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[starkingenuity]

"Yep, actually, I did hear you, Doc.  I'm just ignoring you."  Don't be a buzz kill.  Stark is riding high from that last fight.  "It's just a cut.  I've gotten a lot of cuts.  Some bactine and some bandages and a little kiss over it from Jarvis here and I'll be just fine."  The tall, leggy blond at his side doesn't even bother to roll his pale blue eyes.  He's worked with Stark for years, too long really.  He knows how the man acts.

"Sir."

That always makes Stark laugh and he lightly pats Jarvis on the back of his drivesuit.  "Not your boss anymore, Jarv," he reminds him gentle.  Or maybe he's just trying to drown out the mousy little guy following him.  And that's when it hits him, halfway down the corridor, through the cheering crowds and the crews trying to get his Jaeger back into one piece.  He knows that mousey little man follow him.  "Shit.  You're Doctor Banner!  Well hey, nice to meet you finally!  Man, we studied your tactics against Onibaba for months after that attack in Tokyo!"

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[starkingenuity]

"Well Jarvis is a machine," he laughs and shrugs, closing the screen on the portable DVD player. Banner doesn't have to watch if he doesn't want to. Tony isn't going to force anything. "And you're not a psychiatrist. So I don't expect you to understand me. And I've stumped my previous shrinks too."

There is a little bit of a shrug before he looks up at Bruce in earnest.

"You're not someone to be afraid of. You've got a pretty good lid on the pot."

[aggravated]

That finally brings Bruce to Stark's side, looking down on him. "Most people, in particular after what happened, would disagree." Maybe someday, but Bruce has no particular desire to watch the Other Guy. It is the part of him that he hates, seperates entirely from himself. Watching it.. makes it all that much more real, even if he knows it is reality.

So Stark had visited psychologists in the past. He wonders how well they dealt with his... issues. Or why Stark had chosen to go at all.

"I'm still sorry," he says quietly. "You say I have a lid on it, but..." His eyes flicker to Stark's wrist again. "I guess I have to keep trying."

[starkingenuity]

A small bruise might be forming but as long as his wrist isn't broken, he's all right. He waits for Banner to glance up at him before he smiles. "Hey. That lost lid was for a good cause. We appreciate it."

Tony very much likes being alive and likes not having killed people accidentally because of a freak out.

"Enough kicked puppy play. Get some ice cream and let's have a proper sleep over. Braid my hair and let's talk about boys."

[aggravated]

Bruce gives a small snort at that last bit, but very cautiously he does as told and gathers up his beloved little container of caramel ice cream, poking in the container and handing Stark another one at random. He even dares to sit on the edge of the bed this time, but that's as far as he'll go.

"I've little to discuss as far as 'boys' go. Or girls, I suppose, either." A little shrug, not looking for pity, but a straight blunt comment.

[starkingenuity]

"Don't tell me you're asexual. I don't care about how much documentation there is about it," Tony says, scraping his wooden spoon across Rocky Road gelato. "I just don't buy it that people can't get sexually excited."

It's just something to talk about. And he's not really done all that much research on it or he might realize how narrow minded he's being. Or maybe he does and he doesn't care. Psychology doesn't interest him as much as engineering does.

And he's terrible to talk to about things that people care about. He's extremely close minded for such an open minded man.

[aggravated]

Bruce gets such a look and turns to give Stark a head look. "That isn't what being asexual is about, Stark," he says with the tone of being insulted for other people out there. He lets it go through and shakes his head. "It's not like that."

Now with a tone of 'can we not discuss my sex life?' added on there.


"It's not very important in the scheme of things, so if you want to discuss that with someone, you'll have to find someone else."

[starkingenuity]

"Actually, in the grand scheme of things? It's like the most important thing. Ever. Since, you know, procreation. Kind of important. Or not if you're not into that." He's just feeling Bruce out...which probably is...not right.

Alas. These things happen. Tony doesn't know when to stop. Half way done with his ice cream, he sets it aside and yawns.

"If I snore, wake me, will you?" he asks. Yes, sleep. He'd very much like sleep.

[aggravated]

"Procreation can't happen anymore, so maybe that's why it's become unimportant." Oh yes, there is a soft bitterness in Bruce's voice that he can't help. It's a topic he's always avoided with other people.

Still, he pushes it aside and gives a nod, standing up. "I'll be keeping an eye on you. Sleep well, Stark." A tight smile that doesn't touch his eyes, and Bruce moves over to snag all of the ice cream containers, tucking them safely in the cooler.