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Peter hears glass breaking and looks up from his workstation to see Mr. Stark swear, "Dammit, DUM-E!"

The bot beeps, and Mr. Stark sighs. "Okay, well, I guess I didn't build you to be a barista."

"Is everything okay, Mr. Stark?" Peter asks.

"Oh, fine. DUM-E decided to do an experiment to test the effects of gravity on the coffee pot."

"Oh."

"Actually, Peter...I know I promised you wouldn't have to do typical boring internship stuff, but...will you run upstairs and make some more coffee? I'm going to clean up this whole...situation." Mr. Stark gestures vaguely at the puddle of coffee and broken glass on the floor. DUM-E is holding a single paper towel in his claw. “But I really need coffee. I swear you’ll never have to make photocopies.”

"Yeah, of course!" Peter still can't believe how awesome his life is sometimes. He gets to hang out at the Avengers compound with Tony Stark and his robots, and do interesting experiments and training simulations. And now he gets to make coffee for Mr. Stark! It’s just like being on The Office, except he’s pretty sure Mr. Stark won’t think it’s funny if Peter puts his coffee in Jello.

But when he gets upstairs to the kitchen, he realizes that he has no idea how to use this big, shiny coffee machine. The lab has a normal coffee machine, kinda like the one May has in her kitchen, but probably more expensive. The kitchen has something that looks more like a car engine. Peter opens up cabinets just to make sure there isn't a regular coffee maker hiding somewhere. He finds the coffee grounds, which he knows he'll need. He finds a teapot and twelve different kinds of tea. He finds a lot of mugs, most of which have the Stark Industries logo on them. But it looks like he's stuck with the high tech coffeemaker.

Okay, no big deal. Peter has faced way bigger challenges than this. He inspects the coffee machine closely and finds the information he's looking for: the model is called the Breville BES870XL Barista Express. He fishes his phone out of his pocket and searches YouTube for "Breville BES870XL Barista Express how to".

Normally, he'd try to watch the video and follow along with it, but this thing looks super expensive and Peter really doesn't want to mess it up, so he casually flips upside down and hangs from the ceiling to watch the whole video once through before he starts trying to make coffee. Sometimes being upside down helps him focus, maybe because all the blood is going to his brain? Or maybe just because it's fun.

He's a few minutes into the video when he senses someone enter the kitchen. He pauses the video and looks down to see Dr. Banner get a glass from the cabinet and fill it with tap water. He leans against the counter and takes a long drink of water. Peter drops down from the ceiling--halfway to the ground it occurs to him that maybe he shouldn't surprise Dr. Banner? But Peter's sure it will be fine. He's never seen Dr. Banner Hulk out, except in videos.

July 15: Dust July 16: Drip July 17: Bitter July 18: Merge July 19: Pressure July 20: Record July 21: Anything

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I’m a little late to the party, but here is something for @sciencebrosweek

There is dust on the suitcase.

Bruce finds out when he brings it out from under the bed, and it all floats up, making him cough. It's what makes him realize how long it's been since he last took it out.

The suitcase is black, sturdy plastic, small but spacious and it can be worn like a backpack.

Tony gave him the suitcase because he insisted if Bruce ever needed to run again, he should have something good.

Tony also insisted he wouldn't ever have to run again, too, and suddenly, with his hands on a dusty suitcase, Bruce realizes he was right.

Tony never even gave him a chance. Ross had three lawsuits by the time Bruce told Tony who was the general after him, and he was in jail in less than six month. Absolute record for the judicial system, probably, but the force of Tony Stark and Betty Ross, who Tony dragged into helping, was to be reckoned with.

And now here he was, dusting the suitcase with his sleeve and smiling. He took the purple shirt from his drawer, the one he wore when he and Tony met, and put it there. It felt pretty amazing, packing with the feeling of anticipation rather than dread.

As he unfolded the small handle of the full suitcase and started wheeling it down to the garage, he couldn't stop a giddy smile.

Tony already waited in a car, a living promise that the suitcase will only ever be needed again if they're going to a conference together.

@sciencebrosweek -- SCIENCE BROS WEEK – Day 7: Anything

Day 5's prompt (PRESSURE) from @sciencebrosweek

This is part of my Hulk Babies series.