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sam_thefalcon (sam_thefalcon) wrote in avengers_logs,
@ 2018-04-28 10:38:00

Current mood:	cheerful
Entry tags:	-complete, bobbi morse, clint barton, darcy lewis, ellen brandt, jane foster, loki odinson, pietro maximoff, sam wilson, sif, steve rogers, tony stark, wanda maximoff

This Is Not My Beautiful House Party Thread
Who: Sam and Ellen, to start but OPEN TO ALL*
What: Sam's throwing a party for all the PCs
When: One Evening, Don't Get So Caught Up In Technicalities
Rating/Warnings: YELLOW to start, we'll see. If it turns into an orgy, we'll revisit this.

A/N: *I cannot emphasize this enough. OPEN TO ALL. I want a big, sprawling mess of a thread, like all the conversations at a big party. Indulge me!

Sam opened the door to find a woman standing in the hallway holding several cases of beer with no apparent difficulty. He recognized her from her icon on the Avengers Network. "You must be Ellen." He stepped aside, "Please come in."

She stepped inside and he closed the door. She glanced around the apartment. "Where should I put these?"

Sam led her to the kitchen. "You know that you're on set-up duty now, right?"

Ellen nodded. "I know. I came early because I wanted to discuss a possible project with you."

"The super fight club you texted me about?"

"Yeah. I've figured out where it's happening. Gamora and I are planning to get inside. But as it's held on a rooftop I thought another pair of eyes overhead wouldn't hurt. So I thought of you."

Sam put her to work loading beers into several large coolers while he chopped vegetables and filled bowls with various munchies. Ellen described what she'd learned, and what she hoped to accomplish by infiltrating the fight club.

"You really think the bad guys will show up?" Sam was dubious. "If it's as hard to find as you say, what makes you think they'll be there?"

Ellen shrugged. "It's worth a shot. Even if the bad guys don't make an appearance, it's an opportunity to meet some other metahumans, do some networking, find out of they know anything about these bad guys. Maybe even recruit some of them to help find and stop the bad guys."

Sam thought about it. "Okay, I'm in."

The conversation moved on to other topics at that point. Ellen told him her history with Stark, and Sam shared his as well ("I never actually tried to kill Tony," he said, "though the thought did cross my mind a time or two while in the Raft."). They moved on to speculation on other members of the Network that neither had actually met. Sam found Ellen to have a dry sense of humor, and a surprisingly good grasp of his pop culture references--at least those that predated her "death" in 2012.

By the time the doorbell chimed, everything was in place and Sam and Ellen were sitting in his living room drinking beers. Sam got up and headed for the door. "It's showtime!"

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Tony & Pepper

the_iron_man
2018-04-30 06:35 am UTC (link)

"Nice pour." Tony took a glass and raised a little toast to the host, and then did the same to Pepper. "Thanks, Sam. You know. For not being a douche about stuff. Here. Clink me, babe. Not you. Her."

He tapped his glass lightly against Pep's before taking a sip. Not bad at all. What was bad, was that Tony looked down at where Pepper was trying to hide the small meteorite on her ring finger. Uh oh. Somewhere in his head a 1950's robot with Kermit the Frog flailing arms was saying 'Danger Tony Stark, danger!'

He smiled HUGELY at Sam while murmuring out the side of his mouth toward Pepper, "Why're you hiding your bling? Is this like the bunny? If you don't like it should say so. Lasttimeyoudidn'tsayso. Then terrorists blew things up."

Because there is nothing conventional about the daily lives of superheroes.

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Tony & Pepper

hisonething
2018-04-30 07:56 pm UTC (link)

"Thank you, Sam," Pepper said in that calm voice of hers. It was a nice counterbalance to Tony's manic rapid-fire mode of speech. She took the glass of champagne then lifted it toward their host in salute before she took an appreciative sip.

She glanced at Tony as she drank. Her brows lifted for what he was doing, but she lowered her tone of voice. "You realize that everyone knows what you're doing, right?" Her fingers curled almost possessively around the ring on her finger and against Tony's arm. "Of course, I like it. I love it. I just don't want to ruin Sam's party by taking it over with our news and don't tell me you wouldn't."

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Tony & Pepper

the_iron_man
2018-05-01 02:44 am UTC (link)

"No one knows what I'm doing," Tony murmured and it was loud enough for Sam to hear. "If I was on the periodic table of elements, I'd be the element of surprise. I'm not ruining anything."

Much louder this time, he rapidly told Sam, "We're not ruining anything. This is a nice party. I used to party all the time, right Pepper?"

Tony shut himself up by taking a long sip of champagne, his eyes looking around at the room's other occupants. When he saw Ellen, he waved a hand in her directly to say hello. Mental note, of course, was 'Oh hey, there's the chick I fried, and that's...wow, it's fried chick, which is friggin' close to Kentucky Fried Chicken. When's the last time I had that? All I remember is that it was all gross.'

Tony's mind would drive a telepath insane in under two minutes. And since Pepper is tying the knot with him, that means she qualifies for sainthood.

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