"So are you going to cook dinner tonight?" asked Tony walking into the living room.

"I do believe it is movie night," said Vanessa looking up from her book. "And I plan on eating popcorn," she said with a smile. "So what movie is it tonight?"

"Miss Congeniality," said Pepper walking into the living room. "One of Tony's favorites," she said with a chuckle.

"Hey…it is not…" said Tony unbelievably. "Whatever, where is Barton? JARVIS?"

"Agent Barton is still in his room, sir," answered the AI. "Shall I page him?"

"No, it's good," said Tony.

"Very well, sir," said JARVIS.

"Vanessa, go fetch," said Tony.

"Do I look like a dog?" she said looking at her cousin. "And if you say yes, you best be able to get into that suit of yours, otherwise you are dead meat."

Tony chuckled and tossed a pillow at her. "We will be down the hall in the movie room."

Vanessa rolled her eyes as she headed for the elevator. She punched in the floor Clint was on and waited. The doors opened and she walked down the hall to his room. She was one floor up from him exactly. She would've knocked on the door, but the door was standing wide open. She looked in and saw him doing pull ups on a bar hanging from the ceiling. She watched as the muscles in his back flexed and he pulled himself up and dropped back down.

"Damn…" she said.

This let Clint know she was standing there. He dropped from the bar and turned to look at her. He grabbed a towel and wiped his face before quickly running it over his sweat covered chest.

"Can I help you?" he asked.

"Uh…Tony…movie…you…" she said still staring at his chest.

"I think I'll pass," he said tossing the towel into a laundry basket. "Not big on chick flicks."

Vanessa nodded as he disappeared into the bathroom. She shook her head and turned from the door.

"Da fuck was that?" she said to herself as she walked down the hall to the elevator.

She shook her head again as she stepped in and rode the elevator down to the main floor. She found the movie room easily enough. She took a deep breath to regain her composure before she walked in and joined the group.

"Where is Clint?" asked Tony.

"Ditched us," she said "Doesn't do chuck flicks."

"Ha," said Darcy standing up. "You owe me more waffles if I get him down here."

"Deal," said Vanessa a Darcy disappeared from the room.

When Darcy returned, with Clint in tow, they were already fifteen minutes into the movie. Darcy took her seat on the couch and Clint sat on the floor in front of her. He did not look happy to be there. As the popcorn bowl was passed around he snatched it and held it hostage. Vanessa smiled and got up to make more.

When she got to the kitchen she saw Dr. Banner sitting at the bar with a cup of tea. She grabbed the popcorn out of the cabinet and stuck it in the microwave before she turned to stare at the genius. It only took a moment for him to look up at her.

"What are you doing in here?" she asked. "Movie is out there."

"Wanted some tea," he said motioning towards the cup.

"Could've brought it back in there," she said.

He shrugged his shoulders.

"Even Clint is in there," she said taking the popcorn out of the microwave before putting another bag in. "Darcy is a miracle worker on that one."

Bruce chuckled.

"What? What's so funny?" asked Vanessa pouring the first bag of popcorn into a bowl.

"It's…it's nothing," said Bruce.

"Nuh-uh," said Vanessa sitting beside him. "It has to be something if it made the oh, so serious, Bruce Banner laugh."

"I don't think I'm supposed to know," he said.

"OH!" she said rather loudly. "Oops. They're fuckin' aren't they?!" This time she was more quite about her exclamation.

Bruce's face turned a nice shade of pink at her choice of words. He cleared his through before speaking, "For a lack of a better term, yes…they are."

"And how did you find this out?" she asked with a smile.

Before she could answer the microwave beeped at her again. She sighed as she stood up to grab the bag and empty it. When she turned around Dr. Banner was gone.

When she finally returned to the movie room the bowl that Clint had confiscated was empty and Tony was mad. Tony snatched the bowl from her hands and started in on the popcorn. Vanessa handed the other to Steve before she took Clint's bowl to make another bag of popcorn. This one didn't take as long, but by the time she returned to watch the movie they were putting in something else. She sighed as she sat down in her spot to settle into the new movie.

"What now?" asked Tony.

"Tony, it is going on one in the morning. I think we all would like to get some sleep," said Vanessa.

There was a rumble of agreements from the tired group. Tony huffed but conceded and they all went off to their respective rooms. Vanessa stumbled into her room half asleep.

"Should I set your alarm?" asked JARVIS.

Vanessa groaned. "Yes, please."

"Very well," said JARVIS as he dimmed the lights.

Seven-thirty came all too quickly the next morning. Vanessa begrudgingly rolled out of bed and shuffled to the bathroom for her morning shower. Being half awake she wasn't paying attention to if Darcy was in the shared bathroom.

"Oh, sweet baby Jesus!" shouted Vanessa as she ran from the room, slamming the bathroom door behind her.

She grabbed her yoga mat and left her room, forgoing her shower that morning. Still a bit dazed she set up her mat in the living room and started in on her stretches. It was only a few minutes later that Darcy came walking out into the living room.

"Uh, hey…" said Darcy spotting Vanessa.

"Uh…hi…" replied Vanessa just as awkwardly.

"Look, about…" started Darcy.

"Hey, whatever floats your boat," said Vanessa. "I'm not gonna tell anyone. But that was definitely not a side of you I wanted to see."

Darcy chuckled, "Sorry, though."

"Hey, I got to see Clint's ass, I aint sorry," chuckled Vanessa.

Darcy laughed, which is what Vanessa was going for. They shared another awkward moment before Vanessa said she would cook breakfast in an hour or so. Darcy smiled and reminded her of the extra waffles she was owed.

"I didn't forget," said Vanessa as she continued her yoga.

"How come Darcy is the only one to get waffles this morning," said Tony trying to snake one of the waffles.

"Because I owed her waffles," said Vanessa swatting his hand away. "You have pancakes," she said handing him a plate.

Tony smiled as he walked away with the plate.

"You have to share!" shouted Vanessa as he walked into the dining room.

The rest of the group filed in shortly after with the exception of Dr. Banner. Vanessa frowned but continued handing food off to people. Once everything was done, she joined the group at the table and they ate breakfast.

"Where is Bruce?" asked Darcy.

"He's still in the lab," said Jane. "I went down early this morning and it looked like he never left from last night."

"Nessa, grab food and follow me," said Tony standing up.

"Can't you take him food?" I would like to eat my breakfast too, ya know."

"I'm taking coffee," said Tony sticking out his tongue. "I can't carry it all down there myself."

Vanessa rolled her eyes as she loaded a plate of food and grabbed a glass of orange juice before following Tony to the elevator. Once on Tony punched the floor for R&D and they slowly rode down.

"So what ensures I get waffles?" asked Tony.

"Make a bet with me, and I lose?" she said. "That's what Darcy did."

"Huh," said Tony thoughtfully. "I bet I know something you don't know."

"Oh really?" said Vanessa with a smile. "What do you get if you win?"

"Waffles for a week," said Tony.

"And if I win, you don't bitch about me doing yoga in the living room," said Vanessa.

"Deal," said Tony with a smirk. "Care to take a guess at what it is?"

Vanessa smiled. "Darcy and Clint are fucking?" she said as the elevator opened up to R&D.

"What…how did…how did you know that!?" said Tony miffed. "You've only been here two days!"

"I walked in on them this morning in the shower," said Vanessa. "And I got it out of Dr. Banner by accident last night while I was making more popcorn.

"Not fair!" said Tony. "You knew already! It doesn't count!"

Vanessa laughed as she followed him into the lab that Dr. Banner, Jane and Tony used. Tony motioned for her to wait by the door as he walked towards Bruce who had his back to the door. Tony grabbed something off his desk as he approached the man in question. Vanessa watched as Tony stuck the pen shaped object into Dr. Banner's side. The man jumped knocking a mug to the floor. He had apparently been asleep. Tony jumped back, dropping the pot of coffee to the floor.

"Uh, now would be a good time to leave," said Tony, not looking at Vanessa. "Hit the big green button on your way out, please."

Vanessa turned to see a button encased in a plastic shield next to the lab door. She set her plate down and walked over to it. She lifted the lid and hit the button. She expected to hear an alarm, but all it did was flash at her. She turned to see Tony trying not to run over to his desk, grabbing his bracelets along the way. Her gaze then fell to Dr. Banner. He was standing next to his desk and breathing hard. She slowly made her way to him.

"Nessa! Don't!" shouted Tony when he saw her. "Get out of here!"

Vanessa ignored him, although her mind was telling her to run, her body wasn't listening. She reached out and touched Bruce's shoulder. He jerked his head towards her. Instead of seeing his brown eyes, they were a light shade of green. She started to pull her hand back, but lightly touched his shoulder again.

"Bruce?" she asked with a shaky voice. "Bruce, are you okay?"

He stared at her for a minute, but his breathing didn't change. Slowly his eyes were turning a darker shade of green.

"Nessa, back away slowly," said Tony, now fully suited up as Iron Man.

Bruce turned to look at Tony when he spoke and grunted in anger. Tony stopped talking and slowly tried to make his way over to his cousin.

"You should really, really, leave now," said Tony touching Vanessa's arm.

Vanessa turned to look at Tony and spotted the rest of the group running towards the office.

Must have been a silent alarm. Makes sense, wouldn't want to piss the volatile doctor off any more than he already is, she thought.

About the time she turned back towards Bruce and Tony Bruce had spotted the group and his breathing was picking up and he was starting to shake. Vanessa, not always the brightest crayon in the box moved between Bruce and the glass door so that he was focusing on her. She heard the door open and Thor shout, it was hard not to miss it. Bruce let out a scream in return and grabbed his head. Vanessa grabbed his hands and pulled them away from his face before she grabbed his face.

"Best offence is a good defense, and when that doesn't work you take them by surprise," she said.

It took Tony a minute to realize what she was talking about. Vanessa grabbed Bruce's face and pulled him into a kiss. The group had stopped running and talking and were just staring at her. When she pulled back she still held his face in her hands. The rage that she had seen in his eyes before was turning to confusion. She smiled at him weakly as she let go of his face and stepped back from him.

Slowly his breathing returned to normal and the green tint was gone from his eyes. Tony stepped between them at that point and someone closed their hand around Vanessa's arm. She turned to see Captain America standing next to her. She noticed he had a slight pink shade to his face. She smirked as she let him lead her way from the lab.

Once she was deposited outside the lab, with Jane and Darcy, she let out the breath she had been holding.

"Guess that's one way to calm the beast," chuckled Darcy.

Vanessa smiled and lightly smacked Darcy's arm.

Hope you enjoyed this long awaited chapter! I decided to use Bruce because there just aren't enough stories about him. Please review! ~Kat