Thanks for all the reviews, favorites, and alerts on chapter one! Sorry for the wait - my muse died for a few days.

Unfortunately, I still don't own the Avengers or Monopoly.

Chapter 2: Monopoly

Tony strode into the living room and raised the board game above his head proudly. "Game night two: Monopoly. Everybody pick your token."

Clint, Natasha, Bruce, and Steve groaned while Thor regarded Tony with his usual confused expression. "Ugh. Monopoly takes forever." Clint whined.

"Well, Katniss, the sooner we get started, the sooner you get to go back to doing your whole brooding in high places thing," Tony snapped back, scattering the tokens on the table. "Which, by the way, really isn't attractive. It's creepy, really. Though Tasha over here seems to like it."

Natasha picked up the cannon and glared at Tony. "I can kill you seven different ways with this."

"Okay then," Bruce said hastily. "Let's try and keep tonight murder free."

"Getting blood out of board games sucks," Clint nodded. "Do you really want to have to do that again, Tash?"

Everyone else swiveled to face them. "Again?"

Natasha shrugged. "I get a little competitive."

"Well," Tony sighed, quickly dropping her gaze. "Let's get started."

Twenty minutes later, Thor frowned as he read from his card. "Go directly to jail. Do not pass 'Go,' do not collect $200."

"Sorry, Blondie Bear."

Thor looked confused. "Why is there a jail? I thought this was meant to be a game."

"Jail is one of the spaces, Thor," Bruce explained. He moved Thor's token to the 'jail' spot. "You just have to stay there for a bit while the rest of us play."

"Yeah," Tony grinned. "Kind of like Loki, except without the whole snake-venom-dripping-into-his-orifices-for-all-of-eternity thing."

Everybody glared at him.

"Erm, right…that was awkward. Back to the game."

Fifteen minutes later, Thor was still in jail, where he had been joined by Tony and Clint. Natasha and Steve were dominating the board, while Bruce had some modest holdings.

Tony groaned as he rolled the dice and failed to get out a jail yet again.

"You know, you're really bad at this game for a billionaire," Clint said.

"Shut up."

Natasha rolled and landed on one of Tony's few properties.

"Ah ha! My luck is looking up! Rent!"

"No."

Tony raised an eyebrow. "No? That's not how the game works, Princess."

"Princess?"

Two seconds later, Natasha was holding Tony down by his throat, demonstrating the third way to kill someone with a monopoly piece. Clint and Thor quickly lost interest in the game in favor of watching the murder scene unfolding before them.

"Okay. I think we're done for the night," Bruce proclaimed, packing up the board.

"Yep. Sounds about right," Steve said. He sighed, trying to make his most important decision of the night – whether he should pull Natasha off Tony or help her strangle him.