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Hi readers! I'm sorry for the long wait. Even though I know exactly how this ends, I've hit a roadblock and I wasn't quite sure on how to get there. So, be warned!

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Chapter 28: Hope

The loud thunder near the window woke him up with a startle. There seemed to be too much light coming through the window, it was probably morning already. It took him a moment to remember where he was. His house, his new house.

As he opened his eyes turning around towards the window he realized there was someone fidgeting next to him in bed. Someone warm that was reaching for his arm half asleep, saying she was cold.

Her hair was messed up, spread through the pillows. He cuddled with her, covering them up to their necks and put his arm around her waist. She locked fingers with him and started breathing more evenly.

Waking up next to her, feeling her so close felt incredible. Suddenly it all made sense and nothing else really mattered anymore. He breathed her in and gave her a little peck on the nape, causing her to sigh. He kissed her neck again and again, unlocking his fingers and running them over her skin. She turned around smiling, but with her eyes still closed and set herself on the now familiar spot of his neck. "Good morning Mr. Rogers"

Her skin was warm, too warm. "Good morning Dr. Morse. How are you feeling today?" she gave him a little kiss on the neck, and then another a bit higher while running her fingers through his chest hair. "I'm fine"

"I think you have a fever Penn" he said while cupping her face with his hand. Somehow she was now leaning on top of him, holding on to the sheets and cover. "I do not. You just get me all sizzling" he bit his lower lip beaming at her and then reached for hers, rolling in bed and getting on top of her without breaking their kiss.

Of course, a phone rang then. "When- when did we even get the phones here?" he ignored her question and kept kissing her neck now, his hands everywhere. But the phone wouldn't stop ringing, so she grabbed him by the hair "Ouch! What?!" She lifted her eyebrow "Phone's ringing, it's daylight, we gotta go to work"

He pondered for a moment and then zoomed back to her mouth "Later" she quieted a giggle between their kiss "Could be an emergency" her husky tone between moans wasn't at all convincing. Steve kept kissing her, realizing that her skin was too warm "It's not. If it were someone would-" they heard a doorbell ring.

He rushed out of the bed searching for his trousers, while she kept the sheet around her and followed him "Next to the sofa" he turned around and saw her flushed cheeks and swallowed lips. The doorbell rang again "Coming!" he looked at her and gave her a little kiss on her lips "I could get used to this you know"

She smiled and gave him a kiss "Me too". As he walked towards the living room/kitchen, she stayed in the bedroom, looking for her own clothes and the phone that kept buzzing. It was hers.

"Stanny, what's up?" Stan's tone sounded clogged "Got a cold, I've been here for 20 hours and I already have a cold. Can you believe that? How's Kato? And the beauty?"

She sighed "They're fine" she paused "What you mean 20 hours?" she heard voices on the living room and decided to lower her tone. "Ellie, you sure that Banner broke everything up?" Great, her shirt was there!

"What you mean? Yeah, I mean, there was your pen and my drive, nothing else" And her panties too. And my pants, good, pants are good, because I'm frakking freezing here.

"What's going on Stanny?" He paused again. "You need to see this, I'm sending you to your Pad"

"You sure that's safe?" she threw the sheet back in the bed and started making it up a bit while holding the phone with her shoulder. "It's in the cloud, untraceable. Who do you think I am?" She was gonna come out of the room, but Steve was clearly with someone else. "I can't reach my pad now. Can't you tell me?"

"Why are you whispering? What's going on Ellie?" She blushed, even though Stanny couldn't see her. "I'm not whispering. Why are you calling anyway Phillip!?"

"The heart rate monitor that was supposed to be destroyed was turned on 2 hours ago, and it's sending a signal, loud and clear, near Prince Edward Island. That" the door burst opened then and Steve came rushing "We have a hit on Bruce, we gotta go" he was beaming and was taken aback by her lack of surprise. And the phone in her ear "How?"

"A camera spotted Bruce, not Hulk. But we need to run, the Army's probably on its way"

"Stan I'll call you back" as she hung up she could hear his friend's purry voice making comments. Steve crossed his arms over his chest. She rolled her eyes at his gesture and went past him grabbing him from his t-shirt.

She shoved the pad to him with the GPS tracker map on. "I told you Bruce knew what he was doing" he smirked "He took Stan's heart rate monitor knowing it'd have a GPS. He wanted us to find him, see? Now we just need"- "to rush to the office, borrow a Quinjet and get there before anyone else"

She smiled reaching up to press a kiss on his lips, but they met half way "And you need an aspirin, you do have a fever" she cleared her throat " Yes sir"

They kissed one last time as they headed towards the Black beauty. They had a Dr. Banner to rescue.


Going into that store was a mistake, but he needed to eat something and he couldn't remember when was the last time he had eaten anything half decent.

He'd have to strip, put everything back in his bag, shift, focus on grabbing the bag, run. It was the only way he'd make it on time before the Army showed up.

We're not gonna get him. We need to get him.

Shit shit shit shit. I know. Let's do this.

He finished the peanut butter sandwich and drank as much water as he could. He was cold. He wouldn't feel the cold so much once he turned, it wasn't so bad. He started taking off his coat and his t-shirt and folded it neatly in the Stark backpack he had picked at that storage room Tony owned. You're folding? We have no time for folding!

He took off his shoes and put them in a bag. Stop bugging, I can't look like a rat if we need to blend in when we come back home. Whenhe put them in the backpack, he found the heart rate monitor. He wasn't going to turn it on until he was ready. He wasn't ready. He was far from it.

They could show up before the right time and they wouldn't let him go through it. Shit. Shit. Shit. But the camera picked on him. If that camera was replicated, as he knewit would be, then, he had little to no time left to act. His chances were better if they were around.

They won't let Ross take me. Take us, we'll be safe with them.He turned it on. Hulk's voice has been sounding different since he took the shots, but this time it had a worried concern. They won't be. Ross would kill them if they get in his way.

We won't let him. We'll do what we gotta do and then we go home. Home. Good.