The team hates any kind of holiday. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and especially Valentine's Day.

But this month, the New Avengers watch tower is decorated with cobwebs, skeletons, and jack-o'-lanterns. It's the team's first full year since you all were re branded and moved into the tower.

Valentina has forced you all to take part in Halloween, to "make a good image for the public" and to prove you're not just superheroes that work for the government. To "humanize" you all, was what Mel had said.

Bucky was grumpy. He didn't see the point in trick or treating, and said that in the forties, he never bothered. Bob had told him to dress as the Tin Man, because he "already had the metal arm". He did it, begrudgingly, because no one could ever say no to Bob.

Alexei was going all out. He was going as a Nutcracker, which was, as he had yelled loudly, "real proper Russian costume!" And Yelena had rolled her eyes and said how it "isn't even scary and is for children."

Ava had suggested that John dressed up as Captain America, which resulted as Bucky and Alexei having to stop him from slamming her into the wall.

Yelena dressed as the Bride from Kill Bill, and brought an actual sword, saying it was a gift from her "good friend Kate Bishop" who neither of you had actually met.

Ava was dressing up as a ghost. Which, you thought was pretty funny, considering her alias, but John said was stupid. She then continued to phase in and out of visibility to scare him.

Bob dressed as Tate Langdon, and Yelena had helped him to put all of the skeleton face paint on his face. John just came as a bloodied military soldier. Which was as unimpressive as it sounded - fake blood on his old military outfit.

You were all in the living room. Mel wanted to do some PR photoshoots for the team's social media. Then you were supposed to go to the haunted house that Valentina had set up as a "fundraiser." She was always doing crap like that, Bucky had said, for a "good PR image that is just actual bullshit." And "doesn't stop Sam Wilson from suing us."

Alexei was eating buckets of candy corn in his nutcracker costume. He was like an overgrown five year old.

Bob looked at you nervously and said, "all of these lights and sounds and decorations are over stimulating me. The void does not like it. It keeps on saying it wants to kill all of the kids that walk by on the grounds."

Ava then piped up, " maybe that would be good for all of us if the Void got loose."

John snorted. "Yeah. Like Halloween could get any worse." Which caused Alexei to yell, "this is good! We are team! Family! Halloween is great American tradition!"

Yelena rolled her eyes. "I am supposed to be getting drinks with Kate Bishop soon. I hope this doesn't take too long."

"You constantly bring up this Bishop girl but none of us have actually met her." Said Ava, ever the shit stirrer. "And she's a friend of Hawkeye, you say? Sure you're not hallucinating, Belova?"

"Ava Starr," said Yelena. "I am going to smack your face if you don't-" and Bucky cut her off with a loud groan. "Oh my god. Enough. For the love of god can you all shut up."