#i will eventually write this

Chrissy Cunningham has the perfect life. A handsome successful fiance', a big beautiful apartment in an exclusive building, and many friends to share her life with. On top of that she just knows she’s going to kill her upcoming presentation and get that big promotion at work.

Then it all falls apart. 

It starts with her handsome fiance stealing her idea and the big promotion. No one believes her when she tells them what Jason did, instead they side with him. Now she has to move into a small apartment with the only two friends she has left, Barb and Nancy.

She supposes she should be relieved that she's not fired from Hawkins Inc no instead she’s banished to the dungeons. Well the basement actually.

Hellfire Games is a small board game and rpg company started by the Byers-Hopper family and bought out by Hawkins Inc. almost a year ago. Since then they have had seven corporate managers. And Chrissy was about to be lucky number eight. 

The small company has garnered quite a reputation for being chalk full of freaks, the biggest of which being their head of story and development Eddie Munson. Every previous manager had described him as mean and scary. As the elevator went down into the depths of the building she tried steel herself. 

Eddie knew better, he really did. Joyce, Hopper and the rest of the Hellfire crew had explained to him over and over again why they had to work with corporate stooges. And yeah the buyout allowed them to get brand new equipment and really bring their games up in quality, but he still wasnt sure if it was worth all the the forced conformity. 

He was actually proud of himself when the last corporate monkey, Andy something or other, literally fled their offices after he suggested a game that simulated a satanic ritual. He was only kidding, well mostly anyway. 

Now though they were back at day one with some new guy. That was always the worst because they always seemed to have this arrogance about them like they would be the ones to finally get the freaks in order. Yeah right, not on his watch.

The morning the new manager is supposed to start he purposely shows up late. Showing up in the middle of their welcome speech tended to throw them off their game. Instead though he's the one totally caught off guard when he walks in to see the cute little blonde with a plastic smile and tired eyes. 

He tries to kick away the urge to make a fool of himself in an attempt to get a real smile out of her. So insteads he over compensates and acts like an even bigger jerk than usual. 

And so it goes for the next couple of weeks. The two butting heads much to the chagrin of their coworkers. Eddie refuses to listen to any of her ideas even though a lot of them are pretty good. In return Chrissy ignores the skill and passion he gives when putting a new game together. 

It's not until they go out for after work drinks one Friday that they finally end up calling a truce. Drink after drink their defenses fall down. One by one the others leave for the night until they're the only two left. 

When Eddie offers to walk Chrissy home neither expects anything, but as Chrissy leans in to hug him goodbye he moves the wrong way and suddenly they're face to face and looking into eachothers eyes. 

So yea they all live in the tower. After Avengers 1, they’re like “o fuk Loki was being mind controlled and we can prove it” and they’re like “the best way we can keep an eye on him is for him to stay with us, fuck you Oversight Committee” and they keep him around in the tower, and eventually he becomes an honorary Avenger. It gets episodic after that, because now that there are superheroes, there are super villains too. They may have accidentally created their own problem?? Oops. Anyways, Steve moves to DC for a while to work for SHIELD and then CATWS happens but not so crazy, in reality it’s like “well shit we can’t trust SHIELD now cause they’re all HYDRA, but thank god we had a clean split and we can definitely trust who’s left.” So, basically it’s Fury, Maria, and Coulson (who is not dead) running the picture now, and HYDRA is on the run. Steve moves back into the tower, before leaving to look for Bucky. He takes Sam with him, and it takes a year but they find him. Meanwhile, Thor and Jane and Loki leave for a minute for TTDW, then they come back just fine (no death lol). Avengers 2 never happens lol, and they meet Wanda and Pietro while taking down HYDRA goons, rescue them, and then fun shit. Meanwhile, a kid named Peter starts hanging around Tony a lot under the premise of a “Stark internship” but really he’s a spider kid! Steve and Buck are back in the tower, Bucky is recovering (though he still has awful days) and things are going fine. No CACW!!! Then Thor and Loki are gone yet again for a minute to deal with Hela, and Thor gets Kickass lightning powers (but he still keeps his hammer for shenanigans). Then Hank Pym is like “hey tony meet my daughter and asshole son in law” and they’re like “holy shit you can shrink” and they communicate (but don’t live with them yet). Then they’re like”o fuk villains are using magic now??” And then Doc Strange is like “Yo” and the team is like “this might as well happen.” He doesn’t live with them, but he’s an honorary avenger. Then Wakanda is like “heyyyy um we’re actually hella advanced, but we hate all y’all and we’ll only work with the Avengers because we have a legacy of heroes in this country also they answer to no nation, so we like them bc they won’t put up w colonial bs” and the avengers are like “wow we fuckin love Wakanda, how about we be allies because holy shit your king is a cat” and Shuri was like “please T’Challa I wanna meme w Peter” so they’re allies now. Then the GOTG show up and are like “yo watch out there’s this purple dude in a chair tryna collect rocks” and then Carol shows up like “yo watch out there’s this purple dude in a chair tryna collect rocks and also I’m GAY” and so the avengers like like “hell no” so they fight thanos and Clint shoots Scott up Thanos’s ass and he expands and he dies in a big purple goop explosion!!! And he dies, and they return the infinity stones to where they belong (aka they put the tesseract back in the place the Red Skull found it, they put the Aether back in the weird rock, they give back the time stone to Strange, they Yeet the soul stone back into hell where it came from, they give the power stone to Peter Quill for safe keeping because he’s the only one who can touch it w/o vaporizing because he’s basically half ancient cosmic entity (also he didn’t lose his powers with the death of Ego), and they keep the mind stone). So then Tony and Shuri and Loki are dicking around in the lab and accidentally use a combo of science and Magic and the Mind Stone and suddenly JARVIS has a body??? Aka Vision is born and JARVIS learns how to be a person and a computer at the same time, and sort of falls in love with Wanda along the way.

Or, the AU in which Loki and Bucky are best friends and little shits and prank the fuck out of everyone, Steve is Tired Team Mom and also an Angry Feminist, Shuri and Pete are baby avengers and meme bros, Thor is actually a smart dude and not entirely played for laughs even though he still waxes poetic about pop tarts, Clint lives in the Vents with Sam and they’re bird bros, Nat is sneaky as fuck and shares Team Wine Aunt duty with Pepper (who still has her lit af fire powers), Carol and Fury laugh about the crazy kids, Tony and Bruce are Science Bros, Tony lives off of caffeine and his love for Peter and Bruce is team doctor and also the only reasonable one here, Strange makes a few appearances from time to time with wise words of advice, Rhodey supervises from the background, sometimes the guardians pop in, and it’s all good and no one has to hurt too much, even though there’s angst, but everyone lives and they all get a happy ending.

Also if you all think I forgot about Morgan Stark you’re dead wrong, she’s a darling girl and all her aunties and uncles and non-binary caregivers love her very much.

Also because I’m gay and I rub my queer hands all over fandom, Steve is Bi and has been gone for Bucky since the 20’s and they’re practically married (and probably literally married by the end of the work), Loki is gender-fluid like in the comics, everyone is feminist as fuck and pretty darn liberal, Clint is the Ace rep we deserve (the thing for purple is a dead giveaway), Nat is bi af, and so was Peggy, also Valkyrie is actually shown to be bi and not just implied because of stupid Disney and their stupid rules, and all the relationships (straight or gay or whatever) are built on mutual respect and trust and they actually talk out their issues like rational people instead of causing excess drama. They’re extra, but not that extra.

The prompt that started this was Assassin Cinderella - I really want to write this story soon