Change is the law of life.

And those who only look to the past or future

Are sure to miss the present.

- John F Kennedy

Bruce Banner stumbled into the kitchen on the communal floor in the Avengers Tower. He had only gotten 2 hours of sleep last night thanks to Tony - no not like that - who was prattling on about a new experiment he was thinking about. This was at 2 am in the morning so Bruce didn't remember much, only something about an Ultron.

Whatever the hell that was.

Bruce was cranky, sleepy and in dire need of a cup of strong, black good old fashioned coffee. Problem was there was no coffee left.

"Where the hell is the coffee?" Bruce snapped half-heartedly at Clint who was practically falling asleep in his bowl of chocolate Cheerios. The guy looked so tired and pathetic that even cranky, caffeine deprived Bruce couldn't get too mad at him.

"There isn't any." was the mumbled response. Bruce rolled his eyes in exasperation.

'Well no shit Sherlock, I want to know where it went' Bruce thought tiredly. At this rate he was going to skip the whole cup thing and insert an IV of coffee right into his bloodstream.

Bruce finally focused his attention back to Clint who actually had fallen asleep in his bowl of cereal. Rolling his eyes, Bruce huffed and sulked his way back to the elevator. He was going to have to go out.

XxX

Bruce practically whimpered when the brisk November air reached him and seeped into his poor bones. He was going to die - okay he was being a bit melodramatic but honestly all he wanted was a good cup of coffee, normally that didn't include going outside in November at 6:30 on a Sunday morning so yeah, Bruce had the right to be a bit melodramatic.

Bruce set a fast pace, half to keep body heat, half because he wanted coffee, and set out towards a cafe he's heard has amazing coffee and cronuts. Bruce loved cronuts, he was 87% sure they were the reason he's gained 10 pounds in the last 3 weeks. But Bruce didn't care, well okay maybe a bit, because if he was going to die during a mission he at least wanted to be able to say he died happy.

Okay so maybe Bruce was very sleep deprived.

Finally reaching Java Junkie, he was pleasantly surprised at the interior. Cherry wood floors, white walls, modern art hung up, wooden chairs and tables that match the floors, and a counter with glass sides proudly showing a divine collection of sweets. Cupcakes, muffins, squares, brownies, cookies, cakes, cinnamon buns, blondies. It looked like heaven, and it certainly smelled that way too. Bruce could smell the fresh ground coffee beans from the doorway. He was pretty sure he died from the cold and went to heaven.

"Welcome newbie costumer, what can I do for you?" Someone chirped in front of him.

Bruce would admit that he jumped slightly, he had been so focused on the smell and the sights he hadn't noticed the girl at the counter. 'Macy' her name tag read, it was written in bright pink.

"Can I get, uh" he glanced up at the board hanging above her head and quickly read the different beverages, "Sucker Punch, large, and a chocolate cronut please?"

She stared at him. Bruce panicked a little too much, did she recognize him as the Other Guy?

"A large, sir? Are you sure?" She asked him in a slightly high pitched voice

Bruce breathed a sigh of relief, he'll take that as a no. "Uh, yes?"

"Alright. $4.50, please."

Bruce handed her a crumpled up $5 bill, collected his change and sat down at a table near the fireplace that he hadn't noticed before, kind of hard not too, the thing was huge. And warm, so Bruce didn't care. In the 5 short minutes it took for Macy to make his coffee and put his delicious cronut - no he was not drooling thank you very much- Bruce had almost fallen asleep twice. Macy, carrying his cronut and coffee, waltzed up to him and gently placed the said items in front of him on the wood table in front of him. Her hair was very pretty, Bruce noticed absent-mindedly, pink and curly. Like cotton candy.

Yeah Bruce need coffee, and he needed it now.

"Enjoy" Macy said as she smiled at him politely, "But drink it slowly, it has a lot of caffeine."

Bruce nodded his head but didn't listen to her warning, for the minute after she walked away Bruce took a big gulp of the scalding hot coffee. And promptly died.

"Holy hell!" Bruce wheezed, coughing. "What the hell is in this stuff?"

"Shit ton of caffeine." was Macy's unhelpful reply, "I told you to drink it slowly"

"Not helping!"

She didn't reply. Once Bruce got over the initial shock of ingesting a 'shit ton of caffeine', he started to actually like the taste. It was very strong, but it had a nice taste to it and a great after taste so Bruce continued to drink. Slowly this time. After a couple of sips coffee Bruce decided to try his cronut.

Bruce thought he found the food of the Gods. It was soft, gooey, and yet still crunchy. But not too crunchy; it was perfect.

Bruce Banner was sitting at a cafe at 6:50 am on a Sunday, warm, cozy, extremely comfortable and just had a foodgasm, Bruce promptly fell asleep.

XxX

Bruce woke up to people talking.

"- I think we killed him!"

"What do you mean we?! I just got here!"

"Yeah but this is your cafe, therefore you're an accomplice!"

"Shush! I think he's starting to wake up."

Bruce warily opened his eyes, blinked a few times to focus them and nearly passed out from shock.

"Eden?"

She in return, widened her green eyes almost comically, "Bruce? What are you doing here?"

"Sleeping, apparently." Macy piped up from behind Eden, Eden shushed her again.

It felt like someone had dumped a bucket of ice cold water over Bruce, all his previous sleepiness faded away, only to be replaced by hurt and anger.

"Does Tony know you're here? That little ass, how dare he not tell us?" Bruce said with anger clearly displayed on his face. He with the rest of the team had been wondering for years what happened to Eden, last time they saw her she was 15 - almost 16 - years old and obviously very scared. One day she left for school and never came back, Tony never really gave any details to what happened, only that they wouldn't be seeing Eden for a while. The entire team was crushed, they all loved Eden in their own way: she was a light in the ever present darkness. To lose that light suddenly was like to lose a limb.

Eden frantically shook her head, "No and you can't tell him Bruce! No one was supposed to know I was here, please Bruce don't tell him!"

"But Eden he has a right to know, you're his daughter!" Bruce said with a hint of sadness in his voice, he knew how hard it was for Tony when Eden left. The state of his garage afterwards was evidence. He was also upset that Eden would ask that of him, he thought it was kind of selfish of her to ask that of him; to deny his best friend and team mate the fact that his only daughter was back and not in fact, gone forever.

"I know, and I feel terrible asking this of you, but Bruce you have to understand, there was reasons and circumstances and I can't really tell you them right now. I will talk to Tony eventually but not today and not tomorrow. I promise I'll talk to him but on my own terms, okay?" Eden pleaded, her face paler than normal and eyes shinning. "Can you promise to not tell him?"

Bruce slowly let out the breath of air he didn't know he was holding in, "Fine, I promise."

Eden slowly nodded her head, "Thank you Bruce, so much."

"Don't thank me yet" He warned, "I will only keep your secret for so long, if you haven't contacted him in 3 months then I will tell him, understood?"

"Understood."

XxX

Bruce left the cafe quickly after that, he didn't want to stick around for awkward silence after their intense conversation filled with empty promises and hollow words. Which Eden understood, she would run away too. Except this is her business and she needs to run it and make sure it doesn't burn under the watch of Devon who got distracted quickly and has a history of burning things down. Not purposefully of course, accidentally. But all the same.

"Good afternoon Sam" Eden said cheerfully to the elderly man who was a regular, "What can I do for you today?"

Sam smiled at her, "A dark roast with 1 sugar please, dear. Oh! And a slice of your lemon cake please."

"Will that be all?" Eden asked as she put the proper prices into the cash register. After he nodded she said, "$5.75 please"

Some might find Eden's life boring, some might find it dull but right now, boring and dull is all Eden needed.

XxX

Eden faced her soon to be murderer with her back straight and her head up, if she was going to die, she wanted to die with her chin up. Lord Voldemort gave her a twisted smile that looked more like a wild beast barring his teeth at his prey than a smile.

"Eden Potter, the Girl-Who-Lived, come to die?" he whispered but he might as well as shouted it for the clearing was dead silent and Eden's adrenaline was pumping through her veins making her on high alert. Her senses were heightened; she could hear Hagrid muttering 'no!' over and over again, she could practically taste the anxiety in the air and Eden could sure as hell see the Death Eaters shuffling in their spots like scolded children.

Bastards.

"Let go sweetheart" Lily Potter muttered into her daughters ear. She was so, so incredibly proud of her daughter. Her husband James, gave her a sad smile and held onto her hand before he grabbed her hand and the disappeared, together.

Eden closed her eyes and something inside her broke. She was truly and utterly alone now.

"Avada Kedavra!"

And Eden succumbed to the darkness that has been calling her name since she was 11 years old.

XxX

Eden awoke to her heart beating wildly and dried tears on her pale cheeks. She looked at her clock, 2:31 am it read. Eden sighed, she knew she wasn't getting anymore sleep.

Swinging her feet off the bed, Eden got up and stuffed her feet in her monster slippers before leaving her room to head towards the kitchen and started to make herself some tea. She actually got 3 hours of sleep, a new record. Yes, Eden did realize how sad that sounded but she refused to acknowledge that it was a problem that maybe she should get help. She was perfectly fine, everything was good she was just hitting a bump in the road. That's it, a bump and nothing more.

Several minutes later Eden sat on her couch with a steaming cup of tea in her cold hands and a hand knitted blanket wrapped around her thin shoulders. Eden looked at the time that was on her now on TV.

2:45 am.

Eden sighed to herself and decided to get comfortable, for she will be here for a while.

XxX

At the same time, Tony Stark was currently in his workshop not really doing anything, merely procrastinating. The tower was silent because everyone went to bed ages ago, well everyone being everyone besides Tony. Tony hadn't been able to sleep properly since the Incident as it was now referred to these days. The Incident was of course the disappearance of his beloved daughter, Eden. Ever since she left Tony's been worried; how was she? Was she happy? Sad? Depressed? Dead? Missing her father? Or did she go back to England and never looked back? Tony looked back, of course he looked back. Those almost 3 years were the best of his life. He didn't know he wanted to be a father until he was, the situation could have probably been different if Eden wasn't the best kid/ teenager in the whole world.

She was intelligent, funny, caring, beautiful and everything one could possibly want in a child and more.

Tony missed her so very much.

He wanted to see her again, to have Eden live with him. To wake up every morning and see her sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee and give him a sunny smile because she was always so alert in the morning, to teach her stuff he never had the chance to, like mechanics and how to be able to change a tire because he knew she was practically useless with technology. Tony wanted to have his daughter back so much, sometimes (always) it hurts.

XxX

It's been 2 weeks since Bruce first came to Eden's cafe. He's been back practically every day since. True to his word, Bruce hasn't said anything to Tony or the other Avengers. Eden knew she was being incredibly selfish - she didn't need Bruce telling her that to know - but for all the courage and bravery Eden had she couldn't bare the thought of seeing her father. She knew she was the reason their relationship took the turn for the worse. She knew it was her fault that they didn't really have a relationship. But at the time Eden didn't have a lot of options.

Option number one, tell her father that she's a witch and he either freaks out and doesn't talk to her or he decides that he wants to help out. Both were a terrible scenarios in Eden's opinion. Option number two, don't tell him anything, continue on like normal - visit him in the summer - and have Voldemort and his Death Eaters come and kill Tony and the rest of his team.

Both options were horrible.

So Eden went with the less horrible option. Pull away from him, don't tell him anything and keep everyone from figuring out about him. Although this option wasn't very smart and could have worked out like option two, it was Eden's best bet.

It worked, didn't it?

Suddenly, someone's hand was on her shoulder, shocking her out of her thoughts. Eden fought the urge to snap that persons arm. It was Devon.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Devon said apologetically, he looked freaked out.

"It's fine" Eden dismissed, "What's up? Is something wrong?"

"Well it's just," he hesitated, "That mans been staring at you for the past 10 minutes" Devon sad gesturing to someone that made Eden's heart momentarily stop beating.

Tony.

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A/N- Thank you everyone for the reviews! I was totally not expecting that, sorry for the short chapter, I promise chapter 3 will be longer!

Ok so about Eden, I wouldn't say she sleeps around a lot. She wasn't having one night stands or anything she was having relationships, she wasn't necessarily having sex with everyone she dated (she has a 4 date rule). And in case you didn't catch it, Eden is bisexual. After a couple of years of being too scared to be in a relationship because Voldemort might kill them and not having a lot of experience in the dating field, I think Eden just wanted to have some freedom and date whoever the hell she wanted. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed:) Oh! And there's a poll to see who Eden should end up with in the end, she will probably have relationships before just endgame kind of thing. Thanks:)