Hello readers,

Here is the third chapter. It's a little shorter, but I just wanted to go ahead and get it out there for ya'll. Please review, I like to read the bad reviews and the good ones. How else can I become a better writer without a little review from my readers? I would like to thank Nocturnal Storyteller for their review. And I do not own the Avengers...

Scmax

Bruce coming over to my clinic during lunch time, became a regular thing for us. Some days we would just talk about our patients and other patients in the past. We talked about the parts of our lives that were safe to talk about. It wasn't until a year passed that we began to fully trust the other, and opened up about our past. Bruce told me all about his first love, and how he became the Hulk. I told him about my past at the school for mutants and about my power to feel and read any emotion coming off anybody. That started a long discussion that ended up with him at my house with a cup of chamomile tea (like his first visit). We sat in the living room this time, each of us on the opposite ends of the couch.

"Okay, so let me get this straight." Bruce says setting down his cup.

I had just explained the full extent of my empath power, and it was a lot to take in all at once. He sits on the edge of the couch with his hands clasped between his legs, and turned where he can still see me.

"You can not only feel people's emotions, but also manipulate them, and use them against people?" Bruce asks.

I nod confirming what he asked, and wait for him to continue.

"Okay, so you can also find a loved one across great distances, tell a lie from the truth, and feel the environments emotions as well?" He asks turning to look at me fully.

"Yeah, that's pretty much it." I say setting my cup on the coffee table.

"Huh."

That was all he said. Then he just sat there looking at his hands and thinking over all that I told him. I could see that he had a couple more questions to asks, but didn't know if he should. Instead of encouraging him to ask, I just sat back and waited for him to make the decision for himself. What he asked though shocked me, as I didn't expect him to ask this question so soon.

"Can you feel the other guys anger?" Bruce asks wringing his hands.

I sigh and place my hand over his to try to ease his nervousness a little.

"Yes, I can Bruce, but he's not all anger." I say softly.

Bruce snapped his head up at that and looked at me like I was crazy. I couldn't help but laugh at that, and had to control myself at the hurt look on his face.

"I'm sorry Bruce, I wasn't laughing at you. It was that blast of shock that I got from you." I say placing my hand on his shoulder in apology.

Bruce relaxed under my touch and a soft look came over his face.

"No, I'm sorry Lissa. I know the other guy is not all anger. I just didn't think you would be able to feel that deeply into his emotions." Bruce admits taking my hand in his.

"Well I can. I can read both of you so easily now, and it's only because I've been able to spend time with you." I say quickly when I feel him start to tense up again.

"You haven't gone reading our emotions, intentionally have you?" Bruce asks going back to his old self.

"No, no Bruce. I would never do that to you or the Jolly Green Giant. It's just that the longer I spend time with a person, the better I get at reading their emotions and the layers hidden underneath the top layers." I explain.

Bruce takes a minute to take that in and relaxes his hold on my hand. He asks a couple more questions about what I could feel from the Jolly Green Giant, and I answered him with nothing but the truth. I told Bruce that the Jolly Green Giant was like a curious little kid, it's just that he didn't know how to control his anger. Bruce laughed at that and agreed with me. Which kind of shocked me, but I laughed with him when I got over the shock.

We finished our teas after that discussion and just kept the rest of the conversation light. That is until my phone rang and Jo's name popped up on the screen.

"Jo?" Bruce asks handing me my phone, "Sorry I didn't mean to look." He added.

"It's okay Bruce, but I should take this or my head will get bitten off again." I say feeling a little guilty.

"Oh yeah of course. I should probably go it's getting late anyways. Goodnight Elissa." Bruce says walking to the door.

"Goodnight Bruce." I call out before he can shut it on me.

I sigh and answer my phone, feeling a little guilty that I haven't told him about my other secret.

"Ugh you would not believe the day I just had." Jo says as soon as I answer.

My mind is still on Bruce though so I don't hear Jo at first. Well that is until Jo screams in my ear, affectively gaining my attention.

"Jesus Christ Jo, why did you yell?" I snap moving the phone to my other ear.

"Well you weren't listening to me. I was trying to tell you about my day Miss Carbonell." Jo snaps right back.

"Hey watch your tone." I warn glaring even though I knew Jo couldn't see me.

"Sorry, sorry. But I had a rough day today and wanted to tell you all about it." Jo says.

I can imagine her on the other side of the line pouting, with her lower lip sticking out in that puppy dog look she does.

"Oh, stop pouting and tell me all about your day." I say laying back on the couch to get comfortable.

"First before anything, I miss you and want you to come back to be my teacher. Now you won't believe what happened to me today. First my best friend decided to run off with her boyfriend, and the professor asked for my help in finding them. Then when I did, she tried to use her powers on me. I guess she's joining magneto's side." Jo ranted on.

I could imagine her pacing in her room while talking about her day, and tried to calm her down a little. It worked to some degree, but then she just worked herself back up again. I laughed to myself and settled back for a long conversation, that was just mostly Jo ranting about this and that.