There Ain't No Rest For The Wicked

[gamma_bitch]

WHO: Betty Ross and Bruce Banner
WHERE: Bruce's Labpartment
WHEN: Monday eaaarly AM
WARNINGS: Probably swearing, likely nakedness in a lab and probably people getting stuck with needles.
SUMMARY: Losing what you only just got comfortable with sucks.
FORMAT: Quicklog!

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[hulkkeysmash]

[ he's sleeping like the dead, which is unusual for him. Bruce hates to sleep, mostly because being asleep is too much like being that thing, and he doesn't like the loss of control. Betty has more than made it her job lately to wear him out to the point of cat naps, so he doesn't wake up when she leaves his bed.

For once, things seem kind of okay. He's letting himself believe that, at least ]

[gamma_bitch]

[Betty examines her neck a little more, flexing her shoulders, looking at herself this way and that in the mirror until the silence gets way too deafening - tiptoing past Bruce in the lab area he's set up as his bedroom she grabs one of his shirts to wrap around herself and slips into the hallway - wandering down until she gets to one of the storage areas, the only room in the building that's got a ceiling higher than her head when she goes Hulk]

I'll just switch for a second, heal up the bruises, make sure they're gone for the early meeting...

[She lays Bruce's shirt aside, glancing around to make sure she's alone, hugging her arms around her bare body in the cooler air of the storage unit. She sucks in a deep breath, reaching for the second self underneath and.... nothing

[hulkkeysmash]

[ he snaps awake with a gasp and a snort, reaching out for whatever---whoever---is shaking him. Betty wouldn't wake him up because she knows better than to wake him violently; he can lash out unexpectedly if pulled from too deep a nightmare.

His vision is blurred by sleep and lack of glasses. He holds her wrist tightly, punchdrunk, before the fuzzy outline of his ex-fianceé comes into focus ]

Betty?

[gamma_bitch]

[Oh christ has it really been that long that she forgot one of the basic rules of waking Bruce Banner? 'Fragile, Do Not Shake' is number one on the list. She winces at his grip on her wrist, hushing him and apologizing once she can tell he's aware.]

Oh damn it, Bruce. Shouldn't have shaken you. You okay?

[hulkkeysmash]

Y-yes, yes, I'm sorry--are you alright?

[Betty wouldn't wake him at all unless something was wrong. This spikes his pulse and makes it drum against his temples. The thing inside him shifts, pressing.

Different. She smelled different ]