Man I am on a roll! Hope you like chapter five!

Disclaimer: I only own Minnie. She's a little awkward.


The kitchen was located at the end of a hallway, and was large. It was well maintained due to our craft services team who maintained kitchens on every floor. I opened one cabinet I knew was where they kept the tea and sighed at all the different boxes.

Green Tea, white tea, lemon, blueberry, white truffle, sleepy time, green tea with lemon, green tea with honey and lemon, gypsy cold care, peppermint, peppermint twist, ginger, peppermint and ginger, chamomile, jasmine, dandelion root, jasmine pearl... It was all making my head spin.

"Who knew," I mumbled as I pulled myself up on the counter on my knees. "There were so many flavors of tea." I sighed reading the back of one, and set it down. After a few minutes of that my knees were starting to ache, the one hadn't been the same since I fell down the stairs the year before. I ignored it as I usually did and reached for a tea in the back when my knee gave out. I yelped, my center was off and I was falling back slightly, and right into someone. They wrapped their arms around my waist and steadied me there, before slowly helping me off of the counter.

"Are you okay?" Dr. Banner asked making me tense up. Of course he would be the one to catch me. How freaking embarrassing.

"I'm so sorry Dr. Banner." I said.

"Sorry? What for?" he asked with a frown.

"I fell on you."

"I caught you, there's a difference."

"Not really."

"The difference is, I caught you." he said after a moment. "Are you sure you didn't hit your head up there?" with a small smile.

"My head is fine. Though an argument could be made against that considering how long I've worked for Tony." I sighed making him nod.

"You're okay." he said and I nodded.

"I don't know I think I suffered a severe blow." I sighed.

"Where?" he looked me over, like he was trying to make sure I was okay.

"My ego." I nodded and he smiled. "But," I said and I held up the can of tea I had been reaching for. "I saved the tea."

"Wow you guys actually have this stuff?" he asked as he took the can from me.

"Is it good?"

"It's great, I used to drink this all the time when I was in India."

"You were in India?" I asked.

"Sure, for awhile." he nodded. "Right before SHIELD dragged be back into this whole mess."

"Oh." I nodded. "That must have been remarkable."

"I was around death a lot of the time." he sighed as he stared at the tea. "I went there to try to help people, but this epidemic hit the village I was in. more often than not people were beyond my help." I stared at him for a moment before I reached out and touched his hand. He looked up at me and I swallowed, I didn't know what to say.

"I'm sure you did everything you could for them. And knowing that someone fought for them, even if they didn't win, but that someone fought for them... Well knowing something like that would put me at peace." I nodded. He sighed, and then tossed the tea back on the table. "Is green tea okay?" I asked and he nodded.

"Yeah." he answered shortly as he went back to the lab. I sighed as I covered my very pink face with my hands. Little did either of us know, our little private moment right there, was not as private as we thought.


"Huh." Tony muttered as he watched the security camera video. "Who'd have guessed?"

"Tony you ready to go?"

"Yeah, hey Pep, what do you think of Minnie and Banner?"

"What about them?" Pepper asked.

"What do you think of them?"

"Well Minnie is one of my closest friends, and Bruce seems pretty-"

"No, what do you think of them Together?" he asked.

"What are you talking about Tony?" she frowned as she walked over to his desk.

He rewound the security video and played back what happened, starting from the lab, there were many small windows open over his monitors showing the series of events. There was no sound, but they watched as Minnie walked out of the lab, down the hall to the kitchen. She looked at different types of tea, trying to decide, before pulling herself into the counter on her knees. She was looking at more types when Dr. Banner seemed to realize she was still gone. He went to a map showing the layout of the floor on the wall and followed the hallway to the kitchen. He stood in the doorway to the kitchen watching her for a moment, while she threw a box of tea over her shoulder. Her balance was suddenly off, and she was falling back, Bruce crossed the distance quickly, and managed to grab her around the waist.

"Wow."

"Yeah he's a quick one." Tony agreed.

"But Tony, that doesn't mean-"

"Keep watching." he said.

Bruce and Minnie talked for a moment, Bruce looking at the can of tea she had handed him; he must have been upset about something, because Minnie moved forward and lightly touched his hand. He looked up quickly, she spoke, and he sighed before tossing the can of tea onto the table. She said something else to him; he nodded before going to the hallway.

"Tony-"

"Look," he insisted.

They watched as Bruce stood in the hallway, looked back at the kitchen, and then looked at his hand, where she had touched him. He quickly checked his pulse, and then took a few deep breaths before he went back to lab 12.

"Wow." Pepper said after a moment.

"Yeah." he said and looked back up at her. "Interesting, isn't it?"

"Tony, you need to stay out of it." Pepper said instantly.

"Oh come on Pepper, this is-"

"This is none of your business." she said quickly. "Now, let's go, we've got reservations." she said as she dragged him out of the house. Tony spent the entire lunch plotting ways to get his two awkward friends together.