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Yeah, I'm happy for him, too. Really. But can we quit harping on it already? I was jetlagged. It happens. I'm still proud of him. I came back from overseas for him. Also I was in the film there for maybe three minutes, you can calm down any time now. Yes, I'm glad they haven't forgotten me. No, this certainly doesn't promise that I'll get another movie anytime soon.

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If you do, I should be in it.

I doubt they'd ignore the potential connection. They didn't with yours, after all.

We are basically made for each other, dear.

I'm so flattered you think so.

I promise not to steal your thunder like you stole mine.

I don't think it's possible to steal your thunder.

Especially while sleeping.

I see what you did there, sassy.

[ this is his teensy smile ]

[ Totally clocks it, don't think he misses that smile. ]

Cruel. But proud of me, evidently, so it balances out.

I am. For what it's worth. In the grand scheme of things, the person who should be proud of you is you.

But I think you have that covered.

I think Pepper gets this one, to be fair. She saved my ass.

She did. And I'm glad. She deserves a lot of the credit. Still, she couldn't make you take the reactor out. You did that on your own. She may have been your... muse, as it were, but it's still a step you had to take.

[ He can't say-- he's not sure how to feel about that. It was a shared burden; that little circle of light and the Other Guy. Now where does it leave them? ]

Have yet to take, maybe won't. Ever.

[ Tapping his chest, it still clinks under his clothes. All in all, this Tony is a bit jealous of the ones without shrapnel trying to kill them. A lot, in fact. ]

Kudos to the guys who do, though. I can't speak for them or their motivations.

Time fuzziness. [ he shrugs ] I have-- mixed feelings about-- that, anyway. But if it's what you choose, I can't be unhappy for you.

Mixed feelings, huh. What's churning you up?

It's-- a me thing. That's all.

You're really past due for something, though. And it'd be nice to know if they're planning on doing anything with me.

Just so long as it isn't Red She Hulk.

I don't know. If the options are that or dying of cancer, I'll have to go with Red She-Hulk.

Good point. I'd just-- rather you not have to deal with such a 'lesser of two evils' set up.

I know, but. I kind of like the idea of being able to punch all my problems in the face.

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Not really all it's cracked up to be.

You'd know better than I would.

Yeah. Trust me. Creates as many problems as it solves.

To be fair, the General created a lot of those problems for you.

[ Oh boy. ]

I take it he got uninvited to the wedding.

[She squints her eyes a little at him]

What wedding?

...you and Leonard...?

[ As far as he knew that was still a thing, okay. ]

Oh. [The tone of her voice is a little flat]

No. That... ended.

...oh.

[ As mild as he can manage. Being pleased would be a dick thing to do, right? She deserves happiness. That's one thing he can't provide. ]

Yeah. [She shrugs, letting out a breath] We just... had problems, and after he sold you out to my dad that kind of highlighted things for me.

[ Thanks, Leonard, for screwing yourself over. ]

I'm sorry.

It's... it's fine. That was a while ago, anyway.

Besides, he always knew things wouldn't work out, in the long run. I was just a little too hung up on someone else to really let him in the way he wanted to be.

I didn't-- I didn't want to-- do that to you, Betty. I hope you know that.

[Wryly] What, you think I mean you?

Well, it would stand to reason...

I could have met someone in-between when you left and I started dating Leonard. [She tries to sound offended, but really, it's more embarrassed. Her love life literally does boil down to just two guys.]

But then again, maybe not.

No, I'd say she's got it down pretty solidly. How did my universe's Banner put it? 'As the force behind a punch increases, the number of problems punching is unable to solve approaches zero.'

[HaHA, he remembered the *sciencey* talk!]

I might note your world's Banner is increasingly neurotic and even less stable than I am.

[ BUT HE'S SO FUN with all that neuroticness, too. ]

Well, granted. But he is effective.

Besides, who can you learn from if not yourself? [SUCH an innocent smile here.]

I can't-- disagree. [ but he can side-eye you so hard ]

[ seriously your Bruce Banner is a father that is the worst idea in the history of worst ideas. ]

Hey, guess who's going to cheerfully misinterpret that side-eye!] Unless you wanted to learn from me, of course; I AM something of a long-practiced expert in the field of hitting things. And my tuition fees are paid in beer!

[GOOD beer, mind. None of this factory-produced 'you don't buy it you just rent it' swill.. and if you get him PBR, the Other Guy had best ready himself for a whuppin' he'll be a LONG time forgetting!

And no shush Tony Stark giving up drinking is the worst idea ever; it starts wars]

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I think I've got it down.

Hmp. I'll grant you're a talented amateur, but there's plenty of room for improvement. Both sides of yourself would be vastly more effective with a bit of system to your smash.

[Herc DID invent a martial art that's still practiced and appreciated to this day, Bruce. Just saying.]

[ Arching a brow, very slowly. ]

You know I'm only just beginning to embrace the other half, and make us work together, right?

It's not-- quite like the other... other guy.

Yes, yes, you're still learning about each other, the relationship's new and fragile like a tiny blown-glass sculpture. [None of this was stopping him from looking Bruce right in the eye, mind.]

Yet did you never consider that if you were better able to handle yourself, there would be less need to call in our favourite chromatically-gifted colleague? A trained man can handle a situation with a calm head and calm heart- and given the amount of Situations my counterpart was involved in, I'd expect that to be a valuable skill for you to possess.

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