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Bruce Banner (i_seegreen) wrote in we_coexist,
@ 2014-01-10 18:08:00

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bruce banner, enigma, zz:status complete

Wildflowers...(Effie)
Bruce sighed softly.

He traced another line of curvature over a possible sketch he had created for Dinah's new armor. He would have to run it by both Dinah, and Fred, of course. But it was looking hopeful. When the tracing was complete, Bruce jotted down an equation or two, as well as a few notes on the sheet the sketch was on. He felt that it wasn't too bad for him, considering he really wasn't much of an inventor.

He had to have something to do, however, that distracted from the fact that he hadnt seen his wife the day or night before. It was now almost lunch time and there was still no word from her. If she wore her watch he could track her, and though it wasn't at their room in the tower Bruce had a feeling she had taken it off at that stupid apartment of hers and left it there. He hated that apartment.

But he would just have to wait until she came home to find out if she was alright. He couldn't remember any fighting between them. They had seemed fine at the Christmas Party that Beauty had thrown. Despite the attention to some of the more unsavory characters present by Effie, Bruce felt she wasn't out doing something she wasn't supposed to be doing.

Last time...well, it hadnt ended very well.

With a hum Bruce set aside the sketch for later and picked up another. It was a replica of a sketch he had discovered in Edward's desk at the warehouse. It held some kind of mechanism designed to administer hulk serum. Why Eddie was interested in hulk serum, Bruce wasn't sure. He was sure that he probably wouldn't like the reason if he did find out. There wasn't much about Edward that Bruce liked, now that he thought about it.

But what did this sketch mean? With a sigh, humming ceasing abruptly, the scientist shelved that sketch too. He had too. It would eat at him if he didn't.

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i_riddle
2014-01-11 12:25 am UTC (link)

"You know, that can make a girl jealous since you're not making me armor," Effie said, leaning against the doorjamb of his lab, pouting slightly. She had fixed herself up at the apartment as best she could after leaving Logan's...especially changing her outfit, but she was still covered in small wounds from the plants and the bite Logan had left her with.

She thankfully no longer smelled like sex, having had a 'proper' bath before coming to the Tower.

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i_seegreen
2014-01-11 12:30 am UTC (link)

"You don't need armor, Effie. Your skills don't require you to need armor," Bruce replied, turning to look over his shoulder at his wife. He then turned around entirely and stepped towards her, "Armor would slow you down, and besides I promised to help Fred make armor for Dinah. I'm not doing it on my own." Team effort.

He paused in front of her and looked her over, taking note of the wounds on her neck. He lifted his hand up and brushed his fingers over the curve of flesh that had begun to scab over, "What happened?" The wounds looked like bites, but Bruce didn't want to just jump to conclusions. However they did worry him some. They looked familiar. Like vampire bites or something.

"You smell good," Bruce commented, able to catch the scent of wildflowers on her.

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	i_riddle 2014-01-11 12:32 am UTC (link)
	"Would still be nice," she said, tilting her head up for a kiss, wincing as he touched one of the wounds. "I fell into a flower bush," she said, ignoring the bite mark on her neck before offering him a bouquet. "Found some flowers in the wood and wanted to bring them home for you..." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

i_seegreen
2014-01-11 12:34 am UTC (link)

"You got that from falling into a flower bush?" Bruce inquired, tilting his head at her. He didn't lean in to kiss her, not did he accept the flowers just yet.

"Those look like bites. Did something attack you?" He was concerned. What if she got infected with something? Rabies? He couldn't treat her here for that, either.

Finally he took the flowers from her, "You should be more careful. I don't want you getting hurt. Why don't you wear your watch?" He didn't like the idea of her being out there on her own without protection. Not armor, persay, but her watch at least.

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	i_riddle 2014-01-11 12:37 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, no...I was giving blood to a friend," she said...which was true...kind of...in a stretching bubblegum fashion. She frowned, looking at her wrists. "Oops, thought I was wearing it, I'm sorry, baby, I must have left it in the bathroom after my shower." She actually hadn't intended to leave it behind for once, she just forgot. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

i_seegreen
2014-01-11 12:39 am UTC (link)

"Giving blood to a friend? From your neck?" Logically that didn't make a whole lot of sense. Who needed blood donations from the vein in the neck? Besides the obvious vampire. Bruce looked at her suspiciously for a moment.

"You have to start wearing it, and not forgetting it, Effie. I can't protect you if you don't have it and you need me." Bruce genuinely was concerned with her well-being. He wanted her safe.

"Are you hungry or anything? I could use a break."

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	i_riddle 2014-01-11 12:41 am UTC (link)
	"Yes, from my neck. I do have vampric friends..." Okay, so Eric was an associate and gone anyway and Damon was...well, she felt that the City had taken him away, but Bruce didn't exactly keep tabs on her friends...hopefully. Or else he would know of Logan." "Mm, I'm famished," she said, before wrapping her arms around his neck. "Are you ever going to kiss me?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

i_seegreen
2014-01-11 12:43 am UTC (link)

He wasn't thrilled that she had vampire friends. Bruce couldn't stand vampires. He found them fascinating as far as study but beyond that he didn't trust any of them. Especially not with his always-too-eager wife.

Finally Bruce leaned in to kiss her, and curled an arm around her slowly, "We can go get something if you want. I think some time out would be good for us."

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	i_riddle 2014-01-11 12:46 am UTC (link)
	"Mm, I would like that, a meal out with just you and me..." She nipped at his lips before slowly, teasingly pulling away. "What are you in the mood for, baby?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

i_seegreen
2014-01-11 12:48 am UTC (link)

He smiled at her finally, pulling back slowly with a shrug. "It doesn't matter to me. What do you want?" His preference for cuisine included about everything, including recently discovered tacos that Dinah and Fred had brought.

"Are you sure you're going to be okay?" Bruce inquired, still a bit concerned about her wounds. At least she hadnt been attacked by an animal or something else like that.

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	i_riddle 2014-01-11 12:51 am UTC (link)
	"I'll be fine! I spent the night with said friend and they forcibly cleaned me up before we did anything, I swear, they were worse than you when it came to being injured," she said, sticking out her tongue playfully. "Sushi?" she asked, though he probably could have guessed that. Effie had an obsession with the food. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	i_seegreen 2014-01-11 12:53 am UTC (link)
	"Spent the night with your vampire friend? Which friend?" Bruce wanted to pay them a visit, check them out. He didn't trust anything that willingly and forcibly took blood to survive. "Sure, sushi is fine," Bruce said with a nod. He didn't mind the cuisine. Actually he'd learned to like it since Effie liked it so much. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

i_riddle
2014-01-11 01:01 am UTC (link)

Effie's mind quick cycled through every vampire she knew, Damon (she couldn't say that without bad things happening), Eric (recently in the news as being...stored), Logan (she hadn't seen him around though...), Lestat (who MIGHT cover for her...but she would probably need to contact him first...), realizing she had a bit of a problem.

"Logan," she said, referring to the x-men and not the vampire. "His cabin is in the woods near the flowers, he found me, took care of me, I gave him some blood as thanks."

And it took a lot of self control not to blush at how Logan took care of her.

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i_seegreen
2014-01-11 01:10 am UTC (link)

Bruce knew the vampire Logan, and had been about to start getting a little worked up when she mentioned the other one. "That....weird, short guy from Beauty's Christmas party?" Bruce recalled the memory of Logan. It wasn't pleasant and Effie had seemed to take to the other male like a fish to water. Of course that was her way, though.

"Cabin in the woods....I'll go check it out myself," Bruce said with a nod. At least he could thank the guy for tending to Effie's wounds. "But you spent the night there? Why? You could've just called and I would've come to get you."

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	i_riddle 2014-01-11 01:13 am UTC (link)
	"You don't need to, it was perfectly innocent, baby. And we were talking, playing games...by the time I realized it, it was two am and I was falling asleep on his couch. Easier to spend the night then bother you." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

i_seegreen
2014-01-11 01:16 am UTC (link)

Bruce was most certainly going to go pay Logan a visit. Not right that second of course, but perhaps in the coming days. He wanted to know exactly what went on in that cabin. If the stories matched up then maybe he would believe it but Effie didn't have the best track record when it came to overstaying her welcome.

"I'm your husband. Sometimes I think you forget that I exist. It's my job to come pick you up from a strangers house at any hour of the day or night."

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	i_riddle 2014-01-11 01:19 am UTC (link)
	"A, friend, B, how dare you think I don't remember who you are to me, Bruce Banner! I endured everything, coming back to myself, For. You. Because I loved you. I could have ran away the second all of my memories came back and pretended that it didn't mean anything, but I returned home to you." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

i_seegreen
2014-01-11 01:24 am UTC (link)

"He might be your friend, Effie, but I don't know him which makes him a stranger. And until I do get to know him I am not going to be comfortable with you being around him." Bruce replied, taking a step back from her and shaking his head.

Then he blinked, "Oh. How dare I? How dare I?" Bruce replied, almost laughing at her, "I'm not the one that has put me in this same exact position before. The bites, the vampires...your friends. It all adds up if you look at the equation." He huffed, rubbing at his eyes with his fingers for a moment, "I'm not saying you're up to anything, God forbid you didn't learn after last time, but I have every right to check out your friends."

Now he wondered why she didn't just run off. She couldve found someone much better for her. Someone that didn't feel very small in comparison, and maybe someone that could honestly trust her. But a fresh start didn't always mean kicking bad habits. She was still a Nashton, after all.

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i_riddle
2014-01-11 01:29 am UTC (link)

"No, you don't have that right," she screamed, her frustation and anger boiling over. "You do not get the right to control who I am or am not friends with nor the right to 'check them out'. I don't need your approval, Bruce."

Her hand clenched into a fist, nails digging hard enough into her flesh to draw blood. "Thank you so much for treating me like a fucking math equation, and one that's wrong besides." She turned on her heel, heading for the elevator. "Screw dinner, I'm heading to the apartment tonight...maybe for a while."

Tears were rolling down her cheeks, splashing onto her neck as she walked.

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i_seegreen
2014-01-11 01:32 am UTC (link)

"Actually I do. With your track record and men....oh I totally earned that right." Apparently she had forgotten whom she was dealing with. Not just a Hulk but a super genius. She had picked him, after all. She never had to agree to marry him in the first place. And slowly she was starting to just snap pieces off of his heart.

"Fine. Go. Lock yourself up and stew. That isn't going to solve anything." She wasn't an equation. She had presented him with an equation and his brain was designed to figure equations out. It was what he did.

He watched her go, defeated, before turning away himself. Maybe he would just settle for takeout.

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i_riddle
2014-01-11 01:35 am UTC (link)

She gave an incoherent sound of rage, turning and stalking into her own lab, seizing the latest hulk tranquilizer gun prototype before stalking back to his lab and launching it towards his head. "Fuck you!" she screamed before stomping out again.

She's wasn't going to sit and stew, she was going to take her anger out on...someone...something...

Fishing her phone from her pocket, she started composing an angry text to her father as she waited for the elevator, detailing not only her fight with Bruce, but the favor she needed him to do...and asking him to come pick her up.

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i_seegreen
2014-01-11 01:39 am UTC (link)

Bruce had managed to get back to his desk and settled by the time Effje had returned to take her rage out on him. He let her leave, again, after the assault and did nothing more than pick up the gun from the floor and sit back down at his lab table.

Edward wasn't one for texting, he found it quite droll but he did receive the curious message from his daughter. He took a moment to revel, and probably a moment as well to dance in place because of the emotion he found in her words. Of course, too, the gangster didn't hesitate to get into his vehicle and go fetch his daughter. Oh if only Bruce would just keep pushing her away! How Eddie adored it!

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	i_riddle 2014-01-11 01:44 am UTC (link)
	"Umm...papa...why did momma just kick me?" Timmy asked as he wheeled into the room, holding one of his arms which now had a nice bruise on it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	i_seegreen 2014-01-11 01:46 am UTC (link)
	Bruce wiped at his eyes with his fingers, mostly to keep them from overflowing with moisture as he heard the soft voice behind him. Turning, Bruce looked at Timmy, "Because she's mad at me, Timmy. She didn't really mean to hurt you. I'm sorry buddy." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	i_riddle 2014-01-11 01:48 am UTC (link)
	"Oh...do you want me to make dinner or will you be down here all night?" Timmy asked softly. He was glad his momma wasn't mad at him! She hadn't been right since he grew flesh...like she didn't love him anymore! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	i_seegreen 2014-01-11 01:50 am UTC (link)
	"Don't bother with dinner. I'm going to get something later. Just go play, okay?" He turned away from their flesh-covered robotic son then and closed his eyes. He had a bad headache. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	i_riddle 2014-01-11 01:50 am UTC (link)
	"Kay," Timmy said, wheeling off. (Reply to this) (Parent)