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Don't Play Jenga With An Engineer

There is a very good reason Jenga is banned from Avengers Tower. A VERY good reason, as all members of the team will tell you. "We tried it once," they'll say, "and said never again. It's better that way for all parties involved." It's one of the many banned games in the tower: Monopoly- Tony runs a multi-billion dollar industry, Pictionary- Steve is an amazing artist, ANYTHING that requires accuracy, Scrabble- two geniuses in the room, Clue- two super spies are playing, Memory Games- Tony has a photographic memory, Operation- Bucky's arm set off the buzzer every time it was his turn, and the list is almost too long to keep rattling on. Back to Jenga.

"So, tonight is game night," the blonde archer flung himself down onto the couch in the communal living room, "and it's my turn to pick." Everyone groaned. Half of the games he picked ended up in violence because of the teams very competitive nature and all of the cheating that happened. "I want to play Jenga." Tony burst out laughing at that, falling off of the couch and doubling over, tears in his eyes.

"You okay Shellhead?" Natasha looked down at the genius, everyone shooting him confused looks while he continued to snicker on the floor.

"I think you broke him, Barton." Bucky said.

"Oh God, I need to call Rhodey. He'd get a kick out of this." Tony gasped out, barely able to breathe through his amusement.

"Okay, barring Stark having lost whatever very small shred of sanity he had somehow managed to cling onto, does anyone have any objections to Clint's suggestion?" As per usual, Agent Coulson was the only 'real adult' in the room, taking charge. Nobody disagreed, and so the game began.

"WHAT THE FUCKING HELL?!" Clint screamed as Tony finished his turn laughing . The game had started out relatively normal, everyone making expected moves and general laughing and taunting. But then, they all realized why Tony had lost his mind earlier when Clint first suggested the game, the only answer to their insistent questions as to what was so funny about Jenga so far was more laughter and "College man."

"You should know, never play Jenga with an engineer. The other kids learned never to ask to play that in college because my whole dorm room was engineers. There were nights we weren't even sure how the tower was still standing." Tony somehow told them all of this through a new bout of laughter. Steve's turn was next and Tony graciously hinted to him which one to take out to not knock it down.

"Hey!" Bucky yelled, startling the rest of the players. "That's cheating!" He pointed a metal finger at Tony and Steve. After a wide-eyed "innocent" look from Tony and a confused one from Steve, Bucky continued. "Just because he fucks you doesn't mean you can help him cheat!" The whole room burst into laughter at the combination of Bucky's comment and the blush flaring up on Steve's face. Tony was leaning on Steve with his face on Steve's shoulder as his body shook with laughter.

The game went on like this for a while, someone- never Tony- knocking the tower down and then starting again, Stark always managing to somehow make the tower look like it defied gravity. Sometimes Bruce did as well, but he left the harder feats for Tony.

"Did anybody know that this was possible?" Natasha even seemed impressed at Tony when Bucky spoke up. They had all requested that Tony and Bruce play a round against each other, and it had been going on for a long time. "Can anyone even do anything else?" Bruce smirked and shook his head, assuming a small smile as it was now Tony's turn.

"Sorry Bruce…" Tony mischievously smiled as he deftly pulled out a piece while simultaneously pushing another one from the same row over to hold the now wobbling tower. Everyone held their breath as the tower wobbled dangerously, only to release it in one big sigh as it stayed standing. Bruce's jaw dropped open as he stared at the tower in awe, then at Tony who was trying- and failing- to hide his smile.

"Well," Bruce's voice was filled with awe, "I've been beaten." Clint pulled out his phone and snapped a picture that he posted to multiple social media websites, all with the caption "Don't play Jenga with an engineer." Tony received the notification on his phone and smiled, and got to post the first like. He knew there was a reason he loved this team.