"That was probably the most un-super-heroic I have ever felt." Tony Stark felt like knocking something over.
"What? We got the job done!" Captain America answered back, smiling brightly. "We saved all those hapless citizens and such..." He trailed off, noticing his grin wasn't having much of an effect on Tony's mood.
"Yeah... from a guy in a badly stitched Santa costume calling himself the Krazed Kringle..." Tony shot him a sideways glance.
"Could've been worse..." Cap shrugged.
"Worse? When he started throwing knives at me shaped like little gingerbread men I almost LET him get away with robbing the bank... What was he thinking with a Santa theme anyway?" Tony crossed his arms, trying his best not to sulk.
"Well... it's actually pretty cheap as far as a theme goes." Steve admitted.
"Great so I have to save the world from villains who do their costume shopping in January at the discount Christmas section of Target." Tony sighed.
"Well... he was robbing a bank... maybe if we had let him get away with it he could've come up with a better theme for you. Valentine's day?" Steve smiled again.
Tony snorted laughter. "Then he'd be throwing around knives in the shape of little pink hearts. Think of the puns Peter could come up with."
A look of horror flashed upon both men's faces.
"What the hell are we supposed to do with those anyway?" Tony asked, desperate to change the subject.
Steve looked down at the gingerbread men knives in his hand. "We could save them for our Christmas tree." He offered.
Tony shot him another look. "Only you would think to actually keep them for something so... benign." Then he smiled. "Oh just think of it..." He leaned into Steve. "Kissing under the mistletoe made out of C-4, ribbon wrapped boxes of lead lined toys at our feet, all while our gingerbread knives glisten in the radioactive glow of our tree."
Steve raised an eyebrow. "You've been hanging out with Peter for too long. Or Hank... possibly Hank." Their foreheads touched.
"Possibly." Tony agreed.
They kissed.