AN: Thank you for the reviews, I know you want more Hulk, but I'm trying to get Bruce and Elizabeth's relationship to where I need it before I start the movie. This chapter is going to be a little different, instead of being a third person point of view it is going to be in Elizabeth's point of view. It flows better and being able to feel the emotions better this way. Sorry if it's confusing for some.

Ten months later March 2011

Elizabeth's POV

Bruce and I have officially been dating for over a year now, but have only been living together for about ten months. I can say they have been wonderful, I know totally cheesy, but true, the only problem has been the past couple weeks or so. Bruce has been acting weird, okay weirder than normal, even by my standards.

I have been trying to talk to him about it, but he is a master mind at coming up with distractions; ones that mainly end up with us in bed too exhausted to talk. But this past week has been worse, he is usually neat and organized, but his brain has been scattered in places unknown to me.

Just now I heard Bruce walk in the door and come in to the kitchen, where I was cooking dinner.

"Oh, Lizzy this smells amazing." He tells me while leaning over my shoulder to smell dinner.

"Well, set the table and you can tell me how amazing it tastes." I cheekily say while putting the finishing touches on the chicken I had made. Dinner was ready as was the table Bruce had set and we sat down and began to eat.

About half-way through dinner I sat my fork down and looked at Bruce seriously.

"Bruce I would like to know what had been going on, and no distractions this time. I mean it!" Bruce sighed and sat his own fork down.

"Can't say I thought that would work every time, although I had hoped."

"Well, you won't be getting any "distractions" from me until you tell me what has gotten you so scatter-brained, Bruce. I'm worried about you. "

"Do you remember me telling you about how the other guy came to be, the gamma ray experiment?"

"Yeah..." I said unsure how this was relevent to him being distant.

"Well, for a while people- the government included have been tracking me, they're trying to either control the other guy for reasons unknown or trying to get me to recreate the experiment so they could create more like myself." I gasped at this, Bruce never told me that people have tried to hunt him down.

"These past few weeks I have noticed strange things, like cars following me, people surveying outside on campus and around here. At first I felt I was paranoid going into old habits or something. It wasn't until last week that I was on my computer in my office when a hacking program popped up and I knew I wasn't being paranoid. Oh, god by staying here I have put you in danger. I shouldn't have stayed in one place so long." I didn't know what to do , I never expected something like this to happen.

"Bruce, what are you talking about, I'm not in danger, and don't you dare think of taking off without taking me with you or at least telling me first!" Bruce was shaking his head.

"I didn't mean it like that, I'm thankful I stayed here and meet you. It's just that I only meant to stay here a little while couple months or so. But the other guy kept taking over and preventing me from leaving. I only found out why when I met you, you were my reason to stay. I had thought that no one would find me here and I hadn't seen any signs in the last year and a half that anyone had found me until a couple weeks ago." I grabbed Bruce's hand and held on like my life depended on it.

"What are we going to do then, Bruce? Because I want to help, I can't lose you." Bruce sighed.

"I have to leave, go somewhere remote where no one would find me nor look for me."

"Fine, we'll find somewhere like that and we'll go there, just you and me, we can avoid this Bruce, together."

"No, no you can't come with me, I can't put you in anymore danger than I have, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I did."

"Bruce, you don't mean that, I love you and I'd be damned if I let you go away without me, with a chance I wouldn't be able to live with that." Bruce got up and kneeled in front of me putting his hands on both my cheeks.

"Lizzy, Elizabeth, it wouldn't be the last time we see each other, it wouldn't be a goodbye. I promise you that, I promise that this," he said pointing between us, "isn't over. I will always love you, I will find ways to contact you without it being traced. Given it won't be often, but it will happen." I was crying now because I didn't want Bruce to leave, but I know to keep myself as well as himself safe he must.

"When do you plan to leave?" Bruce looked guilty now.

"Tomorrow, I was going to tell you, I just didn't know how. I knew it would be hard, but I didn't think it would be this hard." I understood now why he has been so scatter brained and I understand why he's doing what he's doing, but doesn't mean I have to like it.

"One last night together?" He just nodded. "Better make it count then." That we did, we didn't get to sleep until early next morning. I awoke alone, I looked around and realized Bruce had already left, but there was an envelope with my name drawn in Bruce's handwriting. I didn't want to open it, it would mean that he really left and isn't just in the other room.

Sighing I decided to open it anyways.

Lizzy, my Elizabeth,

I know you will be upset when you wake up and find I have left while you were sleeping. I did it so we wouldn't have to say goodbye, until we meet again, I want our last memory together to be this last night. Oh Lizzy, I feel as if our time has been cut short and you just knocked sense into me back at the wonderful Christmas last year. The other guy is upset with me as well for leaving you, but he does on some level understand why, we both want you to be safe. You are the only person I know that has accepted me, all of me without judgements. Which is why I have left to keep my one person safe, Elizabeth you are my person, nothing and no one will change that. I only hope that I am your person as well. Which is why this couldn't have happened at the worst time. Before all of this had happened I was going to ask you something and I regret not doing it in person, but I was hoping that once we can be together again, will you consider being my wife? I realize there will be no way for me to know your answer until I find a secure location and contact you, but I felt I needed to ask you even if it is in a shame of a letter. But always know I will always love you, no matter what. I want the best for you and that is why the apartment has been paid off indefinitely, I wanted to make sure you were taken care of while I was away. I must end the letter here before I never want to leave.

Your's forever,

Bruce

I couldn't help it, I was bawling while reading Bruce's letter. Especially when he asked me to marry him. No matter what I would accept it, I love him too much not to. Glancing back at the letter through my tears I say he added a post script to the letter.

PS: Look inside the envelope.

I scrambled to find the discarded envelope, I found it laying under the bed. I turned it upside down and out came a beautiful engagement ring, a small heart shaped diamond, with two emeralds on either side. My favorite color and gem, it was beautiful,what really caught my attention was the writing on the inside. It read Always in our heart, it was touching and sweet that Bruce included Hulk in the ring.

I slid the ring onto the correct finger and found it was a perfect fit, more ways than one. I did giggle a bit at the thought of picturing Bruce measuring my finger while I was sleeping to get the right size, which I wouldn't put it past him to do that. Now I just had to wait for Bruce to send notice somehow and tell my family I'm engaged. I guess I'll have to come up with some extended "research" excuse as for why he is absent.

The only thing I could do until he comes back is get ready to graduate college and start student teaching the following semester, hopefully that will keep my mind off of Bruce's absence.

Another AN: How'd you guys like the first person POV? Would you prefer I write the rest of the story that way? I might do that to get the feel of Elizabeth's character more than I have, thoughts on that?