Storyline: Bruce raises your 2 year old daughter named Lorraine on his own, and he struggles with trying to make sure she never sees Code Green.
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"Daddy, we go play?" The toddler asks him for the fifth time within the hour.
"Not right now sweet heart, Daddy has work to do." He sighs trying not to stress himself out. The two them were currently in his lab while Bruce tried to figure out a Computer algorithm that was eating away at all the computers hard drives in the Avengers HQ. He's been at it for days and feels horribly about not spending time with his baby girl.
"Wanna play with you Daddy, I miss you." Lorraine says sadly.
"Rain...please...Daddy's working..." he chokes out as he can feel the big green guy about to pop through his fatherly psyche. The stress of not being able to currently figure out the algorithm and the guilt of abandoning his fatherly duties was very close to bringing him to HULK, and that was a sight he never wanted Lorraine to see.
"Daddy, you n-never play anymor-"
"L-Lorraine...GOOOO!" Bruce Yelled. As he could feel himself turning to the HULK he hit the emergency code green button which sounded a loud alarm through the whole HQ.
"GO LORRAINE!" He yelled again, this time sounding more like HULK. By this point Lorraine was in tears and didn't know what she was going to do.
"Want my Daddy!" She yelled at what appeared to be a big monster in her sight. All the Avengers nearby arrived to the lab and made it a Team work effort to get rid of HULK while disposing of Lorraine as well so that she couldn't See Bruce's Transformation.
Steve, Natasha and Tony were already on the job.
"Steve, get Lorraine now! He'll kill her!" Natasha said. Steve quickly grabbed her out the way and took her as far away from everything as possible, while Tony and Nat worked on getting Bruce back to Bruce.
"Hey, it's okay, Uncle Steve is here. Tell me what happened." He says trying to get an idea of what caused Bruce to get green.
"W-Was asking my daddy when we were going to play, and the mean Monster take him away from me and say to go away." She says crying harder. Steve and everyone who knew Bruce knew that if there was anything that caused him to stress it would be the stressful work he does, accompanied by single handedly caring for his baby.
"Uncle Steve where my Daddy?" She asked still in tears.
"Where my daddy?" She asked again. "W-Want m-my daddy..." she said still hyperventilating.
"It's okay Rain...we'll find Daddy..." he said, taking Lorraine off his lap after feeling something wet.
"Oh no...Are you wearing a pull up?" Steve asked her. She shook her head no and looked at the ground.
"Did Daddy forget again?" Steve asked once more.
"Yes..." she answered sadly, most likely embarrassed.
"It's okay, don't be sad Rainy! Uncle Steve has had accidents many times." He said in an attempt to cheer her up. She smiled up at him and requested to be held.
"How about this, we'll go change, and go get some lunc-"
"Ice cream too?" She asked.
"And ice cream too." Steve smiled laughing.
"And find my daddy?" She asked.
"Yes Rainy, we'll go find daddy afterwards." He says.
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While Tony had Bruce Contained, Natasha went up to him and touched him to soothe his anger. It took a few minutes but he slowly turned back to the Bruce Banner everyone knew and loved. He was in hysterics once he realized he let it happen...Again.
"Where is she?!" Bruce said as Tears brimmed his eyes.
"Bruce..." Natasha began as she tried to comfort him.
"Where the hell is my child Nat?" He asked in fear of the possibility that he killed her.
"Calm down Green Giant, Steve has her. She's safe I swear." Tony said causing Bruce to let out a breath that he didn't even realize he'd been holding in.
"Bruce...This is the second time in a month that you had an outburst like this in front of Rain. You said you had green guy under control..."
"I did...I-I don't know what came over me...one minute I'm trying to bust the algorithm wide open and the next, I'm scaring the piss out of my own baby because she's asking me to spend time with her..." he sighed sitting down. "I made a promise to myself and to Lorraine that I would never show her what I am...I've now broken that promise twice."
"Come on Bruce, don't be so hard on yourself...You just can't let it happen again..."
"And what happens if I'm not in control of him and it happens against my will huh?" Everyone knew exactly what would happen...Fury would have social services Relocate Lorraine so that she couldn't be around to stress Bruce out and that's what he feared more than Lorraine seeing him as Hulk.
Neither Tony nor Nat wanted to say, because they both knew what would happen. "They'll take her away from me and I'll never see her again! I'm all she has, emotionally, she can't handle that and I'd be lying if I said it wouldn't effect me any."
"Bruce, were not going to let anyone take Rain away from you..." Natasha said.
"You swear?"
"We swear." Natasha and Tony both said.
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Bruce was just getting ready to put his girl to bed for the night which at this point was the only point in the day where Bruce had one on one time with Lorraine. He read her favorite bedtime stories and then the two of them sing their song... You are my sunshine.
"...and the princess lived happily ever after. The end." Bruce smiled kissing Lorraine's forehead before getting up from her bedside.
"Wait Daddy...We not sing the song..." Lorraine said pouting.
"That's right, how could I forget." He chuckled.
"You ready?" He asked making her nod.
"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
But, please don't take my sunshine away
I'll always love you, and make you happy
I'll pick you up when, when you've fallen down
You turn the sky blue when it is raining
You always keep the sunshine around
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away..." Lorraine fell asleep Mid song, and Bruce tucked her in and placed her baby blanket and her teddy next to her before leaving the room.
"Bruce that's it!" Steve said making Bruce jump.
"Dude, you scared me..." Bruce admits trying to catch his breath.
"Come with me..." Steve says. He took Bruce all the way to the conference room and sat down with him to discuss his idea.
"What is it captain?" Bruce asks annoyed.
"Does Lorraine know that whole song?"
"What the sunshine song? Of course she does, I've sung it to her every night before bed ever since she was first born." He sighs.
"Maybe we can record her singing it on tape, and whenever you feel like you're gonna get green, you can listen to it and that may solve the problem of your randomly turning into the hulk when something sets you off." He suggests.
"I don't know Steve...your idea makes a lot of sense but I'm not sure if it's going to work..." Bruce sighs.
"Well there's only one way to find out..." he says.
"No...No I know what you're thinking, I won't do it..."
"You have to trust me on this Bruce...It might be the only way to keep you and Lorraine together."
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To be continued...