chapter 2
Steve woke up next to his husband, Tony, and smiled faintly. He will never get over waking up with him, he considered one of the best things to ever happen to him.
He slowly got out of their bed and made his way to the kitchen. Every one of the avengers, and Bucky, lives in the tower with Tony and Steve as they thought it would just be easier should an emergency arise. Steve was always the one to cook, he would prepare breakfast for everyone while the whole team slowly funnelled into the kitchen. Usually Natasha would enter first and try to help with the cooking, but Steve banned her from helping after she nearly burnt the kitchen down. Then Bruce would enter and start brewing the coffee. Thor, Clint and Bucky would show up sometime after with Tony always being the last awake and in the kitchen. Today was no different.
Natasha walked into the kitchen already dressed and sat down on a stool in front of where Steve was mixing the pancake mix. “Pancakes today,” Steve stated. “Delicious,” Nat responded sincerely, she always loved Steve’s breakfasts. Bruce entered shortly after grumbling something about coffee with his hair a mess and still in pyjamas. Next Thor walked in, chipper as always and sat next to Natasha. Bucky waltzed in after that, he was dressed but still half asleep. Less than a minute later Clint walked in but immediately slumped on the couch grumbling about someone giving him some coffee.
There wasn’t much conversation and just as Steve was placing the last pancake onto a plate, Tony walked in, still in his pyjamas and looking like he wasn’t awake at all. He stumbled over to the coffee pot and poured a hefty amount off coffee into a particularly large mug. He gulped down a big mouthful and his eyes immediately lit up. “Oh, I really needed that, I wasn’t even convinced I was awake before,” stated Tony cheerily. Steve chuckled at his husband and proceeded to take the ginormous stack of pancakes and place it in the middle of the long dining table, where everyone was now sitting.
As soon as Steve sat down, six pairs of hands reached for the stack and once they disappeared, the stack only had two out of the twenty-eight left that Steve made. He chuckled and reached for the remaining pancakes. The team ate happily and talked about random things.
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When breakfast was over, Steve and Natasha were left in the kitchen with the pile of dishes and mugs. They were loading the dishwasher in a comfortable silence. Once they were finished, they walked into the living room where everyone was sat watching cartoons.
“Aren’t you all a little old to be watching cartoons?” Natasha said with a hint of sarcasm. “Shut up Nat, you’re never too old for SpongeBob,” Clint retorted seriously. Steve snickered and went to sit next to Tony who was completely engrossed in the show.
They spent the day just doing random stuff, mostly working out for Steve, Nat and Clint. Bruce and Tony spent the day in the lab, and Thor and Bucky spent the day watching more SpongeBob and other cartoons.
Steve was just reaching the end of his workout when F.R.I.D.A.Y sounded an alert and was calling across the tower that there was a disturbance just outside the tower.
All the avengers went to suit up and once they were ready, they exited onto the streets and saw dark blue creatures about the size of humans throwing around cars and ripping up lampposts.
‘And today was going so nice’, thought Steve.
“Stark, you and Thor go up into the sky and blast them,” Steve said with authority. “Widow and Hawkeye take the left and get people to safety, me and Buck will take the left and get as many as we can.” A chorus of ‘okays’ came through the comms and they were all off.