Bruce Banner (i_seegreen) wrote in we_coexist, @ 2014-01-24 09:10:00 |
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Entry tags: | bruce banner, zz:status complete |
The Great Escape (Narrative)
Bruce was done.
Finished.
He couldn't take it anymore.
The constant reminders made him sick to his stomach and he needed to be free of the burden. Every time he turned around, even in his own lab, he was reminded of her. From the scraps of leftover wrapping paper on the floor that he had yet to pick up, despite Owsin pointing them out, to even the smallest vial of Hulk serum that lay in a heap on the too of his desk....all of it shouted at him. Screamed. And he no longer wanted to hear it.
So the scientist did the only thing he knew how, and that was run. He gathered what he could, small things. A suitcase large enough to hold the plans for Dean and Dinah's costumes, what he could manage of Hulk serum, and a few other precious things. He left the necklace Effie had given him for his birthday on the tabletop in the lab. That was the last thing he needed, to feel her heart beat.
The sadness was infinite and it seemed only to continue to multiply exponentially with every second that dragged by. The last few days had seemed like an endless eternity and a place that had had once felt the most comfortable in the world had become a prison. His sanctuary had become only a burden and he had to escape before it consumed him.
Packing what he could, Bruce instructed Jarvis to watch after Timmy, a task to which the AI dutifully agreed to, albeit with a tone mixed between sadness of seeing the doctor go and loathing for the task at hand. Bruce hated to burden the AI, but Timmy was a robot, and he was most at home there amongst the rest. All of the restrictions on Tony's lab and anywhere else remained. He didn't even bother to lockdown his own lab, he just didn't care anymore.
With that in place Bruce fled.
He took the elevator to the garage but instead of choosing a car Bruce instead mounted up his bicycle and took off for a motel, one he had stayed at before moving into the warehouse with Effie way back in the day. Before everything. With a sadness in his heart at being driven from the one place he had known as home, Bruce peddled as fast as he could and left the looming tower in the distance. And with it the weight finally seemed to abate.