"Well." Tony stated as he stood in his ruined suit in his ruined lounge, among several colorful fighting comrades all looking ruined. "Sharwarma?" he asked.

Steve groaned as he stretched his neck, he looked beyond beaten. "How about a shower and a bed?" he asked.

"Didn't you all ready sleep enough?" Clint asked from behind the blasted apart counter before he finally appeared with what he had been looking for. A big bottle of whiskey. "This is what I need now!" he stated.

"Hey, that's mine!" Tony objected.

"You can afford it." Clint replied pulling the cork.

The battle was over, this little team of heroes had just saved the world, Loki was rendered completely defenceless on the floor, handcuffed with big Shield handcuffs, gagged to prevent him from talking himself out of any-thing, and also tied with some strong wires for good measure, there was no way for him to get out of the spot until shield came and picked him up.

"How about you big guy, I think you'll like this." Clint offered a glass of whiskey towards Thor.

"To drink as comrades strengthens the bonds." Thor stated as he without hesitation accepted and emptied the glass in one healthy go.

The even bigger and also green guy who had seemed to strangely come more and more down doing the last couple of minutes toppled, almost as if he was exhausted, even if that was absolutely not possible, but fall down on the floor he did, with a big thumb to that made the entire building shake, only for him to suddenly shrink. Smaller and smaller he became, less and less green.

Until at last all there was left was a very pale exhausted looking scientist squinting his eyes at all of them. "What… what happened?" Bruce banner asked in a blurred voice. "Did we win?"

"I think I know whom needs that the most." Tony stated as he without warning snatched a second whiskey glass away from Clint.

"Hey!" Clint yelled in surprise as Natasha laughed of his baffled face expression.

Only for Tony to hand the glass to the clearly confused Bruce Banner. "Here you go buddy, drink up, you deserve it."

"Thanks." Bruce muttered, accepting the glass also to swallow all of it in one go, unlike Thor though, he grimaced by the bitter taste. "What did happen?" he asked again. "I think we won.. but I am not entirely sure… Did I smash Loki into the floor?" he asked honestly confused.

Tony let out a big laugh. "I believe you did big guy." He stated clapping Bruce hard on the back so the scientist literately fell over dropping his empty glass.

"You fought valiantly and proud." Thor stated in a big grin.

Steve shook his head. "You most definitely were a big favour in our hands, I don't know if we could have made it without you."

"And I believe unlike some other people I could mention, he has earned the right to break in and steal my booze stocking every-time he likes." Tony obliviously stated as he didn't even bother to use a glass pouring some-thing up to himself, he just drank directly from the bottle. "Thanks buddy." He at last saluted Bruce with the bottle.

Bruce smiled vaguely at Tony, before he sighed deeply and fell down on his back letting out a big mourn in exhaustion. "You're welcome, but please don't ever let me do some-thing like that again."

"Why?" Tony asked. "It was amazing!"

In return, there were just complete silence, Tony looked around and discovered that every-body. Steve, Thor, Clint, Natasha even Bruce looked very annoyed at him.

"How about that Sharwarma?" Tony finally asked. "My treat."

It had been a while now, since Tony and the others had saved the world, and he was back doing really boring stuff, looking sharp while being a big flashy press conferences, re-search a bit further into his energy sources, being reprimanded by his girl-friend whom he just couldn't life without regardless of what he told himself.

But strolling around at that big fancy dress party, freely having an arm around Pepper while calmly drinking champagne, perhaps it wasn't all bad.

That was when he caught sight of a taller lean looking blond man, Tony couldn't help but smile slightly. "Pepper." he stated. "Come on, you need to meet some-one." he gently lead her in the direction of the tall soldier.

"Who is it?" Pepper asked. "You are not trying to get some-thing from me are you?"

"Don't you have any trust in me what-so ever?" Tony snorted back.

"Not really no." Pepper told him.

Tony rolled his eyes. "It's just a friend, now he may be a bit of a stiff board, and sort of boring, to ridiculously formal.. actually I can't imagine why you two wouldn't get along." Tony blinked to himself before he called out. "Steve, Cap."

Steve Rogers turned around before his eyes finally landed on Tony and he actually brightened up a bit. "Mr. Stark." he greeted.

Tony snorted. "Mr. Stark was my dad, we beat the shit out of a demi god together, Tony is fine and I refuse to call you 'captain Rogers' Steve-"

"Ah, yeas, of cause." Steve bit his lip. "Mam." he addressed Pepper. "Steven Rogers it's a pleasure to meet you." he told gently offering Pepper a hand, only to lightly kiss her hand as she accepted.

"Why Steve." Pepper blushed as she got her hand back. "Tony you should spend more time with this guy." she told Tony.

Tony groaned. "I'm sure the cap have plenty of things to do, beside being another nanny." he muttered sourly.

"Actually." Steve hesitated, which was clearly not the answer Tony wanted. "I don't, I realise you might be the busy one, I'm just travelling around trying to figure out how the world." he answered honestly.

"Then Tony should show you!" Pepper stated at ones. "he needs the human inter action."

"No, no." Tony stopped her. "No I don't." he stated. "Not that I am not grateful for all that you've done and all that cap, but you know." he stated.

"I'll go fetch your calender." Pepper at last stated ducking out of Tony's arm, disparaging among the many people.

"Pepper!" Tony called after her in a much to defeated voice.

"She's.." Steve blinked. "Decisive."

"Yes." Tony murmured. "Come on, let me buy you a drink."

"That's fine, I don't really need a drink." Steve assured.

"I do." Tony flatly stated back pulling the captain with him towards the bar.

Surprisingly, being reunited with the captain was surprisingly pleasant, Pepper had mysteriously vanished, probably secretly hoping Tony would socialise with other people than herself and Rhodey, they talked about this and that, mostly Tony just told about the modern world, couching Steve in pop culture references and the Cap listened. Eventually though, their talk moved to another subject.

"I don't really look that much like dad do I?" Tony groaned as the Captain unintentionally had brought it up again whilst they took a bit of fresh night air outside.

"Spitting image." Steve answered honestly.

"But I am not to much like him!" Tony pointed out almost triumphant.

Steve smiled vaguely. "Don't worry, Howard was far more responsible than you, and he had better social skills."

Tony rolled his eyes, clearly not being used to be the bottom of other peoples jokes.

For some moments there was silence, the captain took a sip of his drink, he had had just as much as Tony, but clearly wasn't affected, in spite of his claim that he usually didn't drink at all. Tony had trouble believing him as he was a very practised drinker and he was feeling it. And that was probably also the only reason why he mastered the ask his next question, even though it had been a lot on his mind ever since he meet the captain, he had been to proud to ask. "What was my father like?" he asked. "Before every-thing turned to shit I mean.. I know lots of people who knew my dad, but they just talk about his lasts years when he was so.. I dunno, busy."

Steve silenced as he looked at Tony, he glanced at Tonys half empty drink, then back at Tony. "Well, I only remember him from when he was young, younger than you are now." he told silently. "And he did remind of you, He was a genius, and he really did enjoy inventing and building stuff to show it off. He liked to joke around and have fun. But when it counted he was there and he was a very good friend."

"My dad joke around?" Tony asked with a slightly lifted eye-brow sounding extremely questioning, clearly not really believing the captain.

"yeah." Steve responded wondering what could have possible happened to make the Howard he knew stop joking around. "He always had some smart joke for every occasion." he told. "I remember ones he kept referring to the same general as sir Gorgonzola, just because he thought he smelled like cheese."

Tony looked astounded at Steve, as if he had just gotten information outside of normal comprehension. and then a genuine smile broke through as he seemed to swallow all of Steves words. "Tell me more!" he asked.

AN; BTW people, I will guess all of you have all ready seen the movie, but if you are going to watch it again. (I've seen it twice, so no shame in that.) stay after the credits, not just the small actors credits and the bad guy reveal. No no! Stay after the loooong credits, there's another bonus scene.

Okay I am just going to tell you what it is, it's one and a half minutes footage of the avengers sitting around in half battle gear, at a really greasy junk food store eating Sharwama!

I don't know why, but that makes me happy!