[It's routine, by now- Ronan picks up a list of what the clinic needs from Doctor Banner and drops off supplies a few days later. New list, new dreams, new supplies. It works for them and Ronan has no plans to change it.
Which is why he's here now, knocking on the door to the clinic during normal business hours, before twisting at the handle to let himself in.]
[Ronan waits until the list is offered to him, carefully like Bruce is renegotiating their boundaries. He doesn't move to take it at first- instead, his eyes flit from the older man's hand to his face, calculating, snakelike.
He knows what Bruce is thinking. But Ronan has always had difficulty with communication and prefers to just forget about past slights. It's why it takes him a few more moments before he finally snatches the list out of Bruce's hand and speaks up.]
I'm not going to bite you. You and me, we're okay.
[Says Bruce, in the tone of someone who is far from convinced, but who doesn't want to fight about it, who is content to play along with whatever this is.]
[Ronan looks at it for a moment, on the verge of just leaving this as it is, but he shoves the paper in his pocket in the end, jutting his chin up to look Bruce in the eye.]
I don't lie. You come to my house, you hurt my friends, we're gonna have a problem.
[He shakes his head, turning to look at the area where Adam was laying- it seems like forever ago, but it's really only been a month or so when he was buried alive and Bruce had taken Ronan aside and helped him in the wake of it all.]
But what I said, back there- [he means, of course, the insinuation that he's Bruce's friend as well, as complicated as he may be] -that doesn't go away so easy.
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Date: 2016-03-04 03:58 am (UTC)Which is why he's here now, knocking on the door to the clinic during normal business hours, before twisting at the handle to let himself in.]
Banner?
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Date: 2016-03-04 09:22 pm (UTC)Something, he figures, must be wrong, so he climbs quickly to his feet.]
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Date: 2016-03-04 10:42 pm (UTC)Did I walk in on something?
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Date: 2016-03-04 10:59 pm (UTC)How can I help you?
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Date: 2016-03-04 11:10 pm (UTC)[Like it's obvious. Ronan glances around, trying to peer into the contents of one of the supply shelves.]
Unless you found another way to magically get all the shit you need.
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Date: 2016-03-04 11:46 pm (UTC)[He agrees, still watching him- reaching now for a piece of paper. Tensor bandages X10, and more basic supplies of things they've used out.
Still carefully, he approaches with it, hand outstretched.]
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Date: 2016-03-04 11:58 pm (UTC)He knows what Bruce is thinking. But Ronan has always had difficulty with communication and prefers to just forget about past slights. It's why it takes him a few more moments before he finally snatches the list out of Bruce's hand and speaks up.]
I'm not going to bite you. You and me, we're okay.
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Date: 2016-03-05 12:33 am (UTC)[Says Bruce, in the tone of someone who is far from convinced, but who doesn't want to fight about it, who is content to play along with whatever this is.]
Well. That's the list.
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Date: 2016-03-05 12:56 am (UTC)I don't lie. You come to my house, you hurt my friends, we're gonna have a problem.
[He shakes his head, turning to look at the area where Adam was laying- it seems like forever ago, but it's really only been a month or so when he was buried alive and Bruce had taken Ronan aside and helped him in the wake of it all.]
But what I said, back there- [he means, of course, the insinuation that he's Bruce's friend as well, as complicated as he may be] -that doesn't go away so easy.
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Date: 2016-03-05 01:19 am (UTC)[Says Bruce again, a little more certainly.
He's not- it's still weird. But.]
It doesn't happen often. Fear turned up here, and I-
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Date: 2016-03-05 01:47 am (UTC)[The corner of his mouth quirks, just a little.]
You're not allowed to say shit about my temper anymore.
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Date: 2016-03-05 09:38 pm (UTC)[And, because Ronan should know this, and because he doesn't know what to say to that-]
I think he's incorporeal.
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Date: 2016-03-06 07:22 pm (UTC)[That's... certainly something.]
Like a ghost?
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Date: 2016-03-06 07:52 pm (UTC)[He agrees, with a little nod.]
Or something that can melt away at will.
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Date: 2016-03-06 09:16 pm (UTC)[He muses, chewing at a thumbnail.]
I still don't buy it, but they're definitely not human.
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Date: 2016-03-06 09:29 pm (UTC)[He's quite sure he didn't.]
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Date: 2016-03-06 09:34 pm (UTC)[A little puzzled. He's heard of them, of course, but Bruce hasn't mentioned their names.]
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Date: 2016-03-06 09:55 pm (UTC)Like that.
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Date: 2016-03-06 10:16 pm (UTC)[He repeats again, a little incredulous.]
They're real in your world?
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Date: 2016-03-07 02:14 am (UTC)Except that Loki was corporeal. I, uh. Got him.
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Date: 2016-03-07 05:10 am (UTC)You killed him?
[Ronan knows now that Bruce, in that form, is absolutely capable of murder. He wouldn't be surprised either way.]
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Date: 2016-03-07 01:18 pm (UTC)He'd been invading Earth.
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Date: 2016-03-08 06:02 am (UTC)[Idly. Ronan shrugs.]
You weren't so lucky with Fear.
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Date: 2016-03-08 09:47 pm (UTC)[It's not an accusation. Ronan tilts his head to look at him, openly curious as to his answer.]
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