Hey ya'll! I loved the great reception that my last chapter got, I'm so happy you like what happened, and I hope you continue to like what happens next. Bruce is in the chapter, but he's not really in it. That makes sense, I think. Anyhoo, here's the chapter, I hope you like it, and I hope you continue to review ;) Because seriously, you guys reviewing is why I update so often.

People were rushing over and asking me things, but I just stared at where he had run off to, then I gathered up my skirt and took off running after him. I made it a few feet, and then fell in the grass. I growled in frustration at my heels and jumped back up.

"Sammy, leave it!" Gwen called to me.

"I can't just leave it! That's Bruce!" I said as tears grew in my eyes. I looked at Tony who was watching. "Isn't it?" I asked and he nodded after a second. I shook my head and Dallas came over to me, he put his hand on my arm, trying to comfort me.

"We'll take my car," the photographer said and I looked at him in surprise. "I know a lot of people who live in the direction he was heading."

"Where was he heading?"

"Cajun country." he said and I stared at him. "The bayous." Tony followed us to where his rental car was. He opened the trunk and pulled out a red and gold suitcase I knew to be his suit. He put it on and looked at us. "I'll follow from the air." he said and I nodded.

"Sam, don't!" Abby called as she ran to us. "You can't he's dangerous!"

"He Saved My Life!" I shouted as I walked around the car and threw open the door. "And I can't just leave him out there." I got into the car.

"Well... Maybe we should call someone?" she offered and I looked back at the broken front of the Plantation home.

"Yeah, call 911. Simon's going to need it." I said before I got into the rusty, shit kicker truck and slammed the door closed. The photographer got into the car and started it up before pulling out of there, and in the direction that Bruce had run off in.

"So how long have you been dating the Hulk?" he asked as he drove.

"A few weeks." I said softly. My phone rang and I answered it quickly. "Tony." I said.

"He's going south east. What's that way?"

"Southeast?" I asked the driver who thought for a second.

"Swamps mostly."

"Mostly swamps," I said to Tony.

"I'll keep an eye on him, he'll tucker himself out." Tony said and I sighed. "So what happened that pissed him off that bad?" he asked.

"It was Simon, he hit me, and tried to strangle me." I said into the phone. I touched my tender neck, it hurt to talk, and I knew it would be bruised, but right now I was more concerned with finding Bruce okay. "Look, Tony, my battery is dying, call me if he stops, or changes direction." I said.

"No problem." he said and we both hung up.

"So, I never found out your name." I said to the photographer who smiled at me.

"Carlo." he said and I shook his outstretched hand. "Mind if I smoke?" I shook my head and he cracked the window so he could smoke as he made a call. "Hey man, it's Cal. Yeah. Yeah." he sniggered. "Hey, look, The Hulk is headed your way. Yeah that big green thing from the news. I wanna know where it ends up."

"He." I said and Carlo looked at me. "He's a He, not an It." I said and he looked back at the road.

"Yeah, no, nothing like that. No, I've just got... Well, I've got his girlfriend here. Yeah. No, I'm serious. Okay." he hung up. "I'm sorry." I didn't say anything; I just looked out the window. When Tony called me again it had been a good 40 minutes of driving.

"Yeah, he's seemed to have stopped. Some swamp, I'll have Jarvis send you the location."

"Do you see it Ms. Strong?" I heard the AI in Tony's suit ask.

"Yeah, I see it Jarvis." I said as it popped up on the GPS in my phone. "I'll see you guys soon, we're not far." I said before I showed the mat to Carlo. Ten minutes later I saw Tony having some stare down with two little kids.

"What's going on?"

"He's our alien, we're gonna keep him!" the little boy said.

"Yeeeah!" the little girl drawled.

"He's not an alien!" I said as I pushed past the kids. I found Bruce- or the Hulk, lying on the ground, seemingly unconscious. I dropped to my knees next to him, and lightly ran my hand over his green face. He didn't move, which concerned me, until I realized he was breathing. I heard a car pull up and the kids ran towards it.

"We found an alien!" they cheered to their parents.

"What in the hell is going- Oh my god!" the wife shouted when she saw me and the Hulk.

"I'll take care of this." I heard the sound of a shotgun being pumped and I jumped up and turned around.

"No!" I screamed at him. "No, don't hurt him, he's okay!"

"What in the hell is he?" the man asked. "Some kinda… Sasquatch?"

"Hey man, you're Jasper Reeves, right?" Carlo asked.

"Yeah, who're you?" he asked.

"I'm Cal, I'm Bill Hopper's friend."

"How is Bill?" the guy asked and Carlo rolled his eyes.

"Man, Bill got arrested again."

"Huh, what for this time?" Jasper asked.

"Drunk in public."

"What again?" Jasper laughed. "I remember this one time-" he was cut off by his wife elbowing him in the ribs. "Oh, right, uh, ma'am, sorry I pointed a gun at your... Alien."

"He's not an alien."

"He sure looks like an alien." one of the kids said.

"Actually she's right, he's not an alien." Tony said as his Iron Man armor shrunk down to make a briefcase again. "And he's going to need some clothes when he wakes up." he said and Jasper nodded slowly.

"Sure, I'll grab him something to wear."

"Honey, why don't we get you out of that dress?" Jasper's wife asked. "My daughter Laurie's got clothes that will fit you." she said as she took my arm. I followed her into the house where she gave me a pair of short jean shorts and a green and white tee shirt that practically matched the color of Hulk's skin.

I took my earrings and heels off and pulled the pretty clip I had in my hair out and put them all in the truck; I walked back over to the Hulk and sat down next to him. "Honey," I looked at Karen, the wife, and smiled she had brought out a cup of coffee. I took a sip and coughed when I realized it was very heavily spiked. She had also brought out two blankets, one of which she spread on the ground, the other one I used to cover my very large, very green boyfriend.

"Thank you so much for letting us stay here." I said as I looked away from Hulk.

"Well what am I gonna do? Insist you get your big green friend and get out of here?" she asked and I smiled. "Besides, I think the kids like your other friend." she nodded to the window where I could see Tony telling the kids stories about Iron Man, throwing himself on the ground at one point. I rolled my eyes with a smile and Karen touched my hand. "How long have you been together?"

"A few weeks." I said.

"And he's not always... Green?" she asked and I shook my head with a smile.

"No, no, this is the first time it's happened that I've seen. I mean, I had always heard about the Hulk, since that incident at the university, and Harlem, and all of that, but I never heard about who he was or anything, the papers were pretty good at keeping that a secret." I sighed.

"So what happened?"

"I was at a wedding, over at Oak Alley." I said and she nodded. "And there was an ex boyfriend there and he... Hurt me." I showed here where Simon had smacked me, and tried to strangle me.

"Justin!" she hollered into the house. The little boy showed up at the doorway. "Get some ice out here." she called and he ran into the kitchen. He came out a moment later with some ice in a dish towel and Karen held it to my face lightly. "So, he hurt you, what happened next?" she asked and I nodded to the Hulk.

"Bruce changed, and he- he stopped Simon-"

"Simon's your ex?"

"Yes ma'am." I nodded. "Then he took off." I said.

"And you followed him?"

"I couldn't just let him... Wake up somewhere unfamiliar, with no one he knows." I said and she smiled.

"I hope he realizes he's a very lucky man." she said and looked at him. "I mean not many girls would go running after a big green guy like him, all fearless."

"I'm not fearless." I said as I pulled my knees to my chest and stared down at him. "I'm scared shitless." I admitted and looked over at her. "I'm scared of what happened, I'm scared of what I saw, but when he ran off like that, I was mostly scared I'd never see him again." She smiled and touched my knee lightly before she looked back at him.

A little while later I had called Tabby and told her everything was okay, to which she responded that Oak Alley was pissed, for good reason, and the police were looking for us, also for good reason. She then said she couldn't believe she got to see two Avengers on her wedding day and that MeeMaw was laughing hysterically when Simon had been thrown into the side of the house. I smiled at that, and then told her I loved her and hung up. Pretty soon it was time to put the kids, Justin and Jessica to bed, which Karen let me help her do.

"He's pretty not scary for someone that big." Jessica said and I smiled lightly. "I hope he feels better."

"He will sweetie." I said to the ten year old girl. Next Justin wouldn't stop babbling about Tony. When Karen and I finally got him to go to settle down he looked up at me with large brown eyes.

"Can he be fixed?" he asked and I swallowed.

"There's nothing to fix." I said finally. He rolled over and sighed and I looked at Karen who nodded to me. We went back outside where some lawn chairs had been brought out by Bruce. Tony, Carlo, and Jasper were sitting there, each of them with a drink in their hands, talking. "Tony, call Pepper and let her know you're alive." I said to him and he laughed.

"That's what I pay you to do."

"I'm on vacation." I said as I sat down on the blanket next to the Hulk. Tony walked over and put his hand on my shoulder.

"He'll be okay." he said as he looked down at me.

"Why didn't he tell me?" I asked as I looked up at Tony. He sighed and shook his head.

"We tried to tell him to." he said. "He was... Scared. Of how you'd react."

"Well..." I sighed. "I guess some things make sense now." I said and Tony nodded.