Crossing the Line (Bruce Banner/Avengers)

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Once that little chat was over, I quietly strode into my room on the way there to change into my lab uniform .  I was quite alarmed at how observant Loki could be, but I shook it off.  Just as quietly as I left, I came back.  Fury was waiting, tapping his foot impatiently against the ground.  "You need to be more careful."
  I took a deep breath, "You need to trust me.  Damn it, it's just like before!  You still don't trust me!  I only lost control because that prick pointed a weapon at me."  Fury flashed out a gun to my forehead in a split second.  I froze.
  "What are you gonna do if anyone else turns a weapon on you, Gonzalez!"  Fury spat.  I glared at him while Natasha, Bruce, and Tony yelled out in alarm.  Of course, only Natasha knew what could possibly happen. 
  "Sir!  You can't just put everyone in jeopardy like that!"  Natasha yelled when Fury put his gun back into his holster.  It took every ounce of my self control not to bitch slap that bastard. I mean, why is he so stupid sometimes?  I shook my head and sat down.  Bruce walked up to me.
  "What was all that about?"  He asked.  Wow, he's concerned.  How cute.
  "Fury just likes to push my buttons is all.  Nothing to majorly concern yourself with."  I replied nonchalantly.  He didn't seem too convinced, so I put my hand on his,"Listen, Bruce,"  He looked a bit startled.  "It's alright.  Honestly.  Like I said before, Fury just isn't all that great."  He nodded and turned towards Fury.
  "So, iridium.  What did they need iridium for?"  Bruce asked, finally getting down to more important matters.
  "It's a stabilizing agent."  Tony replied, as he casually strode in from who knows where.  Everyone turned to him, to make him explain more.  Of course, these dumb idiots don't know what this means.  Tony went to open his mouth, but I beat him to it.
  "Means the portal won't collapse on itself, kinda like it did at SHIELD head quarters.  Idiots."  I heard a faint chuckle next to me and flashed my brightest smile.
  "Right, it also means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Loki wants."  This seemed to sink in and Fury was not happy about it. "The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source. A high energy density, something to kick start the cube."  Tony explained more in detail.
   "When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?"  Agent Hill interrupted.  I laughed a bit, she's right.  Tony has never talked about thermonuclear astrophysics.
  "Last night."  I couldn't help but laugh even more," The packet, Selvig's notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?"
  "Hell yes!"  I said.
  " Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?"  Captain asked, not really liking the fact that there was joking in this situation.  Kill joy.
  " He got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier."  Banner answered.  He had a small glint of amusement in his eyes.
  "Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunnelling effect."  Tony said, thinking deeply.  Which is something I don't normally see him do.
  "Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet."  I input.
  "Finally, people who English!"  He yelled out.  Oh dear.
   "Is that what just happened?"  Steve looked so lost.  I couldn't help but laugh.
  "So what now?"  I asked.
  Fury looked at me, not really meeting my eyes.  I caught on.  He wouldn't dare.  "You, Agent Gonzalez, are going to be locked in the science lab.  No more fighting, going on missions, you will put your very heart and soul into finding that tesseract.  Nothing more, nothing less."
   "You can't do that to her!  From what I heard, she played a big part in capturing Loki."  Bruce spoke up.  Bless him.  I turned to him, partly sad, and somewhat mad. Not at him of course.
  "Nothing we can do now, Bruce.  It was bound to happen anyway."  I tell him
  "Why are you locking up my assistant? She may have kept being a SHIELD agent away from me, but she has no special powers, she's no threat." Tony intervened.
  "That's where you're wrong, Tony."  I said darkly, as I strode off to the lab.