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Clint set the crate down on the breakfast bar with a thud. Tony looked up from the table where he was reading on his tablet.
“What's that?” he asked.
“Stopped a robbery at a fruit market, got rewarded with a case of limes.” Clint replied.
“Limes?” Tony's eyebrows rose in confusion.
“Limes.” Clint repeated.
“What are you going to do with all of them?”
“Do with all of what?” Steve asked as he and Bucky walked in.
“All the limes.” Tony told him.
“Limes?” Steve asked.
“Limes.” Clint repeated with a sense of deja vu.
Bucky came over and stared into the crate.
“That's a lot of limes.” He commented, poking at them. “What ya gonn'a do with all of them?”
“All of what?” Phil asked.
Clint groaned as he flapped a hand at the crate. Phil looked in it, then at Clint with one eyebrow raised. Clint just shrugged.
“You could make key lime pie,” Phil suggested, “well, lime pie since these arn't key limes.”
“Limeade.” Steve said.
Bucky pulled out his phone and typed on it.
“Looks like there's lots of stuff you can make with them, pie, cookies, chicken, drinks,” he said, “some of them sound pretty good.”
“Margaritas.” Tony said as he jumped up and headed for the bar.
He pulled out a bunch of stuff and began mixing it in a pitcher.
“”Lime me.” He told Clint.
Clint tossed him a couple of the green fruit. Tony cut them, then began squeezing the juice into the pitcher, humming as he worked. Clint listened for a minute, then grinned when he recognized the song.
“You put the lime in the coconut.” He sang softly
Tony looked up with a chuckle.
“Play coconut song, J.” He said.
Clint jumped up and started dancing when the music started.
“Brother bought a coconut, he bought it for a dime
His sister had another one she paid it for the lime
She put the lime in the coconut, she drank 'em bot' up
She put the lime in the coconut, she drank 'em bot' up
She put the lime in the coconut, she drank 'em bot' up
She put the lime in the coconut, she call the doctor, woke 'I'm up” Clint sang, wiggling his hips to the music.
“And said "doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take?"
I said "doctor, to relieve this belly ache"
I said "doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take?"
I said "doctor, to relieve this belly ache" Tony sang, coming around the bar to dance with him. “Now lemme get this straight
You put the lime in the coconut, you drank 'em bot' up
Put the lime in the coconut, you drank 'em bot' up
Put the lime in the coconut, you drank 'em bot'up
Put the lime in the coconut, you call your doctor, woke 'I'm up”
Steve and Bucky looked at Phil in confusion. Phil just shook his head in a don't ask me kind of way.
Clint shimmied up to Steve and did a little bump and grind against him. Steve grinned and began to dance with him. Bucky laughed as Tony grabbed his hand and pulled him into a dance. Phil stood there watching and laughing until Clint wrapped his arms around him and began shimming down his body while Steve came up behind him and began grinding against him, kissing on his neck. Tony whooped with laughter as Bucky spun him, then dipped him.
“You put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em bot'up
Put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em bot' up
Put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em bot' up
Put the lime in the coconut, you're such a silly woman
Put a lime in the coconut and drink 'em bot' together
Put the lime in the coconut, then you'll feel better
Put the lime in the coconut, drink 'em both down
Put the lime in your coconut, and call me in the morning” Tony and Clint sang.
They fell into a line, dipping, shimming, and shaking to the beat of the music, Tony and Clint singing the lyric while Steve, Bucky, and Phil singing “Woo-oo-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Woo-oo-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
Woo-oo-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh” in the back ground.
When the song ended, they all collapsed on the couch, laughing.
“Well, that was fun, but we still have a problem.” Tony said.
When they all just looked at him, he waved his hand at the crate on the counter.
“What are we going to do with all those limes?”
Clint groaned and threw a pillow at him while everybody else laughed.
Song they are listening to
by Harry Nilsson
