It was almost three in the morning, Bruce and Tony were still in the lab working on something. Bruce took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, sighing. "Tony it's three in the morning, I'm tired and I'm sure you are too. Lets go to bed."
"Can't right now, Brucie. I might not remember what information I am getting right now." Tony said, going back to his work.
"Write it down then. We need to go to bed."
"Are you just wanting to take me to bed?" Tony turned around and smirked at Bruce. Bruce blushed a little.
"No because we need sleep. You have that conference tomorrow and if you don't go to bed now you're gonna be tired, late and grouchy."
"I'll reschedule it." Tony turned back around to his project. Bruce let out another sigh. Why did Tony have to be so stubborn all the time?
"No you can't actually. It's with Everett Ross and the other CIA."
"So?"
"Tony just come to bed, please." Bruce said walking up to Tony and putting a hand on his upper arm.
"Bruce I need to get this done." Tony told him. This was very important to him.
"Why? And why did you need me to answer questions about the Hulk?" Bruce asked taking his hand off of him.
"I'll tell you once I'm done so please at least five more minutes. I'm almost done then I'll go to bed."
"Fine Tony but only five." Bruce said. He was curious about what exactly he was making, but knew that if he kept pestering he would get no where besides the Hulk coming out because he would get mad. Bruce was starting to feel Hulk try and surface, that's why he just gave into Tony and hoped he would do what he said he would.
Ten minutes later, after Bruce is already in bed almost asleep that's when Tony comes walking into the bedroom. "You lied." Bruce told him, half asleep.
"I know Bruce but I finished it. Now I'm tired." Tony said crawling into bed beside Bruce. Tony snuggled into Bruce's side, his head resting on his chest with his arm thrown across his stomach, holding him close. Bruce draped an arm over Tony's shoulder, keeping him there.
"Goodnight Tony." Bruce whispered already going back to sleep.
"Night Brucie. Love you." Tony told him, snuggling into his chest more.
"Love you too."
The next day, Tony was dead tired. "Come on Tony you have to get up. You have that meeting."
"I'm tired Bruce. Leave me alone."
"Nope. I told you to go to bed last night and you stayed up a little later working on that thing. Speaking of which, what was it?"
"Something for Hulk."
"Hulk?"
"Yes. See if I can't get to you after a mission is done all I have to do is tell Jarvis to activate it and it starts to calm him down and bring you back. Plus its less painful."
"Couldn't he just rip it off."
"Nope. It has to be unlocked by me with a code. That's why I couldn't write it down because then you would see and wonder what it was for."
"Then why did you tell me."
"Because it was a birthday present. I know how your scared of him coming out and causing problems, well with this it keeps him back unless you want him out."
"How do you know it will work?"
"Well one I'm a genus and two we can always test it."
"We can test it later, you still have that meeting that you're gonna be late to if you don't start moving."
"Fine."
Later, after the meeting, Tony and Bruce were outside. Tony had on his suit and Bruce was wearing the invention Tony made. "Are you sure its safe?"
"Yes Bruce."
"How can this little bracelet help control the Hulk."
"I'm a genus remember, I can make stuff like that work. Now once I say the code word the bracelet will activate and you can let the Hulk out." Tony said stepping back. His faceplate was up so he could see Bruce's face and Bruce could see his.
"Ok let see." Bruce told him. Tony smiled and put his faceplate down.
"Good. Jarvis activate code escape."
"Right away Sir." Jarvis said activating the bracelet.
"Alright Bruce, let him out." Tony told Bruce. Bruce let Hulk out. He tried to go off to smash but Tony told Jarvis to deactivate code escape. Hulk started calming down easier then before.
Once Banner was back, Tony took his suit off and walked over to him with some extra clothes they brought out. "You ok Bruce."
"Yeah. That was easy. Thank you Tony."
"No problem. Happy birthday by the way."
"Thanks." And with that they went back inside and took a nap. Tony was still really tired.
