great minds

[kingbellamy]

WHO: Bellamy Blake
WHERE: near the schoolhouse.
WHEN: Oct. 5th
OPEN TO: Bruce Banner
WARNINGS: will update if needed

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Bellamy remembered what the "hotdog" man said about weapons and signed out a knife. He went exploring for a little bit but ended up back where he started. He didn't want to go too far from civilization because he had no idea what was out there-- though no one really mentioned anything too bad.

With the knife attached to his belt, he saw a building that, through the window, he could see books. Bellamy walked around to the front of the schoolhouse and wondered if he could find any of the books his mother once bartered for.

Idly, he wondered if he had something to do with his sister becoming Bloodreina. The fighting pits were right out of his books about the Romans. Books he read to her. His mind continued until he thought about how he fought her-- and then later, how she put him into the pit to fight Indra and Gaia.

After all he did for his sister, she would rather have power than his love.

It dug into his skull, how she so emptily said she loved him before he put her into cryo. Asked for him to love her back. And how he couldn't give it to her.

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[notsoangry]

Bruce spent a lot of time between the inn and the schoolhouse currently, between the records that were already written out and the additions he was planning on. There were so many books too, and they were fascinatingly direct. Informative. Training. He had some suspicions about them an the intentions behind them. Everything was a test, so maybe they were supposed to be studying.

He was taking stock of one section when something felt like it was buzzing in his ear. Like there was an echo or a voice that was underwater and he could barely hear it. Bruce blinked and tried to clear out his eardrum, like that would help. It didn't. He heard something that sounded like I love you, but it was no voice he recognized, and it was startling.

There'd only been one person who said that to him in his life. Betty. Black hair, blue eyes, a voice so kind it could instantly defuse a situation, and when she said it, he felt lovable. The last time he saw her, it was from far away, and there was a distance between them that was never going to be mended. He let her go. He wasn't going to look back again, or let her keep wondering about him, it was over. He didn't know what there was left to live for, then.

Bruce shook his head and couldn't seem to get it out, standing up and thinking some fresh air would be nice. "What's a Bloodreina?" he murmured to himself, and almost bumped into Bellamy on his way in. "Oh, sorry."

[kingbellamy]

Bellamy quickly threw his hands out to grab that man's shoulders. "Sorry!" Then he paused, realizing what words that man just uttered. "Where did you hear that?"

If his sister was here, or even alive, he... he did't know what he'd do.

[notsoangry]

Bruce was startled and couldn't help his first instinct, which was to pull away very quickly. It wasn't personal, it just was his fear concerning the Hulk's reaction was so inborn into him that he hadn't adjusted to the lack of him yet. In his mind flashed a very quick imprint of his reasons why, his concern for Bellamy, not fear of him, and a flicker of the green monster that used to live inside of him.

"I don't know, I just heard it. I thought I heard someone say it." It wasn't a term he knew or had never heard before, but it apparently meant something to Bellamy.

[kingbellamy]

[Bellamy could tell that Dr. Banner was uncomfortable, so he dropped his hands. When the monster flashed through his mind, his own reaction to pull away came to him. He took a step back, looking paranoid.]

Is there a big green monster here?

[notsoangry]

Bruce's eyes widened, because well, yes, there was, but also no, there wasn't. He rubbed a hand against his head. "Well, that's ... complicated." This wasn't exactly unusual for him though, in the way that weird things were not so weird. "Okay so you know what a Bloodreina is, and I know what a big green monster is, so ...."

Oh god. Bruce looked at him and very clearly thought to himself if you can hear this right now, it means something is going on much bigger than us.

sorry i broke our rhythm and used dw's way >_>

[kingbellamy]

"Complicated?" Bellamy rushed into the building and shut the door behind them. He was thinking about what they'd do about a monster if it came to the library when he heard Bruce's voice.

Silently, he answered, I can hear you. Why can I hear you?

how dare you jk ilu

[notsoangry]

"I don't know," he answered out loud. "Maybe they did something. They." He waved his hands toward the ceiling, which really meant to the sky, which really meant whoever was doing this to them. "I know sometimes people can suddenly get new powers or even choose new powers temporarily, so ... wow." Bruce never wanted powers. Reading people's thoughts? That could get bad quickly, depending on who was listening.

"Have you walked by anyone else today and heard them?"

[kingbellamy]

"They can do that?" Bellamy had a slightly panicked look on his face and he started to pace. "Do we just hear each other or-- No, no, I've walked past other people today, on my way here. I didn't hear anything then."

Don't think about Echo don't think about Echo.

[notsoangry]

"Yes, apparently. They give people new powers. I haven't seen any myself, I was just told that. Also in the bunker there is a machine where supposedly some people have been able to pick powers. I don't know how." Tony did that to heal himself before, but Bruce did not want any powers, thanks. He had his fill of them. And this telepathy was going to be more of a curse than a benefit if he had to keep pretending not to hear Bellamy out of politeness.

He didn't say Echo. Obviously Bellamy did not want to hear about Echo. "I wonder why us." Bruce's mind starts going into statistical numbers and codes to try and percentage out why they in particular would be, and also how that then morphs into making sense based on what they knew of the people above so far. In his mind it was more of a vague sense of numbers, questioning, and moving very quickly through thoughts and facts and theories. He didn't go from A-Z, he went from A-H, J-Z, and then Z-K.

[kingbellamy]

He worried if he thought about Echo, he'd think about the things he missed about her. Her voice, her eyes, her warmth-- R rated things. So he thought very clearly about Iliad. "We just got lucky. Or maybe there's something that we have to accomplish together. I'm not much -- I'm not stupid, but I'm no scientist like you."