Bruce was still in the shower twenty minutes later, and Elizabeth knew he was thinking about what she had said, it put a small smile on her face to know that her words at least made it through to him, now to just see if he accepts them.
"Honey, what's that smile for? Thinking about that man in the shower?" Elizabeth about jumped in the air a second time that day.
"Grandma, what are you doing up? I have no clue what you mean. What man in the shower?" Her grandma just gave her the signature look, the 'don't try to pull anything over me, I know all' look.
"You're twenty almost twenty one years old, you can have gentleman calling for you, especially if he's who I think he is." By now Elizabeth was giving her grandma the, ' what the heck are you talking about,' look. "Is that the man who has been coming over almost every night? I'm not stupid honey, I know all that goes on here."
"All grandma?"
"Don't get smart with me dear, I'll take my breakfast in my room so you and the big green man who leaves foot prints in my yard can talk." That would explain how she knew, Elizabeth's grandmother had been spying on them. But, that would be Elizabeth's grandmother for ya, nosey as can be, but can't help but love her. She has always looking out for Elizabeth.
On her way back to her room Elizabeth heard Bruce leave the bathroom and get stopped by her grandma, she couldn't hear what was said, but Elizabeth could take a guess on what by the red tint on Bruce's cheeks.
"So, you met my gram then, don't worry she's relatively harmless and she knows, so no need to hide anything from her." Bruce sat down and nodded, he then looked up at Elizabeth.
"Now that we've calmed down, how about we start over? Hello, I'm Bruce Banner and when emotions are high I turn into a 'larger greener version' of myself." Elizabeth couldn't help but laugh at that and the way Bruce's lips twitched with a hint of a smile.
"Hello Bruce, nice to meet you, I'm Elizabeth Beckner, or as I may be known to you as flower." Bruce truly smiled then.
"You're the flower that he always thinks about?"
"He thinks about me?"
"Sometimes I can hear him roar flower in the back of my mind and I never understood why he would be calling for a flower." Elizabeth blushed at this information, she couldn't believe that, it was just too sweet.
"Yeah, the second time we met I told him my name and he had a hard time pronouncing and saying Elizabeth and started calling me flower when I asked he told me it was because I was pretty like a flower, so he stated he would call me flower." Bruce then looked thoughtful.
"That makes more sense, the calling for a flower, you, and you're pretty like one too." Elizabeth didn't think Bruce had meant to say that last part by the blush his cheeks sported. Now those introductions and the basics of how Elizabeth knew about Bruce they got to talking about their daily lives and what exactly they do. "So you live with your Grandma and help her out, aren't your parents in the picture to help out as well?"
"Well my mom is, but she has my younger siblings to raise and I figured that it's time I went out relatively on my own and stay here and help out when I'm not at school or work." Bruce nodded his head for he understood.
"What school do you go to? What are you studying?"
"I go to UNR." When she said the name of her school Elizabeth noticed that Bruce paled slightly, then began to smile a bit. "I study biology, I'm going into my second semester of my junior year. What about you Bruce, I know you're a doctor of some sort of science, but what really is it you do?"
"I am a nuclear physicist and will be starting a teaching gig this coming semester as and intro biology instructor and in physics. Ironically at your university." That would be why Bruce had paled, Elizabeth thought.
"So we'll be seeing each other on campus then, huh?"
"Well, if you want to that is?"
" Bruce of course I would want to. You can't get rid of me that easily." They both smiled at each other with that statement.
They continued their conversation learning more about each other than what they got from Hulk. Eventually, it was time for Bruce and Elizabeth to part. She drove him to his apartment not too far from their campus, swapping their numbers and Elizabeth making Bruce promise to call, because she was serious, he wasn't getting rid of her that easily.