Victoria crouched silently on a beam above Natasha, watching as the Russian asshole threatened her. She narrowed her eyes as the phone rang. The phone was passed to Natasha and Victoria smiled as she heard Phil's voice

"We need you to come in."

"Are you kidding? I'm working."

"This takes precedence."

Natasha sighed. "I'm in the middle of an interrogation, this moron is giving me everything." Natasha raised her eyebrows as the Russian asshole (as Victoria had now nicknamed him) looked confused. "Look, you can't pull me out of this right now."

"Natasha, Barton's been compromised."

Victoria's eyes widened. Not good. As she watched the fight, she thought about how it could have happened. Clint wasn't an easy person to take out. Natasha dropped the Russian asshole down a hole and picked up the phone from the floor.

"Where's Barton now?"

"We don't know."

"But he's alive?"

"We think so. We'll brief you on everything when you get back. But first, we need you to talk to the big guy."

Victoria snorted quietly. Natasha was going to love that.

"Coulson, you know that Stark trusts me about as far as he can throw me."

Victoria smirked. Well, at least that was true, but she had the feeling that Phil wasn't talking about Tony Stark. There were bigger fish than Tony Stark. Much bigger. And green.

Victoria dropped to the ground once Natasha had left and opened her phone. "JARVIS? I'm going to need a jet. Where am I going? India."

…...

Victoria waited outside the house, watching Natasha walk inside. She wouldn't have to wait much longer.

Soon enough, she saw Banner following a small girl into the house. She followed him silently, throwing a grin to the agents outside. A few of them recognised her and put down their guns, smiling at her.

"You know, for a man who's supposed to be avoiding stress, you picked a hell of a place to settle." Natasha said.

"Avoiding stress isn't the trick." Banner replied quietly.

"Then what is it? Yoga?"

Victoria pictured the Hulk in the lotus position and stifled a giggle.

"You brought me to the edge of the city." Banner smiled wryly. "Smart. I assume the place is surrounded?"

"Just you and me." Natasha smiled.

Victoria walked forwards. "Really, Natasha? It's not nice to lie. How about you leave Doctor Banner to me and go curl your hair or something, it's looking a little flat."

Natasha smirked slightly. "Victoria, it's been a while."

"I know. Now why don't you leave"

"Alright, I'll go outside."

Victoria rolled her eyes "Then take all the SHEILD agents and drive away. Don't try to trick me, you know who I am, it doesn't work."

Natasha sneered, then walked away. Victoria waited until she heard them all leaving before turning to Banner with a smile. "Hello, Doctor Banner."

"Who are you?" he asked.

"Victoria. You don't need to know my last name."

"Are you here to kill me, Victoria? Because that's not going to work out for everyone."

"If I wanted to kill you, Doctor Banner, I wouldn't have even bothered to come in. Natasha was here on behalf of SHEILD, I'm here to give you the same offer but with a better conversation."

"SHEILD." Bruce muttered. "How'd they find me?"

Victoria snorted. "They never lost you. They just kept their distance, even helped keep a few other interested parties off your scent. A certain General, for instance."

"Why? Why are you here?"

"Nick Fury seems to trust you, that's why. And now they need you to come in."

"What if I say no?"

Victoria shrugged. "I don't care, I don't work for SHEILD. But would you rather go willingly or be dragged there?"

"If I get dragged there the, ah, 'other guy' won't like it very much."

"You've been more than a year without an incident. I highly doubt you want to break that streak. Apparently SHEILD is facing a potential global catastrophe."

"Those I actively try to avoid." Banner laughed.

Victoria smiled. "Have you heard of something called the Tesseract? It's a cube that SHEILD were keeping. It has the potential energy to wipe out the planet."

"What does Fury want me to do? Swallow it?"

Victoria sat down at the small table in the room. "He wants you to find it. It emit's a gamma signature that's too weak for SHEILD to trace. There's no one that knows gamma radiation like you do, Doctor Banner. It does run through your veins, after all."

"Bruce, please. So Fury's not after the monster?"

"Not that I know."

Bruce raised an eyebrow. "And you know everything that goes on in SHEILD, do you?"

Smirking, Victoria leaned forwards. "I know a hell of a lot more that most people. You should talk to Fury, the way I heard it, he's pretty desperate. He's calling in all the big guns."

"Oh, yeah?" Bruce raised an eyebrow again.

Victoria nodded. "Captain America, Iron Man, you. Especially you. He needs you on this."

"He needs me in a cage." Bruce muttered darkly.

"No one's going to put you in a cage."

"STOP LYING TO ME!" Bruce yelled, slamming his hands down on the table. Victoria sniffed slightly and picked her fingernails.

"Come now, Bruce. It's not very nice to shout at someone who's trying to help you, is it?"

"I'm sorry. That was mean." he gave a sheepish smile. "I just wanted to see what you'd do; you didn't even flinch."

"I trust you." Victoria said simply. She handed Bruce a card. "Pack up and call me, I'll take you to SHEILD, or wherever else you want to go to get off their radar."

Standing up, she kissed him on the cheek. "Pleasure to meet you Bruce, I do hope you come to SHEILD. We do actually need you on this."

"I thought you didn't work for SHEILD?"

"I don't, I'm a consultant. Neurone, you may have heard of me?"

Bruce's eyes widened and Victoria smirked. He had heard. "I trust I'll be seeing you soon, Doctor Banner." she said smoothly, before walking out of the house.

A.N. - Please review and tell me what you think! Most of this is transcribed from the film. Took me bloody ages, I'll tell you that.