Bruce and Tony's Room

A teacher had shown the two young scientists to their joint room and Tony had remained silent for the entire time. Bruce had made small talk with the accompanying teacher and had learnt that there were several science labs with the most advanced equipment. Tony seemed uninterested in this.

When the boys arrived and the teacher had left, Bruce tried to make conversation with his new roommate.

"So you're Tony Stark huh? I really enjoyed reading your father's work about what he did in the war and…."

"Yeah I hear enough about that at home so please just shut up!" Tony said firmly from across the room. Bruce swallowed and just nodded.

"Aren't you going to unpack?" Bruce asked when he noticed that Tony was just lying on his bed doing nothing.

"What's the point of unpacking when I'm just gonna leave soon anyway."

"Bruce frowned "Why are you leaving? You've only just arrived."

"You think I'm gonna stick around long? That Fury guy hates me already, and trust me, I'm not gonna make his life easy either." Tony sat up on his bed to look at his roommate. "Look, I'm sorry about what I said earlier, but I really can't be asked to do anything and I don't really share. Sorry."

Bruce looked away as Tony collapsed back onto the bed. He really wanted to like this boy, he wanted a friend, but this boy was making it so difficult. Bruce wasn't usually an angry person, he was really quite calm, but sometimes he just snapped.

"You know that if you actually tried at making friends then you might have some. And if you had some friends that you might want to stay somewhere for longer than five minutes. And maybe you should stop being so snarky and horrible to people who are only trying to help you!" Bruce grabbed his toiletries and stormed into the bathroom.

When he came out again Tony had gone, but he suitcase was still there, although it still wasn't unpacked. Bruce sighed and started getting ready for bed as it was late, but it was nearly 10PM before Tony returned. He was holding a cardboard box when he entered the room and Bruce looked up from his Quantum Physics textbook.

"Hey" Tony said, dropping the box onto his bed "I know that we didn't exactly get off on the right foot earlier, and I've been thinking about what you said. I don't think that I can get to like Fury, but I don't see any reason why we can't be friends." Tony shrugged his shoulders and become slightly defensive when Bruce didn't speak "You know if you want to that is."

Bruce smiled and nodded "I'd like that." His first friend, maybe this place won't be so bad. "So what's in the box then?" Bruce said, gesturing towards the cardboard box. Tony grinned evilly.

"Well let's just say that we are never going to be hungry at this place" Bruce's grin grew as Tony emptied the box's contents onto the floor. It mostly consisted of bags of crisps, boxes of chocolates and large packets of sweets.

After the two boys had stuffed their faces with as many packets of crisps as possible, they drifted off to sleep both feeling as if this school was the best chance they were ever going to get.