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[10] Death and Losses

Damn Demoria for her actions recently. Not only did she engage Bruce in a face fight, but she did so as me! Thank god that was two weeks ago, and we are strictly a behaved couple around everyone. I have to admit, she let me in control after the first five minutes of her face battle, and it was fun. A little exciting, even. But, here I am now, learning how to control these forms that seem to be controlling my life. Phoenix, Aquaria, Floraa, and Demoria now listened to me a bit better, and they would only come out when I needed them to. I let them each out for an hour each a day. They could stretch, relax, and use their powers until it was another sister's turn. This has been happening for at least a week and a half, and Bruce totally understood and knew not to visit me for three hours a day, from noon to three. 

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After a long day of practicing how to control my temper and letting the girls out, I was about ready to collapse in a pile on my bed. However, Phoenix insisted that I go and visit Bruce in the Lab. I agreed tiredly, and left my room slowly. As I neared the lab, I could hear muffled shouts and I could make out Bruce, Tony, and Fury's voices. I sped up and entered the lab, several eyes on me. I walked over to Bruce, hopped up onto the lab table behind him, and put my hands on his shoulders. He looked at me quickly before turning back to the argument.

"Are you boys really that naive? S.H.E.I.L.D monitors potential threats." Agent Romanoff said.

"Captain America'son Threat Watch?" Bruce asked her. I hopped down from the table and stood beside him, and Demoria growled in my head.

'Do they not know how much anger your Bruce is in? It shall unleash my Hulk!' Demoria cried. It was cute how she always called him 'Her Hulk', and 'My Bruce.' We both knew they weren't ours, but it's nice to think that. I could hear a low humming noise, and so I turned around to see Loki's scepter. Gosh, I'd forgot that we had him on board the ship. I never visited him, nor did I want to. I was afraid that one of the girls would pop out and he would find out my secret. And everyone knows that when the bad guy learns a deep, dark secret, everyone's in danger. I didn't want to listen to everyone's arguing, but Floraa drew me in.

"Agent Romanoff, would you please escort Dr. Banner back to his..." Fury started, but Bruce cut him off.

"Where? You rented my room." He said, motioning to the door.

"The cell was just in case..."

"In case you needed to kill me, but you can't, I know, I tried." Bruce said seriously. The room grew silent, and I looked at him. A look whose emotion I couldn't make out was on his face.

"I got low. I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth and the other guy spit it out. So I moved on. I focused on helping people. I was good. Until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk. You want to know my secret Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm?" Bruce seemed to growl. I was frozen in my spot, and I watched as Bruce absentmindedly reach for the scepter. I then nticed how Fury had reached for his gun, and Demoria seemed to want to throtle him.

'If he hurts your Bruce, I'll hurt him!' She roared. I tried to calm her down, and she kept shrieking.

"Dr. Banner," Steve said, "put down the scepter."

Bruce looked down at his hand in surprise. He had no idea he had lifted the cursed object from its stand on the table behind him. He carefully placed it back, and we all heard a beeping noise come from one of his monitors.

"Sorry kids. Looks like you don't get to see my party trick after all." Bruce growled, storming over to the monitor, Natasha following.

"Is that the Tesseract?" Thor asked.