The Legacy of the Avengers

Chapter 24

Third Person POV
"They're coming!" Thea ran around the house picking up stray trash and extra things. "They're coming! This place needs to be perfect!"

After the kids had gotten out of school, they all went home to their parents and family. The Christmas season passed. Kids got gifts as per usual. But most of the time, Thea would be putting some last minute finishing touches.

It was now New Years Eve. Time for the Annual Stark New Years Eve party. Bunch of friends and family members were invited. Even Fury. And he had said he'd be there.

"Thea, calm down," Pepper reassured her daughter. "Everything looks great, and this party will be awesome like it has in the past."

"I know," she sighed. "I just want to be sure."

"They're coming!" Toni ran in. "I saw their cars on the road!"

"Oh god!" Thea ran to the trash can and threw out the junk in her hands. She walked back into the living room, straightening out her dark green dress.

"You girls," Tony laughed. "They're just friends. It's not like they're fancy or anything."

"Oh that's not it," Thea explained. "I don't want to make them thinking we're pigs." Thea then shut up as the door opened.

Steve and Brooklyn stepped in, "Hey Starks."

"Heya Rogers," Thea waved. "I have your gift by the way, Brook."

"Cool. I didn't get you a gift though," Brooklyn was a bit discouraged hearing what Thea has done.

"Oh I didn't want you to," her best friend smiled.

"Your dress is so pretty," Thea complemented Brooklyn on the navy blue dress she was wearing.

"Thanks!" She smiled.

"Hey guys!" Echo's voice rang throughout the house as she walked through the door. Thea and Brooklyn turned to see the gods/goddesses walking into their house.

"I was forced to be here," Castiel, dressed in a black suit (as usual) with a dark green tie, wore a deadpan expression.

"Oh shush," Leanne rolled her eyes. "We're happy time be here."

"We?"

"Well you guys look really nice!" Thea smiled. "Gold dresses look really good on you," she motioned towards the twins matching dresses.

"Thank you!" They both smiled.

"So are you guys going to party without me?" Artemis laughed. All the kids turned around, smiling. "I didn't think so."

"Welcome to the party," Thea spoke up. "Man, everyone looks so nice!" She gestured towards Artemis's white, sparkling dress.

"Why thank you," she gave a little curtsy.

"Hey guys!" Bruce Banner sure made his presence known. Next to him was his daughter wearing a dark red, simple dress. She joined her friends while Bruce went with the adults.

"Hey Nicole," Thea smiled. "Welcome to the party!"

"I'm not late am I?" Nicole asked.

"Oh no," Brooklyn laughed. "The other boys have yet to show up."

"You are, my fire," a guy's voice rang out the first lyric of the Backstreet Boys' song, I Want It That Way.

"My one, desire," a different guy's voice sang too.

"Believe me, when I say," a final guy finished the lyrics, "I want it that way."

The group turned to face the door. There stood the three guys they had been waiting on. Tau, wearing khakis and a dark red polo; Alek, wearing dress pants and a white button up under a dark green blazer; and Castor, who was sporting khakis with a red button up and white tie.

"Come join us Castiel," the boys called over the god.

Castiel sighed before joining them, "Tell me why."

"Ain't nothing but a heartache," the boys sang with slight choreography.

"Tell me why," Castor sang.

"Ain't nothing but a mistake," the others sang. The girls were too in awe to say anything. They had never seen them like this.

"Believe me, when I say," Alek smirked.

"I want it that way," Tau finished off.

The girls all clapped for them, "That was awesome!" Thea complimented.

"Great job!"

"I didn't know you could sing!"

"Do it again!"

"Wow!"

"Thank you," all the boys bowed.

"Alright guys," Tony Stark got everyone's attention. "Welcome to the party. Others will be here a little bit later. We have food, music, TV, games. Help yourself. Just don't steal anything. Also no alcohol for underage kiddos."

Castiel chuckled to himself. He was going to do it anyways.

"But Mr. Stark," Echo raises her hands, "we get to drink on Asgard all the time."

"Well this is earth," the man told her. "And on earth you must be of the age 21 to drink. We have to go by Earth rules."

"So guys," Thea sighed. "What do you feel like doing? It's 7:46 right now so we have a while."

"I say we play a game," Tau suggested. "Leave the dancing for closer to 12."

"Agreed," Brooklyn added.

"Okay, what game?"

"Oh! I know one," Echo smiled. "Pictionary. I've never played it before but it sounds fun!"

"Yeah, we haven't done that one before," Nicole nodded.

"Would the parents want to verse us?" Thea glances over to her father.

Tony looked at Steve, who nodded his head. "Oh, it's on."

A few hours later the teens had won 2 rounds of the game while the parents only won 1. It was about 10:38 when the finished the last game.

"That was fun!" Artemis laughed.

"Speak for yourself," Clint sighed.

"That's only because you can't draw well," Natasha pointed out. Clint gave her a look that said, Really? With my daughter?

"Can we have a dance party now?" Toni asked, holding onto her father's arm.

"Hey sorry we're late," Stephen Strange walked in the door. Lilith and Ash were right next to him.

"We heard a dance party?" Lilith asked.

"If everyone else wants to too, then we can." The teens all cheered and he put on some music. They danced until midnight. Everyone began to pass out after the ball dropped.

Soon sleeping Avengers were scatted across the house. Thea was on her father's work table. Brooklyn underneath it. Artemis and Alek were on opposite ends of the couch. Echo was cuddling with a house plant on the ground. Leanne was asleep in the kitchen, next to the sink. Castiel was sleeping on the TV. Tau was lying in front of the door with Nicole's body perpendicular (her feet on his stomach).  Toni was asleep in her father's chair for the work table. Castor had made a makeshift bed and was sleeping in the middle of the kitchen. Lilith and Ash had been sent back home once they fell asleep by their father.

The other adults had taken the upstairs.

Around 6:27, Thea woke up. She glanced around and remembered why she was planning on waking up so early. As quietly as she could, she snuck upstairs into her room. She grabbed the box and left, as to not wake up the sleeping black widow.

She returned downstairs. "Hey, wake up," she began to wake up the rest of the legacy, who were not happy to be up so early. In fact, Castiel had to be dragged outside.

"So, what did you want?"