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Cast: The Avengers

Prompt: ^^^^ Inspiration up there

Lexi POV:

Like everything stupid that happens in our tower, this one started with Tony.

The entire team was in the kitchen and Clint, Nat and I were making breakfast. Clint had egg duty, Nat had toast duty and I was making pancakes.

Steve went to go and pour himself a cup of coffee when I think a whiff of the smell messed with his nose. He sneezed and right when I was about to say bless you, Tony beat me to it. Just in a different way than what I was expecting.

"God Bless America." Tony said and sipped some of his coffee. I snorted, Nat and Connor smirked, and I know that Clint nearly dropped one of his eggs. Bruce smiled at the joke and walked away while Thor........he was confused.

"I do not understand the humor of this statement." Thor says.

Then there was Steve, just looking at us with that judging face.

"Don't look at me like that!" I laugh putting my hands up. "I didn't say it!"

Steve holds back a smile and just walks away to the gym.

However, the sneezing joke didn't go away. If anything, it started to catch on and I think Tony explained the joke to Thor so now he gets it too. To make it worse, it was the height of spring allergies and apparently the super soldier serum didn't take away those. Plus Steve has a really soft sneeze and makes this really funny expression when he sneezes.

So eventually, everyone got in on the joke.

I would be in the gym training with Clint when Steve would be at the punching bag and he would sneeze mid swing.

"God Bless America." Clint would say and knock me off my feet.

Steve kind ignored it that time but we could tell that he noticed. He gave us that subtle judging look again.

The another time it happened was when I was sitting with Connor in the living room, watching Mythbusters.

Steve sat down with us to watch for a little when he sneezed like three times in a row.

"God Bless America." Connor said under his breath and I laugh.

Yeah, Steve gave us that look again.

Then there was this one time I was in the lab with Tony and Bruce when they were trying to science my quiver. Yeah, they still haven't figured that one out yet either.

He came in to pick up his shield that he had left in there to be cleaned (since you know, chucking it around at enemies collects a lot of nastiness) and sneezed.

"God Bless America." Bruce said quietly, smiling has he looked at his scans.

Steve snapped his head towards Tony, who gave him a different look.

"Don't look at me like that. It was big green this time. I swear." He said. Steve turned to look at Banner, who kept doing his work.

"Wow. Thanks for the support there Tony." Bruce said.

Steve just grabs his shield and storms out of the lab, leaving us in an awkward silence.

I huff and slide off of my seat on the table and walk out the door. "I'll go you cowards."

Turns out finding a super soldier is a lot harder than it sounds. "Hey JARVIS? You got any idea where Rogers is?"

"I believe he is residing in his room at the moment Agent Carson." The AI responds.

"Thanks," I tell the AI and make my way up to his room.

I pause for a moment before knocking on the door. "Hey Steve?"

"Door's open!" He called from inside. I walk into his room to find him sketching on his balcony.

"Hey, Steve I'm sorry-," I say before noticing his smirk.

(A/N: LOOK AT THIS DORK. LOOK AT HIM. THAT FACE THO. DARN IT ROGERS!)

"You know, for someone who just shot a death glare, you seem awfully happy," I say, raising an eyebrow at him.

"Well, maybe I was never mad in the first place," Steve responded. And then it hits me.

"Wait, you weren't mad." I realize. "You just didn't really appreciate it that much so you turned the joke on us."

"Somewhat. It's just you all aren't the first ones to try that on me." Steve said, putting his sketchbook down. "Back during the war, I had the same problem with the sneezing and the rest of the Howling Commandos took advantage of that. Especially Bucky. And after about 70 years, a joke kinda gets old, don't you think Carson?"

I laughed, "Well I wouldn't know."

He laughed as well. "Plus it does get me some peace and quiet. Which is kind of hard to get around here."

"Well, that is agreed," I said. "So you aren't mad about it?"

"Nope. But I would appreciate it if no one knew." Steve responded.

"You got it,Cap. The joke's still on." I say. "And I think someone else needs to be in on this too. Hey JARVIS? Guessing you heard that?"

"Indeed ma'am and I would be glad to help," JARVIS replied.

"There you go, Cap," I smirk, walking out of his room. "Your secret is safe with us."

"Make sure you tell Tony that I'm-" Steve calls out as Tony interrupts, walking down the hall.

"Tell Tony that Capsicles's what?" He asks.

"That he's incredibly mad at you Stark." I smirk. "You should start running. Now."

Tony looks over at Steve who has his angry face back on and breaks out into a sprint down the hall and into the stairwell.

Steve looks at me with an amused look and walks away.

"Never took you as a prankster Captain." I joke.

"You'd be surprised what I'm capable of Carson." Steve calls over his shoulder. "I can pull one of those off if I want too."