This Chapter is dedicated to: thewriterstory and Firestar1218.

Takes place before the first Chapter

The Avengers but Tony were sitting on the couch in the living room, watching Doctor Who when the missing member came in from the labs, wearing his sunglasses as always.

"Guys, I have to ask you something."

"No," Natasha said, not even looking away from the TV.

The other Avengers had turned to the billionaire, but their faces showed that they were not considering that they would like whatever the genius had to offer. Except for Bruce whose look showed annoyance.

"Can't you at least listen? I'm sure you're all going to like it and I'm gonna be doing it anyways. But Pepper insisted I ask you for permission first. There went my plan for your Christmas presents. I'll have to think of something else now," Tony rambled.

"What do you want to do?" Bruce asked hesitating. Spending a lot of time in the engineer's lab had taught Bruce to be wary of Tony's supposedly good ideas. While some might be great (and revolutionize the world) others were not.

"Okay, as you know I have way to much money to ever spend it. So last – actually I don't remember when – anyways, some time ago I had this idea," Tony explained, handing envelopes out to everyone else.

The first to one open his envelope was Bruce. When he realized what he was holding in his hands, what Tony did, he could feel his eyes filling with tears and a smile forming on his face. Tony had started to built a charity to help children who had a background like himself to escape the abuse and find a loving home. The scientist looked at the money Tony was willing to spend for this project and was stunned. That was more than he had earned in his entire life!

Seeing Bruce's reaction, Natasha opened hers. She was both, shocked and touched. The Black Widow wondered how Stark had managed to get this information. It was supposed to be triple top secret. But it was Stark after all. The female Avenger couldn't believe her eyes, when she saw the thoughtfulness and amount of work and money behind this project. If you looked really close, you could see a tiny smile form on the face of the assassin.

Thor was slightly confused at first but thanks to the lessons in Midgardian culture he had been taking from his Lady Jane and her friends, he understood the concept of their money fairly well. Also his letter included both, an explanation of a charity and of the word 'Immigrant'. The Asgardian couldn't quite comprehend that a man this similar to his brother would do such a kind and heart-warming thing. That left the god wondering, if Loki had the same potential in him.

Clint was deeply shocked that anyone – especially Tony Stark for that matter – would use that much money to help orphans. And in his name – his out of all people – on top of that! The archer smiled as he read through the details of this planned – and 6000% approved – charity. The homes in his name were nearly all located in poor cities with a lot of street children. Food would be offered for children of poor families for not even a quarter of the normal price. Hawkeye was glad, that less children would go through that hard life in the future.

The most surprised person was Steve. Stark was a egoistical jerk in his mind. Philanthropist? In Stark's dreams maybe. But this made him reconsider his thoughts about the engineer. How could anyone who had obviously spend lot of both time and money for personalized projects in the Avengers' names which would help that many people? Come to think of it maybe the personalized floors each of the Avengers had gotten weren't just Miss Potts input and consideration like he had thought until now, but actually the idea of Stark. And perhaps even designed by him.

Tony was standing there, awaiting approval or disapproval of everyone. The billionaire was looking at the floor, fearing, that he had unknowingly stepped over an invisible line.

"So...do you like it?" Tony questioned without looking up after what felt like hours to him. It was the first time in ages he had asked for approval of anybody except Pepper, JARVIS and his bots. And maybe Rhodey or Happy once or twice.

Each of the Avengers nodded.

"One thing is for certain," the archer stated. "It will be really difficult for you to top this at Christmas. Or my birthday. But you're welcome to try."

The other Avengers laughed and nodded in agreement.

The Charities in this Chapter are also mentioned in Chapter 7

"The Maria Stark Foundation, the Bruce Banner Homes For Abused Children, the Natalia Romanova and Clint Barton Homes For Orphans, the Ho Yinsen Organisation, the Steve Rogers Organisation For War Veterans, the Thor Odinson Immigration Foundation and many more."

Bye

~Marvelgeek42