A/N: Hi, so this idea came to me at about 1 am...I'm not sure how good it is. Please tell me what you think!
*There may be a few things throughout the story that don't make sense if you haven't read Romeo and Juliet, just a warning.
R&R please! Enjoy!
-DP
Chapter 1
"Tony! No phones in class!" Steve hissed across the aisle.
"Oh, Steve, no one obeys that rule," Tony scoffed, not even looking up. Glancing around the classroom and seeing how at least a third of the students had phones out, Steve supposed he was right, but that didn't excuse bad behavior in Steve's mind. "Besides," Tony continued, "I have to fix the cast."
"What?" Steve demanded. "You mean..." He leaned to the left, then backwards, trying to catch a glimpse of Tony's cell phone.
"The Romeo and Juliet cast that our lovely teacher Ms. Laurie is working on right now? Yes, I do. I've hacked her computer, and I must say, I'm much better at this than she is."
"What? You hacked..." Steve looked lightheaded. "Tony!"
There were times when Steve wondered if he shouldn't have taken English nine honors, not because it was hard, but because Tony got into some kind of trouble almost every day. But then again...secretly, Steve sometimes enjoyed Tony's craziness. And besides, all of his friends were in this class.
"What's he doing now?" Bruce asked, trying to look over Tony's shoulder. Bruce was the third member of their group- the nerd. Somehow he was best friends with Tony the genius/billionaire's son/class smart-ass and Steve the innocent do-gooder. No one understood it.
"Hacking Ms. Laurie's computer to change the Romeo and Juliet cast. Who do you want to be?"
Bruce scratched his head nervously and straightened his glasses. "Tony, I'm not sure that's a good idea...won't she notice?"
"Course not. You know her, no memory at all. Remember how I got her to go over homework three times last class and she didn't even notice?" Tony grinned at the memory, while Steve rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, about that…"
Now Tony rolled his eyes. "Steve, don't be going all good-boy on me now, I've got trouble to cause."
A text appeared on the screen:
Loki: what r u doing? ;) ;) ;)
"Who taught Loki how to text?" Tony demanded. "Why can't he be more like his brother – or Steve?"
Steve rolled his eyes again. His inability to understand or work technology had been a sore point with Tony for years, since Tony was incredibly good with technology. Steve just didn't get along with it, but didn't really care, since he preferred to do things "the old-fashioned way", like a hand-written letter instead of an email.
"Hey now, the god of mischief has to text too," Bruce joked.
"Don't even joke about that- did you see what he changed his screen name to on every social networking site he's on?" Tony shook his head as he said this, because Lucas Laufeyson, a.k.a. "Loki", had been calling himself the god of mischief (and living up to it) the whole time Tony had known him. Still, he was part of the circle too, just not one of the inner three.
Loki- I will turn u in… ;) ;) ;)
Tony laughed at the thought. "Like he would ever turn in his partners in crime," he snorted. "You can't believe anything that guy says."
"Wait partners with an s?" Steve demanded.
"That's usually how the word is spelled…"
"No, there are not partners, there is only one. I have nothing to do with this," Steve said, panicking, glancing over at his teacher and praying she wasn't paying attention. Tony just laughed some more.
"What's with the winking faces?" Bruce wondered.
Steve shook his head, unable to see from across the aisle. "Is he still signing everything with those?"
"Yup," Tony replied, reluctantly replying to Loki too.
Tony- cut the faces. I'm hacking the cast list
Loki- I call Mercutio! ;) ;) ;)
Tony- yeah, I know.
"Mercutio is the only character in existence who's crazier than Loki," Bruce commented, reason over Tony's shoulder.
"I bet Tony doesn't even need to change the cast list for that one," Steve agreed. "But Tony...why are you even doing this?"
"Because it is Legolas's dream to be Romeo."
"Wait, Clint? I don't think so," Steve said worriedly. "Tony..."
"Clint and Natasha, sitting in a tree," Tony sang under his breath. Bruce put his head in his hands, and Steve thought his shoulders might've been shaking.
"Anyone else you changing?" Bruce finally asked, his voice cautious.
"You are Benvolio, Zen master. And Steve, you are the fiery Tybalt."
"What?" Steve demanded, nearly jumping up. Several people stared, and he blushed.
"I mean...Tony whatever you're doing? Please don't."
"Relax. I'm Tybalt," Tony said soothingly, typing away. "I feel the need to kill Loki."
"Who am I then?" Steve asked in spite of himself.
"Not sure yet. Maybe Balthazar? You know, the guy who falls asleep under a tree at the end and misses all the people fighting and dying?" Tony suggested. Bruce snorted.
"Funny," Steve muttered.
"Paris?" Tony offered.
"No one likes Paris," Bruce protested.
"Then you be Paris and Steve will be Benvolio," Tony offered, smirking. He typed something new into his phone.
"I feel appreciated," Bruce replied sarcastically.
"Done," Tony announced, giving Loki a very obvious thumbs up and a wink across the room. Natasha, who'd been talking to Pepper, looked up suspiciously, as did Clint. Tony smiled innocently and waved their concerned looks away.
Then Ms. Laurie used the projector to put up the cast list.
Romeo- Clint Barton
Juliet- Natasha Romanoff
Nurse- Pepper Potts
Friar Lawrence- Nick Fury
Benvolio- Bruce Banner
Tybalt- Tony Stark
Mercutio- Loki Laufeyson
Paris- Steve Rogers
Lord Capulet- Thor Odinson
Lady Capulet- Jane Foster
Lord Montague- Phil Coulson
Lady Montague- Maria Hill
There were more, of course, but those were the ones being played by their friends and therefore the ones that Tony had most likely changed, as well as the ones that most worried Steve and Bruce.
Across the room, Natasha looked like she might start shooting lasers out of her eyes, and Steve was glad that she would be yelling at Tony, not him. Natasha was his friend, but sometimes she scared him, and he knew that was just the way she liked it.