New Friends
Rocket was heading over to Cap’s house for a game of poker to dispel some of the stress of the last week, it had passed over the third year anniversary of Thanos’s snap that whisked his loved ones to dust. He knocked on Steve’s door before being ushered into the man's apartment pausing to take off his shoes as per Steve’s request he wandered over to the fridge before retrieving a beer from with and cracking it open.
“How’s your week been Cap?” Rocket tipped the can back allowing some of the bitter liquid to slip down his throat enjoying the burn as it did.
Steve ran his hand through his hair “Shit, more people trying to fill the power vacuum left after the people in charge vanished. Yours?”
Rocket get a jaded chuckle slip from his lips as he drank more of the cans contents “Same flarkin shit different cycle”
Both men let out an exasperated sigh before falling into silence for the next few minutes, it wasn’t that either man wasn’t able to make decent conversation with the other they got along well but something about the week that had just passed drained them. Steve decided to make himself busy for a minute to bring attention away from the unintentional awkwardness by opening the window overhearing the conversation that his neighbors were having accidentally.
“Alright so you will break into the vault to grab the necessary items and you are going to come with me to kidnap the Mayor” A hushed masculine said which got Rocket’s attention as well as Steve’s having them move quickly outside the apartment to the door in front of the apartment next door. Pressing their ears to the door they could hear a feminine voice say “Alright I’ll grab the knockout gas to take them out then we’ll move to our next location for safety sake to avoid the authorities” . Steve and Rocket made the quick decision to burst through the door to catch the criminals before they had a chance to cause anymore grief for New York but to their surprise it was just a few people around a coffee table hovering over a map covered in miniatures.
Everyone screamed when they burst in on one of the women that was holding a dice and dropped it causing the long haired blonde man to shout “QUIET” as everyone went still as they peered over the twenty-sided dice as the man smiled “And the roll was successful no one overheard unlike real life” the purple haired woman next to him stood up arms crossed “So why did an Avenger and I assume another hero burst into our apartment?”
Steve blushed as Rocket sheepishly rubbed the back of his head “We thought you were actually planning something but why are you talking about that shit anyways?”
The blonde guy took a moment to look over the both of them before answering “We’re playing DnD wanna learn?”
By the end of the night both Rocket and Steve had a new set of friends to spend time with, and a game that would allow them both to keep their minds sharp in between missions as well as relax.
So poker night became DnD night instead.