Okay, okay. I know I'm horrible, I haven't updated in forever. Life has been encredibly stressful lately and I haven't been able to do any writing. But I'm back and I should be updating on the main story soon. This is a short one and a bit late but I wanted to do a Halloween one-shot, so here it is. A little bit of little Tony and a little bit of Loki, hope ya'll like it. I have a few holiday themed ones in the works. Thanks for reading, let me know what you think! =D

Halloween through the years

Tony at Six years old

I had put my foot down this year. Tony and I were going trick-or-treating and that was final! For the past couple of years Howard had said that Tony was too young, insisting we just 'wait until next year'. So understandably Tony was really excited, and at his prompting I dressed up with him.

He decided to be Captain America and after a lot of begging on from Tony I was dressed as one of the girls that were in the promotional shows Cap did before he was fighting. And it was no rag-tag costume either, apparently Howard had somehow got a hold of one of the original outfits from the forties. I t just barely fit but I could tell a tantrum was gonna happen if I didn't wear it. And Tony's costume was nothing to sneeze at either, he got really into it with a shield he made himself.

Seeing as there were no close neighbors I took Tony over to one of the nicer subdivisions outside of town. But before we left I snapped several pictures with the Polaroid I'd gotten for the previous Christmas. For the first few he really hammed it up, but after a while the good old Stark impatience kicked in.

"Lisey stop! We're gonna miss out on the good candy."

I smiled at him and his adorable pout.

"Just a couple more, then we can go."

After taking several more pictures I put the camera in my bag. Just as we started to leave the voice of Maria Stark stopped us.

"Wait! I want one with both of you in it."

"Mom! Do we have to?"

Both of us laughed at him.

"Only a few more, for me?"

He sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Okay."

I handed the camera to Maria and crouched down by Tony and poked him to get a smile out of him.

"Alright you two, go have fun. See you later."

With that we left to go get our fill of candy. And boy did we. The next morning I was regretting eating all that I did, but Tony was already talking about next Halloween.

The time in Asgard ran differently than on earth, so every once in a while I would ask Loki what day it was on earth. It just so happened that morning at breakfast I decided to ask.

"Hey Loki what day is it?"

He smiled, knowing what I meant.

"It is the 25th of October on earth."

"Really? That means Halloween is right around the corner."

He furrowed his brows.

"Halloween? Is that some midgardian custom?"

I laughed, but after taking a look at Thor and Frigga's faces I could tell that they really had no idea what I was talking about.

"Wait, you don't know what Halloween is?"

Thor's vacant gaze and Frigga questioning look answered for me. Upon insistence from Loki I explained what it was.

"That sounds splendid Anna! I haven't had a costume ball in ages, we will make preparations immediately."

With that she walked out of the room, all the while giving out instructions to the many servants.

I looked back at Loki and Thor in shock.

"Did I just…"

Loki smirked.

"Yes I believe you did, once mother gets an idea in her head there is no stopping her."

As I was about to respond, Thor interrupted me.

"So now we must find costumes, right?"

Grinning, I nodded.

"Yeah, I guess we do."

It was the evening of the ball and I was putting finishing touches on my costume. I had decided to go for something simple, so I dressed up as a black cat. I found a nice black dress that frilled out at the bottom and I drew on some whiskers. It was the ears and tail that I was having trouble with, back on earth it would have been no problem to find a headband with ears on it and a belt with a tail. Deciding to forget about it, I went to see if Loki was ready. I knocked on his door wondering what he had dressed up as.

"What are you supposed to be?"

I glanced up at Loki to tell him what I was, only to try not to laugh. He was dressed as Thor.

"I didn't think you would take me seriously when I suggested you dress as each other. Although I must say it's not a bad look for you."

He rolled his eyes.

"Mother overheard your idea and insisted it was wonderful, so this- He gestured to his outfit -resulted. Thank you for that, now what are you?"

"I'm a cat, isn't it obvious?"

He looked me over and smirked.

"What kind of cat doesn't have ears? Or a tail for that matter?"

"Well this was the best I could do."

I started to back away as I saw the mischievous gleam in his eyes. But before I could get the door closed Loki waved his hand and a puff of green smoke surrounded me. As I was coughing I glared at him.

"Loki, what did you do?"

He grinned and conjured up a mirror. As I looked at my reflection I gasped. On top of my head were a pair of black cat ears. Before I could say anything he motioned for me to turn around. Doing so, I saw that I now had a fluffy black tail.

"Speechless I see, well you're welcome. You look much better now."

My attention was still captivated by the tail which I found I could move. And the ears which I could also control. After a moment I looked up at Loki.

"As cool as this is, it's not permanent is it?"

After he stopped laughing at my reaction, he shook his head.

"No it's not, don't worry Anna."

"Well that's good, now come on we don't want to be late."

He grabbed my arm to stop me.

"Wait, there now we can go."

I looked in the mirror once more to see what he has added. Around my neck was a black choker with a tag dangling from it. In bold letter was ANNA. It resembled a collar. I rolled my eyes at him.

"Thanks Loki."

As we head toward the ballroom, all I could think about was how ridiculous Thor would look dressed as Loki.

It was that time again, Halloween. I was home alone this year, everyone was out doing something. Clint and Natasha were both on missions, Thor was back in Asgard, Tony and Bruce were busy working on a breakthrough, and Steve was stuck at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.

But I wasn't going to let that stop me from having a good time, so I rustled up a costume and went out for the night. There was nearby club that was having a costume contest with all kinds of other fun stuff so I headed there. As I walked in I could instantly see that the Avengers was a popular theme this year, there, so I decided not to enter the contest seeing as I had 'borrowed' one of Tasha's suits.

I wandered over to the bar and ordered a drink, only to run into someone. I looked up to apologize but stopped short, it was Steve! He was in his Captain America suit, so I probably couldn't have spotted him even if I was looking for him, as there were so many people in the same outfit. So I grinned at him.

"Hey, I thought you were busy. If I'd have known you got off we could have gone together."

For a second he looked confused before smirking at me.

"I'm never too busy for you beautiful."

I could feel my face heating up, so I quickly looked down. This was strange, Steve never acted like this.

"Oh, t-thanks. Nice costume by the way, hiding in plain sight."

The look of confusion flashed in his eyes again before changing to something I couldn't quite identify.

"Yeah, I thought so too. So…you want to get out of here?"

Now I was the confused one. I had never seen Steve talk like this. But before I could answer him a group of people walked over to us. An obvious couple, a pretty blonde and a tall dark haired man, along with a very exasperated looking rock guy.

"There you are Johnny! We've been looking everywhere."

"Aww Sue, I was in the middle of something here."

The blonde, who I'm assuming is Sue frowned at him.

"Too bad there is a level 5 fire on the other side of town, we've got to go."

It was then that things connected for me. This was certainly not Steve, but someone named Johnny. And looking at the four of them together the pieces fell in place. This was the Fantastic Four, and more to the point this was Johnny Storm one of the most well-known playboys in New York.

"Johnny? Johnny Storm?"

He turned back to me with a grin.

"The one and only babe. Sorry looks like I'm gonna have to cut this short. But here's my number."

He handed me a little scrap of paper with a number scorched on it. I smiled at them, trying not to laugh.

"What's so funny?"

"Nothing you just look exactly like a friend of mine, I mistook you for him."

At this the other three started cracking up, while Johnny pouted.

"Who could possibly look like me? I'm one of a kind!"

I smirked at him.

"You bear a striking resemblance to Captain America and I would know seeing as we live in the same building. The costume was what really threw me, sorry about that."

All four of them gaped at me. It was Reed who spoke up.

"You live in Avengers tower? I had heard rumors that one of them had a relative staying there."

Internally I frowned, wondering how that got out.

"Yeah, not a lot of people know. Tony doesn't want the press to know, he claims there are enough reporters around as it is."

Sue smiled at me.

"Well it was nice to meet you…"

"Anna."

"Anna. Maybe we'll see you again sometime."

Johnny finally getting over his shock jumped in.

"Yeah, call me sometime."

I rolled my eyes.

"I'll think about it."

With that they rushed out of the club, to go do their thing.

Once again, if you guys have any specific ideas for a one-shot let me know!