Summary: Tony being Tony calls in a meeting with the Avengers and the extended family to tell the amazing idea he had: create Steve a playlist of their favorite songs to help with his adaptation.
or
… the time Darcy and Jane danced in front of everybody.
Characters: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, Bruce Banner, Thor, Pepper Potts, Jane Foster, Sam Wilson, Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Darcy Lewis, James "Bucky" Barnes, Jarvis.
Relationships: Implied Darcy Lewis/Jane Foster, Jane Foster/Thor, Darcy Lewis/James "Bucky" Barnes.
Tags of the chapter: team as family, Jane Foster loves science, Awesome Darcy Lewis, Sam Wilson is a gift, Maximoff twin feels, Darcy Lewis' iPod, Jarvis' organizational skills, the Author regrets nothing, I don't know where Vision is, domestic Avengers.
A/N: Playlist available on Spotify with the songs of the chapters posted. Check it out and tune each song with your reading! Link available on my profile.
Something to Hold Onto
Chapter Four, Come on Eileen, 1982
According to the calendar, it was the women's day to cook. Yes, they indeed have a calendar because when you lived in a tower with thirteen people – and sometimes four more would make random appearances – they had to have a calendar of who did what regarding chores.
Pepper and Jane were in charge of the salad – majorly because Jane did not know how to cook and needed supervision to even make a salad. Natasha was making stroganoff, which Natasha insisted on calling бефстроганов (or befstróganov) and which made no difference at all, as it was still a beef stroganoff. Wanda was making buttery potatoes with garlic and fresh herbs and an absurd amount of lamb dumplings – because they ate a lot.
Darcy was in charge of the dessert and she started making her infamous recipe of croissants filled with Nutella and topped with a special chocolate sauce. She made the sauce herself and always added something that none of the other avengers could quite figure out. Pietro joked It was love.
They were all talking and laughing as they cooked until Darcy went all silent and realized what was weird. The men had gathered around in the living room and Bruce had control of the stereo, even from the kitchen she could see his iPod sitting on the dock. She loved Bruce's iPod, she really did. He had the best songs for meditation and yoga but she needed something with a bit more energy.
She turned off the stove and put the pan with the chocolate sauce on top of the counter, now she just had to wait until they actually started to eat to put the croissants in the oven and they would be ready by the time they finished eating.
She turned and walked out of the kitchen with the spoon she had been using to stir the chocolate and moved with purpose towards the iPod dock.
They all heard a screeching sound as she unplugged Bruce's iPod. Jarvis had provided the sound, and it was made to sound as a needle scratching a vinyl, Tony thought it would be funny and so did Darcy – but that generally got everyone's attention. This time it was no different.
"Sorry, Dr. B." Darcy shouted over her shoulder as she struggled to change Bruce's iPod with hers without dropping the wooden spoon that had chocolate at the top. She would not drop the spoon, that chocolate was hers.
She scrolled down to shuffle and when the music started, she let out a little shriek, attracting everyone's attention yet again as they tried to figure out what was wrong this time.
"Jane!" There was another shriek as the scientist appeared running from the kitchen and started dancing with Darcy. Judging by how Pepper did not complain and the clean salad grabber she had in her hand, everybody assumed she was indeed not doing anything in the kitchen. Both women were actively ignoring everybody else in the room as they started a performance that they had perfected in New Mexico – they had reached a lot of dead ends before meeting Thor.
"Poor old Johnnie Ray, sounded sad upon the radio but he moved a million hearts in mono! Our mothers cried, sang along, who'd blame them?" Jane began singing into the salad grabber, looking at Darcy the whole time and smiling.
"You've grown, so grown! Now I must say more than ever, come on Eileen! Too-ra-too-ra, too-ra-loo-rye, aye! And we can sing just like our fathers!" Darcy's voice was light as she sang, also looking at Jane and using her chocolate covered spoon as a microphone.
They got close to each other and started moving their hips, singing the next verse together and leaving everybody stunned.
"Come on Eileen, oh I swear what he means, at this moment you mean everything! You in that dress, my thoughts I confess, verge on dirty, oh come on Eileen!" They both got so close that their boobs were touching, judging by how completely at comfort they looked, the group quickly figure out that once before it had turned into more than that. Maybe more than once.
Thor and Clint handed Tony fifty dollars each, regarding a previous bet they had made. Tony winning because he bet those two had been intimate before Thor appeared in the scene.
Darcy turned around and pointed at the group, holding tightly to her spoon as she began singing the next verse with a level of drama that could rival Tony on his best days.
"These people round here wear beaten down eyes sunk in smoke-dried faces! They're so resigned to what their fate is. But not us!" She abruptly turned to Jane who completed with a 'no never' and a rough shake of her head. "No, not us! We are far too young and clever, remember? Too-ra-too-ra, too-ra-loo-rye, aye and you'll hum this tune forever!"
Darcy started jumping and Jane grounded her with her singing and her hands around her hips. Sam and Pietro did a catcall as he saw her hands teasingly trying to lift Darcy's shirt.
"Come on Eileen, oh I swear what he means, ahh come on let's take off everything. That pretty red dress, Eileen, ahh come on let's. Ahh, come on Eileen."
The song slowed down the tempo and everybody in the room clapped along with the fast turning rhythm.
"Come on Eileen, too-loo-rye-aye." Darcy snapped her fingers in time with the beat as she sang the phrase repeatedly and Jane continued with the rest of the vocals.
"Now you're full grown, now you have shown, oh Eileen! Say, come on Eileen these things they are real and I know how you feel. Now I must say more than ever things round here have changed. I say too-ra-loo-ra, too-ra-loo-rye-aye!"
They sang the rest of the song together and when it finished they just giggled excitedly and hugged each other. When they came apart, Darcy offered Jane the spoon with chocolate and let the scientist lick the spoon with her.
This time Bucky, Bruce and Steve gave Natasha one hundred dollars each. They had bet that Darcy would never ever share her chocolate spoon with anyone, not even Jane. Natasha smirked at the win.
The two started going back to the kitchen as if nothing had happened but were stopped by Thor picking Jane up and Bucky sneaking an arm around Darcy, effectively bringing her closer to his body.
"Where the hell do you think you are going?" Tony threw his hands up in exasperation. "You too have a lot of stories to tell."
The two of them sneaked out of their boyfriends' grasp and went back to the kitchen, both sharing amused smiles and Wanda hit Stark in the head affectionately when the playboy started whining that he totally supported all kinds of love and wanted to hear about them.
A/N: Song: Come On Eileen, by Dexys Midnight Runners - 1982.
Never considered Darcy and Jane together, but after listening closely to the lyrics of this song I could not help but picture these two together having fun in New Mexico.