Family Game Night

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After Endgame, and nobody dies. And Steve's character arc isn't demolished. 
No Guardians of the Galaxy. Loki is cleared of all charges.

"I'm bored, let's do something else." Loki says, practically begging. He never begs. His voice carried to the others in Fury's meeting as the man himself turned to glare. Everyone was there, even Captain Marvel.

The Avengers started, ready to do anything to get out of Fury's meeting. The only ones who remained sitting were Natasha, Pepper, T'challa, Steve, Dr. Strange, Vision, Bruce and Peter. Because they are professional and Peter is a polite cinnamon roll. 

Fury glared even harder. "Come on Nick. You have to admit it was boring." Carol pointed out. He just pinched his nose and sighed in response.

Everyone without a shred of decorum cheered. 
Read: Everyone except Natasha, Pepper, T'challa, Steve, Dr. Strange, Vision, Bruce and Peter cheered. 

Everyone rushed to the Avengers Common room while Danvers dragged a grumbling Fury along. Everyone got comfortable, most lounging around the room, on the sofas, Natasha sitting criss-cross applesauce at a good vantage point, Fury sitting on a chair with a rod up his back (metaphorically, of course)  and Peter, well Peter... was sitting on the ceiling, creating a web hammock.

 was sitting on the ceiling, creating a web hammock

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Tony looked around, "Where's the kid?" he asked.

"Right here, Mr. Stark." Peter's voice came from above. 

He sighed, "It's Tony, kid." 

Nat looked up, "ребенок паук, are you going to sit up there all evening?"

He lowered himself on a web (like in above photo) and smiled, "Yes, мама-паук, I have a whole surface to myself, can I have a pillow?"

While Nat tossed him a pillow, Tony exclaimed, "Wait wait wait, what did he call you?"

Bucky sighed, "It means spider-mom, Stark. Now can we just play?"

Peter had his pillow to the ceiling and was lying down, while Tony was very vocally sulking about the fact that Natasha was mom and he was still Mr.Stark.

"Let's just play. Two truths and one lie!" Clint says, interrupting Tony.

"Yeah, fine." Bucky remarked. Similar sentiment was vocalised around the room. 

Strange started, "My real name is Dr. Strange, I travelled to a alternate timeline, I saw a universe where Thanos exploded because Ant-man went up his butt and grew."

Scott guffawed while Pepper and Peter giggled. Steve said, "Ant-man up his...butt is a lie." Strange just shook his head. Now everyone burst into hysterical laughter. Clint managed to choke out,  "Alternate...timeline is..a lie." He's also a spy remember. 

Strange nodded, and Tony, "Wait, your real name is actually Dr. Strange? You have a PHD?" The Sorcerer Supreme sighed, "Yes, Stark. I was a neurosurgeon. World famous, actually."

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Fury went next, "I lost my eye to a cat, I've travelled to space and I named the Avengers after Carol."

"Where's the lie, Pirate?" Carol said. Fury sighed. "Technically it was an alien that I lost my eye to."

"An alien cat." Carol shot back

"Wait, you lost your eye to a cat?! This is the funniest thing that I've heard all day." Sam said, thinking about the 'last time I trusted someone I lost an eye.' 

Nobody could stop laughing for quite a few minutes. A sulking Fury and the image of a hissing cat in their minds.

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Tony rubbed his hands together, "My eyes are blue, I love Peter like a son and I once tried to take on an army of enhanced fire-breathing superhumans without a suit."

"Oh. My. God. Tony, you did wHAT?"

A small sniff was heard, "I love you too, Mr. Stark."

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Finally Peter's turn came. Nervously, he said, "I have a girlfriend, My eyes are baby blue and once a building collapsed and trapped me under 20 tons of rubble."

Tony smiled mischievously, "That's too easy Underoos, and whos the girlfriend?" 

Peter blushed and said, "MJ." while still on the ceiling.

Only Natasha and Pepper had noticed the real lie. Natasha's eyes had widened and then narrowed dangerously while Pepper was frozen in shock.

Just as a disappointed Peter was going to point out the actual lie, he was pulled off the ceiling by his ear. 

"Ow, ow, ow, ow , ow, oow." Peter whined. Natasha dragged him to the middle of the room while glaring at him.

"Now, when exactly did you get trapped under 20 tons of rubble, who did you call for help and how did none of us know about this till now?" Her glare bore holes into Peter while he started stuttering excuses.

"C'mon Nat, that was the lie." Tony says, unconcerned.

"His eyes are brown." Pepper whispers,  just loud enough to be heard by everyone in the near silent room.

That was when all Hel broke loose. Almost everyone started shouting and screaming and berating him for doing that. What exactly they are talking about, he doesn't know.

He covers his ears at the noise but it keeps getting louder and louder. "Shut up! SHUT UP!" He screams, on the verge of a sensory overload. "Just...let me explain"

And so he explains, he explains how he tried to help, how Mr. Stark took away his suit (Tony got glared at a lot for that one), how he fought anyway, his fight with Vulture, the plane and the building. 

The dreaded building that gave him nightmares almost every night. The panic attacks. Though he didn't tell them that bit. Nobody needed to know. Nobody would know. 

"Oh, Peter." Wanda muttered to him while hugging him tightly. He felt a flash of panic at the lack of space but pushed it down, opting to hug his sister-figure instead. The avengers, all emotional at this point, tried to dogpile him. That was not good for his anxiety and panic attacks.

Needless to say when the Avengers found out his panic problems after trying to dogpile him, he had a lot of Baby Monitor protocols and an insane amount of ways to contact them, if he ever needed to.


Meh? I got lazy and didn't want to write the dogpile scene. Hope you liked it.


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