Rooms

Who: Bruce and Eddie
Where: Crime Alley
When: Recently
What: bro stuff
Warnings: sads, probably.

( Crime Alley wasn't how Bruce remembered. )

[Locked to Sam A]

Are you going to sic your friends and family upon me again?

I'm curious. How long has everyone been here?

[Sharon C.]
[Well, actually, he tries to call Jess. It's the middle of the day to make it seem less like a booty call. First he gets a weird message from Sharon asking him if he thinks it's a good idea (if so press 3). Then another message after pressing 3 that he honestly doesn't even listen to. After pressing 3 again a couple times, it finally rings. Goddammit, Sharon.]

[Filtered to the Avengers+]
It appears as though Bruce was sent home.

[Selina K]
I know we haven't spoken before, but I'm aware you two were friends and I thought you should know: Bruce Banner was sent home.


[ETA: Steve R]
It's possible Bucky was too.

[Locked to Gwen S.]

Hi, Gwen.

[Locked to Steve R]

Captain.

Who said the mob took off the holidays?

Who: Louis Donovan & Cris Martin-Argüelles
What: partners talkin'
Where: Marvel, Manhattan SVS office→Staten Island
When: recently
Warnings/Rating: liable to be mentions of violence, assault, gore, &c.

( Putting all his ducks in a row let him feel like maybe he had everything under control. )

[It's not so much a sign as it is a tapping, a scratching on the wall.

A message goes out along old Soviet wires to transmission stations that send out even older coded pulses. They are as dark and as quiet as such messages can be. They are all but forgotten, monitored now by only a few, highly specialized intelligence agencies. SHIELD, for instance, might be listening. This particular message comes from what seems to be a failsafe switch, to be triggered only in the most dire of circumstances.

( Cut for length. )

As for who set off this chain reaction, who pressed a button dormant and forgotten for forty years, there is no sign of forced entry in the hidden room in Ukraine. And not so much as a strand of hair.]