Movie Night
Everyone loves movie night. Everyone. Tony tosses popcorn at the screen (And Steve and Pepper later yell at him and force him to clean up after himself), Bruce gives back history on the effects, Natasha glares at anyone who gags when the couple that everyone saw coming from the beginning kisses, Clint fires comments on lines, Pepper keeps filling popcorn bowls. Thor laughs at jokes no one else gets, and cries when romance momentarily dies.
Oh, he loves movie night too. When he can understand it. Steve doesn't like 'Tremors' (it was not a good movie, Tony), or, really, most adult movies. The first 'R' rated movie Tony and Clint (they were going to drag him into the twenty-first century if they had to tie him up and gag him) plopped him in front of had him blushing to the roots of his hair and cringing. Pepper had put a strict rule on movie choices after that. Nothing in the player over 'PG-13' until Steve went to bed (and to his own TV, on which he would invariably watch the Discovery Channel).
But tonight, Steve gets to pick. Which meant that Tony was trying to manipulate him.
"C'mon, Steve. You'll love 'Tremors 2'. It was so much better than the first."
Clint joined in. "How about 'X-Men: The Last Stand'?"
Natasha glared at them both. Steve was everyone's little brother, and she took her role as big sister very seriously. Quite a few rude comments had been forgotten under her menacing stare.
Bruce looked over. "What're we watching?"
Steve shrugged. "I'm thinking 'Tangled'." He stuck his arm into the huge TV cabinet, then added his head when he couldn't find it in the first row.
Thor swallowed his mouthful (read: entire box) of Junior Mints before he began to talk. Jane had told him no one appreciated seeing his half-digested food, and since then mealtimes had become a little less weird. "'Tangled'?" He asked.
Steve emerged from the TV cabinet, movie in hand. "Why not? I suffered through 'Friday the Thirteenth' last week. Now I want to watch something I might actually understand."
Thor tugged the movie from Steve's hands and read the back before laughing. "It seems to be a fine choice." He agreed, passing the DVD to Natasha, who glanced at the cover before handing it off to Bruce.
"After receiving the healing powers from a magical flower, the baby Princess Rapunzel is kidnapped from the palace in the middle of the night by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel knows that the flower's magical powers are now growing within the golden hair of Rapunzel, and to stay young, she must lock Rapunzel in her hidden tower. Rapunzel is now a teenager and her hair has grown to a length of 70-feet. The beautiful Rapunzel has been in the tower her entire life, and she is curious of the outside world. One day, the bandit Flynn Ryder scales the tower and is taken captive by Rapunzel. Rapunzel strikes a deal with the charming thief to act as her guide to travel to the place where the floating lights come from that she has seen every year on her birthday. Rapunzel is about to have the most exciting and magnificent journey of her life." The scientist raised his eyebrows. "Who wrote this summary?"
Clint snatched it, blinking at the cover. "The girl's cute. I say we watch it."
"Wait, who's cute?" Tony grabbed the box. "Isn't she though?" He mused. "And look at the horse and dude. It's going to be made for eight year olds, I'm warning you, Cap."
"Do you ever look at stuff before you buy it?" Steve asks, reaching for his movie.
"No." Pepper shakes her head. "He doesn't half the time anyway."
"Hey, if it gets more than eight stars, I have Jarvis deliver it." Tony shrugged. "Then my maids unpack them, stick them on my shelf, and I have bragging rights. The end."
"Well, then, let's watch this now." Bruce sided with Steve. "That way, you'll actually watch something innocent for once."
"Hey! I watched My Little Pony last week."
"For two minutes, before brushing your teeth to get rid of the sweetness of it all." Natasha reminded him.
"I still watched it." The billionaire argued.
"Well, I've been wanting to see this one anyway." Pepper settled down on the couch beside her husband. He put an arm around her, and she snuggled into his side.
Steve pushed the disc into the player, settling back onto the sofa beside Thor, who was already going through his third box of Junior Mints. Steve wondered idly how much sugar the god could take before he began to buzz.
"This is the story of how I died."
"You sure you want to see this?" Tony raised an eyebrow. Pepper poked him, silencing him so that she could hear the next line.
"Don't worry, this is actually a very fun story and the truth is, it isn't even mine."
"How can it not be sad? You died!" Clint protested loudly. Steve nudged him.
"Shut up." Natasha hissed. "I want to see this."
Clint and Tony both bit back comments about how the Black Widow is watching a Disney Princess movie and chose to watch and comment later, rather than comment now and get their heads bitten off.
~Steve Rogers is Captain America!~
"Now at last I see the light
And it's like the fog has lifted!"
Thor sniffed, cramming popcorn into his mouth. Tony whispered the song into Pepper's ear. She kissed him softly. Natasha and Clint didn't seem to move, but if Steve looked closely, he could see their hands, intertwined and meeting to form a bridge between the two assassins. Steve smiled, turning his attention back to the movie.
A piece of him nagged, ached. He remembered Peggy. She would have loved this song.
"And at last I see the light And it's like the sky is new"
Steve smiled, losing himself in the movie. He wouldn't spoil this by thinking of things lost, never to be regained. And, finally, it didn't hurt to think about those things.
~Steve Rogers is Captain America!~
"Okay, I hate to admit it, but the Capsicle picked a pretty good one tonight." Tony began picking popcorn pieces up off the rug.
Clint nodded grudgingly. "Yeah, nice job." He punched Steve in the shoulder.
The super soldier grinned down at the shorter man. "Pick on someone your own size."
The next week, the newest Disney movie, Frozen, is in the player. The week after that, Brave.
Steve ventured further into kid's movies. No one complained.
Finding Nemo, Toy Story 1, 2, and 3, How to Train your Dragon, Epic, and Up are received really well. Free Birds, Puss in Boots, and Open Season (1, 2 and 3) are not liked. At all.
But movie night has slowly become PG rated, the team out doing each other to find new favorites.
Everyone loves movie night.
~Steve Rogers is Captain America!~
The movies I approve and disapprove of have been listed. Please do not take any offense with my personal preferences.
Also, some *ahem* personal news: this upcoming Monday marks my one year anniversary on this site. Yay me!
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