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The start of something?

nausiwindstrider:

Fantiction

Pairing: Science Boyfriends pre-slash (past pepperony)

Setting: Future MCU AU

Rating: General admission

Word Count: 1018

For thegeektastichedgehog and Amy-Riddle

Also all my other friends <3

Part I of ?

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Bruce did not understand how he had ended up in New York three different times over the last year and he did not know how he had ended up here this time. The other times it had been planned, but he didn’t know how he had ever allowed himself to be convinced that it was a good idea. Tony had always insisted that he NEEDED him for something. The most recent had been help with Pepper. That had been hard, challenging for so many reasons. In the end Bruce had done what he always did; he rolled up his sleeves and did the work that needed doing. Never mind that he wanted to lean into Tony’s warm hands. The man should not be so free with his touches and his glances. It wasn’t fair, it really wasn’t fair.


Bruce knew that was why he had left. Pepper was a wonderful woman and he wanted nothing but the best for her. After three months it had been clear that he was going to get in the way of that if he stayed. There was an energy between himself and Tony, and if he wasn’t careful the reckless man would mistake it for something that it could never be.


People didn’t love Bruce Banner. People thought they loved Bruce Banner, people thought that they could handle the venom, the necrotic virus which was his soul, but they were wrong.


It was easier to walk through the slums and ease the pain of others than to deal with the ache in his own chest. Forget the fact that he missed being in a lab, that he missed actually creating something. Never mind the fact that he wanted to talk to someone who shared both his milk tongue and his passion for the truth, for advancement. No, forget all of that. Those were things that he had given up when he let them strap him into that chair. Monsters didn’t deserve friends.


He winced and looked around himself, still confused about how he was here. He recognized the skyline, knew he was in New York, and he knew why he was naked. Somehow he’d had an uncontrolled transformation. Why was foggy. He’d been in Kansas. A hit from behind … . it was difficult to remember, and it was beyond him how he had gotten from there to here. He was alive and there seemed to be minimal damage around him. There was smoke off, about three blocks from here, but he was in an alley, and everything seemed intact.


“Big Green?” The mechanized voice of Tony Stark came through the helm of the Iron Man suit. Bruce could smell the air alive with repulsors, he could taste Tony’s cologne. The later he knew was in his head, but it was there all the same.

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