Brutasha - Blog Posts
Third instalment of my Philindaisy fic. Not completed, but going to be within the next month and a half.
Excerpt from the Second In-Between, Chapter 8.
BNAU #3
Nat is injuried while she and Bruce are taking a trip. Nat sinks into a coma from her intensive injuries, and Bruce finds out that the attackers only attacked her because they couldn't hurt him.
So he's in the Waiting Room, contemplating something, when a doctor comes out and tells Bruce about Nat's condition. At the end, the doctor asks Bruce, "Should we be expecting you?"
Bruce: "What do you mean?"
And the doctor smiles sadly, "You're an Avenger. It's in the name. Besides, I have the feeling she's someone you love and when someone you love gets injured like that..." and the two of them fall silent.
So Bruce finds Yelena, tells her about Nat, and she agrees to help him. Two weeks later, no change in Nat but Bruce looks like a new man.
He systematically finds and takes down the people that attacked them, and then the organization that sent them. He left a trail behind him but he didn't really care.
The criminal underworld called him a psychopath. Others called him a vigilante. Even others just didn't say anything at all, fearing he'd hear.
In the end, when the organization was gone and they were buried, Bruce came back. Nat was awake, he had been told, and had been asking for him. He returns and she asks him, "What have you been doing?"
And Bruce just breaks. His armour, the one that had shielded him from the actuality of killing had broken and he just poured it out. Every hunt, every chase, every conclusion.
He doesn't know if she'd forgive him , or if she was angry, if she felt anything at all.
And then he feels her running her fingers through his hair and her, just her, right beside him, and he knows.
This can't ever be the same. They can't ever go back to the way it was before. He has made a name for himself, and others will come for him. It was a decision he made, he knew the price, and he was willing to pay it.
When Nat falls alseep, he writes her a note: I love you’s and I'm sorry's peppered the page until he signed his name. He places it on the bedstand, kisses her forehead and smiles, meloncholy in the lamplight.
And then he leaves.
He runs, and he runs without her.
"It is for the best.”
He says that, repeats it every time he doubts.
It is not. But it is done.
I don't think MCU is very good at building romantically canon relationships. Brutasha was downright awful, Staron was hurried, Thor x Jane had little chemistry, Hawkeye with his family was literally ???? No offence but how about Bobbi??, Bruce x Betty was ok, but are they happening anymore..? The only canon relationship I loved was Pepperony and Steggy (Starlord x Gamora was fine too) which Marvel have seems to messed up. Also I really love Scarletvision, hope they get a seperate movie and not fuck it up. I'm really looking forward to Scott x Hope and Stephen x Christine, although they had very little screen time, their chemistry was worth enjoying. Also I wish they fix Pepperony and build up Staron in the future. Scarletvision deserves their movie For the future couples? Honestly I don't know what Marvel is going to give for T'Challa since the property of Storm is on Fox's X-men. Also Peter Parker and Gwen or MJ. It worries me, since I don't believe Zendaya's Michelle is a romantic counterpart to Spiderman. I'm really routing for Buckynat but reallistically, I think it'll be very hard to happen For the Netflix? DD x Elektra was good, I loved Luke x Jessica in Jessica Jones but its trembling in Luke Cage and Defenders (But I know they will happen since they are Marvel's iconic superhero couple along with Antman & Wasp). Not really comics canon, but I also enjoyed Kastle and looking forward to it in Punisher series.