dying here - of laughter

[strongheartmaid]

http://archiveofourown.org/works/405233 - this particular exchange:

"It is a Rainbow bridge" Thor answers, not very helpfully, but he manages to silence his audience for all of ten seconds.

Pepper, smiling through her tears, is the first one to recover enough to talk. "I think they showed it in a cartoon I watched as a kid. Do you travel on the bridge via a magical horse called Starbright?"

"Well, we do often use animals much like your horses to traverse- I do not understand. Why are you all laughing?"

http://archiveofourown.org/works/415792 - this particular exchange

"We should call ourselves the Rampaging Orphans rather than the Avengers?"

"My point is," Steve says, "we have a grand total of ten dead parents between us, and somehow all of us manage to fight evil every day without once being tempted to dress up like a bat."

Tony picks up the soldering iron again. "I'm not sure you're in any position to mock anybody else's costume choices," he says. "You never know--"