Guys, I am SO sorry! It's been so long, I know. I'm a horrible person and this chapter isn't even that good. Writer's block is horrible. Well, I've kept you waiting long enough, so here is my sorry excuse for a chapter.
Steve was the first one to say something.
"Who are the Avengers?"
"Superheroes. I heard you talking. That's Tony Stark, and that's Black Widow, she's the coolest, and Thor and Bruce, and you're Hawkeye, but you're an adult and so is Loki." The small blond girl pointed to each of them as she said their names. "And you! You're Steve Rogers!"
"What do you mean he's Steve Rogers?" Tony said, looking up accusingly. Is was the first threatening thing they had seen from the boy.
"He's Captain America? Cool!" Bruce shouted, very excited that he had been living with a superhero this entire time.
"He can't be. Captain America's dead." Tony growled, his voice getting a bit louder.
"That's what everyone thought, but they found him, in the ice! It was so cool! He survived after all that and now he's a hero again and he saved the world with the Avengers, which is you guys!"
"They found him? He's Captain America?" Tony said to himself quietly.
"I don't get it. I'm not a superhero." Steve told the girl, tilting his head a bit in confusion.
"But you will be. You're the biggest awesomest superhero to ever exist, beside Black Widow. Even better than Iron Man."
"I think that's enough. They aren't superheroes, they're just normal kids." Coulson said, eager to get the girl to stop giving away information to the de aged Avengers.
"Then why are they hanging out with Hawkeye and Loki and why do they have the same exact names of the superheroes and I've seen pictures of Steve and Tony when they were kids and they look like them too." she replied matter of factly all in one breath.
"We're not superheroes, go away!" Everyone, surprised, turned to look at the aggressive face of Tony.
"You are too superheroes and I'm going to tell my mom and she's going to tell the news people and you'll be everywhere and it will be so cool because you guys are kids like me now!"
"You can't. I'll sue you. I'll blow you up! I'll rob all your money and you'll be poor!" Tony screamed at her, getting down from his chair and walking over to her. To give the girl credit, she stood her ground.
"You can't. You're just a kid version of Tony Stark, you're not even that smart yet!"
"I am too smart, my dad made me study everything!" Neither of them spoke, just glared at each other, the girl standing a good foot above Tony, but he still wasn't scared. By now, everyone in the restaurant had started to look at them. Unfortunately, someone had heard the whole conversation and had called the news station to let them know of this rare occurrence, and as the girl broke away from the stare, tears forming in her scared eyes from Tony's angry eyes, the front door of the restaurant opened and a handful of reporters walked in.
"Is it true that you are the Avengers as kids?" One of them asked, holding a microphone out to Tony.
"No," he replied calmly, surprising everyone who had been watching. "There was just some girl who liked making things up. My family and I were just eating a nice lunch when she came over and started going off about how my brother, Mike, looked like Steve Rogers, right Mike?" Steve hopped down from the chair, playing along.
"Yeah, she was just a little confused is all."
"So, you are telling me that you are not the kid version of Tony Stark?" Another reporter asked.
"Me? Tony Stark?" He laughed, "I wish! That would be so cool! I did go as him for Halloween last year, though." The reporter sighed.
"And you're trying to tell me that that's not Hawkeye and Loki."
"That's crazy! He's my uncle Pat and that's our neighbor, Eugene." 'Uncle Pat' glared at them, putting a hand on Thor's head, while Eugene scoffed at his name. That was even worse than bird brain.
"If you wouldn't mind, we were just about to start eating." Tony added politely as the reporters stared them down.
"Yeah, whatever, kid." As soon as the reporters walked out of the door, Tony took a big step away from Steve, scrunching his shoulders and making himself as small as possible. Steve tried to move closer to him, but he pulled away again.
"Tony, what's wrong?" Clint asked, standing up and walking over to him. The small boy looked up at him with tears in his eyes.
"Is he really Captain America?" The adults didn't know what to say. "You said he was Battle Boy! You lied to me!" The boy looked at them with frantic eyes before suddenly bolting away from the table and out the front door of the restaurant. The others followed closely behind, but by the time they made it out to the streets, Tony was gone. Missing in the wave of New Yorkers.
"Oh man." Clint gulped. The others could only nod in agreement. Tony Stark, as a child, who had already been kidnapped once already, had runaway.
'Oh man' indeed.
Well, I tried. I know I don't deserve it, but if you guys could pretty please review I would be incredibly happy. Even if it's just to say 'It's Okay', I would give awesome virtual hugs (not really, stranger danger), so pleeeaase?
