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Before the Hulk: Susan and Bruce Stories

Here  are all four chapters together on AO3, FF.Net, and WattPad under Before the Hulk: Susan and Bruce Stories.

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16092575/chapters/37584533

FanFiction. Net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13075241/1/Before-the-Hulk-Susan-and-Bruce-Stories

WattPad: https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/162710332-before-the-hulk

Bruce Banner has a number of strong women in his life. His Aunt Susan Banner helped pick up the pieces after his mother Rebecca's death at the hands of his father Brian. This is a collection of a few important moments in young Bruce's life from Susan's point of view. 

Special Needs: A Bruce and Natasha FanFic

Chapter 70: Fears and Desires

It’s finally up!

Summary: Adam dreams about reliving the worst day in his and Bruce's life, which leads to him thinking about their Aunt Susan and some of the other women who've been important in their younger lives. In the real world, the party of six has lunch at the lodge, and Bruce has the disorienting experience of Adam's dreams and thoughts flowing into his head for a change instead of the other way around. He and Natasha do some speculating.

Sample: For the most part, his Aunt Susan had understood this about him. She’d seen genius in her older brother and felt the weight of wondering what had gone wrong and why no one saw the danger in time. Like most of Bruce’s relatives on his father’s side, she knew there was abuse in her generation, but what she hadn’t understood was how it could be handed down and magnified. Brian was five years her senior, and she remembered the beatings from their father and then the fights as Brian began to stand up to their abuser. She also remembered the day when something finally broke inside him, and her fifteen-year-old brother had beaten their father until he’d finally sworn not to raise a hand to any of them again; otherwise, Brian had promised to kill him. The physical abuse had largely stopped after that, but the psychological and verbal abuse had lingered on until their father had suffered a stroke just after Susan graduated high school and was studying music at Oberlin College and Conservatory. As a younger sibling, she had missed her brother’s slip into narcissism and psychosis once Brian had left for college. Maybe because her brother had saved his siblings and helped financially to support the family, she’d dismissed the idea that he could have repeated their father’s destructive patterns. He had to be aware of the consequences, so how could he do something so vile to his own wife and son?

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/4658370/chapters/38539127

FanFic. Net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11599687/70/Special-Needs-A-Bruce-and-Natasha-FanFic

Thanks for the question! Yah, some manly tears are being shed here. I cannot take credit for being the first to spot this, but the attribution of the scene with Bruce, Tony, and Pep to Avengers 4 by several news pages and on Tumblr is wrong. Here is why: Paltrow is likely shooting all of her scenes for both Infinity War and Avengers 4 in the Atlanta area back-to-back because there are only a few scenes in each film. Thus, we have the confusion between films. The picture with Bruce is most likely his arrival back in NYC after Thor: Ragnarok where he finds Tony and Pepper, so it’s an emotional Science Bros reunion. For evidence of this, look at the clothing Tony and Bruce are wearing. It’s exactly the same clothing as the set pics from earlier in the summer in Atlanta on the IW set. Bruce’s clothes are clean and not yet ripped up or tattered at the cuffs, so it comes earlier than the presumed fight scene with Thanos’ minions. 

Before fight above and during or after fight below.

Thanks for the questions! I sincerely don’t think we’ll see Betty turn up in Infinity War (or Avengers 4). I dearly love the character and think MCU Betty has not been treated well by Marvel–something that’s all too common with female characters who are primarily love interests in the MCU. I’m really not happy with the fan press spreading false rumors this past spring that Liv Tyler was in the Infinity War cast. These started when a local Edinburg paper ran a story in its business section about the economic impact filming Infinity War was having on the local economy. The writer didn’t know much about the film franchise and was lazy because he apparently Googled a list of people who’d been in Marvel films and just pasted it into the story. I tracked it down and commented on the paper’s page at the time since there was such an uproar in the fan community, and the local paper took the story down. Unfortunately, the rumor had hit bigger papers, and so it goes and goes and goes.  Another reason its not true is Liv Tyler was filming Gunpowder, an historical  mini-series about the Gunpowder Rebellion from April through the summer, so she wasn’t exactly available for IW. Don’t get me wrong, if Betty made an appearance as a strong independent character doing science and kicking ass to help save the universe, I’m all for it, but it’s been over 12 years since the accident and nine since the Battle of Harlem. If Marvel Studios was going to bring her back and pick up the Bruce and Betty relationship, it would have happened already. Realistically, they’ve both moved on. [Shameless plug: If you want my full take on it, read Special Needs: A Bruce and Natasha FanFic, which includes people acting like adults and going on to find their separate bliss.] It’s not impossible for Betty to show up, but it’s highly unlikely and even less likely it would be to start a love triangle. People complain about Bruce and Natasha’s relationship being rushed or “shoehorned” into Age of Ultron, so I can’t imagine there being time for developing a triangle. Just nope.

I don’t think we need to be too concerned about Scarlett’s remarks during the interview for Inside the Actors Studio. At the worst, it’s a wash because she was so ambiguous that anti-Bruce x Natasha shippers can twist what she said. Focus her words: “ONGOING RELATIONSHIP.” She said nothing about it ending. What she did was confirm it was not being erased or ignored. Scarlett confirmed she was working with Mark, presumably on a scene they share, and Mark helped her work through the feelings Scarlett had about her own real life situation. She did not say she felt despair about the characters’ relationship. The fan press has twisted and misinterpreted this and the anti-shippers are gleefully twisting it further to make themselves feel better. DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM. When they see it distresses our community, they smell blood in the water because they want us to feel small and hopeless. Don’t put yourself under their heels, especially when they are making things up in order to keep us down. We know they’re full of lies. Don’t get worked up over it. Put on your poker face because we have the winning hand.

What Scarlett did say is she thought about what had happened to Bruce/Hulk (presumably since AoU) and what had changed with him/them. That change he/they had gone through made her feel bad for him/them AND she could relate to that feeling in her own life. What made her feel that way in her own life? We don’t know, so all we can do is speculate if she thinks she’s changed or her husband or someone else in her life feels less dependable. 

On the other hand, since the interview came out, we do know a little more about what has happened to Bruce and Hulk. Now we know there is reason to feel bad for both of them. Bruce has been put on hold or on “ice” in his subconscious for two plus years while Hulk has been out in the world since we saw him jump out of the pit in Sakovia and take Nat to “finish the job.” Hulk made the call at the end of Age of Ultron to shut off communications with her on the quinjet and fly away. When Bruce wakes up in Thor: Ragnarok, his last memory is of Natasha telling him she adored him and kissing him then putting the mission and saving the world first above both their feelings. They are both heroes first, and I sincerely think Bruce will understand that and not blame Natasha for the unforeseen consequences. He was ready to leave with her and give what they felt for one another a chance. He wasn’t interested in some tryst or one-night stand, he wanted to be with her in a committed relationship. Running was his plan, and his plans included her. It’s clear from her looks, words, and clothing in Civil War that she’s not given up on him either.