Chapter 11: EVERYONE ACT NATURAL

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"Coming!" Steve called out to his door from the bedroom. He looked down at his watch, he still had another hour before Tony was suppose to come. Thankfully, unlike last time, Steve predicted Tony's earliness and had woken up two -- okay three --hours earlier than normal to get ready.

The knocking on his door started again. Steve looked at himself in his mirror one last time, giving himself an encouraging smile before heading to his door.

"Hey T-am. Wha-what are you guys doing here?" Steve said staring at Sam and Jemma huddled at his door.

"Is he here?" Jemma whispered poking her head into the apartment.

"Why are you guys here?" Steve asked not indicating any sign of letting them in.

"We just wanted to wish you good luck on your date." Sam said striding into the apartment, ducking under Steve's arm to do so.

"It's not a da- guys I appreciate your support, but Tony normally comes early so..." Steve said turning to Sam, Jenna taking this opportunity to walk into the apartment.

"Whoa there buddy, didn't need to know how far you two have gone, but thanks for the info I guess."

"What?" Steve said going over what he had just said in his head, "no, shut up."

"That's no way to treat your guests Rogers." A voice chided from the entrance. Steve spun back around to see Bucky and Nat enter his apartment, both tsking in disapproval.

"What are you guys doing here!?" Steve asked in distress as the new couple joined the one already there. They were all making themselves at home already.

"Well you said he was helping you plan my bachelor party right? I wanna make sure he knows his customer and that he's meant to let you do most of the work." Bucky answered grabbing a nearby sketchbook to flip through. Steve lunged at him pulling it, and any other nearby sketchbooks, away. Since that night of nursing Tony he had been drawing him more and more and he no longer knew which sketchbooks were friend and family safe.

Bucky opened his mouth to protest, he loved going through Steve's sketchbooks, getting a glimpse of all that was going on in his friend's head. But his mouth snapped shut and his face shifted, giving Steve a knowing look as he saw him scrambling to put away all of his sketchbooks.

"And I wanted to personally give him the wedding invitation." Nat said pulling out the envelope from the night before.

"Nat. No I forbid you from doing that! Jemma will you stop looking everywhere he's not hiding in my closet." Steve said, god it felt like he was an elementary school teacher.

"See I told you everyone else would be here." Steve heard Thor's voice boom from the hallway. He turned around in time to see him and Jane join the others.

"Oh great you too?"

"That's no way to speak to a pregnant lady Steve." Sam berated him, giving his spot on the sofa to Jane.

Steve looked at the wall clock again. "Okay you guys need to leave," Steve said looking around his apartment, now overflowing with friends. "He's going to b-" right on cue, his buzzer rang.

A flutter of panic passed through him as he saw his friends smirk. He knew that smirk. He ran to the buzzer but was stopped short by Thor's big hands around him.

"Rogers residence." Bucky answered with the best formal voice he could muster.

Steve was going to kill them. All of them. Starting with the guy holding him in place.

"Aren't you guys always saying you're my best friends? Huh what happened to that?" Steve pleaded once Sam's finger was off the button.

"This is what best friends do!" The whole room shouted back, well almost the whole room, Jane was busy eating an apple.

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