Starting heat scanning now, we should be close enough to be able to pick things out. Perhaps even through the rock when we get close enough, is that right Tony?

The scanners should be powerful enough to go through rock. Depends on the thickness of the rock to be honest.

Please be there Bruce. Please be there. You have to be there.

There's something there. Look, there.

It looks human sized.

Definitely a heat shape. A human sized shape.

Bruce, if you can hear me, come out of the cave. Move, do something. We think we've found you. We hope it's you.

Clint, can we land near there? Is there a landing or something?

I can drop a couple of you down, I should be able to hover there for a while.

I'm going.

I will too Natasha.

Thanks Wanda.

Why isn't he moving?

Ready to drop in 2 minutes. Please be quiet, so I can concentrate, not much space down here for error. None of us will be able to to get out again if we crash.

Hovering now, jump out girls.

Have you got your comms?

The heat signals not moving.

He might be asleep though.

We've got comms. See you in a bit.

My comms on. I've got a torch.

Come on then Wanda, lets see if it is him. It had better be him.

Bruce? It's dark in there, did you say you had a torch Wanda?

Here.

That's better. Careful, its slippy there, there's a sort of stream running past the entrance

Bruce! Hey, we got him, hey Bruce, its Tasha.

Bruce?

Can you hear me?

Bruce? Hey, wake up Bruce, we're here to get you, here to take you home.

Bruce?

Tasha?

Wanda?

We'll have to carry him back. Is there a stretcher on the jet?

There should be.

You stay with him, I'll go and get it, and some of the others, so we can carry him back.

Okay. I'll check for injuries.

Bruce, I'm sorry, we didn't get here quick enough. I wonder if we were here sooner, then this might have not happened.

You must be exhausted, having no food for all this time.

You must have been able to drink, I'm guessing from that stream we nearly slipped on outside?

We'll get you home now Bruce, where you belong. Where you can get back to health.

Come on Wanda, where's the stretcher?

Sorry Tasha, its here. It was right back in the store room, we couldn't get to it. I brought Thor and Steve to carry the stretcher.

Oh Bruce.

Can we lift him?

He doesn't appear to be injured, I think we need to get him back as soon as possible. Yes, lift him onto the stretcher.

1, 2, 3 and up, and down. There.

I'll walk backwards, Natasha can you guide me?

Sure Steve.

Keep going, slowly.

Careful, step over the stream. Thor, be careful.

There's a little step there Steve, carefully now.

Clint, can you go down a little bit, so we can slide the stretcher on gently?

Thanks. Tasha, Wanda, get on the ship, and pull the stretcher onto it once we get it over the edge. We'll push from this end.

Got it ?

Yep.

Gently now.

Into the med bay? We should have brought a proper doctor with us.

Yes. Take him in there, Thor, grab the other end again, girls, make sure the way is clear.

Clint, close the door, and get us back to the faculty as soon as possible.

Tony, can you get one of our doctors on the line, and tell them what's happened, so we can start giving him what he needs.

Come on Bruce, wake up please.

Keep him warm for now, put some blankets over him, and we can only monitor him until one of the doctors tell us what we need to do.

I'll stay here with him.

Okay. Tasha, we'll pop in again in a minute.

Bruce, this wasn't meant to happen. We thought when we found you, that you would be healthy, and would be fine, and that we would have a leisurely ride home. But we really don't know how you can have survived for this long without food, or how ill you are, or why you aren't waking up.

Why aren't you waking up Bruce?

Clint's getting us back as fast as he can, so you can see a proper doctor, and be looked after better. They're telling us what we can do for you now, but there's not much we can do until they see you properly.

But our facility is quite a way away from Fiji, a long flight.

We can't risk taking you into a normal hospital though.

I know you wouldn't want to be in a normal one, that you would think you are a risk to everyone in there.

But we both know that you have the other guy under control, we trust you even if you don't trust yourself.

We know that you have the fear of being tested, captured, tortured for the other guy. We know this because we have that fear too. We fear for each other, for all our secrets and pasts, the things we don't want brought into the light.

We're not leaving you Bruce, not until you're better. You can have the joys of a 24 hour surveillance from the Avengers, something I'm sure you'll enjoy.

Bur please Bruce, please speak to us. Let us understand what you're going through.

We want to help you, as we help each other.

We all have our daemons.

AN: Only a couple of chapters left now, to wrap up loose ends and find out what really happened to Bruce. If there's any requests for scenes to happen, or ideas for what happened to Bruce, then speak now, before I write the chapter!

Anyway, hope you have enjoyed this fic so far, and I'll see you in a few days (hopefully) with some of this story! :)