[A/N]: This is my first one-shot! I'll try to do more of these once I finish my Avengers fanfic Vengeance and maybe I'll make a collection of Avengers, Vengeance, and Batman crossovers between the three. Enjoy! :)
"Hey Spangles, look what I found!" Tony exclaimed as he strutted into the room, carrying an armful of groceries which he unceremoniously dumped on the kitchen counter.
"Groceries?" Steve deadpanned, glancing up from the paperback book he was reading.
"Pepper made me go get them." Tony huffed as he rummaged through the white, plastic bags, the thin material stamped with blue ink rustling and crinkling loudly. "But that's not the point! I was walking through the frozen goods aisle, looking for that cookie dough ice cream Clint loves, when I saw something and had to get it for you!"
Steve raised an eyebrow from his seat at the kitchen table where he had been enjoying a cup of coffee as he read. Lowering the book, he folded the page he was on as he closed the book and set it on the table, watching Tony with a mixture of amusement and curiosity.
"Tony, did you get my ice cream?" Clint asked as he entered the room, smirking slightly when he saw Tony elbow deep in shopping bags as he muttered to himself, looking for something.
"Yes," the inventor grunted in frustration as he moved to another bag, searching through its contents, "but I also found something better."
"Better than cookie dough ice cream?" inquired Clint skeptically, leaning on the doorframe.
"I thought it was in one of these..." Tony murmured, digging through another bag. Various food items now littered the marble counter top, empty bags strewn across the floor.
Steve took another sip of his now lukewarm coffee as he and Clint shared a glance. It was typical of Tony to put something somewhere and then mysteriously misplace it the next.
"Aha!" He exclaimed, pulling out a red, white and blue box coated in ice crystals. Tony smirked at the two men watching him curiously.
"I give to you..." He slowly turned the box around to reveal a cartoon of Captain America wielding his shield in one hand and in the other... "Capsicles!"
Clint clung to the door frame as he burst out laughing, clutching his sides as he looked at the bold word "Capsicles" emblazoned over the picture of Captain America.
"Are-you-serious?" he gasped in between laughs, wiping a tear from his eye.
"Oh God." Steve groaned, taking the box from Tony's hand and staring at the picture of the circular frozen treat colored like his shield. "I'm never going to hear the end of this, am I?"
"Nope." Tony grinned mischievously, taking the box from his hands and opening it as Clint moved to stand beside him.
"Look! There's even a prize if you send in enough boxes!" The archer said as he pulled a capsicle out of the cardboard box, pulling off the white, plastic wrapper and licking the popsicle. "Not bad." he shrugged and Tony got one out too, licking it and nodding.
Natasha sauntered into the room, a fiery eyebrow raised as she saw the scene before her. She took the box from Tony's hands and examined it.
"Capsicles?" She asked, glancing at Steve who was ignoring the chatter of his teammates in the background.
"Yup." he sighed, standing and ruefully pouring out the rest of his now cold coffee into the sink, placing the mug on the counter.
"Do you think we should tell them there's jokes on the sticks?" Natasha asked, putting the box down and smirking.
"I'm sure they'll figure it out." Cap sighed. "They're never going to let this go, you know."
A wrapped popsicle was thrown at Steve by Tony and he caught it as the billionaire said, "Oh, lighten up and have a capsicle, Capsicle!"
Steve hesitantly took one out of the box and opened it, the cellophane crinkling in his hand as he licked the frozen treat, the taste of icy blue raspberry and cherry bursting on his tongue.
"Better than I thought." he shrugged, a small smile on his lips, making a mental note to add the capsicles to the shopping list.
"Hey Clint, what does Captain America get in the summer?" Tony nudged the assassin, holding his stained popsicle stick in front of him.
"What?" Barton played along.
"Captanned!"
Tony and Clint's howling laughter faded into the distance as Steve left the kitchen, grinning and shaking his head in amusement. At first he was weary of joining the Avengers, not knowing how he and his teammates would get along with each other.
He was glad he joined because otherwise he would've missed moments like this, where he was truly thankful for his team. Steve had no idea where he would be without them, but one thing was for sure.
He wouldn't be smiling as much as he was now.