Ok it's 7:15 she's changed into her outfit for the day, she's brushed out her hair, and everything is in her bag for today's classes.
Elliot walked out of her room to find Tony and Bruce in the kitchen hovering over some unattended cereal. She walks over and nudges Bruce awake carefully, to not make him hulk out.
Truth be told even when in a fight and he has to, Bruce has been struggling more and more to wake up jolly green.
Although it's always better to be safe than sorry. Bruce wakes up frantically looking around and calms down when he realizes where he is.
"Oh man… hey Elliot what…" he yawns and stretches a bit "what time is it?"
She looks over at the stove.
"It's 7:18, I'm assuming you 2 had a long night in the lab."
Bruce turns over to see Tony sitting, well more like laying on the counter with a bowl of now mushy cereal by his side.
Bruce sighs and nudges Tony for him to have an almost identical reaction as Bruce.
"Hey Bruce… hey Elliot" he tries his best to rub the sleepiness out of his eyes (and fails) "say what time is it?"
Both Elliot and Bruce look over to the stove and in unison say "it's 7:20". They look at each other and chuckle a bit.
"Hey Tony, I don't think that we can stay up any longer. I don't know about you but I'm completely drained" Bruce says with another yawn and a stretch
"Yeah I don't think that with our current state we should even be near power tools" Tony said with a chuckle that fazed into a yawn.
"Well I don't know how long you 2 have been awake or how many cups of coffee you've both had but I agree. I mean, you guys tried to eat, which I'm proud of, but failed at that. Yea no go to bed, both of you!"
Bruce and Tony gave each other looks and upon seeing each other's sunken cheeks, and dark eyes. They agreed right away.
Elliot made herself a breakfast sandwich plus a cup of coffee for Happy and grabbed herself a bang on her way to the elevator.
Happy, as always, waited for her in the driver seat with the car on ready for her to jump in.
"Hey Happy good morning!"
"Hey kid, how's your morning been so far?" He asked as she handed him his cup of caff.
"Oh you know, same old same old. I did find Tony and Bruce in the kitchen passed out. They were probably doing an all nighter again"
"You know at this point I ain't surprised any more kid." He said while backing up and sipping his coffee simultaneously. "I'm pretty sure you make the best coffee in Queens, you know that?" He said while taking another, more generous, sip.
"I know Happy, you tell me that every morning when I bring you a cup" she said with a playful eye roll.
"Are you finally gonna tell me what your secret is?" He asked hopefully.
She leaned in close like she was about to tell a secret. "... love" she said leaning back laughing. Happy only gave her a sigh.
"Kid, what am I going to do when I retire? How am I going to replicate this masterpiece If I don't know the ingredients?"
"Ah but that's the genius of it, Happy." She said making sure he was looking at her through his mirror. "That will be the string keeping you attached. You'll probably never quit or retire without that recipe" She gave him some evil scientist laugh as he sighed in defeat.