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Message from Tony’s Cell: Bruce. Get down here. NOW.
Message from Bruce’s Cell: Working on something.
Message from Tony’s Cell: Seriously. It’s going to blow your mind.
Message from Bruce’s Cell: Yeah I’m sure it’s huge.
Message from Tony’s Cell: As a matter of fact little Tony is stupendous. But srsly – COME NOW.
Message from Bruce’s Cell: Gonna take more than you being demanding to make me come ;)
Message from Tony’s Cell: WTF this is the ONE TIME i am NOT sexting you
Message from Bruce’s Cell: Srsly?
Message from Tony’s Cell: GET DOWN HERE NOW
Message from Bruce’s Cell: 911?
Message from Tony’s Cell: No. It’s so awesome.
Message from Bruce’s Cell: I’m working.
Message from Tony’s Cell: JANE IS HERE.
Message from Bruce’s Cell: Thor’s gf?
Message from Tony’s Cell: YES!!!
Message from Bruce’s Cell: Tell her I’ll be up to see her as soon as I can. BE POLITE.
Message from Tony’s Cell: JANE IS HERE. DID YOU KNOW?
Message from Bruce’s Cell: u just said. ru ok?
Message from Tony’s Cell: JANE FUCKING FOSTER IS IN OUR HOME!!!!!
Message from Bruce’s Cell: ???
Message from Tony’s Cell: thor’s gf is JANE MOTHER FUCKING FOSTER
Message from Bruce’s Cell: are u fucking with me
Message from Tony’s Cell: she’s talking about the ramifications of the Einstein bridge on string theory
Message from Bruce’s Cell: wait are u actually serious?!?!?
Message from Tony’s Cell: YES I’M ABOUT TO SCIENCE-CREAM, ITS SO FUCKING AWESOME
Thirty seconds later, Bruce walked into the common area of the Tower to find Dr. Jane Foster adeptly answering Tony’s questions about how long distance astronomy might lend clues to discovering alternate universes. The other Avengers were sitting and listening politely.
“Bruce!” Tony said excitedly. “Jane, this is Bruce Banner.”
“It’s totally an honor to meet you,” Bruce said with a shy smile, gesticulating a bit more like a mad scientist than he would have liked.
“Dr. Banner, it’s a pleasure,” she said, “I was just reading your article on the photonic variances found in--”
“Yeah, Bruce has like a whole section of his lab upstairs on that – you wanna see?” Tony asked, speaking, somehow, even more rapidly than usual. “But I mean maybe you want to see my lab too? First, probably, you probably want to see my lab first. I mean just because it’s bigger. I mean not that size is the only thing that matters, but I mean of course I say that as someone with a really big lab--”
“Would you like to look at some of our latest work?” Bruce said, sparing Tony further verbal discharge.
“I would love to see both your labs!” Jane said, “I can’t believe you guys are so into astrophysics when it’s not even your specialty!”
“I can’t believe you’re an astrophysicist who reads bioengineering journals. YOU ARE SO FUCKING AWESOME!” Tony said as the three of them practically ran to the elevator, looking nothing so much like three children let loose on an unattended candy shop.
Three dangerously brilliant genius-children.
There was a long pause in the common room then.
Finally, Thor said, “When Jane and Selvig would talk, often Darcy and I would occupy ourselves with the earth tradition of making snacks.”
Steve, Natasha, and Clint nodded quickly.
“Snacks. Definitely.”