Author's note: so sorry for the delay, but I've had both my Irish and French orals these past two weeks and I've gotten the exam papers for art so I've been busy with that. Anyway I hope you've all been doing well and I want to thank everyone who has reviewed and favourited.
Chapter Five: When Bruce Banner returned home
Since the Chitauri invaded New York Bruce Banner's life has never been the same, for once the Hulk was no longer considered a menace to a society in fact for the first time Bruce wasn't been hunted for what became of him.
He didn't know what to do with himself.
When he first met Tony Stark he was astonished that he finally met someone who wasn't afraid of him and still remembered from the science that destroyed his life. The Big Guy wasn't considered as a monster and he wasn't terrified to test Bruce despite the anger that simmered underneath the surface all the time.
Well not at all the time.
The Big Guy was calming. It scared Bruce as he could always predict what mood the Big Guy was in, how to avoid stressful situations. But the pattern was changing ever since the Big Guy felt he belonged among the wreckage that devastated New York with those misfit superheroes.
That's why he knew it was time to accept Tony's offer.
Since the Avengers was initiated Tony offered a home to each of the Avengers and as far as he knew only Steve Rogers accepted. Although at first their head butting at the beginning of the crisis Bruce could tell there was something more.
Bruce didn't tell Tony he was coming as the offer was to drop by at anytime and he felt if he did forward his arrival he would be to terrified to show up. It was hard socialising with people as a normal human being as he considered himself a monster for so long,
So when Bruce rode that long elevator up to the Avengers suite, he was surprised when he heard the whimsical laugh that resided on the other side. What surprised him even more was the Big Guy was calming within his mind, no longer banging at the mental barriers that kept him out.
Once the elevator doors opened and Jarvis announcing his arrival, he took a deep breath only to set his eyes upon the sight of his teammates cuddling a little girl within their arms napping on the couch.