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"You could punch Hitler! I mean punch fracking," Tony said, looking up from his phone.
Bruce briefly wished that Thor were there, if only because he would have loved to hear everyone trying to explain this to him.
"We'll figure something out," Steve said. He furrowed his eyebrows and said, "Why didn't you ask us to come with you?"
Bruce laughed. "Well, I was trying to be incognito, and I didn't think showing up with Tony Stark and Steve Rogers was going to help out with that."
"But you felt so strongly about it. I didn't even really know what... fracking was," Steve said. Bruce suspected the word "fracking" made him feel uncomfortable.
"It was very obvious," Pepper said. Everyone looked at her and she said, "Well, it was."
"Well," Steve said. "If there are other issues that concern you, you should tell us about them."
Bruce again wondered if this was what most people's dads sounded like. He wondered if he should tell really tell Steve about all the various human rights and public health issues that concerned him. It was a pretty long list, and he honestly thought going through them all might irk the Other Guy too much. It was better for Bruce if he could pick one thing--one slum that didn't have enough doctors, one borough that was being attacked by aliens, one horribly misguided method of extracting natural gas--and focus on making actual concrete change. He said, "Let's just take it one issue at a time."
"If you plan to get arrested again, give me a little advance notice," Natasha said.
"Thanks again, by the way," said Bruce.
"I mean, next time I want to get arrested with you," Natasha said with a small smile. Steve sighed and Natasha said, "You should come too. It'll be fun."
"Not really my idea of fun," said Steve.
"Bruce could make us all posters with fracking puns on them," said Natasha. "They were amusing."
"Let's just... let's be careful," Steve said, rubbing his forehead. "Pepper, since you volunteered, I'll let you come up with some kind of proposal for how we should handle this. I'll be in the gym."
"Being careful isn't my idea of fun," Natasha said, following Steve out the door.
Bruce sighed and leaned his head back on the couch.
Pepper said, "Poor Bruce. You had a long day."
"No. Lucky Bruce," Bruce said. "I guarantee nobody else who got arrested today got flown home in a private jet or had their file wiped clean by the world's best spy."
"And none of them got to come home with Tony Stark and Pepper Potts," Tony said smugly.
"Nope," Bruce said.
"You're right, Bruce, you are very lucky," Pepper purred.
Bruce wasn't sure he'd done anything to deserve such luck. But that was the thing about luck: you didn't deserve it, it just happened to you. Bruce took a deep breath and decided to just enjoy the moment while it lasted. Tomorrow, aliens might come back to retry their failed attack on Earth or the US Army might come back to reclaim their failed experiment or oil companies might pollute all of upstate New York's water supply. But tonight, he was on a very nice couch with two very attractive people who apparently liked him very much, and that was very nice.
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Tony was adorable. And I like your Banner. Steve's naiveté about the government was well-written. Good job.
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