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 when Darcy tased another civilian when she went clubbing.

Characters: Darcy Lewis, Wanda Maximoff, Pepper Potts, Maria Hill, Pietro Maximoff, James "Bucky" Barnes, Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Steve Rogers, Jarvis.

Relationships: Darcy Lewis/James "Bucky" Barnes, Wanda Maximoff/Clint Barton, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Maria Hill/Pietro Maximoff.

Tags of the chapter: BAMF Darcy Lewis; BAMF Wanda Maximoff, BAMF Maria Hill, BAMF Pepper Potts, anger management, Darcy Lewis' taser, incidents happen, Jarvis' organizational skills.

A/N: Contents of the chapter were inspired by:

Riding Out the Day's Events, by GlynnisIsta8 and Three Weeks, Ten States, and One Million Reasons to Fall for You, by leftennant.

Both stories can be found on AO3, where you can also find me as Trixie Ray (Trixie_Ray).

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 Seven, Bread and Butter, 2011

"I'm starting to feel trapped with you guys." Darcy puffed impatiently. "I love you to death and beyond, but I am done with the overprotectiveness. I understand where you are all coming from, but honestly, if I have to spend one more night stuck in here, I think I am going to do insane."

The group was quiet for a couple of moments until Wanda broke the silence when she started clapping.

"Thank you! I told Pietro the same thing yesterday."

After the Neo-Nazis mission and Pepper's kidnapping, the Avengers had become rather protective of the women in their tight-knit group. As Darcy had said, they understood the behavior until it got annoying. There had been too much contact lately among them and they were all becoming restless without personal time alone.

"So yeah, I am going out tonight, whoever wants to come with me – to have fun, not to play bodyguard – can come with me. I am leaving at eleven sharp."

With that, Darcy turned around and went to Jane's lab to work. Come eleven p.m. sharp, Darcy met with Wanda, Maria and Pepper. They waved goodbye to Bucky, Steve, Tony, Pietro and Clint who had unamused expressions as they sat on the living room couch.

"Wait!" Steve shouted before they left. "Where are you guys going to?"

"Oh, you know. Crease." Darcy answered, nonchalantly.

"Crease?" Bucky cocked his head to the side.

"Yeah, it has everything: lights, psychos, furbies, screaming babies in Mozart wigs, sunburnt drifters with soapsuds beards…" She paused, trying to keep from laughing. "It's that thing when a hobo becomes a rich man, so they take the big bubble bath."

Tony and Clint started laughing as soon as Darcy finished speaking; the looks on Steve, Bucky and Pietro's face were priceless.

"Oh, God, Lewis! I knew you were one of mine!" Tony doubled with laughter.

"Getting tips from Stefon, Darce, really?" Clint wiped the tears leaving his eyes and moved to Bucky and Steve, putting a comforting hand on their shoulders while Tony clapped Pietro in the back.

"I knew I wouldn't be wasting my joke with you two." She blew a kiss to the assassin and the engineer and entered the elevator with the other women. When the doors closed, she explained. "It's a Saturday Night Live joke."

Happy took them to a club in the Upper East Side and they entered through the back door in order to avoid a commotion. They were directed to a V.I.P. lounge – because, honestly? the club manager obviously knew who Pepper was. The women hang out in that lounge but after a couple of drinks, they decided to mingle with the rest of the crow.

Darcy was joking with Maria when she saw Pepper roll her eyes and pick up her phone, which was flashing Tony's face in the shiny screen. After a few seconds, Darcy concluded that Tony lost patience and had Jarvis overwrite Pepper's phone because a video screen flashed.

"Tony!" Pepper was not pleased with his attitude. "We're going to have a serious talk about this when I get back."

They glanced at the phone's screen and noticed Pietro – behind Tony's shoulder – mutter something they could not hear and hand Clint a dollar bill.

Wanda opened her mouth, probably to scold her brother and their betting problem, but she was interrupted by Darcy's shriek when a new song started playing.

The humming of the singer and the bass notes were soon replaced by Darcy's voice.

"Cap! I've been meaning to show you this singer!"

They could tell by her words that she was a little bit buzzed. Darcy being Darcy simply pulled Maria close to her as she started dancing.

"She tastes like midnight, she tastes like wine. Gonna run my fingers, oh down your spine. Just like a bad dream, stay on my mind."

The men tried to avert their eyes as Pepper started scolding Tony and talking about privacy, but their gazes kept turning to Darcy and Maria. Steve heard Bucky and Pietro clearing their throats and he smiled sympathetically at them.

"Oh, all the street lights may know your name. Out in the moonlight, don't you feel no shame. Oh, don't you worry, you little flame, baby, all the street lights, they know your name."

Steve swallowed, trying not to get too affected by the sexy lyrics. He noticed that Clint's gaze was also intent on the but focused on Wanda. Good for him! Maybe that was why he was the first to notice what was about to happen and growled in warning.

Darcy was dancing happily to the song she discovered during her time in London when she noticed the creep moving up behind Wanda and whispering the chorus in her ear with a creepy leer on his lips and completely ignoring how the woman was flinching away from him.

"Gonna spread you like butter, give you all my bread. Don't want no other girl in my bed. Gonna spread you like…"

"Ew! Back off!" Darcy moved forward and pushed the guy away from Wanda. The twin's eyes were glowing dangerously red and Maria was already moving with purpose towards the man.

"Don't worry, bitch. I have enough for you too." At that, the guy moved his hand so that it was touching the front of his pants. "I'm sure you can handle all of me."

At that point, Pepper was almost regretting her decision to keep her phone up, showing the Avengers what was going on. She heard a loud noise and by briefly looking at the screen, she could tell that Bucky had just broken the coffee table after throwing a chair at it. Before anybody could make another move though, Darcy stepped on the leering guy's foot and punched him hard in the nose, effectively knocking him backwards and breaking his foot in the process along with his nose.

"Remember this the next time you think of assaulting someone!" Darcy punctuated the 'this' by pushing her trusted taser on the guy's exposed lower belly – it was as close that she would be willing to go.

The security guards came and removed the man from the club. Wanda held Darcy close to her side, as if afraid that something might happen to her. Maria was ushering people out of their way, while covertly holding a gun by her side and Pepper was shouting to the men on the phone that they were going back. Happy took them back in a record time and the two groups met at the garage ten minutes later.

Shouts of worry were heard but Darcy quietened them all, saying that she could take care of herself and looked out for her friends. She held onto Bucky, not allowing him to hunt down the man and kill him.

"I couldn't let Wanda expose herself." She frowned and swayed her way to the elevator, effectively towing Bucky and Steve with her. "The idiot ruined my dancing! Let's go up, I wanna finish the song."

A/N: Song: Bread and Butter, by Hugo – 2011.