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terms of endearment by pprfaith
THE AVENGERS:
Pairing: Bruce Banner and Tony Stark
Length: 2502
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pprfaith
Author Website: At AO3
Why this must be read: Watching Bruce learn to read Tony as adeptly as Pepper is beautiful, mesmerizing, and more than a little heartbreaking. Bruce gets it wrong before he gets it right. Meanwhile, Tony just keeps on being Tony, no matter what. No matter who doesn't get *Tony*.
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Later, he realizes that’s not what’s going on at all.
Tony pokes him with sticks (big sticks) but he doesn’t do it to be mean.
He tests Bruce, the way he tests his own suits, the way he tests everyone. He drags his feet with Pepper, he gives Fury and Steve lip, he flirts with Natasha and, surprisingly (or not), with Clint. He stays away from Thor, but only because even Tony Stark isn’t that brave. And anyway, Thor just sort of... happens, whether you want him there or not. Tony makes a lot of ‘act of god’ jokes. He is not wrong.
He pushes people as easily as he breathes and Bruce figures that out sometime during the second week he spends holed up in Stark Tower, intending to leave soon, really, soon, tomorrow, in fact, definitely tomorrow.
Tony tests everyone because Tony needs to know where people’s boundaries lie. He needs to know where he’s safe, Bruce thinks, and it’s been a long time since he pitied anyone but himself, but he pities Tony when it finally clicks.
Tony is using scientific methods to determine how far he can trust people.
And Bruce wants to hug him, sort of, because, good lord, a forty-year-old billionaire should not be this fragile, this helpless in the face of social interaction. But he is. Tony is terrified of trusting the wrong person.
Terms of Endearment
Pairing: Bruce Banner and Tony Stark
Length: 2502
Author on LJ:
pprfaithAuthor Website: At AO3
Why this must be read: Watching Bruce learn to read Tony as adeptly as Pepper is beautiful, mesmerizing, and more than a little heartbreaking. Bruce gets it wrong before he gets it right. Meanwhile, Tony just keeps on being Tony, no matter what. No matter who doesn't get *Tony*.
Excerpt
Later, he realizes that’s not what’s going on at all.
Tony pokes him with sticks (big sticks) but he doesn’t do it to be mean.
He tests Bruce, the way he tests his own suits, the way he tests everyone. He drags his feet with Pepper, he gives Fury and Steve lip, he flirts with Natasha and, surprisingly (or not), with Clint. He stays away from Thor, but only because even Tony Stark isn’t that brave. And anyway, Thor just sort of... happens, whether you want him there or not. Tony makes a lot of ‘act of god’ jokes. He is not wrong.
He pushes people as easily as he breathes and Bruce figures that out sometime during the second week he spends holed up in Stark Tower, intending to leave soon, really, soon, tomorrow, in fact, definitely tomorrow.
Tony tests everyone because Tony needs to know where people’s boundaries lie. He needs to know where he’s safe, Bruce thinks, and it’s been a long time since he pitied anyone but himself, but he pities Tony when it finally clicks.
Tony is using scientific methods to determine how far he can trust people.
And Bruce wants to hug him, sort of, because, good lord, a forty-year-old billionaire should not be this fragile, this helpless in the face of social interaction. But he is. Tony is terrified of trusting the wrong person.
Terms of Endearment
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