May 2010

"Come on Bruce, it's about time you met the rest of my family, my mom and brothers have been dieing to meet you. Come on!" Bruce had paled a little at the brothers part, I couldn't help but tease him a little. "And all my uncles would like to meet you, they say they need to talk to you about something." Bruce now looked about to faint. "I'm just teasing Bruce, come on we're already late. I'm sure everyone is already there and started cooking the hamburgers. They can't start until we get there with the buns and different salads."

Reluctantly Bruce hurried and they got in the car back to Elizabeth's home. Elizabeth tried to talk to Bruce to get his mind off finally meeting her family, but she knew he was nervous about Hulk coming out. Elizabeth knew that unless they truly needed him, that he wouldn't come out to play. By the time they pulled up Elizabeth knew she was right, everyone was already there waiting on them.

Elizabeth had to practically force Bruce to and through the front door, the only ones in the front room were Elizabeth's uncles.

"Well Bruce, better get it over with now, these are my uncles Tim, Mike, and Jay; Uncles this is Bruce my boyfriend. Remember you said you'd be nice to this one." Elizabeth kissed Bruce on the cheek before grabbing the food and heading towards the kitchen, Bruce should be fine, they'll just give him a hard time, Elizabeth thought.

"Hey everyone I'm back and I come bearing gifts." Everyone smiled and said their greetings, except for Darla, she only glared at Elizabeth, not that she blamed her. Elizabeth hadn't really clarified the whole Bruce and Professor Banner are the same person to her, she figured Darla would figure it out on her one.

"Honey, where's Bruce, I thought you went to get him?" Elizabeth's mom asked.

"Yeah Elizabeth, where is Bruce when you're not out playing with others?" Darla spat out at her. Everyone looked at her with odd looks, but chalked it up to it just her being Darla. By this time Bruce and Elizabeth's uncles were walking into the kitchen laughing and having a good time.

"Everyone this is Bruce, Bruce Banner, Bruce this is well everyone." Bruce smiled and waved a little, but Elizabeth could see a slight blush crawl up his cheeks. At that moment Darla shot up from her seat with a gasp and stared at Bruce and Elizabeth.

"Wait-what? You're Bruce?! What about your wife?" Now everyone was shocked and staring between Bruce and Elizabeth, no one knew what to say.

"Wife?" Bruce finally said.

"Yes! Physics 151, first day of class you said you had a wife, you wear a wedding ring and yet I walked in on you two in your office! Explain that!" Bruce looked mortified.

"That was you?" He managed to squeak out. Elizabeth couldn't help but bust out laughing, it was just too funny.

"Darla, you're right he did say he was married, but Bruce would you like to explain it?" With a sigh Bruce started to explain.

"I told my classes that so girls wouldn't try to seduce me for better grades and so then Lizzy heard from her cousin, Darla that I said I was married and gave me a ring to wear as a joke." A look of embarrassment shined on Darla's face.

"oh..."

"So Darla, Bruce is Professor Banner and he doesn't have a wife so no worries about hurting others in our "elicit affair"."

"I'm sorry I yelled at you that day Elizabeth, I was just shocked and felt bad for Bruce, but when really he was well taken care of." She said the last part with a wink, cheeky git this thing.

"So what exactly were the two of you doing that made Darla assume any of this about an affair?" Elizabeth's uncle Jay asked. Bruce and Elizabeth looked at each other bright red, they didn't know what to say without embarrassing themselves further.

"Nothing you would like to hear about your niece is doing, is all you need to know Uncle Jay." Elizabeth said while leaning up and kissing Bruce full on the lips, making him turn even redder if that was even possible.

By this time dinner was ready and they all sat down to eat. Once everyone was done, everyone excluding Bruce and Elizabeth they agreed that since they were late they had dish duty.

"It's no problem really, I'll be glad to help out, honestly." Bruce told Elizabeth's mom who was trying to help them.

"Alright if you say so, Bruce." She said before leaving them alone in the kitchen.

"Hold on," Elizabeth said going over and turing the radio on to give them some entertainment while Elizabeth rinsed and Bruce dried all the dishes. Elizabeth was on her last dish when Bruce came behind her and started to sway her hips with his hands and kissed her neck while doing so.

"Come on." Bruce then grabbed Elizabeth's hand and spun her until they were flush together and they started to dance to "Save the last dance for me" by Micheal Buble. Right before the song was to end Bruce dipped Elizabeth and kissed her before whispering in her ear.

"Move in with me?" Elizabeth was shocked, of course Elizabeth wanted to move in with him, but Elizabeth worried what would happen to her grandmother, what would she do?

"Bruce I-" Elizabeth was cut off by Darla and her grandmother.

"That was the most sickening sweet thing I have ever seen, make me want to puke."

"Darla, knock it off." Elizabeth's grandmother proceeded to slap Darla's arm for her comments.

"Can we talk about this more later?" Elizabeth asked Bruce, who just nodded his head and walked out back, leaving Elizabeth with the other two.

"What was that all about?"

"Yeah, you two had an amazingly sweet moment and now Bruce looks like a kicked puppy, what'd you do?" Darla and their grandmother asked Elizabeth.

"I didn't do anything alright, he asked me to move in with him and I ... I just can't leave you Gram. Someone needs to be here for you just in case. It's not fair to leave you alone." Elizabeth was frustrated by now and had tears running down her face. Her grandmother leaned in and started to rub her back.

"Oh honey, you shouldn't have to worry about me, I'm fine. You should be more worried about yourself and Bruce."

"But Gram, I can't leave you alone, I just know the moment I do, something will happen to you, I just know it!" Elizabeth said while sobbing. Elizabeth was torn between wanting to take her relationship with Bruce to the next level and leaving her grandmother alone.

"Shh-shh-shh, now there calm down, no need for tears." Her grandmother tried to calm her down.

"I'll move in." Darla said in a soft voice. "I'll move in with grandma. It's about time I take some real responsibilities as well as do more for you Grandma."

"Oh Darla, you don't need to I mean-"

"No Eliza I want to do this, it'll help me grow up and hopefully I can become as close with Grandma as you are." Darla said with a smile towards gram.

"That would be lovely dear, you and I haven't had as much time together as I would have liked. Why don't you and I talk some more about it, while you Elizabeth go tell Bruce that he is now stuck with you twenty-four hours of the day." Elizabeth gave her a small smile and walked out back while wiping the rest of her tears away.

"Bruce? Bruce are you out here?" Elizabeth walked further in the backyard. "Bruce please, I'm sorry, it's just what about Gram? Bruce please!?" Elizabeth finally saw movement to the left. "Oh Hulk, I didnt' mean to upset him that much if at all." Elizabeth told him softly while walking closer to Hulk's sitting form.

"Hulk." He wouldn't look at Elizabeth. "Hulk, please look at me." He barely turned his head, but Elizabeth could see his eyes watching her. "Hulk, I'm sorry, I love you and Bruce so much, but I was just worried about leaving my Gram all alone. I don't want to lose her, but I also don't want to lose you. I love you and that means you will never be able to get rid of me, alright?" Elizabeth now had Hulk's full attention. "Can I talk to Bruce and set this whole thing straight and how stupid I feel?" Hulk smiled and stood up and began to shrink back into Bruce.

Bruce staggered and failed at keeping hold of his now shredded pants. Elizabeth rushed over to help him keep steady and gain his bearings.

"Bruce, I didn't mean to get you so upset. I would love to move in with you, I was just worried about Gram living on her own. I've told you repeatedly that you couldn't get rid of me if you tried." Bruce just looked at Elizabeth with a soft expression.

"I thought you wouldn't want to move in with me, I honestly didnt' think about you leaving your grandmother alone."

"Oh, Bruce I love you!" Elizabeth leaned in and gave him a full on passionate kiss. "It's settled I'll be moving in with you." Bruce was about to interrupt Elizabeth, but she just continued. "And Darla will be moving in with Gram." Bruce was now smiling.

"I can't wait until I'll have you around every single day and where your grandmother and cousin won't be looking through the window while I'm struggling to keep my pants up." Elizabeth couldn't help but laugh when she turned around to see that they were looking out the window, good thing it was too dark for them to see that Bruce was almost naked.

"Come one, lets go get the clothes from my car, they're very similar to the ones you wore tonight. If any one asks just tell them I couldn't keep my hands off you and ripped them off in passion. They'll be too shocked to ask what really happened or too busy trying to kill you." Elizabeth said the last part as an afterthought and started to giggle when she felt Bruce tense up a bit.

AN: Sorry It's taken forever to update. I've been busy busy busy, but that's no excuse. Once again thank you for all the reviews they are very much appreciated. I hope you enjoyed it! I'm slowly getting to where the movie starts, I just want to get the background of their relationship set up before I get to the movie.