Prompt: This is the first time I'm living on my own and my parents decided to spontaneously drop by in a few hours to see how I'm doing pls let me borrow some cleaning supplies and food so that my parents will believe I'm a functioning, responsible adult who totally cleans and doesn't just have condiments and eggs in my fridge AU
Characters: Darcy Lewis, Derek Hale & Stiles Stilinski
After the events of London, Darcy follows Jane back to the States where they eventually part ways. Jane has bigger projects and better funding to really get her work off the ground, and Darcy has college to occupy her time. Of course, she only has college to worry about after signing more than half her free will away to SHIELD once again (that agency was nothing but secrets atop of secrets and she couldn't wait to distance herself from them), but go back to college she does.
But then HYDRA happens and SHIELD falls, and there is no telling who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. Darcy apparently trusts the wrong people and ends up kidnapped for her work with Doctor Foster. She doesn't have any valuable information for them, but that doesn't stop the torture techniques they apply to get what they want.
Thor and Tony end up being her saviors two weeks after her initial disappearance, and things aren't quite the same for her. She is a touch jumpy and slowly starts to pull away from the superhero squad, and even just thinking about job hunting stresses her out. She can only live so long with a roommate before they realize she isn't all right in the head, and there is no way in hell she's throwing in the towel to move back in with her parents.
But then Darcy's problems are all solved by the wonderful Pepper Potts fairly quickly.
After dodging Jane's calls one too many times and letting her roommate answer the door when Jane visits, the woman in question feels an immense amount of guilt when she sees just how not well Darcy is coping. Darcy had then reluctantly escorted Jane to her room, and after a couple minutes of questioning on Jane's part everything just came out in one big snot fest. And two days later, Pepper Potts is on Darcy's doorstep. Having felt guilty and wanting to do something, Jane talked to Pepper and Pepper came up with a solution for getting Darcy out of the city. A new job with the branch of Stark Industries in Los Angeles.
Darcy agrees after learning where and just what her would-be job entails, and is quite shocked to find out SI will be paying for her three bedroom home in quite the family neighborhood where she has no reason to be paranoid.
It's her first time living on her own, but after spending some time to get used to the peace and quiet and the friendliness of her neighborhood, Darcy finds she quite likes it.
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Darcy's just tugged on her most worn-in shirt and a pair of leggings, sighing happily as she lets her hair down after a long day of work. There's piping hot Chinese noodles sitting on her rather cluttered coffee table and she can't wait to dig in.
