girl with any of the group. There was so much going on with the Accords that he didn't think it was the right time then and after they split up it was definitely not the right time either.

He still doesn't know what he will do. He is afraid that if he reveals who she is someone from his old friends can betray him and tell Ross as a revenge or just a grudge. He can't let anything happen to her, not if he's alive and breathing. They would of course go with the intern cover story but people like super spies (hence Natasha and Clint) weren't the general public, they were smarter, they were trained to get to the bottom of things, so saying he was afraid was understatement.
At exactly 3.24 p.m. all of the rouge avengers entered the common room. Steve as something as the leader of them decided that they will come one day early. Because they knew or think they knew that Tony would be working on something in the lab anyway, so they thought it wouldn't be a problem. One day here and there. They asked for Tony but F.R.I.D.A.Y responded that Boss doesn't want to be bothered at the moment. So, this is why there were Steve, Natasha, Clint, Sam, Wanda and Bucky scattered in different places round common room and kitchen.

After about 40 minutes in the car Penny jumps out and says her thanks to Happy before entering the tower. She waves to the receptionist and waits for the elevator. As she steps in and asks F.R.I.D.A.Y to take her to where Mr. Stark was, she puts her headphones back in her ears and looks down on her phone. It was a good day and it meant she was up for some fun.

As the elevator dings and the door opens up she hurls out and shouts "Dad, I'm home!" After that she continues. "Sorry I'm late but can you believe it? Mrs. Claude gave us homework on thermodynamics. How old does she think we are, ten? Mind if I-" And with that she stops. But not just with talking, it seems her heart decided to stop beating too. There they are, the world's mightiest super heroes. Her idols. And they were all as frozen as her and looking at her with various states of shock. They can see as her expression changes from shock to amazement to one of horror. They were not supposed to be here, not today and they definitely weren't supposed to see her not even know about her. This was so not right. She gave herself up like this? This easy? And than she realized what she said. How she called Mr. Stark and her heart stopped for the second time.

"Hello" First to come from his stupor was Steve. "I'm Steve"
"I- I'm just-" She seems to not be able to say a full sentence. Her mind was running a thousand miles a minute as she thinks about what to do. "Where's..." She trails off because suddenly she doesn't know how to call Mr. Stark in front of them. What did he tell them? What to call him? Mr. Stark, Tony, Boss? She doesn't know.

"Where is Tony?" Natasha asks with a calculating face. Her body slightly relaxing from the defensive posture she took as soon as the elevator opened. "I think he is in his lab."
Before anyone can ask her anything, Tony enters the room with eyes glued to the screen of his tablet. "Kid, what took you so long? But that's fine, I was thinking that today we can do something different like an ice cream, perhaps? What do you think, squirt?" That is when he looks up and sees everyone. And this is when F.R.I.D.A.Y decides it's the best time to crash the party with "Mini-Boss has arrived"