Everyone started throwing snowballs at everyone, Loki redirection all coming towards him with his magic to make it seem like someone else had thrown it. It started off relatively tame, but then everyone began to use their powers, those who had some at least, and it got so rough that Laura had to drag Lila and Cooper out of it. Every one slowly began to split into teams, with Tony, Vision, Bruce, Pepper, Loki and me all on the same team while Thor, Steve, Clint, Nat, Wanda, Bucky and Yelena were on the other. The only reason they were so unfair is because everyone wanted to gang up on Loki for quite literally dunking them with snow, and because who wouldn't want a chance to pelt snow at Tony Stark?

I managed to deflect most that came towards me, curtesy of Thor being playful and a couple from Yelena who was grinning at me. My fire helped to melt most of them, but I could only use it in short bursts or I could possibly loose control of it in the adrenaline-pumping frenzy that was the snowball fight.

A couple of time, Bucky pelted a couple at me, and I suspected they were with his metal arm, because as soon as they hit my skin, I could feel pain flare throughout the spot. I knew I was going to have several bruises, but that wasn't going to stop me as I threw several back at him, grinning when one hit him in the face. At one point, he and Yelena ganged up on me after I also threw a snowball at her head and I ended up having to hide behind the snow wall Loki created with his magic at the start of the fight. The other team also had one and at a passing moment before, Bruce had quickly explained to me that we needed to get the other team's fort down to win.

I panted heavily behind ours, rubbing my painful shoulder as I waited a couple of seconds before peering out around the fort, only for Bucky to throw snow right at my face. I barely managed to melt it in time, ducking back behind the fort. Still catching my breath, I dragged all of the snow around me with my gloved hands, compacting it tightly before I quickly kneeled up and threw the snowball at Bucky without even aiming properly before I ducked behind the fort again. I must had hit my mark, because there was a rough curse in Russian from halfway across the front yard and I smirked.

Knowing I couldn't stay behind the fort forever, and needing to destroy theirs, I darted away from the safety, quickly creating another snow ball to throw at Thor, who was aiming another one at Loki. I grinned at the God's look of confusion before I saw a flash of white out of the corner of my eye, knowing immediately that it was Bucky's from the speed it was flying at. Before I could think about ducking or possibly using my fire, my body suddenly jumped up in a perfect backflip, arching over the snow ball. I landed almost perfectly, the snow slipperier than I was expecting and I felt a sharp tug of pain in my calf. I swore and almost immediately, Steve yelled at me from across the yard.

Grinning, I darted behind a tree for a moment, building up the biggest snowball I could and launching it as high into the sky as possible. Just as it came over Bucky's head, I shot out my fire and melted it instantly, sending water pouring down onto his head. I could help but burst out laughing at his shocked expression, which quickly morphed into a very pissed off one as his eyes fell on me.

Before he could even try to throw another snow ball at me, there was a flash of green and Loki completely threw him back into the snow, dumping some onto him as well. Grinning at Loki, I quickly darted back into the frenzy, hoping Bucky wouldn't be able to find me as easily.

As I darted around, adrenaline literally making me bounce on my feet, I spotted Wanda and Nat forming a massive snowball behind their fort walls, which I knew Wanda would be able to levitate up and completely destroy our fort. I pulled up my fire from my stomach again, but before I could even get it to spark in my palms, something barged straight into me, knocking me down to the ground. I scrambled upright, the breath driven out of me, to see that it was Clint.

"Go Emily!" Cheered Lila from the sidelines, the sound barely able to be heard over the adrenaline pumping in my ears.

"Excuse me?" Demanded Clint with a raised eyebrow at his daughter, grinning slightly.

I laughed and quickly dumped snow on the archer while he was distracted before I ran away so he couldn't get back at met. However, I hadn't learnt yet that the snow was slippery and I fell had onto my shoulder, causing more pain to shoot down it.

"Got you." Came Clint's voice and I was lifted up by my ankle, dangling upside down in front of him.

I stared at his upside down figure in surprise, but remembered I barely weighed anything compared to everyone else and quickly gave him a glare. I tried to struggle out of his grip, but he held on firmly, amused.

"Punch him Emily!" Yelled out Lila from the side lines, and I looked over at her also upside down figure, watching as Laura to looked over at her in shock before quickly scolding her.

But I had a better idea than punching Clint, drawing up my fire and swinging in his grip, causing him to chuckle in amusement. As soon as I had enough momentum, I reached up to where his hand was on my ankle and burnt an exposed area of flesh on his hand. He swore under his breath and dropped me into the snow.

"Daddy said a bad word!" Cooper cheer from the side lines, and while Clint was distracted, I slid away, thankfully having enough balance.

I drew up a big ball of fire and waited for a clear shot at Thor's team fort. However, Wanda was already in the air with the massive snowball about twice the size of our fort wrapped in her power. Steve moved out of the way of their fort and I saw my opportunity, blasting their fort with my fire. At that same moment however, Wanda dropped the snowball onto our fort, destroying it at the exact same moment my fire melted Thor's fort.

"Fort down!" I yelled at the exact same time as Wanda.

Everyone slowly stopped righting and looked at the two ruins of the forts, chests heaving and small clouds of warm air coming from everyone's mouth.

"Who wins then?" Asked Steve, slightly breathless as he loosened his grip on Tony's arm so he wasn't pinning him anymore.

"It's a tie." Said Tony, almost in disbelief. "We have never tied before." He looked over at me, from where I had slid onto the ground from the force of my fire. "Great job kiddo."

I grinned at him before slowly standing up, my heart beating rapidly and adrenaline pumping through my body. Nat helped me up and I gave her a grateful smile, before wincing at my pulled muscle.

"I am surprised you made it through your first Avenger's snow ball fight with the smallest of injures." She said, helping me over to where Loki had set down to heal injuries. "First time I was in one, which was the first time we had a snowball fight, I ended up with a broken nose and a dislocated shoulder. You can blame Steve for that." She looked over at him and he rolled his eyes.

"You tripped over my foot." He grinned. "Not my fault."

"Well, I don't know who stands with one foot out." Nat replied. I smiled at them before Lila rushed over and gave me a hug, which over balanced me slightly and Nat quickly helped to steady me before she walked over to Wanda.

"You kicked Daddy's ass." She grinned up at me.

"Lila!" Scolded Laura from where she was beginning to walk over with Nathaniel to Clint. "We don't say that word."

"But he said it." Lila replied, pointing to Tony.

"Yeah, well, you don't always copy Tony." Laura replied, shooting Tony a look who just grinned.

I smiled down at Lila, who held her hands out to me like she wanted me to picked her up, which caused me to chuckle. I grabbed her under the arm, unable to resist, and rested her on my hip, making sure to not put too much weight on my injured let. I shifted into line with her, waited for Loki to finish healing Clint's burn wound and bruised eyes.

"Your eyes are orange." Lila giggled, looking at my eyes.

I immediately tensed up, the smile fading from my face as I saw in the reflections of her eyes that they where. My heart picked up speed a little and I tried taking deep breaths to calm myself back down.

"And you are on fire." She reached out to my right arm and I looked down to see that there was indeed fire sparking along my skin.

"No Lila-" But before I could jerk her hand out of the way of my fire, she touched my arm with her small hand, keeping her hand there.

"It tickles." She giggled, moving her hand around in the fire. I let out a breath I didn't realise I had been holding in. "You're funny Emily." I gave her a weak smile before moving up to where Clint had just been standing.

"You okay?" Asked Loki, looking me up and down quickly, his eyebrows furrowing as he noticed my face.

"Just did something to my leg." I told him, not wanting to focus on my powers at the moment.

He hesitated, like he wanted to say something, but immediately covered my in his green healing power. Lila watched in amazement, before slowly nudging it with her boots, pulling away with a giggle.

"It tingles." She said, scrunching up her nose in a cute way. Loki looked up at the little girl and smiled before she became entertained with my fire again. I thanked Loki and moved to the side, still holding Lila.

"I wish I had powers." She said, watching with amazement as I separate a ball of fire from my arm and put it in her palms. "I wish I could control fire like you."

"No you don't." I smiled softly, my mind flashing briefly to my torture at HYDRA. "Be grateful for who you are."

"Lila!" Called out Laura. "Come put your beanie on." Lila looked over at her before looking back up at me with a grin. "Now."

The little girl sighed and I chuckled, gently setting her back down on the ground, taking back the ball of fire. She watched it go before walking over to Laura and at that moment, the doors to the compound open and I saw Pepper walking out with a tray full of hot chocolate. I hadn't even noticed her leave the snowball fight.

"Who wants hot chocolate?" Shecalled out and was almost immediately swamped by everyone. I waited at the backof the crowd and took one when they all moved away. I took a sip and hummed atthe sweet taste of chocolate and marshmallow.