Loving Yous A Little Bit Hard Sometimes / Bruce Banner

19. How to be Green

"Bruce! Move your big butt we are going to be late!" Alisha shouted. Bruce came into the bedroom and looked her over.

"Im fully dressed. You are the one standing in your underwear." bruce reminded her.

"You are wearing no that?" Alisha countered slipping on her bra and letting the towel fall from around her head.

"Whats wrong with this? This is my nice suit."

"Come on brucie." She tsked moving to the closet and pulling out her light blue dress. She proceeded to put on her spanks and then back to the bathroom. Brushing out of hair, she looked him over again.

"Look, I look good."

"This is a product launch honey.   You are in your very best suit. I need you to turn it down a little bit or else you're going to look better than Tony, and he is not going to appreciate that." Alisha corrected.  Bruce smile back at her.

"You think I look better than Tony."

"I know what outfit he has picked out and you look too good. But you always look handsome in a suit." She agreed. As she Moisturized her face. She was never one for a lot of makeup. She didnt think it was worth the time and effort. She has gotten in a habit of fighting bad guys regularly that her hair and makeup were not a priority. But she always did her eyes for press conferences and launches. So she finished her minimal makeup and moved back to the bedroom slipping on her dress.

"Bruce." Alisha whined.

"Whats wrong... oh,"

"Im so fat!"

"You are not-"

"I dont fit!"

"Wear the maternity dress-"

"That ones so gross!" Alisha groaned. She was ready to cancel the whole thing. She couldnt fit in her pretty dresses anymore she was already living in sweatpants she might as well be a hermit until the baby comes.

"No. This one. The lady at the checkout said a prayer for you." Bruce added. "Try it on."

"You got me a dress?"

"I got you a dress." Bruce agreed. 

"Its green." Alisha whispered.

"She said heavens-" bruce remarked helping her into it. "Your poor wife is going to birth a behemoth into the world."

"Bruce you are not helping." Alisha warned but a laugh slipped through. 

"Sorry." Bruce agreed shutting up. But she turned in the mirror. "What do you think?"

"I think i need different shoes."

There was a honk from up front and alisha looked to bruce.

"Thank you. Its lovely."

"You hate it dont you." Bruce realized.

"Its not your fault all maternity dresses are awful. But no brucie. I dont hate it." She assured kissing him. "Help me with my shoes-" another loud honk. "You really do look handsome Brucie."

"Thanks Lida."

"Too late to change just don't over shadow Tony he has a big head and get grouchy when it deflates." Alisha reminded him running a hand down his chest. 

 Bruce liked when she wore heels around him now. He didnt used to like it. Alisha and bruce were similar in height so when she wore heels she was a bit taller than him. But as bruce 2.0 she was just closer to kiss.

"Im the daddy. I can outshine Tony."

"As an expecting mother, I'm assuming that's what prompted you to make these new products." a microphone was placed in front of Alisha's face. 

"Yes, of course without this little bundle growing inside me, I never would've thought let's make baby products.   I have the best husband ever, Bruce he has been helping us with the safety and sustainability of the products. And I have the best brother ever and he has the most wonderful little girl, my niece and my goddaughter so we have essentially been testing out these prototypes with her getting her input on things and it's been a whole lot of fun."

"And when are you due?"

"Three months."

"You look absolutely stunning"

"Thank you!" I know you are lying, i look like shit, I'm bloated and carrying a mini hulk from the size of this baby. Alisha kept a smile on her face however as she moved to the next reporter. 

"Alisha Stark, what is the product you are most proud of?"

"Our monitor, we have actually already been approached by a lot of hospitals and they want to use them for their NICU."

"Can you explain what it does?"

"It's connected to our new Stark tech Jr app and a little bracelet completely organic and comfortable goes on the childs wrist and the parent or doctor can monitor vitals. Any signs of distress a notification will pop up. It does a bunch of other fun stuff too that I'm excited to share at midnight through our official release. Plus we have our new 4D camera to go with it. Tony wanted 5D but I didnt want to have to smell my future children poopy diapers through the monitor."

"Hulk! Hulk!"

"It's actually, I mean yeah." Bruce agreed. 

"What do you think its going to be like to be a father?" 

"I'm really excited. I love Alisha and we are going to do everything we can to help this little nugget grow."

"Can we expect a green child?" 

"No. Well we hope not- I mean we will love him either way-"

"So you having a boy?"

"We didnt want to find out." Bruce countered. 

"And its going to be green?"

"I dont know, we dont know..." BRuce looked to Alisha for help. She was always better at press conferences then he was and right now he was sweating through his best suit. Alisha had been working on a bruce prototype of her baby monitor and her watch dinged, his heart rate was sky rocketing, it was good to have tabs on his meltdowns. She excused herself moving to him. 

"Hi honey," Alisha grabbed his hand giving it a squeeze, he settled smiling down at her. 

"Are you having a green child?"

"Wouldnt that be something," Alisha said easily. "I love Bruce, but we both decided that for the sake of the baby and my body that it would be better if the Hulk gene wasnt apart of his or her DNA. I'm hoping I'm as smart as I claim to be but if not, Bruce is the best man to show this little one," She put a hand on her stomach. "How to be green."