Just "Friends"

Chapter 6

"Are you sure? Like this?" You ask.

"Yes, Tony locked himself in the lab and I have my laptop with me to take down notes for your wounds and also I can't leave the room right now" He says.

"Ok" you say quietly and put your phone on speaker and place it on your bed.

The gang surrounds Bruce leaning into the phone, eating up every word you say. They are dead silent.

They all were hurt you thought this way. They then decide to sit in there seats, staring at the phone in the middle of table.

You then begin your tale...

"Ok so I should tell you that I will not tell you how I got there. That is very important to me and I'm scared if I release the information they will take my memories away, and I can't afford that. Now to begin with who they are. I-I- Sorry it's really hard for me to tell this story but umm- I'm so sorry I can't Bruce I can't do this over phone- I'm so sorry, I'm sure you were excited to hear my story b-b-b-but" you stutter about to cry.

"Calm down Y/n if you can't say it, you can't say it. Whenever you're ready to tell me, you know where I'll be" he says calmly and sweetly.

"The lab?" You ask in a small voice.

"Yep, now listen to me, come to me so I can fix that wound, I don't want it getting infected" he says.

"O-ok, make sure Tony's not in there... I don't want him asking" you say.

"Ok, bye and see you soon" he says.

"Bye" you say.

Bruce sits and stares at his phone and stands. "I need to treat that wound it is really bad" he says and leaves the room with his phone. The others sit in silence and Tony stands.

"I'm going to hide in my suits and watch" he announces and leaves.

"No your not! No he isn't" Steve says running after him.

"I'll go pack my belongings, I have to leave for Asgard tomorrow morning" Thor says.

"Hmm, I'm going to go... train" Natasha says and leaves.

Clint gets up and leaves as well.

You walk out of your room with a sweater on and pants. You have sneakers on as well. You walk down the hallway to the lab and softly knock on the door. It slides open to reveal Bruce already setting up his tools to fix you up. You silently walk to the stool and sit down.

He arranges a couple things silently and the only noise heard is the sound of the needle against the metal table.

"Sorry" you whisper.

"What?" He asks, stopping what he was doing and looking over to you.

"Sorry" you repeat as quiet as before.

"Why are you sorry? Y/n...?" Bruce says taking a seat in front of you as you awkwardly pick your left hand.

"You realize that there is no reason you should be sorry for keeping your life personal. It's ok to keep some things a secret and others things, but like those gashes, should not be kept secret" Bruce says in a soothing voice.

You can feel your eyes sting and tears fill your eyes. You nod your head slightly, bottom lip quivering.

"Are you ok?" Bruce asks obviously seeing that you are not ok.

You nod your head and the tears threaten to spill.

"Are you very sure?" Bruce asks you leaning to you and you flinch back.

"Y/n" he whispers leaning back.

"S-s-sorry I-I-I-I didn't mean t-to" you stutter.

"Hey" Bruce says, gently putting his hands on your shoulders.

You flinch once more but relax at his touch. It was gentle and caring. He reminded you of a brother figure at this moment in time.

The tears spill and you began to cry. You jump from your seat into his arms. He falls back a little and regains his posture.

You sob into his shirt and choke on the sobs.

"Hey, shh, it's ok" he says quietly.

"I-I-I-I wish they left me alone" you whispered.

"Who is they?" Bruce asks.

Your quiet a moment before answering shortly.

"HYDRA" you whisper.

You feel his grip losses on you and you immediately jump backwards throwing your arms up in front of your face. You shake uncontrollably and peek around your arms to see Bruce about to Hulk out.

"Eek!" You scream cowering but he says through the anger.

"I'm not angry at you!" He yells and you uncover your face.

"I'm angry at fucking HYDRA!" He roars and you rush over and hug him tightly.

"It's ok, sorry, I'm just so used to being... beat up" you whisper and he calms down and hugs you back.

"Cmon, I need to fix you up and also if you'll now allow me... I could do a checkup..." he says and you immediately shake your head violently.

"Only my arms" you say and roll your sleeves up.

He looks down and rolls your arm over to see the gash. It was even redder than earlier and it layered down deep, not to the bone, but deep. He pulled the string and tied it to the needle. He poked through the skin and looked up to see your reaction and you barely moved. He then began to stitch away, stopping every so often to check if you were ok.

He cleaned up and you pulled your sleeves down and you both looked over to the door that slid open to reveal Tony and Steve arguing.

"I swear they're already married" you whispers and Bruce laughed.

We saw them stop and Tony crosses his arms with a smirk.

"Hi you two, did I interrupt something?" He asks.

"Actually yes you did" Bruce replies and you look over confused.

"I was helping her out until you two came in rather rudely bickering. Now if you excuse me I'm going back to work, and Y/n..." he says trailing off and going close to you.

He hugs you whispers, "I will always be here if you need someone to talk to... I would be a shitty bro if I wasn't" he says and backs away with a smile.

You smile back and he walks to his peaceful corner.

Suddenly you feel an arm snake around your shoulders and you jump back.

"Woah! Sorry, didn't know you were so jumpy, but anyway... what were you and Bruce talking about?" Tony asks wiggling his eyebrows.

"None of your business" you say walking out the door.