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❝ Um—hello, Bruce Banner here. You've reached my voicemail and I'm currently
unavailable, so sorry about that. If there's anything urgent you need to talk
to me about, just leave me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. ❞

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[Issues are pretty much what Bruce is made of, really. A lot of issues. He just does a smashing job of keeping them not obvious.

Also you missed John turning into the Hulk and Bruce sort of trying to kill himself after that. Except a card stopped him before it could happen.

Awkward pause.]

Sorry, uhm. [A bit of fumbling with the Dreamberry - he really does not know how to use this thing.] I'm... Bruce Banner, but not from this time.

[Um.]

Sorry. [Mumbled, again.]

[Peter would have loved the pun there, if, yanno, he had any idea at all of what those issues were.

Well that's just what Peter gets for respecting your privacy, Dr. Banner. He doesn't intend to let it happen again!

Also, oh. Welp.]

...Uh.

[Has he mentioned 'all the issues' yet? Because, all the issues.

Peter's not... really sure what to say to that.]

...Then maybe you shouldn't come in to work this week.

[When in doubt, joke. Sort of, anyway.] Sorry, what time are you from then?

...I didn't know I was working. [Tony really didn't tell him a lot, to be honest, which is why he's not sure about anything. Clearly something seemed to have happened...]

[Another pause. Can you tell he's not good at this.] Um. 1984. [...] Sorry.

[Because clearly it is his fault for causing all this. Right?]

Oh, um. Sur... prise? [Wow, this is weird when they're both awkward teenagers. Though Bruce's awkward is circa 1984, so maybe he had first claim to it.]

You don't, uh, have to apologize or anything. It's fine. Sorry-- guess I probably startled you.

It's alright. [Because well, something had to happen for Peter to contact him, right? Maybe his older self did something... not right.

(How was his older self like?)]

...did I do something wrong to you? [He should probably elaborate...] My older self, I mean.

Did you-- huh? [Okay, give him a sec, his brain is still processing that you are from a year before his birth.

Ehem.]

No, uh. No, you didn't do anything. Dr. Banner didn't, I mean. [The strain in his voice might be from confusion, or it might be from hypocrisy-- is he supposed to keep a secret about a secret that was kept? He wasn't sure how the past-selves things worked, or if this guy existed alongside Dr. Banner, or i this was ust how it was gonna be from now on.

...He literally had missed the weirdest work week of all time.]

Dr. Banner's a really great guy. No worries.

Oh. [Quietly. Bruce is not sure if that is the truth or not, but well... he supposes its no use asking. He doesn't want to get into trouble.]

...thank you.

[Lie or not, hearing that does... make him feel better. Somewhat. At least he knows he won't be like his father.]

Hey, no problem.

[A pause, before,]

Actually, if you wanna come in, you can. I can show you around or something, show you what you do here.

[He hadn't liked being told to sit it out much and in general Peter's found that you either be honest about what's going on with people his-- their? unsure-- age, or they find out on their own anyway.

If Dr. Banner's stuck like this, besides...]

You interested in biology at all?

[A pause, this time in surprise. Go to... where his older self worked? He would admit that he is interested, but would he even understand what was going on? Unlike what Tony seemed to believe, Bruce doesn't really consider himself much of a genius.]

A little... but I don't think I can really understand anything if I'm there.

Nah, that's fine. It's just to get a feel for what you do, if you want. I'm not gonna ask you to perform surgery, or anything.

[Sounding a little amused.]

But if you feel up to it, you could help me out in the lab. If not, we have lollipops and a pretty cool cafeteria.

[And if not that too? Then okay, that was also fine. Just putting it out there.]

Edited 2013-01-21 04:24 (UTC)

[Lollipops...

Lollipops would be nice.]

Won't you be in trouble? I'm not exactly staff at the moment...

[._.]

[They have so much in common.

Sporting a grin, though he can't see it, Peter gave back matter-of-factly,]

Well, they have to let you in if you're a patient. You're suffering from acute time-travel disorder, so I'd say that counts.

[Does something like that even exist...

Then again, 2013 seems to be a very strange time.]

Um. [Short pause.] ...okay, if you say so.

No pressure. It's only if you want to.

[He sounds unsure, after all. More unsure than Peter sounds on a daily basis, if that's even possible.]

[It's okay, Bruce is pretty unsure himself. There's just... a lot of things.

Have another pause. He kind of likes them a lot, yeah.] I'll... see?

[...that's probably the best thing to say here. Right?]

Okay. Cool.

[Peter almost feels confident in the face of someone more awkward than he is. It's all very weird, if he hasn't mentally mentioned that yet?]

Well, if you have any questions or need anything. You got my number now. So uh-- later, Doc Junior.

[This was a WELL PLAYED evasion of the question. Even he can't argue with time travel.]

[Nobody can argue when time travel is involved. And now that you've said it, you have mentally mentioned that.]

Okay. [Will he... sees the other later? Bruce has no idea.] Until later, then.

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