Hey ya'll, here's a new chapter in Bits and Pieces, I know It's been awhile since I've updated Ever Present Past, but I've hit a small snag in the story, don't worry, I'm working through it, I've just got to work on one more detail before I can get it back to where I want it, plus I've been in Las Vegas for awhile, and, well, I've been busy! =) Anyways, this is a pretty fluffy chapter featuring Minnie and Bruce, and takes place during Chapter 40 of Which Me Do You Like, it's during the hours between Minnie and Bruce moving into the house, and when they get Jarvis first introduced to the house. Anyways, I hope you like it!

This chapter is titles First Dance

Disclaimer: I've been trying to win the rights to Marvel in Las Vegas. Sadly I keep loosing.


By the time the movers left it was nearing the late afternoon, besides Erin and Aaron introducing themselves a few other neighbors came over to say hello, there was the man who lived next door on our right, Basil Kirk, a firefighter who had the privilege of working nights, there was the older gentleman and his younger wife who lived next door to Basil, Dr. Leonard Jewel, and his wife Gwen, to me it seemed like Gwen was one of the only real people on this street. Aside from them, we mat a young couple, Calvin and Amanda James, an old couple, Edith and Martin Stein, the preschool teacher, Molly Montgomery, and her boyfriend Jacob Kenner

It was way too much all at once, and everyone wanted to know how we met, even though we hadn't had time to read the stupid file SHIELD had provided for us. When the movers could they would call us, asking for our help on where to put things, or say our phones were ringing or something like that, but other times we had to awkwardly change the subject, which is not one of my favorite things to do. When we finally were left alone by the curious neighbors and the ever helpful movers we were left with the task of finishing unpacking.

Seeing as everything we cared about was left in our apartment that we had no idea what SHIELD was planning on doing with, opening every box was a surprise. Kitchen appliances, towels, everything a married couple would need while avoiding a group of psychotic scientists hell bent on gathering the DNA of my husband and our unborn child.

"Look at these glasses Honey," I said as I unwrapped one of them from the paper it was wrapped in.

"They're nice." he said as he looked at them.

"No, they're not nice," I said as I set it down on the table. "They're beautiful."

"Okay, they're beautiful." he chuckled. He was unwrapping plates and putting them on the table. I set down the paper and walked over to where he was sitting and stepped behind him. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders leaning down to rest my chin on his shoulder. He took one of my hands and gently kissed my hand before turning his head to kiss me.

"Have you seen the bedroom yet?" I asked and he nodded.

"It's hard to believe this is a safe house." he said and I nodded.

"It's hard to believe it's a safe house no one uses." I pointed out and he nodded in agreement. "Hey, come help me move the couch." I said as I stood up and moved my arms from around him.

"You shouldn't be moving things," he pointed out. "Why don't you let me do it?"

"Just one side of the couch should be fine." I said and he shook his head.

"What's wrong with where it is?" he asked as we walked to the living room.

"Babe, it's blocking the back door." I said with a laugh.

"Blocking, or giving us a good view of the back yard?" he asked as he walked over to it. "Oh I'm so tired from moving, I wish I had a great view." he plopped down on the couch. "Oh look at that, nice back yard, trees, mountains, suburbia..." he sighed and I laughed as I crossed my arms. "There's an even better view." he said as he looked at me and I raised an eyebrow as he took my hand.

"What's that?" I asked and he took my hand, pulling me close to him.

"My wife." he said as he pulled me onto the couch next to him. I smiled as I wrapped my arms around his neck, and kissed him.

"Honey, can I ask you something?" I asked as I rested my head on his shoulder.

"Mmhmm." he said and I looked at him.

"Is this how you picture it?" I asked and he frowned lightly.

"Pictured what?" he asked and I shrugged.

"I don't know... This, us." I said and he sighed as he looked down at me.

"Honestly? No." he said and my face fell. "I didn't picture myself putting you in danger like I did, I didn't picture having to go in to enemy territory and get you away from a terrorist group everyone thought died out in the forties, and honestly, I didn't picture having to put you into a situation where I'd have to take you away from everything you know and love so that you could survive." he said and I let out a long sigh.

"Honey, you want to know what I didn't picture?"

"Hm?" he asked and I turned his face so he was looking at me.

"I didn't picture that while I was working for Tony Stark that I would meet the person I could honestly say I want to spend the rest of my life with." I said as I stroked his cheek. He smiled lightly and I pecked his cheek gently. "I didn't picture that I'd meet the father of my child, and in the future, children, and while I didn't picture I'd have a wedding where my dad didn't give me away, my mom wasn't sobbing in the front row and Dallas tried in vain to convince me to let him be my maid of honor, I wouldn't change anything."

"Nothing?" he asked with a raised eyebrow and I rolled my eyes.

"Okay I'd change the fact that we're in the suburbs... And even if we were stuck in the suburbs, I'd make sure we had a damn pool, but aside from that, I wouldn't change anything."

"You wouldn't change the fact that your husband changes into an uncontrollable green rage monster?" he asked and I shook my head.

"Nope. Know why? Because when I said "I Do" I said it to everything about you. I married you, all of you, I married the other guy, I married that silly habit you have where you start messing around with your hands when you're nervous, and your not so secret love of peanut butter," I said and he smiled lightly. "But most of all I married the man I know I want to spend the rest of my life with." I said and he wrapped his arms around me.

"What would I do without you?" he asked softly and I smiled as I ran my fingers through his thick black curls.

"Oh you know, the usual, be an insane bachelor like Tony was for the rest of your life while blowing whatever money you have on frivolous items." I shrugged and he looked up at me with a doubtful look on his face. "Or go back to Calcutta or something, who am I to say?" I joked.

"You know, you're right about one thing." he said as he stood up and walked over to my computer that was playing music.

"Just one thing?" I asked and he laughed lightly.

"It's a tradition for a bride to have a first dance, isn't it?" he asked as he typed on my computer for a moment, and then looked at me where I was leaning on the back of the couch, watching him.

"What, here?" I asked and he nodded. I smiled and got off of the couch, kicking away crumpled up newspaper and a collapsed box from my path before I took his hand. He hit a button on the keyboard before stepping closer to me and wrapping his arm around my waist, holding the other in his. I let out a laugh as the Beach Boys, "God Only Knows" came on. I rested my head on his shoulder, letting him lead as we danced.

"Where did you learn to dance?" I asked and he chuckled lightly.

"Uh, believe it or not, my cousin taught me." he said and I looked up at him curiously. "She said how could I ever find a girl if I didn't know how to dance?" he explained and I smiled as I rested my head on his shoulder again.

"Remind me to send her a thank you card." I muttered and he let out another small chuckle. When the song ended I looked up at him and smiled to see him looking down at me before he cupped my face and leaned down to gently kiss me. We were in the middle of a long kiss when the packet the movers had given us started buzzing making us both look over at it.

"The hell?" Bruce muttered as he walked over to it. He picked up the packet and opened it before rolling his eyes and pulling a phone out.

"It's Phil." he said and I scoffed lightly.

"Give me that." I said as I walked over to him. I took the phone and hit the answer button. "Mrs. Banner speaking." I said and smiled as I looked at Bruce who grinned.

"Minnie, I just wanted to check in on you two and make sure you two got to the house okay."

"We're fine sweetie." I said as I looked up at Bruce who was running his fingers through my hair. "I'm pretty sure Fury picked this house because it's in the suburbs and he's getting revenge on me for that time I locked him in the kitchen at Stark Mansion, but aside from that, and the fact that no one in this neighborhood can mind their own damn business, everything is fine." I assured him making him chuckle.

"That's good. Fury wants me to set up a meeting with you to ensure everything is going okay in the next month or so." he explained and I raised an eyebrow even though he couldn't see it.

"Does he make you do this for everyone?" I asked and he laughed.

"There aren't enough hours in the day." he said and I smiled.

"God, I know that." I muttered. "Look, Phil, I'm gonna go, okay?"

"Alright Minnie. I'll be in touch."

"I have no doubt you will. Good night."

"Night." he said before hanging up.

"Fury wants Phil to come check in on us in a month." I said and he nodded as he looked up from the file he was looking at.

"Yeah it also says he has a doctor's appointment planned for us at the hospital a few minutes away."

"Really?" I asked and he nodded as he held out the file. "Oh look, honey, this is our "Back story"." I said using finger quotes.

"What's it say?" he asked as I read it.

"That you were a teacher at a university, and that I worked at a lab you used sometimes for your students and we met and started dating, but decided to move away from the city to raise a family." I said as I looked at the file.

"Well, that's pretty unoriginal."

"And unrealistic." I said with a sigh. "I'm not smart enough to work at a lab- Oh wait, here we go, I was a secretary there. That makes sense."

"You could work at a lab." he said as he wrapped his arm around my shoulders.

"You're sweet, but there's no way I could do most of that sciencey stuff." I shook my head.

"Oh come on, you're not that bad."

"Babe, you're lucky I know what the Higgs boson particle is." I said and he smiled.

"See, not many people know what that is." he said encouragingly.

"I only looked it up because I heard Tony call out an intern for applying to the science division of R&D without knowing what it was." I admitted and he laughed lightly.

"Well at least you looked it up." he said and I smiled.

"Yeah, I'm pretty good at looking up things I don't understand. I still don't understand why Tony called that intern out when most of the science he does in engineering, and not particle physics, but that's Tony for you."

"Who knows what goes on in his brain most of the time?" he muttered and I smiled before there was a knock on the door.

"Who's that?" I asked and he smiled.

"I ordered some pizza a little while ago when you were upstairs." he said and I grinned. "I may not be able to tell some things, but I know when you're hungry and don't want to cook. No to mention we didn't finish unpacking the kitchen." he shrugged before going to pay the pizza guy. When he came back he put the pizza on the table and handed me one of the plates he had unwrapped.

We took the pizza to the couch still facing the sliding glass back door and sat down, me curling up against his side while he wrapped his arm around me. "Still wouldn't change anything?" he asked as we looked out at the back yard.

"Nothing." I said and looked up at him with a smile. HYDRA be damned, I was married, pregnant, and I was going to enjoy my life with my husband, even if it meant dealing with them sometime in the future.

Because for right that moment, eating pizza on a couch overlooking the woods behind out house, and listening to the Beach Boys while Bruce alternated from eating pizza to looking through our packet, I was the happiest woman in the world.