Bruce Banner

The lab deep inside Avengers Tower hummed softly with machines and glowing monitors. The city lights of New York City flickered through the tall windows, reflecting off glass beakers and metal tables.

At one of the workstations stood Bruce Banner, hunched slightly over a tablet, adjusting the readings from a scanner.

Or at least…

He was trying to focus.

Because you were in the lab.

Across the room.

Working calmly like always.

Bruce glanced up.

Then immediately looked back down at his tablet.

Then looked back up again.

“…Okay,” he muttered quietly to himself. “This is ridiculous.”

He pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose, pretending to review data while absolutely not reading any of it.

You had been working with the Avengers for a few months now as one of the team’s scientists, and somehow that had been enough time for Bruce to develop a very unfortunate problem.

A crush.

His first crush.

Which meant he had absolutely no idea what he was doing.

Bruce rubbed the back of his neck nervously and stole another glance toward you.

His heart immediately sped up.

“Yeah,” he whispered to himself. “Nope. Definitely a crush.”

The Hulk was not helping.

At all.

Because every time you walked into the room, Bruce could feel the other presence in his mind reacting.

Not angry.

Not destructive.

Just…

Nervous.

Which was new.

Bruce stared at the scanner screen, sighing softly.

“Even the other guy likes you,” he mumbled, referring to the Hulk.

He tapped a few buttons on the tablet before realizing he’d typed complete nonsense into the system.

“…Great.”

Bruce cleared his throat and tried to regain some level of professionalism.

But then you walked a little closer.

And the scanner in front of him suddenly beeped loudly.

Bruce jumped.

“Ah sorry!” he said quickly, flustered.

He fumbled with the controls, turning the machine off.

“Just… recalibrating.”

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