When I woke up the next morning I expected to wake up in my own bed by myself. I didn't expect to wake up in Bruce's bed, legs tangled with his and arms wrapped around his waist. I froze, starring at him in terror as he started to wake up. He opened his eyes and looked at me confused for a minute before he let go of me, jumping back slightly. I leapt off the bed, falling onto the floor and starring up at him in horror.

"Tony? What are you doing?" Bruce asked groggily. I stared up at him terrified as I crawled backwards.

"I'm sorry Bruce. I guess I was so drunk last night I didn't realize what room I went into." I stand up quickly and run out the door, not even looking back to see the shocked and slightly hurt look on his face. I couldn't believe I had done that. If he didn't know I was drunk last night then crawling into bed with him would have blown everything. It would have shown that I had feeling for him and I couldn't have that.

I hid in the lab, locking the door so no one could get in, gabbing a bottle of whiskey and drinking it as I hid in the corner out of sight of the door. I hated myself for doing that. What if I ruined my friendship with Bruce by doing that? My relationship with Bruce was strained enough with my feelings for him.

Bruce knocked on the lab door after I finished more than half the bottle of whiskey. Telling JARVIS to let him in I curled farther into the corner nursing the bottle. He gave me a concerned look before walking over and grabbing the bottle from me and sitting down in front of me.

"Tony, what's wrong? You've been acting strange lately." He touched my hand gently. "Did I do something? Do you want me to leave?" The scared look on his face tugged at my heart and made my stomach turn.

I grabbed his hand and held it tightly. "Of course I don't want you to leave. You're my science bro and honestly you're the best friend I've ever had." I gave him a grin. "Plus how sad do you think I'd be if the smartest person I've ever met and the only person able to keep up with me mentally left to the other side of the world."

Bruce gave a small chuckle and sighs in relief. "That's good. I've been enjoying it here. It's nice having an actual lab to work in. Plus the other guy has been more at peace since being here."

I gave Bruce a shit eater grin. "Oh course you love working in my labs. They are the best in the world. Its like toy land only better." Bruce laughed and I felt my stomach flip. "Plus it doesn't hurt to have an amazing science bro to bounce ideas off of, that's something you can't get out in the middle of nowhere."

Bruce chuckled and shook his head. "How do you know if I was a fan of toy land? I fancied myself more of a Build-A-Bear kid. I see you more of a legos kid." I couldn't help but laugh. The Bruce I was falling for was showing.

"You would be correct in you assumption there Dr. Banner. I was more of a legos kid. I liked building things and outdoing all the other kids." I leaned back against the wall, relaxing some. "I bet you liked Build-A-Bear because of the doctor in you, even as a kid. I can see it now, nerdy kid Bruce doing surgery on his Build-A-Bear."

Bruce laughed before glancing at the half empty bottle of whiskey beside him, the one I was trying to kill before he wandered down. He grew serious again and looked at me. "Tony, I want you to know you can talk to me. I think of you as a friend and I know you think of me as one. I'm worried about you and if there's anything I can do to help please let me know. I'm here for you." He stood up, taking my bottle with him and started heading towards the door. "Oh and Director Fury wanted me to let you know that the rest of the team will be moving in sometime this week." 'Oh joy, the rest of Mystery Inc will be joining us. Let the party begin.' I thought as I stood up and made my way over to a lab table, starting work on one of the many projects laying around.