100 Marvel One Shots✔️

Just You >> Bruce Banner X Reader

Title: Just You

Paring: Bruce Banner x Reader

Warnings: mentions of HYDRA, stranded in the woods, Christmas fic, fluff. 

Spoilers: nooope! 

Request: yes, by kristaoptimusprime

Author's Note: I wrote this in the third person, just to shake things up a little. Also, fun fact, it's the 24th of December (Christmas Eve), and here in Australia, it's hot as anything. I've never actually been around a lot of snow, so I hope you guys understand the creative license I'm going with here. Also, second fun fact, I planned this fic while sitting in the movie previews when I went to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Anyways, I hope you guys like it!

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At this minute, in somewhere, U.S.A., the young ________ and her boyfriend, Bruce Banner, were completely, and totally, lost. It was not because they had been arguing over a map, or had turned left when they arguably should have turned right. No. They were lost simply because of a mistake, or, if asked later, fate itself. Bruce Banner, had Hulked out, and taken his fellow Avenger and girlfriend with him. It was the first time the Hulk had taken the wheel, in that sense, and took their mutual interest away from danger.

But, the facts were these; ________ and Bruce were surrounded by snow in a forest, feeling cold. And they decided that, in hindsight, what had happened was not a good call. But the Hulk was the Hulk, and what had happened had happened. So, these two lovers, and Avengers, had become lost to the wilderness within their own home country.

"________," Bruce said, reaching for her. At his touch, the other hero wakened, shivering. "Where are we?"

The thing with being people, or really, sentient clusters of atoms, was that they were matter, and mass, and took up a place in the world. They could not be ultimately lost, or really, unfindable, because there was always a here and a there in the world.

They north-east of the forests of Minnesota, U.S.A.; over a thousand miles from where they had fought alongside their teammates against HYDRA.

"I'm – I'm not sure," ________'s teeth chattered, cold beyond her belief. They lay in a small drift of snow. From what Bruce could see of ________, and what ________ could see of Bruce, they were both pale and blue-lipped, exposed to the elements.

"What happened?" Bruce began to sit up, gingerly touching his head. "I can't remember much after I Hulked out." He admitted.

________ nodded. "We were winning, until we weren't." That was true. There had been a surprise attack, and the Avengers had been split in two. Unable to see the rest of their teammates, the Hulk realised that the warrior beside him who could see the past, was in more danger than ever before. And, fled the scene, his battle partner and girlfriend in arms, away. "You saved me."

He chuckled at those words. "And now we're going to freeze to death."

That was a probability, as they were in the elements, exposed, in December, wearing little to no clothing, and had been inert for hours. ________ touched her Avenger-issued wristband, a relic from the days when S.H.I.E.L.D. micro-managed the team. The band came to life, revealing holographic images of different intel and things that they were granted access to. Her frozen fingers sifted through the holographs, tossing things aside. Until,

"There's a safe house nearby," she whispered. "Almost a mile away."

Together, our heroes trudged toward the safe house. Bruce helped ________ stand, ________ helped Bruce's bare skin by shedding her jacket. As kind a gesture as it was, Bruce took it, even though the sizing was off. They plodded together, off in the direction of ________'s wristband.