May 2013
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listentothemockingbird:
Obviously. [she closes her eyes. this is stupid. it’s great that steve is okay, but this is stupid, this is…] You and Betty going to stay where you right now, at least?
[nods, expression falling slightly] Yeah…we want to…first place we’ve ever had that’s…ours, so…[shrugs]
listentothemockingbird:
[she laughs at that and shakes her head] Yeah, it’s…I mean I’m really happy. I just… [she runs a hand through her hair] I only wanted to hear half of this, really. I definitely don’t need more people trying to kill us.
[nods, dragging a hand over his face] Well…I mean…Steve’s still here…Tony’s still here…Whatever Osborn’s...
listentothemockingbird:
Yeah, I’m good. High anxiety, lately, sorry. This is just…[not what i wanted] It’s uh. It’s a lot to take in. For a Thursday.
Are you apologizing to me about anxiety? [smiles, crosses his arms tightly] Right? It’s so good, but it’s…pretty bad. At the same time.
listentothemockingbird:
[bobbi takes another steadying breath she is definitely going to be sick as soon as she gets home this is ridiculous, it’s—]
I’ll see if Clint wants to go over, soon. Jesus. You think it’s…you think it’s okay if we lay low? I mean — [i throw sticks at people, i…i live with an avenger]
[nods] Yeah, that’d be good. [smiles meekly] I think we’re all going...
listentothemockingbird:
[she smiles at the thought of everyone cramming into the banner house again, this time for something good, but the smile falters] What kind of trouble? [no, no, no more trouble not now]
Norman Osborn is the head of SHIELD, and Steve said his men, SHIELD agents turned on him and tried to kill him. And then Tony told me that Osborn was responsible for the Stark Tower...
listentothemockingbird:
Yeah, yeah, I’m cool. Stomach. Stupid stuff. Shit. [she folds her arms over her chest and leans back again] Who all knows that he’s there?
[nods warily] Uh me, Betty, Thor, Thor is the one who brought him in, Tony, Carol, someone named…Sharon? I think?…there could be more, I don’t know, people keep showing up at my house without my permission. Tell...
listentothemockingbird:
[bobbi sits up straight, looking around and leaning in close, whispering through her teeth] How? He…he was… [ugh she’s going to be sick again. she takes a few calming breaths and closes her eyes]
Okay. Is he okay?
[frowns slightly, concerned] He’s fine. [tries to smile reassuringly] Well…okay he got shot in the shoulder and broke his leg and cracked a few...
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listentothemockingbird:
I’m, uh. I’m good. [she nods, crossing her legs and leaning back] You seem like you have something nice to talk about. What’s up?
[glances around a few times, lowering his voice] Steve’s alive. He’s staying on my couch.
listentothemockingbird:
[bobbi finds him on the bench, forgoing a coffee for herself and settling next to him] Hey, Super Secret Agent Man. I told you you’d make a good spy. That’s the most cryptic text I’ve gotten since I did deep cover in Berlin like seven years ago. [she angles herself toward him and smiles] How’s it going?
[he laughs quietly] Well, I’m trying to graduate spy school...
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[Bruce sits on a tucked away bench in Battery Park, staring out at the river and nursing a lukewarm cup of coffee waiting for Bobbi. Glancing at the newspaper someone had left, his eyes skimmed over another article about Life after the Death of Captain America and he sighed deeply and anxiously]
bettybanner:
Exactly. [she kisses him again, murmuring We’re still here against his lip between a few short kisses, as if repeating it will help; they’ve got a gun that blasts energy toxic to humans in high concentrations (* more than one blast if she was honest), and they’ve got the anger of not one, but two hulks that just want to live in peace, she wouldn’t want to be the person who thought...
bettybanner:
[she sits up and her hand’s now curled gently around his jaw as she looks down at him] Exactly. [it’s said with a seriousness she hasn’t needed save for the funeral and the wake] They try to do anything to us, we hit them back harder.
[she leans down to press her lips against his, speaking quietly against them a moment later] We’ll make them regret even thinking about it.
[He...
bettybanner:
[the hand trailing along his side moves up to curl into the hair at the base of his neck and she’s left muttering because she doesn’t know what to do herself] We’ll start pulling more money out. Get another bag ready to go..the truck’s been prepped so we have that…We’ve got Gladys, [she doesn’t even roll her eyes at the name] though we should probably have something else handy since...
bettybanner:
[her fingers brush along his side lightly, back and forth; she doesn’t know much about everyone else’s abilities but she does know that hulks are definitely up there with having the ability to mess things up, they’re a threat to anything that they stand against and if Osborn’s failed plans regarding Steve were any indication, they were most likely not too far down the list of people...
bettybanner:
[she stills a moment later, trying to take in the information; he’s the reason there was such a divide between the registration and non registration side, they could have worked through their differing beliefs, but an attack was a whole ‘nother animal.] I talked to Maria about the change in SHIELD..she’s scared enough of me to tell me what I want, but I guess she doesn’t know about...
bettybanner:
[gently pinches his side when he tightens his hold, nuzzling him gently a moment later; the tone is authoritative for her] Bruce…
[squeezes his eyes shut for a moment] I feel like we’re running out of time. [nuzzles her back] Norman Osborn tried to kill Steve. He’s the one who blew up Stark Tower. [shakes his head] I don’t know what to do, it feels like...
bettybanner:
[makes a content noise at the feel of his hand and looks at him, brow lightly furrowed] Why? Did something happen? [something on top of their friend coming back from the dead, notwithstanding]
[shakes his head slightly against the pillow] No, I stayed up making sure things were okay and crashed in the afternoon. [he tightens his hold on her, as if putting off this conversation...
bettybanner:
[Betty huffs quietly, having been going in and out of sleep not out of the conditions (their room was perfect the bed was perfect, really she shouldn’t be anything but out cold) but because after ten years of sharing the same bed, she could at least sort of tell when there was something up with Bruce. She moves a little closer, eyes closed as she wraps herself around him, sleep...
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[Bruce woke up from his brief coma an hour ago but is tactfully avoiding Steve and Sharon for now, having texted Betty about her being there. He’s still undressed, trying to read but keeps thinking about what Tony told him, permanently set on edge, and maybe he should be.
He sets the book aside and flops back over onto the pillow, wishing he could will himself to sleep more but even that...
pluginyourheart:
This was supposed to be my apology. Don’t steal my thunder. [ but his mouth is curling up in a rare smile, small and genuine. it almost doesn’t look right on his face. ]
If you want me on the job, now’s the time to speak up.
Would you know where to start? [he hopes that doesn’t sound too cruel, because he’s smiling too]
I don’t want anything from you. I...
pluginyourheart:
Blowing of limbs, on the other hand — that’s been a cakewalk.
[doesn’t say anything for a minute] Does it sound stupid to say ‘I’m sorry’?
pluginyourheart:
[ swinging an arm around bruce’s shoulder ] My thoughts exactly. it’s been a real riot.
[swallows hard] Well.
At least that means he’s really shitty at killing us.
pluginyourheart:
Told you I’d come up with a good bedtime story.
[makes a passive shrug with a face that suggests he’s just barely not hulking out]
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pluginyourheart:
Hm? [ tony lights up his phone with a sweep of his thumb — some excitingly garish starkteck quirk they must’ve just implemented. turns it off again, toggling at switches. ] What, did you really think I just lost my shit and socked him? Come on, lima bean, have a little faith.
That reminds me, sorry for pinning that whole Tower thing on you guys, I really fucked that one up.
...
steverogerso3:
Steve froze, a forkful of food halfway to his mouth. It didn’t quite turn his stomach as much as it chilled his bones: His wake.
He hadn’t given it any real thought. There’d been more pressing matters like getting out of the line of fire, moving forward, staying alive. He hadn’t thought Osborn would go so far as to declare him dead in so short a time, not so dead that his...
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pluginyourheart:
Because what this whole thing really needed a soupçon of sociopathy.
I assume you know more about him than I do?
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pluginyourheart:
Yeah, well, tell him next time he plans to die for our sins, he’d better give me a head’s up first.
He says there’s a culprit, the HYDRA thing was a cover, something about Norman Osborn.
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pluginyourheart:
Well, the fact that you just compared me to most people is definitely bringing on the waterworks.
You’ll recover.
He’s uh…fine, actually. Well, not fine, he’s busted up, hence the being-at-my-place, but nothing that he won’t come back from.
pluginyourheart:
Okay.
Most people have a more…let’s say “tearful” reaction to this news.
pluginyourheart:
I was thinking something more along the lines of “bought an exciting new sweater vest” but, uh. Wow, look at that, we’re jumping straight past crazy and into “clinically insane.”
I have never in my life worn a sweater vest and yes he is. Thor found him. Brought him to my place the other night.
pluginyourheart:
Go nuts.
I’d ask if it was safe for me to tell you, but I think we both know that “safe” is a silly construct for both of us.
Steve is asleep on my couch.
pluginyourheart:
Hot romance tips from Dr. Bruce Banner, I like it, this is going great.
Yeah, you know, I was trying to take things slow, but just throw me the signal and I’ll bring out the big guns.
Good, I’m not as delicate as you think.
[beat] Want to hear something crazy?
pluginyourheart:
Don’t pretend you don’t like it.
Is this your seduction strategy, because it’s a little flimsier than I imagined.
pluginyourheart:
Very sexy, way to work it. [ he pulls out his phone ] Do that again, I want to put it on a magazine cover.
No. I’m a human-mutate, not a piece of meat for you to objectify.
pluginyourheart:
There’s my least favorite face in action.
Sorry. Ask nice and I’ll make up a bedtime story just for you.
[sticks his tongue out] How ‘bout that one.
You don’t have to tell me anything, if you don’t feel like it.
pluginyourheart:
Probably. Thankfully, I’m congenitally unable to feel shame.
Anyway, I hate to burst your gamma-irradiated bubble, but I’ve got nothing new to report. Keep asking though, I’m sure I’ll be interesting again eventually.
[frowns] Fine.
pluginyourheart:
gammarayed replied your post
Do I want to know? I don’t. I… probably don’t.
Not a mind reader, green bean. Either ask or don’t.
I didn’t know what to ask, other than “what indiscretions are you involved in now?” It seemed insulting.
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steverogerso3 replied to your post
Nope. [thunk] Not me. [protracted silence, followed by a clunk, a rolling sound and a muffled ‘son-of-a-gun’]
thor-odinson:
steverogerso3:
Steve looked up from the plate of food he’d been handed—and had been demolishing, hungrier than even he’d realized. ”Oh, well hello, Gladys.”
Steve put his plate aside with some reluctance and did his best to sit forward, propped up as he was. ”At this point, we have to assume the worst: That we’re all at some level of risk. Osborn hasn’t yet made a direct move...
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ALRIGHT CHICKPEAS I finally have some on-set work dates for Freezer Burn (yes yes that’s what it’s called, the first one was Frostbite eee)
So far I know that I’ll be working Friday-Sunday, definitely for more than 12 hours but I’ll be on when I get home (if I’m not face down in my pillow).
I know I’ll have more dates when I finally get my callsheet...
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thor-odinson:
At the mention if food in the kitchen, Thor left Bruce to his work. He only felt like he was taking up needed space, anyway. Walking to the fridge, he felt a weight lifted from his chest. The idea that just this morning, there was the chance he may never see his friend again was daunting. It didn’t matter now, though. Now, they had a new worry. Osborn. Whoever this man was,...
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thor-odinson:
Thor stood by as he watched Bruce clean Steve’s wounds. He began to pace the small bathroom a bit, hating that there wasn’t much else he could do. Even if he tried to help, there just wasn’t enough room for him to squeeze in beside the doctor. When Steve addressed him, he stilled his pacing and looked up. “Think nothing of it. You would have done no...
thor-odinson:
At Bruce’s request, Thor quickly hurried to his side. He put an arm around Steve’s shoulders helped Bruce walk him to the bathroom. “Is Stark even a man we can trust?” he asked, skeptical. The idea that the number if trustworthy people were dropping was suddenly. Carol’s name snapped him back to reality. The woman he once fought, almost to the death,...
thor-odinson:
As soon as the name left Steve’s mouth, Thor simultaneously felt rage and unsurprised. He listened to the rest if the tale before he started to pace, clenching his fists. “SHIELD. They cannot be trusted anymore.” He stopped walking and looked to the pair of them. “I think it best to keep everything that happened tonight betwixt us three. Even our friends at...
Never Give Up, Never Surrender
thor-odinson:
steverogerso3:
“I’m alive, Bruce. And I’m sorry about the mess.”
Steve felt himself start to slide out of Thor’s effortless carry; the last time he’d been in someone’s arms like that, he’d been at least a hundred pounds lighter and a whole lot more diabetic. He got his good foot on the floor and leaned—heavily—against the Asgardian. Underneath mud and blood and a week’s...
Never Give Up, Never Surrender
thor-odinson:
Thor breathed out a sigh of relief when he saw Steve’s eyes flutter open. Hearing his own name, cracked and hoarse from the injured man’s lips brought a smile to his face. “Aye. Tis me.” He looked around in the growing dark and knew that it would soon get cold again. Steve may be alive, but in his current state, Thor wasn’t sure how long that would last in this drainage ditch....
