Just a little one-shot I wrote then decided to stick to this story :) Please review and I will give you all love and cookies of your choice.
Living with each other was something it took the Avengers a while to get used too. Clint had no particular hours in which he would go to sleep, and was often found in the kitchen by another Avenger who couldn't sleep at 3 in the morning, launching grapes into the air then taking them down with a perfectly aimed arrow.
In stark comparison, Natasha preferred to be asleep sometime before midnight, then would be up at the crack of dawn to train, normally with Clint if he hadn't passed out somewhere. It was decided, after Bruce nearly Hulk-ed out when he opened the fringe one morning and Clint fell off of it, that he was no longer allowed to sleep high up and had to be at least 3 feet to the ground at all times.
Bruce was more similar to Natasha, he preferred to be in bed before it got too dark then would be up around 9ish to work. Steve was the same, and would often join in Clint and Natasha's training sessions if he was up early enough. He wasn't able to sleep late, after all, the army had had to be up pretty early in the morning.
Thor was perfectly capable of staying up all night without becoming even the least bit sleepy. But out of courtesy to his fellow Avengers he did try to get to sleep around the time that they did, and was usually awake quite late.
Tony on the other hand was a completely different kettle of fish. He would work continuously all through the night and all through the day without showering, changing his clothes, sleeping or eating. It wasn't an uncommon sight to see Pepper dragging him up the stairs, exhausted, to get him in bed. Tony didn't seem to be even remotely bothered about how much he stank when he'd been working for three days straight, and Pepper would often have to take extreme measures. On one occasion, it wasn't until the Avengers heard the shriek coming from downstairs that they realised Pepper hadn't been joking about emptying a bucket of cold water over her boyfriend's head in an attempt to get him to shower.
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Food was another problem. When they first moved into Stark Tower, Thor didn't grasp the concept of 'supermarkets' and would take it upon himself to eat every single item of food in the kitchen to prevent it from going to waste.
Tony was perfectly happy to just snack on whatever was going, usually chocolate or crisps or pizza. Natasha would fix herself a salad and Steve would make himself a sandwich. Clint and Bruce were similar to Tony and went for the sweet stuff first before they tried the healthy approach. Bruce did usually at least think about having something healthy first, but then he would see the massive bag of crisps and would chow down on them instead.
More than often, the 6 of them would order industrial quantities of pizza if they were too tired to fix food together after a mission and would end up curled on the floor in a sleeping (and snoring) pile by the morning, in which case Pepper would have to manoeuvre her way over them to get to the coffee maker.
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It became very clear to all of the Avengers very quickly that Tony was completely head over heels in love with Pepper and was always with her if he could be. For her part, Pepper loved nothing more than lounging next to him on the sofa or curling up and watching a film with him if the others had gone out somewhere. On more than one occasion, they were found curled like cats around each other on the sofa, fast asleep. Natasha quickly realised that the professional Pepper she had first met was nothing to this playful Pepper when she was around Tony.
The first time all of them met Pepper was after the Chitauri battle. She was waiting for them at the tower when they arrived, accepting Tony's offer to let them crash out there. Steve looked astonished that Tony had a 'significant other' as he put it, and Pepper simply marched up to Tony, grabbed hold of his shirt and dragged him off somewhere. They were later found up on the roof chatting and sharing a bottle of wine.
Steve suspected that Tony brought out the best, and worst, in her. Thor thought it was sweet, and after watching 'What's My Number' (in which every member of the team decided that Colin sounded and looked exactly like Steve) proclaimed that Ally was right and 'being in love meant being yourself.' When Tony heard this he had no idea what they were talking about, as he'd fallen asleep towards the end of the film, but Pepper had smiled and hugged her bemused looking boyfriend.
The others were slightly concerned over Thor's love of chic flicks, especially after watching 'Mean Girls', where he did nothing but quote the movie for the rest of the month. ('Thor! You have got to stop putting flammable liquids in my microwave!' 'Boo, you whore!')
Pepper and Tony began an experiment to try to figure out if Clint and Natasha were secretly a married couple or something. They spent nearly all their time together and were often found sat up on the roof eating pizza and staring into space. Steve told them to stop spying on their teammates but Bruce took it a lot more seriously and joined in, keeping a tally chart every time he saw the two of them together.
Pepper was convinced they were, and when asked why she simply said it was her 'woman's intuition' and she knew about these kinds of things. Tony just thought it was creepy how he often caught Clint sneaking out of Natasha's room early in the morning.
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Once they'd gotten over the sleep, food, and Pepper factor, the team got on reasonably well. They still bickered and pulled pranks on each other, and occasionally blew up various kitchen appliances, but on the whole they worked well together and would come down on the press like a ton of bricks if they started picking on either the team as a whole or a particular teammate, which would quickly make the press back off.
When Pepper started taking heat from Stark Industries after the battle, Natasha and Thor came into one of the board meetings with her. Thor sat in the corner wiping Mjolnir with a cloth in full battle armour and Natasha cleaned out her fingernails with one of her throwing daggers, glaring at all of them. The icing on the cake was when nearly the whole building heard Tony Stark yelling at all of the board members, no-one could make out what he was saying but his meaning came across fine: 'leave Pepper alone.'
The board left Pepper alone after that and the team had a celebratory picnic while sat on the top of the Statue of Liberty, Pepper included.
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One early Saturday morning, LMFAO's 'I'm sexy and I know it' came over the PA system very loudly, blasted everyone out of their beds. Eventually, they discovered Steve in the living room watching one of the many music hits channels, having nudged the PA button on the table with his foot.
The Avengers were not impressed and Steve was made to do a run to the store to get bacon to make up for it.
Pepper thought it was hilarious and Tony set Steve's ringtone to 'I'm sexy and I know it' to humour her.
Steve didn't find that so hilarious.
Pepper did, so Tony didn't care.
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