Avengers: The Hunted (Avengers × Reader)

20- Carnival

Hunter woke you up early in the morning much to your distaste. At first he wanted to keep it a suprise but after your constant complaints about the consequences of not being prepared with the right clothing, he gave in.

First he took you to breakfast at Ally's Café, the place where you first met. You talked about going to meet his parents but he seemed hesitant, then told you how his mother hasn't been in touch with him since his fathers death. When you tried to ask what happened, he didn't want to talk about it so you set it aside.

On your way out, you told him how you needed to go shopping which didn't seem unusual seeing as you loved buying new clothes and somehow classed it as a necessity in your dictionary, but it was when you mentioned it was for a party that caught his attention.

"Wait there's going to be a party, who's hosting?"

"Oh uh I must have forgotten to tell you, Stark is. Sometimes when he says party is his middle name I'm actually convinced it is" you laugh off.

"Wait Tony's hosting a party, how come I wasn't invited" he raises his eyebrow then proceeds to pout.

"Hey don't worry we all are, he probably forgot to mention it since it's more of a business party so we can't goof off like on games night" you nudge him and he laughs then wraps one of his arms around your waist pulling you closer into his embrace.

You spent the day at an ice-skating rink, you both fell as soon as you entered the ice and spent the whole time holding on to eachother tightly, giggling and falling until a kid accidentally flew into you both leaving Hunter with a bruise to his legs, also breaking Hunters reading glasses he had in his cargo trousers.

"Guess I won't be finishing off any Agatha Christie books for a while now" he sighs.

After a while of convincing you he was fine, he took you to the carnival at night. You had been asking the rest of the team to come with you but they all were busy. Usually Nat and Steve were up for it, but things were still awkward with Steve and Natasha had been too busy with Bucky, in more ways than one, to accompany you. so Hunters romantic gesture took you even more by suprise especially since you hadn't even told him about wanting to go.

"Hey Sweetheart, do you notice anything different with Tony" Hunter starts.

"Stark? Not really no. Well I mean he does have that sleeping problem he's had for a while"

"Yeah well, I think it's getting pretty bad, like worse than normal" you look at him in confusion but concern for your team mate, "the other night in the lab, I- I noticed something was wrong then when I asked he-"

And as if on cue, he's interrupted by the sound of your ringtone.

'Y not krats'

"Who's that?" Hunter asked looking puzzled at the contact name.

"Oh um that's Starks name sort of backwards, he did it to me first" you laugh awkwardly then go to answer.

Tony tells you that he's set the date for the party. As he talks about the plan, Hunter signals that he's going to the toilets, so you went on the ferris wheel to pass time and enjoy the view of a starry night sky and the buzzing sounds of laughter below from other visitors.

Singing 'Enchanted' quietly to yourself as you rose high once more, you're interupted by the heavy shake of the turbulent cart you were in. Panicking turned to irritance, as you were about to stand up to fight off whatever dared interrupt your imaginary movie scene.

You found out the villains that besieged you happened to only be your Romeo who had climbed up the ferris wheel to reach your cart.

"Hunter what the hell are you doing?!"

"Will you go out with me?"

"Are you trying to kill yourself, just ask and I'll do it for you" you continue yelling as he dangles from the frames above.

"Let me repeat that, Will you go out with me?"

"What- wh- what do you mean we're already dating" he slips abit "OH MY GOD HUNTER GET OFF FROM THERE!"

He looks down from the height he climbed "really? Cause if I do then I'll probably die anyway. But I mean to the party, Y/N, will you be my date to Tony Starks party?"

"If I say yes will you get in the cart right away" He nods, losing grip again "Alright, alright we'll go out. just GET IN"

"Okay ma'am" he climbs in unsteadily but manages to take a seat beside you

"What the hell was that?"

"Really? You watch so many movies and you couldn't recognise my attempted reenactment" you stare at him in disbelief "Ryan Gosling? The Notebook? Come on tell me you've not seen that classic"

"Who hasn't. Anyway, don't you ever do that again to me or I'll tickle you next time and I know how ticklish you are"

~

After the carnival you decide to tour the market. You hope maybe you could find something here for Tony as you got his name in the secret santa game the team pulled. You thought to yourself what possibly could a man who has Everything want? Which is why you've struggled to find anything for his so far.

There was a humidity to the air gave you a summer passion in mid-winter to go out and lounge on a beach. Glowsticks flashing around by kids and candles burning from the counters of the stalls gave light on earth as the stars above you brighten your night sky. Laughter and chatter amongst families and friends wrapped in warm scarfs and shawls took you to a home like no other.

A strong whiff of fudge brownies and freshly baked cookies blew into you from left and right, you went to buy some but realised a young girl crying all alone so you gave her it. You find out she's lost and so you and Hunter become her guide in helping her find her worried parents.

You watch as her father reaches and swings her off her feet into a tight hug and her mother planting kisses on her cheek in total appreciation of her return.

You step back and rest your head bacn against Hunter who wraps both his arms around you reaching for your hands, placing his chin on your shoulder.

Seeing the girl returning to her parents made you reminisce your childhood with your family and how your father would return home and run to hug you and your mother would join in. Clint would be too stubborn and thought he was too cool for hugs, but he was pulled into it anyway.

You look to your right and find something that caught your eye. The perfect gift for Tony, you had already bought him a pocket watch with 'T.S.' engraved in it and what better to match it than this

"Excuse me, how much for the Taylor Swift Vinyl?"