Dedicated to my friends at CHS: Happy Holidays you guys.
A usually sunny park in New York is now covered in white, fluffy snow. No, it isn't the first snow, but it is the greatest so far. The children who would usually be flying kites or riding their bikes are now in an all out snowball fight. Any people are sledding off of the hill at the north of the park. The colorful sleds can be seen from the stone terrace where 5 people are standing, watching over everyone. They were standing in the same place a few months ago, after saving the city. To everyone's knowledge, even most of the governments, they had all gone their separate ways, never to see each other again until they were called back. No one would think that they would voluntarily join back together just for the holiday season. It was all Tony's idea, since everyone else didn't have any family to go to during this time. Honestly, it got lonely for him, and he knew that bringing everyone back would lead to something memorable, whether it be mass destruction or a little bit of, well, normalness. But that doesn't exist, Tony told himself, not with these people. Steve, Bruce, Natasha, and Clint all stood around him as they patiently waited for Thor to arrive. No one really talked, they all just looked around at the snow covered land around them.
After about a half an hour, a bright blast of blue light engulfed them. As the glow died down, the team turned to find the God of Thunder, Thor and the God of Mischief, Loki. The Avengers looked oddly at the duo.
"Thor, we talked about this," Tony said as he took a step towards the blonde Asgardian, "I told you, no reindeer."
"Is that what brothers qualify to be here," Thor asked, not understanding what a "reindeer" was. "Whatever that means, I promise, Loki shall be a good boy," he said, patting a very embarrassed Loki roughly on the back. Everyone else just exchanged glances and watched the two brothers situate themselves at bit. Thor greeted everyone, giving them all, even Natasha, back-breaking hugs. Loki, being his antisocial self, walked over to the stone railing and looked down at all of the people. Memories of his great attack filled his head. He would have smiled, but then the memories of his punishment filled him. He looked back at the mortals, taking in their adaptively, maybe he could learn something from them. He looked up as snow started to fall. Perplexedly, he reached out his hand and caught one. It felt very welcoming to him. Now, he smiled sheepishly. He had not done so for awhile.
"What is this?" Thor asked looking up at the sky. "Is the Earth under attack? Have the Frostgiants come?" His gaze then fell on Loki. "Brother," he said raising his hammer.
"Calm down," Clint said, reaching his hand out in front of Thor, "it's just snow." Thor looked down him with much confusion on his face.
"You see," Bruce said as he took off his glasses, "when water gets condensed inside of the clouds, it must escape somehow. This causes rain, and when the temperature is below the freezing point of water…"
"The rain freezes into these little white flakes, which we like to call snow," Tony said cutting Bruce off. Both just looked at each other and smiled. It felt good to have another scientist to talk to, even if one was a rage monster and the other was self absorbed billionaire.
"Um, I think we should go now," Steve said awkwardly. As all eyes fell on him, he looked at the ground and put his hands in his pockets.
"I second that motion," Natasha said standing beside Steve.
"Well alright then," Tony said stretching out his arms, "it's unanimous then. Let's go." As Tony goofily marched, the others walked behind him towards the limo. Thor got Loki to actually join the group's conversation about what they were going to do. He didn't actually have any ideas, but neither did Thor, so he was ok just listening like his older brother. They finally piled themselves into the vehicle and started their brief car ride to Stark Tower.