Author's Note: I don't own any of the Marvel characters.
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The day, finally, came. Sif decided to be awake for the c-section. And Bruce decided to come to the hospital but stayed in the waiting area with Logan. Logan wasn't too thrilled that the hospital was a no smoking zone. When Logan needed to smoke, Bruce followed him to the terrace.
"You didn't have to follow me," said Logan.
"I rather not wait alone," said Bruce.
The doctor walked outside to find them. "Your daughter is born. She's 12 pounds 3 ounces."
"Is she blue?" asked Bruce, thinking about Sif's reaction to Hank.
"No, she's a healthy pink," said the doctor.
"My wife is from Asgard," explained Bruce. "Her stitches will heal very fast."
"She was healing as I was taking the baby out," said the doctor. "I never saw anything like that. Dr. Banner, follow me."
Sif had Dagmar on her lap as the nurse wheeled them into a maternity room. Bruce followed them inside. The nurse gave Bruce the baby. "She looks like you."
Then the nurse helped Sif into the bed. "You need to walk."
Bruce looked at his baby. Dagmar was born with a full head of dark brown curly hair. Her blue eyes would probably turn brown. 12 pounds for was big for full term - let alone - eight-months gestation - one month early. She didn't look like a premie. She looked very healthy and normal. Bruce watched as her little hand curled around one of his fingers.
Logan came running down the hall.
A nurse yelled, "You can't smoke that in here."
Logan put it out in his hand as he winced in pain.
"Are you also from Asgard?" asked the nurse.
"No, I'm from Canada," said Logan.
Bruce showed him the baby.
"She has your hair and her mother's eyes," said Logan. "She also has her mother's chin. She's going to be a beauty."
Sif said, "She's a beauty now."
Bruce said, "Yes, she is. Do you want to nurse her?"
Sif reached for the baby as Bruce handed Dagmar to her. The baby lashed onto Sif's breast. "She had her Dad's appetite."
Tony came in the room. "Bruce, go home and rest." He looked at the baby on Sif's breast. "That's a newborn?"
"One month premature," said Bruce. "They took her early. I'll go home. If someone tries to kidnap the baby, I'll cause too much collateral damage."
"We aren't hiding Dag," said Sif.
"No, we aren't. Sif told Ross's men that they shouldn't fear the Hulk; they should fear Mrs. Hulk. Sif, room in with Dag and everything will be great. You need time to recover from major surgery. Then you can wallop anyone who gets near her." Bruce gave Sif a gentle hug then kissed Dagmar's forehead. "I'll see you when you get home. Tony, watch my two girls."
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On the way home, he sent the picture of Dagmar he had on his phone to Betty. Since he was on the road, Betty couldn't trace the address. Betty texted back, "She isn't green." Bruce wanted to be with his two girls, but if something should happen at the hospital and his anger was provoked, innocent people could be harmed or killed. He needed to distance himself for everyone's safety.
"Why did you leave the hospital?" asked Logan.
"Those people who kidnapped me could have killed me at anytime," said Bruce. "They wanted me alive as an incubator of my cells. Dagmar is half me. Tony will keep her and her genetic material safe. He is better at finding any tissue samples the hospital may have and disposing of them then I am."
Bruce's cellphone rang. Hank McCoy.
"I want to give you a heads-up," said Hank. "This kid was abandoned by his family. When I touch him, I'm no longer blue. We're running tests on him. Do you want in?"
"My mutation keeps me alive," said Bruce. "For more years than I care to admit, I would have willingly died to rid the world of the Hulk, but I now have a wife and child. I can't help you."
"I'll keep you informed," said Hank.
"Thank you." Bruce hung up the phone.
"What was that about?" asked Logan.
"Some kid can cancel mutations with his touch," said Bruce. "With a touch, he can kill someone like you or I that need our mutations to live. Without your healing, your Adamantium-fused bones would kill you."
Tony told him years ago that the Hulk saved him from a lethal dose of radiation. Bruce walked around with lethal levels of radiation in his blood. The Hulk kept him alive. He was a radiation sink, meaning his radiation levels were lower than the surrounding air because he pulled gamma radiation out of the environment. If that kid touched him, he was dead and everyone around him was radioactive.
"And when this child lets go?" asked Logan.
"I guess Hank turns blue, again," said Bruce. "The anti-mutant people might be able to turn him into a weapon."
"Hank won't let that happen," said Logan.
"For your sake and mine, I hope you're right," said Bruce.
"We need to tell Professor Xavier," said Logan.
"If Hank wanted Xavier to know he would have told him, not called me," said Bruce. "We should keep this to ourselves."
"The professor can read my mind," said Logan. "You have some protection as an alien."
"A mind can't be read like a book. You don't think about it and Xavier won't know."
"That's kind like asking someone not to think of pink polka-dotted elephants."
"Tell Xavier about the kid," said Bruce. "Let Xavier handle Scott and Rogue." Then again, Scott couldn't hold the kid's hand forever and being free of his protective glasses for only a few seconds was a tease. It wasn't like they could bottle the kid's mutation.