❝ If we don’t reenact what happened back on the helicarrier, I’m sure we’ll be fine. ❞
❝ Fury wanted me to visit, see if you’ve been caught up on everything. A lot’s happened the past two years, Dr. Banner. ❞
❝ I’m well aware of that one though, to be honest it’s felt a lot more like two minutes. I’ve kept my head down, stayed busy. Helped Stark with a few projects and never slept in the same city for more than two days.
❝ just jane is fine. wait—-you’ve heard about me. ❞ jane is still getting use to be ‘established’ and not singularly as an ambitious star chaser. funny, SHIELD can either put you in the dark or bring you into the light for all the world to see; whichever is convenient for them, right.
❝ I background check every visitor I have for the sake of my well-being and theirs. Though I dug a little deeper with your file once I discovered the nest egg of astrophysics. Interesting work. ❞
( he feels his chest hum with a simple, quick laugh and bruce crosses his arms across his chest, leaning back against his work desk. SHIELD always has liked to throw a curve-ball if they can. )
Her apprehension isn’t personal, per se if anything, his association is what makes her reply, eventually. It’s a confusing question and she can’t rightly remember.
”U-uh… One of ‘em telepathy since I can remember. The others since m’ fourteenth birthday, I think.”
Of course, there’s a b i g g e r t r i g g e r than that, but she’ll keep it under wraps.
( he feels the tension the moment it creeps across the lab floor with her words and taps him on the shoulder, vibrations of sound in wary tones that bruce has come to be all too familiar with. though, usually it’s due to fear of him. ) ❝ I only want to ask these questions in hopes that I might help you. Power instability can be a testy thing. ❞
❝I needa go and give them to a friend’s son; just taking a peek before I send them off. I used to have one, you know, a Captain America, I remember those tight pants like it was yesterday. Even as a child I had brilliant taste.❞
[ a teasing grin has twitched up at her lips especially since she’s noticed she might have accidentally walked him down sensitive territory. ]
❝At least this—
is sorta accurate, I mean the Bruce Banner one doesn’t even have a purple shirt, It’s more like magenta. Althouuugh, the Tony Stark doll has quite a large head compared to it’s body, but I think that’s pretty accurate.❞
( the bruce banner doll is a disgrace and bruce hates the way he enjoys the hulk figure more because at least the other guy doesn’t look frumpy and tired. he had a cap doll, too, when he was a young kid, though what hero- loving tween didn’t? he was glad that the real captain wasn’t superficial plastic and cheesy tag-lines. the world didn’t need any more of that. )
❝ I’m pretty sure Tony wanted a bobble- head, but when he sat down with image merchandising they said it’d be too tacky. Maybe they figured they could settle with the big head and forget the bobble. I mean, Tony hasn’t complained, so that’s a start. ❞
here’s something i remember from physics (apart from that inappropriate crush i had on the teacher): there’s only so much energy in the universe. it breaks down and breaks apart and attaches itself and reattaches itself but it never grows or shrinks. finite. kind of like fossil fuels. (everyone knows how finite those are, right? yeah, even them. they just don’t care.)
so here’s the cool part: your screams were a planet orbiting once, the sing of your fist through the air might have been the measured shriek of the twenty third knife into julius caesar’s side. the way you flick your hair back over your shoulder might have been the sink of eve’s teeth into the apple.
interconnectedness. bullshit business strategies have a funny kind of truth as it turns out. the way you walk was the crawl of a glacier and you’re only ever borrowing sound waves, never owning them. (what if loan sharks wanted those back too?)
i’m off-point. what i partly want to say is that i really hope those wildfires are going to be the press of your arms around me eventually. i don’t even mind if they’re gunshots in between.