Happy Birthday too me, Happy Birthday too me, Happy Birthday too me, Happy Birthday too me, ! If you haven't realized it's my birthday today,
"Little J. Wake up." Someone was shaking me from my dreams. I tried to ignore them. "Aww…come on! You're not that lazy, are you?" I heard a chuckle…I knew that chuckle anywhere. I poked my head up from my covers to find Tony, Ally, Clint, Loki, Thor, Cap, Bruce and Natasha all crowded into my bedroom.
"Tony?" I asked curiously pulling my covers tighter around me. "Why is everybody in my room at…" I checked my watch, before yelling incredulously "SIX in the morning?"
"Suck it up baby girl. Your being abducted," Tony gave me a satisfied smirk before turning to Ally. "If you need us to subdue her, we'll be right outside. Do you worst." He said amused as the men all left the room. Natasha stayed perched at the end of my room looking bored. Ally however moved over to my closet and began to rifle trough it.
"Are you all good there?" I asked her sarcastically as she tossed my clothes on the floor.
"Yeah, actually. Feeling pretty good." She replied with a grin as she threw a loose hot-rod red knee length dress at me. "Put that on." She told me and began to rifle through my shoes. When I didn't move she glanced at me exasperatedly. "Jex. We can do this the easy way, or the hard way. Either way. I get what I want."
"I hate you. You know that?" I told her rolling my eyes as I pulled the bright red silk number over my head, tossing my pyjamas in the corner.
"I know you do." She grinned tossing me a pair of matching stilettos.
"See this is why, from now on, I'm only keeping sneakers in there." Ally chuckled before telling me to hurry up and get a move on. I muttered something incoherent as she tilted my head up, spilling my makeup bag onto my bed and began to paste a number of different vials and containers of powders and creams onto my face.
"Perfect." Ally said with a grin. "You look gorgeous." It was then that there was a rap on my door. Clint popped his head around the corner.
"Hey beautiful, can I come in?"
"Nope!" I said turning my head away. "You both know something I don't. So I'm not friends with either of you until you tell me. "
"It's a surprise!" Ally said like it was obvious.
"I hate surprises!" I pouted at her.
"I might not be able to tell you anything, but I do bring coffee!" Clint grinned at me.
"Fine. Your forgiven." I grinned at him, as he passed me the steaming cup.
"Mhm." He grinned as I took a long sip. "But unfortunately. Your going to have to give me that back. This might get messy."
"But." I said softly, clutching the cup to my chest as Clint held out his hand. Ally was snorting as I sadly passed my treasured substance over to my boyfriend.
"C'mon. We're gonna be late!" Ally grinned, grabbing my hand and towing me out of my room, as we walked through the hall, Natasha at my back and Ally and Clint boxing me in from either side, I knew that escape wasn't an option.
I took a deep breath as we came to the door, preparing myself for anything. Ally reached out, and slid the door open pushing me inside. I was met with darkness and stillness. Even the blinds were shut. I was about to ask JARVIS for some illumination when the lights switched on of their own accord, confetti and neon streamers assaulted me - were those Christmas lights? - and one loud, collective shout rang out. "Happy Birthday, Jex!"
And suddenly everyone I cared about was standing in front of me. I buckled to the floor slightly as my brother jumped down from the bookcase and landed on my back.
"Are you surprised?" He asked excitedly leaning over my shoulder so I could see his grin.
"Definitely." I grinned as he slid off my back and pulled me into a tight hug. "Happy 18th. Little Sister," He grinned before raising a bottle of Bourbon to the gathered crowd. "Now lets get her smashed." I rolled my eyes at him with a smile of my own as Rhodey came up and gave me a warm hug, whispering good luck in my ear and Ally's proud 'I organised the whole thing grin, when she stood next to me. But I wasn't looking at them, I was looking at Fury, who wore his usual stern expression, and at - was that Hill? In a dress?
This was rapidly making less and less sense. Well it was until I spotted the big fat table groaning under weight the presents. I started to make my way over until I found Clint hand on my shoulder.
"Later." I rolled my eyes at him affectionately, before turning to the crowd.
"What does a girl have to do to get a legal drink around here."
My request was met with a chorus of cheers, but Ally held up her hands. "Who wants cake first?" Her offer was met with much louder shouts. The loudest was a squeal. That one came from me. Everyone reseated themselves at the table and waited for Ally to get the cake from the refrigerator. I looked around, surveying the expressions of my guests. Rhodey looked disapprovingly at the tall glass filled with sprits that Tony had handed me to skull. So did Cap. And Natasha, to a slightly lesser degree. Bruce had his phone in his hand. Ready to dial 911 when I passed out. I couldn't blame them; after all, they didn't know the Stark drinking capability as well as I did. They made me sit at the head of the table this time, and I had to admit that it was much better than sitting next to Fury. Ally brought out the cake, and they managed to narrowly avoid a fiasco when they lit the candles. (you would have thought that four scientists alone should be able to work a simple lighter, but boy, those things were tricky. Eventually, they had to delegate the task to Steve, who somehow accomplished it without inflicting any injuries. I was sure that it was beginner's luck. I made a mental note to start designing easy-to-use candle lighters ASAP. Or maybe candles that lit themselves.)
They were about to start singing "Happy Birthday" when Bruce said, "Wait!" The outburst drew the attention of the guests, in case they suddenly had to run for their lives, but the doctor didn't start to morph. Instead, he jumped up and hurried to the bar, then returned just as quickly with a box of multicolored paper party hats. There was a sudden mad scramble for the good colours and somehow poor Bruce ended up with a green-and-purple-striped they had finished snickering at the color-coded doctor, the guests launched enthusiastically into the birthday song. Well, most of the guests, considering that Natasha was probably still playing angry birds, and didn't participate in frivolous human activities like singing at parties anyway, even when she was in a good mood. All right, so Thor and Rhodey sang enthusiastically. (Whoever had taught Thor the words had actually done a pretty good job.) Everyone else, JARVIS included, either sang along softly, voices gaining strength as they went on, or didn't sing at all. Then it was time for me to lean over blow out the candles and make a wish. As the smell of candle smoke filled the air. I reached over and grabbed a thick knife. Cap leant in front of Natasha just slightly as I rolled my eyes slicing into the cake.
"Did you hit the bottom?" Ally leant over curiously to survey the damage. "She did!" Ally yelled pulling Clint over. "You have to kiss the closest boy!" she said in a sing song voice. Tony was visibly grumbling as I reached over and sunk into a tender kiss with Clint. He smiled as we broke apart and I sashayed over to my brother and best friend giving them both a big hug.
"Thankyou." I grinned at them. "For the best birthday ever!"
Because I'm a psycho, I wrote an extra chapter, for my birthday. Just a bonus chapter, for my birthday! cause I'm in the spirit.
cyr911, awhhhhhh thankyou. And damn straight this shits gunna go down in the next chapter! YAY FOR THE SHIT!
Booklover! Awh hell to the yes ass whopping for the win!
GiraffePanda, because copy and paste documents, do not work for me when people are forcing me to move from my typing perch. (AS random seniors locker today, just if you wanted to know.) I promise it wont happen again.
Once again. Today's my birthday, so hence the awesome birthday bonus chapter. the story will continue uninterrupted next week.
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