The next morning started off pretty normal. Everybody assembled for breakfast made by Pepper with Steve's help. After that Tony and Bruce headed to the lab, Pepper headed off to her office a couple floors down, Janet headed off to her designing studio downtown, Jennifer left for work and Clint, Natasha and Steve all went to the training room.

Tony knew something had been off about Bruce since reading Janet and Jennifer's files and being that they'd been friends for awhile he figured it was probably more about Jennifer than Janet.

"Hey Bruce?"

"Yeah Tony?"

"What's been bothering you lately?"

Bruce looked up from his holographic screen and looked at Tony realizing that even though nobody else not even Jennifer could see his guilt, Tony could. He took off his glasses and placed them by the keyboard.

"She's a monster and it's my fault."

"Is that what you're so guilty about?"

"Yes. When I told her everything about the other guy she…she was going to help me. Try and find a way to solve the situation so I wouldn't have to be in the hell I was in. The hell I'm still in. And how do I return the favor by turning her in to another version of him."

"Bruce, don't do that to yourself. You only had two options. Try to save her or let her die and I'm damn positive you were never going to go for the second option."

He had a point. When Bruce had to watch his mother die in front of him he was small, weak and couldn't save her. When Jennifer got shot it was like a second chance at saving a loved one. A chance that he couldn't screw up.

"How do I do it?"

"Do what?"

"How do I apologize to her for what I did to her?"

"You feel that guilty?"

"Yes and I don't know when or how to tell her I'm sorry!"

Tony stood up from his seat on the lab table, moved over to Bruce's desk and leaned against the edge. Bruce turned his chair so he could look Tony in the eyes.

"First of all if you're this guilty, the time to apologize to her is as fast as possible. Second of all just do what you did with me. Let it all out and listen to what she has to say."

"Thanks Tony."

"Hey, I care about you as much as she does. Now can you throw that blueprint over to my screen?"

"Sure."

As Bruce slide his finger across the screen transferring the blueprint over to Tony's screen, Tony started to question a certain topic.

"You know what? I don't get how you need proper training to be a therapist. It's so easy!"

"You're still not over that therapy session? It's been four years Tony!"

"Yeah well how would you feel if I fell asleep during you're little therapy session a minute ago?! Huh?!"

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A/N: Why yes, I did see Iron Man 3 (loved it). And yes, I did think it would be funny if Tony was still offended by Bruce's actions. Sorry if this was a spoiler if you haven't seen the movie yet. Then again you're using the internet right now so you probably already knew or watched it.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH IT'S NOT FRIDAY! I'm SO sorry about the late update guys. It's just this past week I've been having to juggle my job and this new puppy I got so I really haven't had time to focus on writing. Plus because I wasn't doing my whole 'every two days' chapter thing it completely flew over my head that I even posted this story. So that is why I'm going to be posting a new chapter every four days. That way it's double the days I gave myself for 'New Blood' and it won't escape to the back of my mind.

As always review, follow and favorite if you like the story so far and tune in Friday (oh the irony) for a very short chapter. (That's literally the only way I can describe it)