A/N: One more chapter! Well, maybe two, depending on how long I drag it out and how short the chapters are. :P

My secret side I keep hid under lock and key

I keep it caged but I can't control it

'Cause if I let him out he'll tear me up, break me down

Why won't somebody come and save me from this, make it end?

-Monster: Skillet

At the Tower…

Once again, the residents of the Tower were waiting impatiently for Natasha to disembark.

"Well, did he watch it?"

"Is he coming back?"

"Where is he?"

Natasha only groaned at the slew of questions.

"Would all of you shut up?" She yelled. They quieted immediately, looks of mortal terror on their faces.

"Thank you. Now, he wasn't in his apartment, so I left all the stuff there. Therefore, the answer to all of your questions is I don't know." She said grumpily, shoving past them towards the kitchen. They all followed like ducklings.

"Well, do you think he'll come back?" Clint knew that out of all them, she somehow was the best at predicting what the doctor would do. He doubted it was some sort of suppressed love-after all she loved him, even if she wouldn't admit it-but maybe it had something to do with the fact that they both had too much innocent blood on their hands to ever wash away. Now Natasha seemed lost in her thoughts.

"He will, if he can ever feel safe." She murmured, taking a sip of water. Everyone fell silent at that.

India…

Bruce was pretty sure it was around five a.m. Or maybe three. Either way, it was far too early to be awake. He knew he wasn't going to go back to sleep though, so he allowed himself the luxury of a cup of tea and started hooking up everything to watch the video that was marked BRUCE after having several titles marked out. After a few mishaps with the wires, Bruce had everything hooked up and slid the video in and pressed the play button. For the first few seconds, there was only a black screen, then came a shaky shot of Tony's shoes.

"Is this thing on? That red light means it is, right? Ok, good." The camera righted itself, showing the common room. (Bruce had to snicker, Tony may be able to work most technology on earth, but Bruce had learned early on that cameras befuddled the genius.)

"Ok everyone, say hi!" The other Avengers and Pepper were all sitting on a couch, waving and smiling at the camera. (Bruce was feeling rather homesick again, but he kept watching anyways) "Alright, time to show Brucie here our present!" Tony said, his voice obviously excited.

"Where is the doctor?" Thor questioned, looking around before his face filled the screen. "Is he trapped in the device? I will free you, Green One!" There was a crashing noise and the screen turned to static before the video resumed, this time in the elevator packed with all of his friends, no, associates.

"Sorry about that, Thor decided to free you." Clint rolled his eyes.

"I apologize once more! I did not realize that the Doctor was not in the device!"

"Don't worry about it, Point Break." The elevator dinged.

"Ah, good! This is the surprise we want to show you!" Tony narrated as they all shoved out of the elevator. (Bruce had to wonder what was going on, couldn't they have just sent whatever it was?) They entered a huge room. It looked as they had just taken an entire floor, knocked out all the walls and painted it a truly hideous shade of purple, somewhere between lavender and puce. Bruce liked purple and all, but that was just plain ugly. The room was filled with completely random stuff, he was pretty sure he even saw a dented car in the corner of the screen.

"Alright Brucie, here you are! An official Hulk-Out room!" Tony's hand came into view, waving around as he slowly panned the camera.

"That way, whenever you get ticked at Tony, you can come down here and smash stuff!" Clint said cheerfully. (Bruce was still trying to figure out how exactly they planned to contain the Hulk there. Sure, a room was a great, and the thought was good, but did the actions match?)

"Now, before you start to shake your head, let me tell you a few things." Pepper's calm voice broke in. "First of all, we are in the basement, making it very difficult to break through a wall. Secondly, the walls and ceiling are both made of concrete, steel, and more concrete. The floor is just plain old stained concrete. In short, there is no way that you can break out of here." Well, that was helpful information, and it actually sounded pretty good.

"The best part is that I can send anything I don't want down here! Old cars, desks, annoying interns…" Bruce could imagine Tony's grin and could only shake his head at it.

"Anyways, we did this all for you, so that you can come home. We all need you back here." Steve's words were obviously heartfelt, and everyone in the video nodded in agreement, the camera even bobbed a little. After that, the screen went black again. Bruce sat back on his bed, thinking. Honestly, it all sounded pretty amazing. There was just one thing that bugged him. All these people here needed him. They needed his expertise. His thoughts were cut off by the video coming to life once more. This time it was just Tony, sitting in his lab in the casual clothes Bruce had seen him in so many times.

"Hey Bruce. I just wanted to add this in here, since I knew that room alone wouldn't convince you. I know that your conscience won't let you leave without healing everyone in whatever little village you're in, so I want to make a deal with you. If you come back, then not only will I personally send a team of doctors out there, I will promise you that every six months the entire team will go wherever you want, just to help. Not all of us are great at doctoring, but most of us know enough to be helpful." Tony ran a hand a through his hair. "Listen, I'm sending Natasha back out there in a week to get your decision. If you want to stay, then fine. We won't bug you again. But just know that we need our doctor back." The video went to black again, then to static. Bruce could only stare at the fuzzy screen, wondering if he had actually just seen Tony Stark care about someone other than Pepper. And about him of all people! Maybe, just maybe they really did want him back. Well duh! Why else would they build a giant room just for your alter ego? A voice that sounded suspiciously like Tony shouted in his head. Bruce sat there for a few more moments before coming to a decision and checking his watch. He could make it to the village by nightfall.