Having a Crowd for Breakfast 2
Stark sassed, "Age is just a number, kid."
Chris responded, "Yeah and I could be going to MIT if I wanted to. MY Mom wants me to be a kid first. Do you think my family and I would have worked as well together if I spent my time at MIT or in New York with you? We play together, scheme together, live together, we're a family Stark, maybe not by blood but we are together."
"Yeah," Russ agreed, then asked, "Why don't you know that?"
Ignoring Russ unknowingly painful question Stark asked, "Would you be interested in an internship for the summer?"
"I'd say you need to ask my Mom and if you want any sort of success at that…you really need to drop the attitude or she'll drop you out a window on your head."
"I can be charming," Stark said too smoothly.
"Yeah and don't try and seduce our Mom," Russ said irritably.
"I would never…" Tony started.
"Stark we do read the papers, and watch TV. We know your reputation. Kailie tells all, we even know that Ms. Pepper keeps clothes in your place. We're young not dumb, Besides they'd never find the body." Chris said as he carefully poured the chocolate syrup over his biscuits already slathered with butter before passing it to his brother.
"Are you threatening me?" Stark asked eyebrow raised.
"No dude, like I said, Kailie tells all. Ms. Potts is not only pretty, she's smart, she can also kick ass. If you're dumb enough to cheat on her, we'd be the least of your worries." Chris replied knowingly as he carefully began breaking his biscuit up into bite-sized chunks.
"Yeah," Russ agreed. As he passed the chocolate syrup carefully to Ms. Potts, then added thoughtfully, "even one of your suits wouldn't protect you from her.
Tony looked over at his girlfriend who was pouring the chocolate syrup over her biscuits before passing the dark syrup over to him with a deceptively benign little grin. Stark gave a little shudder of fear before turning back to Chris and Russ and saying, "You know your right, which just proves you need to come work for me."
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The twins ere talking back and forth to each other I their twin speak. When Benjamin interrupted in his smooth tones, "Ladies," Benjamin said with a slightly scolding tone, "It's not polite to use a language that others don't understand. I'm not speaking, Hebrew, Pashti, Yemeni, Farci, or Russian am I?"
"Sorry Benjamin," the girls chorused.
"I'm not the one you should be apologizing to," Benjamin corrected gently.
"But he's the enemy," Tamara stage whispered.
"And how many times in history does an enemy become an ally, or vice versa?" Benjamin reminded gently.
"Sorry, Mr. Coulson," the girls gave the echoing response.
"Better," the former Moussad said before turning to Coulson and asking, "Now then Agent Coulson, how would you describe our performance at the Tower?"
Coulson looked stunned for a few seconds before he replied, "Frighteningly impressive."
"Thank you," the more colorfully dressed twin gushed. Seeing something in his eyes which the pair seemed to recognize easily. The colorfully dressed twin to his left said, "My name is Tamarina," Pointing to the more conservatively dressed twin she said, "That's Tamara."
Coulson started to introduce himself, only to have Tamara say, "You're Agent Phillip J. Coulson. You were born October 5th, 1969. You're official title is SHIELD's Chief of Agents. You are also known as Fury's Good Eye and his right hand. You are a Level Nine SHIELD agent, and their top handler. You have successfully completed and escaped from what were officially classified as suicide missions, with your team intact. The number of missions you have participated in and completed successfully is classified."
Tamarina took over, "Your favorite color is red, though you only wear it in ties on your day off. Seriously who wears suits on their days off? When your in a bad mood, you listen to classical music. If you're in a good mood you prefer Big Bands or Swing. Your Mom and Dad are still alive but you hate to visit them, because you hate to lie to them about your job. Because they think you work for the United States Postal Service…
"That's enough girls," Benjamin said, "It's also nice to let a man get a word in edgewise, especially when he's a guest. Anything you'd like to say, Mr. Coulson?"
Coulson shook his head mutely, while he was screaming mentally, "Who the hell are you people?"
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Bobbie, Jason, Dr. Allen and Alex are sitting around their assigned table. Well not technically assigned, but the kids had been asked which adults they wanted to interact with, and they now were sitting with the adults in question.
Jason and Dr. Allen or Rick as he had insisted everyone call him was already deep in conversation with each other. They were discussing chemical compounds and reactions and how to manipulate them.
Bobbie however had her attention focused on Alex when she asked, "So is there anything we could have done better on Monday?"
"You mean other than not be at the Tower in the first place?" Gabriela's assistant said tiredly.
"Come on Alex, even mom's not clairvoyant? Who knew besides the asshole with the eye patch that SHIELD would be invading the tower for the purposes of kidnapping and stealing, not your fault all-knowing assistant man."
Alex raised a finger at her to give her the point before saying affectionately, "Swear Jar."
The girls eyes went wide before she argued, "Technically in this case it's an accurate description of the man."
Alex raised his brows and said, "Now who told you that?"
"We took a vote," Bobbie said kicking her adopted brother under the table, "It was unanimous, right?"
"Hate to say it dude but yeah we did, but I still have to agree with Alex. Swear Jar." Jason said with a smirk at his sister.
"Okay fine," said Bobbi pulling a dollar out of her pocket and slamming it on the table before adding, "But I was right and you were wrong."
Alex gave the teenager a confused look and said, "What are you talking about?"
"You said I wouldn't be able to use my equipment at the tower and I should leave it behind. Aren't you glad I didn't listen?"
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Anthony, Kailie, Dr. Banner, Nick Fury, Gabriella, and Clara are sitting at the main table and Anthony couldn't resist starting the conversation with a smirk as he said, "So how did your agents like getting their asses handed to them by a bunch of kids?"
Kailie smirked as well as she added, "And how did you like getting taken down by a seven and a five year old?"
"How could you allow children to have weapons?" asked Fury venomously.
"My children, Mr. Fury had sticks, a baseball bat, glue and dart guns. Your agents, had automatic weapons, stun grenades and handguns, they're lucky I didn't have the medipets on full protection mode or your men and women would have been so much ground chuck." Gabriella said with a cold anger that had even Fury flinch.
"I'm sorry are you really trying to blame us for defending ourselves against your goons. Really? That's what your gonna go with? Exactly how hard did you hit your head when the kids took you down?" Clara shrieked angrily.
Suddenly all of the kids were looking at the main table while Alex and Benjamin started making exit strategies. "Besides the fact that you threatened my children with your mindless thugs and their stupidity. I wonder have you been listening to your agents abroad particularly in the Russian and Chinese arenas." said Gabriella as there was a noticeable drop in the temperature in the pool area.
"Especially since you just created an international incident on Monday as the Russian Ambassador and the Arcadian ambassador were both in the tower when you attacked it." Clara added with a smirk that everyone in the family recognized.
"We haven't heard anything from our representatives in those countries about that?" Fury supplied with a scowl.
"That would be because your representatives to the WSC from those countries have been taken into custody and are currently being questioned by their respective governments and I have been reassured that the other members of the WSC will be taken in soon." Gabriella said, with a hard edge to her voice.
Fury heard something crack behind him but he followed his instincts not to take his eyes off of this woman, "We had no choice…."
"There is always a choice!" Gabriella screamed as she leapt to her feet and slammed her hands on the top of the table. "You made the wrong choice."
"Oh don't worry the WSC people who gave that order will be feeling a lot of wrath right now. Their governments will be the least of their worries," Clara added. "The fact that your using the 'I was just following orders' excuse Director is more than a little pathetic."
""Actually we were there to try and limit the potential for fallout from the WSC's stupid idea," Fury replied defensively. "I wasn't even informed about the raid on the Tower until they were in flight and had not been able to intercept them. I came to the Tower to limit the damage to relation with the civilians and innocent. But that is not why I'm here. I was hoping to learn more about you ladies and the children and animals. To see if you and your family would like to work with the Avengers. So if you should happen to be fighting along with them against evil that is working to keep us free."
Clara exclaimed in an enraged tone, "Oh HELL, NO! Go FUCK yourself. There is no way in HELL, that we are going to help you."
Kailie looked at the intimidating man loosing control and said in her most annoyingly vapid Valley girl tones, "And like we're totally supposed to believe that because we're a bunch of teens and a couple of women, right?"
Anthony added, "Exactly how many brain cells have you lost over the years, cause one would assume that when they hired you for this you had to have a higher IQ than you're currently showing?!"
Irena screamed, "Vash Zadnitsu, No, You made Mommy and Aunt Clara mad."
"SWEAR Jar!" Chris and Yodie screamed at Irena.
"ENOUGH, There will not be any helping the Avengers ever again unless we are asked by the Avengers." Gabriella replied trying to get the situation back on a calmer note.
Tony said, "What do you mean again, where did we meet?"
"Oh it wasn't you Mr. Stark, it was Captain America and Mr. Coulson. As you can see, I helped save Coulson and protected your Mr. Rogers." Gabriella replied in a placating tone.
A deep-chested rumble sounded right beneath Fury and the director froze before he said something he would live or possibly die to regret. The oldest teen stared at him and the fire in his eyes matched the gimlet eyed stare Fury received from Vikirnoff as the bears head came up over the side of the table.
The younger man buried his fingers in the fur at the scruff of the neck of his medipet and said, in a surprisingly soothing tone that reached everyone on the patio, "Not now Vik. I have to go to work and the blood is really hard to get out of the polyester uniform shirts."
The teen checked his watch and said, "Speaking of which, gotta jet Mom. So who wants to play hockey after school?" A chorus of cheers answered the teen and that was when all of the adults noticed that the pool was frozen solid. "So much for keeping your cool, ladies," the oldest teen said cheekily to his mother and aunt as he stepped back into the house.
Clara stared at the pool for a few seconds before putting both hands over her face and saying helplessly, "Oh crap!"
"Swear jar!" Everyone on the patio screamed, including on Nicholas Fury she would swear although in his case it was more muttered under his breath.