Here is Chapter 10, I hope you enjoy it. Small mentions of past child abuse are included. I decided not to define what italics mean, because if you don't know by now you can check a past chapter. From now on I will only define what something means if it is new or I think a reminder might be needed. Please enjoy, and thanks for everyones support. If you have any ideas, tell me!
Bruce blinked open his eyes and looked around. There was a light on even though the rest of the room was dark. He peered over at the light and realized it was a flashlight. In the light of the flashlight he saw two sets of hands flying quickly, talking to each other. He picked out a few signs. He recognized, no, never, safe, hurt, father, and gone. Never and safe were repeated a lot. Clint and Natasha signed really fast, they had been speaking the language longer, so he had trouble picking up more. Plus he wasn't wearing his glasses, and he was tired. He fell back asleep and let them do their own thing.
Bruce woke up again, but this time it was morning. He shook Tony awake with a smile.
"Good morning," he said, and Tony glared at him.
"This is pay back isn't it," he grumbled, and Bruce nodded happily.
"Feel my pain," he said smiling, and Tony groaned. Bruce kissed him.
"Come on, I'll make blueberry pancakes," Bruce told him.
"If I get up, do I get more kisses," Tony asked. Bruce pretended to think about.
"You two are disgustingly gross," said Natasha. They jumped not realizing she was awake. Tony just smirked and pulled Bruce into a long kiss. Natasha just got up and left to presumably make coffee.
"Come back," Clint whined when she left, "I'm cowld." Bruce and Tony laughed at him, and when he noticed, he flipped them off scowling. By this time they had woken Steve and Thor, so everyone started to get up. Bruce headed to the kitchen to make the blueberry pancakes he promised Tony. Clint soon came stumbling in and Natasha passed him a mug of coffee, which he accepted gratefully. He signed something to her, but he missed most of it, and she started to sign back. Steve was the next one to walk in, followed by Thor, but Tony was still nowhere to be seen. Bruce sighed, he must of fallen back to sleep.
"Can someone go wake Tony?" he asked, and none of them moved, though he couldn't really blame Clint, even if he had put his hearing aids in, there was no way he would have heard the verbal cue. "Please?" he asked, and Steve got up groaning. He left the room and returned a few minutes later with Tony.
"Pancakes?" Tony asked hopefully, and Bruce set down a plate, coffee, and two pill bottles in front of him. Everyone grabbed their food and dug in. Bruce's pancakes were well respected throughout the group. The only thing that could beat them was possibly Clint's waffles. In no time the pancakes had been demolished.
"So what now?" asked Steve.
"Well, I'm going to take a shower," Natasha said, "and then, Risk." The last word gave way to silence.
"Challenge accepted," said Tony.
"You are always a worthy opponent," Thor agreed. The war had started.
Thirty minutes later, the six of them were gathered under their fort with a board of the world spread out in front of them. The game of Risk, where one person rules the world, had begun.
"Don't attack me, attack Natasha, she's winning," Steve protested as Tony announced he was attacking Greenland. Natasha smirked at his misfortune. Tony rolled the attackers dice, and Steve ruled the defenders. Steve ended up losing two of his armies. The next rule he lost two, then two, then none, then one, then two, and then he had none left and Tony moved five of his armies to Greenland, and ended his turn taking his Risk card. Bruce went next, revealing a Risk set and getting extra armies. He then attacked Natasha, because she was winning, but eventually gave up and attacked Thor instead. Thor was next, so in a fit of revenge he attacked Bruce back, and took over Northern Europe, which set Clint up in the perfect position to attack Thor. They played the game to the very end, and it went on for roughly six and a half hours. Their record was eleven hours. Natasha ended up being the third to get out, despite the fact that she was winning for the first five hours, and Steve won.
"Well at least it's boy scout here that's taking over the world versus Loki," Tony remarked.
"Mr. Laufeyson," Bruce corrected.
"But the name fits perfectly, he's evil and he hates Thor. Plus come on, we already have a Thor in the group, Loki was just too good to pass up," Tony told him.
"Mr. Laufeyson's not that bad," Steve said, and everyone turned to stare at him, "Okay, ya, he's pretty bad," he admitted.
"See, even Mister Patriotic agrees," Tony said.
" 'e likes me," Clint said, "It qwi creepy." Everyone stared at him. "We a'e takin' abowt Mr. Lawfisin righ', ya, he 'eems to like me."
"It's true," Bruce confirmed.
"Agin, creepy," said Clint, and the rest nodded in agreement.
"It's also creepy how we all got him," Natasha said, "Even if we don't all have him at the same time." The group nodded in agreement again.
"Okay, moving on from creepy subjects, who wants to finish Chamber of Secrets?" Tony aksed, and five shouts of agreement came. The TV was turned on, and the movie unpaused as they watched Harry Potter defeat the Basilisk and destroy Tom Riddle's Diary. The second movie finished, and they moved onto the third movie and ordered Chinese half way through it. They all cheered when Sirius Black was freed. They started the fourth movie and made popcorn which was passed around the group. They cheered for the teams during the Quidditich world cup, laughing because they already knew the outcome. They made it through the whole movie, but it was getting late, so they curled up into their sleeping bags once the credits started rolling. Bruce curled into Tony's side, even though it was somewhat difficult with sleeping bags, and fell asleep in his arms.
The next morning, Bruce was one of the last to get up. Clint was also still sleeping, but everyone else was already in the kitchen. Bruce grabbed some toast and sat down at the counter. He assumed everyone had gotten up fairly recently considering they all looked like zombies. Natasha looked a bit more alive than anyone else, but he assumed it was only because she already had coffee. She smirked as Tony stumbled towards the coffee machine and Bruce tried not to laugh. He made himself tea and watched Tony try to wake himself up.
They ate breakfast in silence, all of them either too tired to speak, or enjoying the silence. Tony woke up a bit more and realized that he had to pick up Pepper from her friends, and started to rush out the door. Jarvis stopped him at the door and reassured him that he could pick her up, and Tony sighed in relief. He thanked Jarvis and leaned into Bruce's side.
By this time Clint was still asleep, so they went back under the fort they made to wake him. Tony asked if he could do the honors, but Natasha shook her head and stopped him.
"Not today," she told him, and that was the end of that. She went to his sleeping bag and slowly shook him. His eyes shot open and he tried to move away from Natasha. Natasha took a step back to give him space, and he calmed down quickly once he was given space.
What time is it? he asked. Bruce checked his watch.
"9: 40," he told him, and he nodded. He got up and made himself toast and coffee. He had just started eating when Bruce heard the door open. Tony left the room to go great his sister, and came back in a few seconds later with Pepper on his shoulders. Bruce laughed at the look of glee on the little girls face, and she turned to glare at him, which made the whole group laugh. Tony set Pepper down on the counter, and she started telling the group about her "super duper awesome sleepover," for her friend Michelle's birthday. Tony being the good big brother he was asked what they did, and when Pepper revealed her bright pink nails, he agreed that they looked very pretty. Pepper smirked and went on, knowing she had her big brother wrapped around her pinky finger.
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