The Avengers - 7 minutes in Hell

"No, honestly Pep, the costume I bought for you would be so much better.."
"Yhm."
"I mean really. In this you look fine. In the one I bought you would look smoking. I don't know why.."

And Tony went on and on. It was Halloween evening and the whole Avengers team plus quests was invited to a Halloween party in one of SHIELD's conference rooms, organized by Tony. The light was dimmed, fake spider webs and bats were everywhere and the music was eery. Tony had many weird ideas, but he knew how to throw a party. Too bad that he quickly tried to change it into his party and chose a costume for all females, including Pepper, Natasha and every female SHIELD agent. A skimpy angel outfit.

"Tony," Pepper interrupted. "I said no. I will send that costume back to you tomorrow, but thanks for the theme idea," Pepper smiled, sipping her bright yellow drink from a martini glass, wearing a beautiful, white, ankle length silky dress, cute pair of wings and aureole. Tony promptly pouted, dressed himself as Indiana Jones with a bull-whip and fedora hat, his clothes slightly dirty to resemble the adventurer's clothes.

"If you planned to go as an angel you could put on the other costume.."
"No, it was revealing too much."
"That's the whole point! And I dated you, it's not like I would see something I didn't.." Tony laughed, ducking a smack from Pepper. "And I thought that angels are patient," he smirked.
"Even a saint would lose patience with you," Pepper hissed.

Tony laughed again. Then in the crowd, he spotted someone. A tall, blond figure, standing near the closet, talking with some agents. 

"Excuse me," he grinned to Pepper, putting down his glass with a bloody red drink inside, where one single eyeball was floating and glaring.

As Halloween was an American tradition, Tony decided to introduce his boyfriend to another old, American tradition. 7 minutes in Heaven. Steve bugged his eyes out, hearing what 7 minutes in Heaven was, not feeling like locking in a closet with Tony during a party, with all their friends around them. Tony used all his charm and wit to convince Steve to do that, reasoning that all kids did that, and seeing that Steve was growing up in a different reality and then the ice happened, he didn't have a chance to play like that and it just is a must for every American teenager and Tony just tries and helps him to make up for the lost time. Still no. When Tony started to whine and roll repeatedly on the soldier he agreed just to be left alone. 

Tony walked smugly to the closet and straight to Steve. Tony saw only Steve's back as he was standing sideways to the closet they both were supposed to lock in. Then he started to notice Steve's costume - they agreed to not tell each other they costume for a surprise factor. Steve was wearing a cowboy outfit, with tall booths, red plaid shirt (probably one of those which he wore on a daily basis) and a cowboy hat. Tony grinned, knowing that dressing as a cowboy was a thing every kid did and maybe finally Steve started to catch up the concept of making up for his lost time. 

When Tony was close enough, he first quickly opened the closet, then pushed his boyfriend inside, before he had a chance to protest, door closing, leaving them in darkness.

"Don't say a word," Tony hummed, tugging on Steve's shirt, pulling him close, hands roaming through his upper body. There was not much space in the closet and they had to be careful to not bump into stacks of files all around them, and the dangerously placed shelf, just above their heads, which would cause a real avalanche of papers. "Just enjoy the moment and let me ransack your temple.." Tony murmured, standing on his toes, lips getting closer. The kiss would be inevitable, if Tony didn't feel that the person next to him had a stubble. With a sudden yelp, he jumped back, bumping into a wall, causing the first stack of papers to fall down.

"Holy crap, you're not Steve!!"
"My friend, although I appreciate your affection, I'm in a committed relationship with Lady Jane.."
"Get out, Thor!!"

At that moment the closet was opened. When the light got in, Tony's eyes widen as he eyed Steve, his Steve, wrapped in bandages, apparently dressed as a mummy, holding by arm someone in a white lab coat, enormous rubber gloves and crazy hair and goggles..

"Tony?!" the mummy yelped.
"Steve?!" Tony yelped back. Then he looked at the person he was holding by the arm. "Bruce?!"

Bruce grinned and just then Steve let go of him.

"The hell you're doing with Bruce?! And are these my goggles?!" Tony yelled, looking back and forth from Bruce to Steve.
"I thought it was you! And what are you doing in a closet with Thor?!" Steve yelled back.

Tony winced, jumping out. "How could you mistake me for Bruce?!"
"You're similar! And don't yell at me, you were the one in the closet with someone else!"

Tony opened his mouth to say something more, but they both went silent at what just begun to happen. Thor opened the closet further and, with a disarming smile, reached his hand for Bruce. Bruce took it and the closet door was slammed close behind them.

Steve and Tony gaped at the sight.

"I didn't expect that.." Tony was first to break the silence. 

They both heard someone rushing in their direction and saw Natasha, who got lazy just like Bruce with her costume and had a hair band on top of her hair with cat ears and a fake tail attached to her Black Widow suit. But what made Tony's jaw fall and send Steve into a giggling fit was Clint's costume. The archer was wearing dark pants, Black Sabbath shirt, had a circle of light on his chest, and the worst part - he grew a goatee. And the style of the goatee was too familiar to Tony.

"Is that my shirt?!" he yelled, mouth dropping again, when both Clint and Natasha, both with too wide grins, opened the closet and disappeared inside. Soon the closet was full of faked make out sounds, and Clint's excited voice "seven minutes in heaven!!" to which the rest of the locked people reacted with a "woo woo!"

Tony blinked. Then he noticed that Steve was still shaking from suppressed laughter. Wait a minute..

"Did you tell them?!" Tony accused him, connecting the facts. The soldier.. mummy, lowered his hand and smiled sheepishly at the not-so-tall Indiana Jones.
"I might have mentioned something to Pepper.."

Tony looked to the back, noticing Pepper in the distance, smiling brightly and waving to Tony, stopping her discussion with Agent Coulson, who surprisingly, didn't dress as Captain America, but as Blade the Vampire Slayer (another lazy person, he just borrowed a coat from Fury and some SHIELD's equipment). Probably as soon as Steve told Pepper about their Halloween plans, she called Natasha, red heads' solidarity, and they both came up with a plan how to ruin his Halloween. And probably to have revenge for the skimpy angel costumes (which Natasha gave him back in shreds). Pepper was no angel - she was and evil mastermind.

Tony made an outraged face, feeling tricked. Before he had a chance to properly snap, the closet opened, and two hands with ruby red nails shot forward, one grabbing Tony's arm, the other one Steve's, dragging them inside. Tony yelped, Steve laughed, when the door closed and soon the files were falling down, someone's elbow was aimed at someone's stomach, there was a lot of yelling and laughter, just one yell was louder than the others.

"YOU ALL SUCK!!"

When the whole Avengers team suddenly tumbled from the closet with a loud noise, person on person and more yelling, somehow nobody was surprised.

The party was ending and Tony was sitting near the table, looking grimly around. He got tricked. Humiliated. By his own damn-traitor-mummy-boyfriend.

"Tony?"

Tony didn't react hearing a well known voice.

"Here, I brought you a cupcake," not waiting for further response, Steve put a cupcake under Tony's nose, a chocolate one with bright orange frosting and a cute witch hat settled on top of it. Tony took the cupcake, just to put it aside.

"Babe.." Steve sighed, not understanding why Tony was so upset about the "7 minutes in heaven fiasco. "Okay, I'm gonna tell you something, hopefully it will cheer you up."

Tony snorted mockingly, doubting. Steve didn't get discouraged and leaned closer to his pouting boyfriend, lips nearly touching his ear.

"I'm not wearing anything under the bandages."

Tony's eyes shot wide open.

When Tony jumped on Steve, knocking him down, trying to rip the bandages off with a wicked smile, Steve protesting, trying to dislodge his boyfriend - once again, nobody was surprised.