meme #008 | i love you ( don't get heart heavy )

[pheromones]

by popular demand, AN IC LOVE MEME easy peasy livin' greasy: post with your character for your character, or on behalf of another. reply to others icly with all the things your character appreciates/likes/loves about them. react accordingly. or don't, i'm not paying attention.

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bruce banner | mcu

[hulkish]

needles verse because fuck you, i can.

[widowing]

[ there are times where work leads them apart for long stretches at a time, either her with SHIELD (and sometimes personal) business or him with his work with tony or in whatever country he's disappeared to this week. they'll touch base whenever they can, usually through e-mail or text and usually the messages are shorter than either would like, but they're always significant. this one holds a little more weight, at least in the literal sense.

she tracks him down in bolivia, but the package won't make it to him until a few days after she wants it to, but she doesn't let that detail bother her as much as it typically would. she knows he's not expecting anything, so late's better than not at all. it's delivered to him in some manner, by messenger or on the doorstep of wherever he's currently calling home, neatly wrapped with a handwritten note and no return address. ]

Sorry it's late. Going home was more involved than I'd have preferred.

Happy birthday.

[ inside the package is a lighter, a few small, clear jars, and a container with three separate compartments, containing herbs that make salves that soothe or heal wounds and infections. the last item is a book of essays and poetry, all composed by leo tolstoy. ]

i love it, all the time, forever.

[hulkish]

[ he didn't know he was going to leave until a few hours beforehand. she'd been in brazil at the time, and they'd taken him on a mission that required the hulk and left bruce a raw husk of himself. a few days later he'd recovered enough to tell them all to go to hell. he'd scrawled a hasty note addressed to tony and fled.

months later, he'd almost regretted it. he thought maybe pepper would worry. thor wouldn't know how to cook the vegetables. jessica wouldn't keep up on her linguistics. but these were minor concerns. at the core of it all there was his safety to consider, and with the republican party calling for the hulk's identity to be revealed, bruce thought it prudent to lay low until he stopped being a campaign slogan. it's months since he's heard from anyone, and he knows part of that is tony's doing. the avengers could contact him at any time, if they pleased, just like SHIELD had.

still, the package surprises him. his birthday passed without recognition because he hadn't told anyone; the culture here gave special preference to the day, and he really wanted to avoid that attention. bruce recogizes the handwriting at once and tears into the package. the supplies she's left him are invaluable here. for a moment, bruce has trouble breathing. this will mean lives saved. this will be the difference between his village suffering and surviving.

he pulls a few strings with tony and gets her new number. ]

thank you.

good because so do i.

[widowing]

[ when she'd returned to find him gone, she had wanted to let them have it for prioritizing their needs over bruce's. instead she'd left herself, almost immediately after returning, on a conveniently timed mission, and hadn't returned for another few months. one lead had lead to another, then another, then another, the breadcrumb trail ending where she'd been born. when that mission was over, she'd just felt...drained. drained and angry and guilty that things couldn't be resolved sooner.

so when she gets bruce's text, she's back in the us, using the combined forces of tony and SHIELD's resources to make sure the girls she'd recovered were being taken care of - relocated, given counseling, set up with somewhere safe to stay for a while. it's around three in the morning when she gets to read it, and a faint smile appears when she does. she doesn't prepare gifts often, especially not for birthdays, but he'd gotten one for her, and she figured he would be able to find use for the supplies even if he were somewhere with a vast array of them to choose from. the poetry she thinks he'll have less use for, but he's an author she likes and she thinks bruce might appreciate his work, even if he doesn't necessarily enjoy it. ]

you're welcome. have they come in handy?