a/n 1. trying something new. this is a drabble in my avengers/hp canon [it's an extensive canon, ngl.]
mollyiibruce / fallen
She's not Betty, but she's something else entirely.
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She shows up at Stark Tower one day, along with a head of corkscrew red curls and, for some bizarre reason, a stick poking out the top of her boots.
"Molly Weasley," she says. "Pleasure."
Within a minute, she's told them what seems like her life story and Tony hires her on the spot, informing her (and Bruce) that she is now Bruce's assistant.
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He doesn't need an assistant, nor does he particularly want one, but of course Tony won't hear of that. In fact, every time Bruce tries to broach the subject of maybe possibly perhaps if we could move the Weasley girl to another area?, Tony runs off with mutterings about updating the suit or designing Potts Tower.
And so he resigns himself to having an assistant, already used to the fact that Tony chose her and that means she's here to stay (unless, god forbid, she tries to rip out Tony's arc reactor. Then she's out. There are certain unspoken rules about such things, especially after the unfortunate Obadiah Stane incident.)
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He's surprised to discover that despite the fact that her hair colour changes every week - it's grey this week. Who dyes their hair grey? - and that her eyes are some indescribable shade between brown and blue, it's her mind that captivates him. He doesn't think assistants are unintelligent, by any means - au contraire, he's friends with Pepper, after all - but from the way she rattled off her CV when they first met, he hadn't expected her to be quite so brilliant.
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One day, she finds him working on plans for a new medicine feverishly and she stops and watches because it's kind of beautiful, watching an artist immersed in his passion.
After a while, he notices, and blushes. "Er, hi, Ms. Weasley," he greets politely, distracted by his brainwave. "Do you require anything?"
She looks at him and takes him in and decides that this is the man she wants to help, because if she's stuck in a time where somewhere, there's a four year old version of herself watching her Mummy accidentally electrocute Daddy and Lucy, she wants to do something good and she thinks that helping Bruce Banner might be it.
So she just shakes her head and stands by him and appraises his plans and points out flaws and gives him insights into what will prove successful - he starts calling her his 'hunchwoman', a bad pun, but it makes her smile anyway - and within three years it's declared that Dr. Bruce Banner has created a cure for cancer and he calls it the Mollicle drug.
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She's more of a partner than an assistant by now and while she thinks of magic and always relies on her lucky stick to keep her from dying in a lab explosion and his mind skates from one science to another at a mile a minute, they work together remarkably well.
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She's not Betty, but he thinks he's fallen for her anyway.
a/n 2. never written a non-hp character before [except for some tmi characters, for a rosejace that i need to get around to publishing] so sorry if i fucked it up. please do not favourite without reviewing.
