angermanaging: (mr blue γ don't wanna let you down)
Bruce Banner ([personal profile] angermanaging) wrote2013-04-07 11:23 am
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everylittlegirl: (curiosity killed the cat)

[personal profile] everylittlegirl 2013-09-15 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hayley's expression perks at his first reply, a splash of surprise before the more even calm returns again, watching him and trying to predict and understand him anew. She appreciates his seemingly complete understanding of both her inability to trust and of her needs in general, as a teenage girl with the history she has.

She also resents him for that, for getting her more than most people do - certainly more than her own family. It's not his apathy about the whole relationship; she respects that for what it is and delights in the freedom it brings. But he's not the one she would want to understand her, if she could choose. He's too unknown, too risky.

The girl drops her gaze to her food, slowly reaching out to take the chopsticks and break them. Finally, eyes glued to her utensils, she mutters.]
Thanks.

[Then she's poking at her food. Her face screws up with concern and confusion until recalling her question, his answer. It's not what she was asking exactly, not the answer she was looking for. In some small, immature way, she appreciates that he answered wrong because maybe he doesn't know her quite as well as she thinks sometimes.

Instead of correcting him, asking him how he deals with the nightmares or learns to sleep through the night, she offers him a smile.]
Okay, cool.
everylittlegirl: (reconsidering coffee)

[personal profile] everylittlegirl 2013-09-23 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Hayley finds the short-lived silence both comforting and disconcerting at once. She appreciates not having to ask or answer questions for once, but she also isn't comfortable enough with Bruce just to exist in the same place with him without speaking, to trust that each of them is content. When he speaks, she immediately becomes some level of reserved and defensive, but she also feels the smallest sense of relief.]

Maybe both. [She offers with an exaggerated grin, before taking another mouthful of food as a distraction. After the chewing and a sip of water, she shrugs noncommittally, feigning a nonchalance that she clearly doesn't feel.

Hayley shuffles her food idly around her plate, staring down at it, thinking of what words to use. After a beat, she looks up with the same facade of apathy.]
With the whole dream thing and then the Big Bad Wolf stalking the network.. I guess I just didn't want to be alone, you know?
everylittlegirl: (aw dont do that)

[personal profile] everylittlegirl 2013-09-27 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Hayley's choice to seek company is more a logical decision of necessity than it is an emotional one. Some part of her is scared and doesn't want to face their potential demise alone. As distant as she tends to be, keeping most relationships shallow, she's still used to being around people and engaging with them. Living alone has made her time in the dark before sleep more intimidating somehow.

Yet, the practicality cinched any potential desire not to be alone. Hayley, for all her fight, is still a very small teenage girl who knows very little about magic and even less about combating literal super powers.]


I didn't choose you for your company. [She replies, mirroring his lightness while intentionally hinting that her being here is a very conscious choice, that it was meticulous as anything else she does. Hayley trusts Bruce more than most, truly, but she also trusts the Hulk to protect her -- not by actually protecting her, but by fighting off anything larger while she slinks away.]

[After another bite, she adds with an unusual level of normalcy:] Thanks for dinner.