It was mid-morning and most of the group was hanging out in the kitchen finishing up breakfast. Steve was already out for his daily jog and Tony was still sleeping. Thor wandered in and saw Loki sitting by himself with a glass of orange juice and some forgotten toast and bacon in front of him while he was reading a book. He grinned and sauntered over to him as he grabbed a piece of his bacon and obscenely stuck it in his mouth. Loki looked up from his book and shot him a glare with no heat behind it whatsoever.

"Friends! We should play some hockey this day!"

Thor boomed and Loki winced a little at his voice. Clint, Natasha, and Bruce seemed to be in agreeance and all smiled. Clint snickered.

"Steve should be back soon. We'll send him in to wake up Sleeping Beauty."

Natasha gave him a knowing look and Bruce chuckled, while Thor looked a bit confused. Loki looked at him with an exasperated sigh.

"Thor, do you not see the way those two look at each other?"

He pondered, for a moment, and actually thought about how the Metal Man and the Captain acted around each other. The light bulb finally went off and you could see the realization on Thor's face when he grinned and chuckled loudly.

"Ah, our friends are in love!"

He broke out into a thunderous laugh while Clint gave him a sarcastic thumbs up and Natasha rolled her eyes. He turned to look at Loki.

"Join us, Brother!"

Thor was beaming at him with excitement. Loki glanced over at the others, cautiously, then back at Thor.

"I'm not exactly part of the dream team, dear brother."

Thor pouted and then looked over to the others. Natasha just huffed in annoyance, while Clint and Bruce just shrugged their shoulders. Bruce looked over at Loki with a soft smile.

"It's fine if you want to play. I've noticed you enjoy spending time on the ice."

Loki looked a little relieved and let out a small puff of air. Thor looked more than pleased and grabbed Loki's wrist and hauled him out of his seat, causing his book to fall from his hands.

"Come, brother! I will teach you how to defend the goal!"

Thor drug Loki past everyone to go down to the ice rink and show off his skills. The three of them laughed at the looks on their faces; Thor smiling from ear to ear and Loki trying not to look happy at all, but failing miserably. A few minutes later a sweaty, topless Steve came in.

"Hey guys."

Clint couldn't contain himself. He snickered and looked over at Natasha who could barely hide the smirk on her face. They all knew if Steve went to wake up Tony looking like that, the man would be rendered speechless, and it took a hell of a lot to make Tony Stark forget how to speak. Clint tried to erase the grin on his face as he spoke.

"Hey, Steve, Thor wants us all to play some hockey. You want to go wake up Tony?"

He could barely keep the laughter out of his words. Bruce finished cleaning up Loki's dishes from the table. He waved to everyone as he turned to head to the lab to finish up his latest experiment before the scrimmage. Natasha elbowed Clint when Steve smiled. It was quite hilarious how Steve and Tony were so oblivious to each other.

"Sure, sounds like fun!" he paused and fidgeted, "Playing hockey that is… not… err… waking Tony up… that is... unpleasant."

Steve could feel the blush starting to color his cheeks and nodded curtly at Natasha and Clint before he started toward Tony's room. As soon as he was out of the room Clint burst into a fit of laughter. Natasha tried to muffle his howling with her hands, but was pretty much unsuccessful. She pushed him against the refrigerator hard and Clint eyed her with playful eyes. Natasha let her hands fall away from his mouth as he finally quieted down. Clint picked her up and made his way to his room with her.