Let me show you the gadgets!" Tony eagerly opened the door to his lab. Bruce walked in after him and stood in wander at all the machinery and tools Tony had crammed in to the place. Currently everything was a huge mess. The whole lab look like it had been torn apart and was still in the process of being put back together. Tony showed him around, bouncing from one heap to the next like a 12 year old on a field trip.

"I've been working on a type of shield for the tower. Like a net of electricity protecting the tower. That's the easy part. Getting it so that the Iron Man suit can pass through it is the hard part. Here take a look at these calculations. If we can get the force field at a specific intensity we might not have to rebuild the whole suit to fit the wave length." Tony stood proudly chattering on and on about frequencies of light and sound. Bruce would point a mistake out and Tony would say "I knew that."

Soon they were sitting side by side fidgeting with the same gadget. Tony enjoyed bouncing is crazy ideas off of Bruce. Sometimes he would be joking sometimes serious. It always took Bruce a moment to realize that he was kidding about and antigravity kitchens because some of Tony's serious ideas were just as crazy. When Bruce catches on to a joke he laughs. The laugh sounds so natural, unforced, and it is one of the only times Bruce seems truly happy. Tony enjoys his laugh and as the day progresses he jokes more then he normally does.

Tony watched Bruce, although Bruce was to intent on his work to notice. Science was Bruce's escape Tony decided. Bruce never seemed worried about the Hulk when he was intent on working out a problem. His glasses sometimes slid down his nose and Bruce would push them back up. His hands, working on a gadget, looked coarse and work worn but possessed grace and agility that Tony had never seen before in Bruce.

Bruce would take off his glasses often and put them back on. He fidgeted with his hair when he made calculations. He bit his lower lip when he was frustrated. He got up and stretched whenever he had a major breakthrough. It was amazing how much you got to know someone without words.

Occasionally Bruce would look up and ask Tony for advice or/ and opinion on something. Tony would suddenly be snapped out of his Bruce daze and have to refocus. He would go back to his work for a little while but eventually his eyes wandered again to Bruce. Was this love?

The End