Disclaimer: Only Tanaya is mine :)


Thor was a big presence in the Stark Tower, and his booming laugh made a daily appearance in their lives. Tanaya would often walk into a room to find him hunched over an electronic device, eyes squinting and fingers fumbling to use it properly. Any attempt to help in would result in nothing but a headache for everyone involved except Thor himself, who wasn't deterred by anything. There was no real explanation given for why he turned up, but now that he had, it was impossible to imagine him gone.

Natasha walked towards Tanaya's room, holding a starkphone in her hand. Tony had immediately decided that she needed one after the issue at her school and had programmed all of their numbers into it for safety. Natasha had also added something of her own, which she hoped would go unnoticed by Tanaya. The Starkphone was ridiculously difficult to bug, but she managed. Fury was demanding regular updates, but Natasha made sure not to disclose everything that she found out about Tanaya, and didn't want to think about what would happen if she ever found out. There must be some way to stop, maybe I can convince him that she is completely harmless, she thought to herself as she opened the door.

Inside, Tanaya was lying on her stomach on the floor, reading Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde intently. She put the book down when she saw Natasha and greeted her with a smile.

"Hey! What's up?" Natasha smiled back before holding out the phone, "Tony wanted you to have this, probably wanted to avoid another incident." Tanaya lit up as she saw the phone, and immediately started fiddling with the settings. Smiling fondly, Natasha said goodbye and walked out of the room, immediately going into her own and checking that everything was set to record Tanaya's conversations. There wouldn't be many to record though, and Natasha felt guilty for being glad that Tanaya had no friends.

Later that night, everyone was gathered in the living room after dinner for "game night". After a heated debate, Monopoly was chosen. After 10 minutes was spent explaining to Thor what an iron was, they started the game. Tony was the best player, quickly scoring all the expensive properties then waiting patiently for everyone to have to pay rent. Steve was not tough enough when enforcing his rent on others, especially Tanaya, and the game was ended abruptly when Thor demanding that he is able to break out of jail. Then it got messy.

The argument was still raging half an hour later, and was now centred on Thor's frustration with modern technology. Both he and Tony were now yelling as loud as they could, with everyone else trying to ignore them. It was all too loud for Tanaya, and reminded her of the arguments the scientists used to have about what implants to give her. She needed some air desperately, and by the looks of it, so did Bruce (who looked nervous at the loud voices).

Tanaya walked over to him, and attempted to talk over the noise, "Do you want to go for a walk with me? It must be quieter outside." He nodded in agreement and they left the room, going into the elevator and down to the ground floor. Bruce looked around, as he wasn't used to leaving the tower, as they walked towards a nearby park. As it was night time, it was deserted, and Tanaya propped herself up against a tree and watched Bruce as he paced.

"You seemed pretty stressed in there, are you ok?" she asked. "Well, when I get angry, the hulk decides to come out. I have to be careful when there are disagreements, used to avoiding them usually. What about you? You wanted to leave pretty quickly." He responded.

"Well, I was used to the scientists arguing about what they wanted to do to me next, and I can't stand fights now." Bruce nodded, and they began talking about their various experiences, realising that they had a lot in common. An hour later, they were ready to go back home when a group of men came into the park. "What are you two doing out so late? Wait, you look familiar." The biggest man said, pointing at Bruce. One of the others spoke up ,"That's that man that turns into the green guy, Dan. Let's get him to show us how it works!"

Bruce began to shake, so Tanaya placed a hand on his shoulder to try and calm him down. Noticing this, Dan raced forward and grabbed Tanaya, punching her in the face before addressing Bruce, who was trying his best to calm down. "Come on man, we wanna see you turn! Hit him guys!" the two others ran forward and started punching Bruce. Tanaya watched as, roughly 5 seconds later, an almighty roar rang out through the park and Bruce started changing in front of her eyes.