What the Hell Happened: aka Drunk Science equals bitty Avengers

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 Matt moved around his apartment like he knew where everything was which in a sense he did. He knew Clint was going to be back from training soon and would want dinner. Then the plan was to patrol the Kitchen and see where the night took them. He heard the door open and called out. "Hey birdman you are actually early...please tell me the tower didn't blow up." 

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"I want to be a scientist... I like science." Bruce says looking at the soup and sandwich, swinging his legs and letting them cool. "I like mixing things together too... I mixed blue and red play dough and it made purple."

"Wow looks like you got brains like Matty." Clint smiles cutting his then Bruce's sandwich in half.

"Mommy says I am very smart, I get to start school soon." He smiles starting to relax a little. He looks at Matt, "What's a lawyer do?"

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"Purple wow," Matt says with a grin at Clint as he digs into his own food, sandwich first, "as for what a lawyer does...we help people when they break the rules...not little rules like don't run or clean up your own messes. But big rules like choosing to hurt someone who can't fight back or taking something that doesn't belong to you. We have to tell a judge why other people broke the rules and what the judge should do about it."

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Bruce blinks a little and tries to puzzle out what Matt means.

Clint can almost see the wheels in his little head turning.

"So you help bad people..." Bruce says voice sounding scared.

"Everyone needs someone to help them some times, but if they are really really bad, Matty doesn't help them... sometimes people get in serious trouble for things they didn't do, and Matty mostly helps them."

"So like when Marco stole the candy off the teachers desk and said Bonnie did it, and Bonnie was in trouble, until I told Mrs. Gladstone that is was Marco?" Bruce asks.

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"That's right," Matt says, "you were a witness. And part of my job means I have to talk to people who saw the bad people breaking the rules. Witnesses make it so the bad people can't just keep breaking the rules."

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"I was called a tattle-tail... by Marco and he pushed me..." Bruce frowns and picks up his sandwich and takes a bite, and then another. "This is yummy..." He says and copies Clint by dipping it into the soup and taking a bite.

It's like the boy realized how hungry he was and is slowly munching away.

Clint smiles a little. "Glade you like it, this is one of our favorites too." He says breaking off a bite of sandwich and handing it to Lucky.

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Lucky woofs and nibbles the sandwich bit making the little boy giggle "That's a funny dog," Bruce says, "doesn't he eat dog food?" Matt smiles. "Lucky is a special dog a hero dog, so he gets to eat whatever he wants."

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"Lucky eats everything, even dog food, but not chocolate, we don't give him anything that is actually bad for him." Clint smiles dipping his sandwich in his soup and taking a bite.

Bruce copies Clint again and hums a little eating a bit more quickly like he's realizing how hungry he is.

"I want a dog, but dad says they are too much work..." He looks at Lucky and the dog puts his head in Bruce's lap, but not in his asking for food way.

"Well you can help Lucky out while you're here." Clint smiles.

There is a knock on the door, and because they are at the tower the door slides open and it Pepper with a few bags of clothes, and delivery guys.

"Oh good your feeding him." Pepper smiles warmly setting the bags on the coffee table.

"Figured we might as well make them comfortable.... you two can handle another right, I can't... I'm sorry..." That's when another dark haired boy comes in looking around.

"Are you my new Nanny's.... while mom and dad are in Europe?" The boy asks folding his arms across his chest.

"You can set the bunk bed up in the spare room..." Pepper says pointing.


"Look I'm sorry I can't, I have a company to run..." She says looking at Clint and Matt. "Jarvis says two and half weeks max..."

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Matt sighs, mentally counts to ten and says. "You know Pepper there are these things called cell phone's used to warn people about things like this in advance." He gets up and kneels in front of little Tony while resisting the urge to laugh or possibly take pictures of this for later blackmail. "My name is Matt, that guy over there is Clint and Bruce is the one chowing down on lunch. We aren't nannies exactly...but you are going to stay with us for a while okay. Come on and let's get you some soup okay?"

The little boy nods seriously. "Okay," he says eyeing Bruce carefully as Matt leads him over to the table and gets him a book to sit on as well. "I'm telling you right now you owe us for this Pepper," he adds carefully.

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"I had to watch him, while shopping and planing cover stories." She says but she does sound a little apologetic.

Bruce looks at the other boy and blinks a little taking another sip of his soup. "He was in the science place with me..." He says to Clint.

"The lab, that's because you are both very smart boys, and are just going to hang out with us for a bit." He smiles but shoots a glare at Pepper, as he gets Tony a bowl of the soup.

"It's nice here..." Bruce says smiling at Tony, "They have a dog, and nice food, and no yelling."

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Matt feels his heart twist for these kids and he has to take a second to get his head together before he speaks again. "Nobody yells here, Clint and I talk when we are mad at each other okay?"