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ROUND TWO
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Please use this format: Steve/Tony, Tony needs help adjusting his arc reactor ; ( Read more... )
Steve is in a Barnes and Nobles bookstore. He likes that he can find a small corner of the massive multiple level store and sit and read quietly to himself for a few hours. The 21st century is so busy and loud. He relishes the silence of the bookstore. He’s so engrossed in reading that it takes him a minute to pick up the voices coming from near his feet.
He sits up and looks at the child talking to him. She looks to be about 6 or 7 and is accompanied by the strangest looking dog (at least he thinks it may be a dog. There are lots of designer breeds now. Tony told him about one called a Golden Doodle) he has ever seen.
“I’m looking for a book on taking care of fish. Nani says I’m not supposed to feed Pudge peanut butter. But he likes peanut butter! I have to keep Pudge happy. He controls the weather.”
Steve blinks several times as he processes what the girl just said. “You have a fish…that controls the weather?” She smiles and shakes her head at him. She then hands him a book that the dog was holding. “Here --It seems like you might like this one.” She quickly walks away and the dog smiles at him, then follows her. Steve looks down at the book she placed in his hands.
The Ugly Duckling
2. Bruce Banner
Bruce likes tropical environments. The heat seems to calm him, which is always a good thing. He’s doing some free clinic work in a small town in Hawaii when he hears rumors of a little girl and her dog. He’s heard that this particular child has had behavior problems stemming from the loss of her parents. Angry issues are something that Bruce knows about in spades, so he tries to track her down.
He finds her at the local dance studio. She’s waiting for her sister to arrive to pick her up. It’s clear that she’s been crying. He sits next to her on the stairs. She gives him a glance out of the corner of her eye. “What do you want? “ she asks.
Bruce smiles. “I just want to talk.”
She actually snorts at him. “Lots of people want to talk to me. Maybe I don’t want to talk.” She lies down and waves her hand at him in a clear gesture of dismissal. “Leave me alone to die, mortal.”
Bruce smothers a smile into his hand. He reaches into his pocket and hands her the small card with his number on it. “Well then, maybe someday you can talk and I can listen.” With that, Bruce walks away. He glances back in time to see her slip the card into the pocket of her dress.
A week goes by before his disposable cell phone rings. He answers it, and is immediately assaulted by the sounds of a struggle. He can hear yells and crashes in the background. “Lilo!” Bruce yells into the phone. He takes quick breathes and tries to lower his blood pressure. Finally the small voice answers.
“Mr. Banner! I think I may be ready to talk now! There are aliens in my house and their trying to take my dog Stitch back to their alien homeworld!”
Bruce breaks into a jog as he heads up the road towards the house that Lilo lives in with her sister. Lilo seems to be talking to someone in the background. He hears a power tool kick to life. Lilo turns her attention back to him.
“Oh wait…its ok now, Mr. Banner. My dog found the chainsaw. I think we got this. Thanks for listening!” The line goes dead, and now Bruce does Hulk out.
The resulting damage to the house is blamed on him and he quickly finds himself fleeing into South America.
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