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Until someone does manage to hurt Hulk and badly. Tony stays at Bruce's side until he wakes up.
Bonus for Steve trying to give Tony the "losing a soldier" talk again and while he genuinely means to comfort Tony, Tony takes it as well as he did in the movie
10+ Bonus for Tony asking Coulson how he manages to send Clint out there knowing he might not come back because this anon is an unrepenant Coulson/Client shipper and an equally strong believer that Tony and Coulson best friends when no one is looking
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When they’re alone in the laboratory, Tony himself teases Bruce about it, until Bruce goes bright red in the face (fuck, how can an indestructible person also be so charmingly awkward?) and stutters out a lot of reasons why it’s logical to protect Tony. Notably, he doesn’t deny that part at all. He just offers excuses like well you ARE feeding me three times a day and who else is going to listen to me talk about gamma spectroscopy?Tony teases until Bruce can’t think of things to stutter out anymore, until Bruce gets frustrated and just grabs Tony up in a kiss. One of the best kisses he’s had in a very long time, in fact. Bruce hasn’t been with another person in ages, and it’s been even longer since Tony’s met someone he trusts not to vanish. It’s kind of like being a teenager again with this chest-fluttering sense of discovery, like the world has become new again ( ... )
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“Stark Tower has just come under attack, presumably in conjunction with whatever requires your use of the Mark VII. The armor was successfully launched per emergency protocols.”
“Just attacked-” Tony breathes. There goes his plan to get Bruce the hell home. “Where’s Pepper?”
“Miss Potts’ office has been secured with her safely inside. Agents Rogers, Romanoff and Barton are estimated to succeed in holding off the attack for another two hours, longer if the communication to Mr. Odinson’s location is successful. I assume you and Dr. Banner will arrive before then?”
“Bruce is incapacitated.”
“Oh dear.”
“Fucking tell me about it-” Tony shouts, hauling Bruce along the ground inside the café. “Get Coulson on the line. Tell him if S.H.I.E.L.D. can fix this, I’ll do whatever public relations bullshit Fury wants for the next six months ( ... )
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“Stay still,” Tony shouts, “if you can help it. I don’t want to drop you-”
Bruce’s uncontrollable seizing isn’t his only problem. Tony doesn’t dare fly at top speed lest the force of it hurt Bruce’s unarmored body, but he’s not accustomed to deliberately slowing himself in battle. And it is a battle, because fuck, General Ross has decided he really wants Bruce back. Tony barely dodges RPG strikes and gunfire, especially when he’s got to twist awkwardly to shield Bruce from the same. Could really use a mother hen right now. He wonders if Hulk has spoiled him.
The answer’s a conclusive yes when a rocket explosion knocks Tony sideways. Bruce picks the worst possible moment to squirm and then he’s gone, plummeting out of Tony’s grasp toward the sidewalk below. Tony fires down after him despite the smoking dent in his left leg, catches Bruce and swings them both toward an awkward landing ( ... )
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--whether you’ll ever wake up oh God not again please not again -Hollow-eyed, Tony sits in a chair at Bruce’s bedside. He tries not to see Yinsen’s dead face in the pallor of Bruce’s skin, tries not to see his mother and father in the injuries mangling Bruce’s body. He tries to convince himself that Bruce is different, he’ll shake this off, he’s strong even if he’s not indestructible, only to be that much more crushed every time he looks expectantly at Bruce’s face and finds no change ( ... )
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He sits up in a bolt, and finds Bruce’s one good eye open. They stare at each other for a strange moment, Tony unable to believe his days of grief have ended in just as sudden and random of a moment as they had begun.
“Bruce,” Tony says hoarsely, “Bruce, God, fuck-”
He surges forward and kisses him. Bruce’s fingers slide along his cheek, around to the back of his neck. It’s an awkward meeting of lips, Bruce having little strength and tasting strange, medical. After they pull back Bruce tries to say something, but it comes out as an incoherent rasp.
“Hey, hey,” Tony chides, reaching for the water and sponges at the bedside table. He wets a sponge, and lets Bruce roll it around in his mouth. “Take it easy, big guy.”
A dubious look comes to Bruce’s face. Like I’m going anywhere? Tony gets the most hysterical urge to laugh because that look, more than ( ... )
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