A/N: Only one more chapter to go! Thanks for everyone for sticking with me as I try and deal with life while posting! I'm also going to post the actual headcanons as their own chapter after the grand finale tomorrow. Enjoy the fluff!

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Tony had been having a good day. Pepper had inadvertently helped him to streamline a new bunch of phone system tech. Cap had loaned him his shield (under supervision only, but JARVIS counted, so that was okay) for some tests on the vibranium. Bruce hadn't blown anything up lately (or hulked out). And he'd just finished his upgraded prototype of Romanoff's new Widow's Bites. Now he was on his way to the archery range with blueprints of some new arrow designs for Barton.

He'd just stepped out of the elevator when a scratching sound overhead made him pause and look up.

"JARVIS, run scans through the ventilation system looking for rodents and other vermin. Then set up a few scenarios for extermination and send them to my workstation upstairs."

"Shall I include both lethal and non-lethal measures, sir?"

"Why not? Have at it, J."

"Of course, sir."

Tony strode through the door to the range, flinging it wide open. "Alright, Katniss, I've got some plans you need to sign off on before I throw myself into R and D." Tony paused and looked around. "Barton?"

He was alone.

Tony shrugged and was about to turn around and leave the range when JARVIS contacted him.

"Pardon me, sir, but I was unable to complete the scans."

"Why not, J?"

"My sensors appear to be offline."

"Well then fix the bug and move on with it."

"I can't, sir; they have been removed. They are no longer linked to my systems."

Small hairs rose on the back of Tony's neck. "Probability that this is an external threat attempting to create access to the tower?"

"Probability is-" JARVIS's voice cut out.

"JARVIS? Talk to me."

All was quiet on the archery range, with the exception of Tony's ragged breathing. Then the lights went out.

"Override systems to voice operation only; authorization code Stark1."

Nothing happened for a long moment, then the lights slowly came back up. Tony gave a sigh of relief as he heard the noises that indicated JARVIS was booting back up on the archery level. Then he turned to the door.

Spray painted over top of the SI logo on the back of the doors was a crudely done purple bow with a nocked arrow.

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Clint was just crawling out of the vent in his room when Tony's amplified voice came roaring out of JARVIS's speaker in his room.

"BARTON! NOT FUNNY, BIRDBRAIN!"

Clint couldn't help it; he laughed.

That would teach Tony to put laser tripwires in his ventilation systems.