Irrational

A/N: Timeline…I guess I'm having this happen around Thor 2 and Winter Soldier?

Bruce had been convinced after Betty spied on him for Ross he wouldn't find a woman to enjoy his time with besides a professional setting the way he and Dr Foster or Pepper could talk... but after getting to know Madison Murdock over several cups of coffee and tea while discussing literature Bruce was sure he was in danger of feeling things he shouldn't be. After all, Madison Murdock wasn't the kind of woman to allow Bruce a pity party of loneliness. Madison Murdock was the kind to hit him in the shins with her cane and tell him to face the world with his middle finger in the air and an eloquent speech on his lips...Bruce truly feared the day Mad and Tony met. He felt New York wouldn't be the same again and that Tony might use her to sue Fury out of spite and boredom and he's sure she would take it on just for laughs.

"Spaced out again are we?" Mad asked, smiling as she reached for the creamer as Bruce waited for his tea.

"Sorry, sorry." Bruce said with a nervous laugh, "I just have a sense of foreboding."

Madison's eyebrow rose as her trademark smirk took over her face, "Oh really now? Do tell, I'll even keep it off the official record." She joked, referring to Bruce asking her if she was one of those lawyers who was worse than a reporter.

"I was just imagining if you and my friend Tony met. You both would cause too much trouble." He said, before thanking the barista and grabbing his tea.

Mad laughed and shook her head, "Well, if he pranks people as much as you say I might understand why you live in fear."

"It's more so than I said," Bruce said with a furrowed brow before snorting once he comprehended what she said "of course I live in fear."

Mad grinned, making Bruce smile softly. One of the things that made him feel at home around Madison Murdock was her smile and all of its variations. However, his favorite was the one currently on her face. It was open and easy going… and most of all honest.

Bruce had seen the way her clients acted around her. He had already met her new secretary, one Karen Page who apparently was her and Foggy, who he had yet to meet. Nelson's first client after they had opened their practice. Karen was bubbly and bright, something Madison was not. Mad was friendly but reserved and it took her a while to open up. She was laid back but always had an awareness around her Bruce was sure due to the fact she had grown up blind in Hell's Kitchen of all places.

Mad moved with ease and comfort in her own skin and had confidence in her movements, something Bruce had never had, even before the Hulk. It was eerie how often Bruce flat out forgot she was blind, such as her getting up and heading straight to the bathroom without hesitance in stride. However, he would then be reminded rather harshly moments later if he put something down on the table slightly out of place she would reach for and frown when she couldn't immediately find it, slowly guiding her hand over the table wearily, so that she wouldn't knock anything over. It was the small moments like that which would make Bruce flinch at his envy of a blind person and bring him out of his pity-party reminding him in many ways he was better off than others in some aspects.

Whenever Mad would hear the falter in Bruce's voice or breath during these moments of realization she would arch her eyebrow at him , throw a snarky comment his way, and make grabby hands for the item she wanted, making him chuckle before handing it to here. She had a way of pulling him out of his "funks" the same way Tony did, but without threatening her safety, not that she even knew about his…condition.

Bruce knew that he wouldn't be able to keep meeting her for their bi-weekly coffee breaks without telling her but he wanted to be selfish. He knew after he told her she would shy away from him. She would have heard the worst parts about him; not that seeing the damage he had done would exactly help her image of him. Bruce knew he would have to tell her soon or leave again, but he would rather her get to know him as Bruce Banner, scientist and tea drinker rather than a crazy anger management issue filled monster that no therapy would cure. So he kept silent on the matter, no matter how irrational.

Afterthought A/N: So I haven't written a fic where the POVS tend to rotate in a while but I feel like every few chapters or so I'll be alternating the character perspectives so we can get to know them and the development of the relationship through each other. Just giving a heads up because I know some people cannot read stories like that.