Dr. Wanda Langkowski (
soulthatwanders) wrote2013-01-07 03:56 pm
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[for Bruce]
It's only weird if you make it weird. Don't make it weird.
With that thought firmly in mind, Wanda took a deep breath and knocked on Bruce's door, jacket slung carefully over one arm. She'd put the task of returning it off for as long as she could because she'd secretly been hoping that it might disappear with the rest of Manhattan and she'd be off the hook, but it was apparently native. No such luck there.
Not that she wanted to avoid him forever, of course, but she really had no idea how it might go, and as far as she was concerned, New Year's had proved that her judgment was apparently weirdly impaired where he was concerned. Still, as long as she didn't make a big deal out of anything that had gone down (which was pretty much nothing, anyway), she was fairly sure it would be fine. Why wouldn't it?
"Anyone home?"
Not weird.
With that thought firmly in mind, Wanda took a deep breath and knocked on Bruce's door, jacket slung carefully over one arm. She'd put the task of returning it off for as long as she could because she'd secretly been hoping that it might disappear with the rest of Manhattan and she'd be off the hook, but it was apparently native. No such luck there.
Not that she wanted to avoid him forever, of course, but she really had no idea how it might go, and as far as she was concerned, New Year's had proved that her judgment was apparently weirdly impaired where he was concerned. Still, as long as she didn't make a big deal out of anything that had gone down (which was pretty much nothing, anyway), she was fairly sure it would be fine. Why wouldn't it?
"Anyone home?"
Not weird.
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"So this is you," he adds, gesturing to the stone figure - the man. "Well, you weren't lying about the tall part."
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"I thought I'd had a grip on things, and then Halloween happened, and - it shook me up pretty badly. Not as bad as some places I've been, ultimately, but - it wasn't just the loss of control that scared the hell out of me," he confesses, frowning deeply.
"It was your blood on my hands after I found you in the middle of nowhere and hoping - praying - that I hadn't been the cause. The elephant in the room is always going to be this giant green bomb on a hair trigger, and it's - I go back and forth between wanting more than anything to touch you again and wanting to keep you at arm's length so he doesn't snap you in half."
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"What I have - it's not magic. It's not a superpower. It's a curse, a freak accident of nature and genetics and my father's self-experiments, and it's temperamental at best. You don't know what it would do to me if I'd seriously hurt you that night."
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He sighs, glancing across the room at her, smiling in a way that almost seems helpless. "What a pair we make."
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"Look, I - I appreciate you telling me. It definitely filled in a couple blanks," he admits, grinning sheepishly.. "And the rest of it made me a hell of a lot more intimidated."
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"You're - him, her, a colleague, a friend, a - somehow all more than those, and somehow I knew there was more to you deep down and couldn't figure it out, but it makes sense now. In some strange way. I have an explanation for why you're so extraordinary."
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"I've just never heard of what happened to you ever being accomplished before. It's incredible."
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"Makes me wonder what might have happened if the island had pulled me from later."
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"Cap's from the future, apparently, but another world entirely, and as for Thor and Tony - well, they hadn't even heard of the Avengers Initiative until I showed up to tell them about it. Kind of ironic when you think about how long they campaigned for me to join, even after I told them I'm not exactly a team player."
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"No one can say I'm not an accommodating guy."
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"Had a lot of people show up since then. Lost more, I think. I don't know enough people to know when every disappearance happens, but there are some I'd definitely notice." He slowly lets his hand fall, and his eyes find hers again.
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"I'm pretty sure that's true for everyone here," she lightly pointed out.
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"This is probably the longest time I've been away from my own place aside from New Year's. What kind of influence are you having on me?"
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"Do you think any good could come from a repeat offense?"
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