Steve doesn't know how hard that choice of words hits, and it starts Bruce off laughing all over again. He's been trying to fix it for the better part of a decade now with no luck and as much as the offer's appreciated, he's pretty sure there's nobody out there who can help him along with it.
"The Gamma Pulse Project," he says after he's caught his breath. "What I was working on when- They wanted you. We had Erskine's notes, but we didn't know, and." Shaking his head, Bruce slips back into laughter, but drier this time, without that moseying-toward-unhinged sound it had before. "They wanted you, and what they got was me. I mean - just look at me." There's a helpless shrug, and something tugs at the corner of his mouth before giving up. "It's kind of funny, you know, once you get past how ridiculously far off the actual mark I was. Hilarious, even."
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Steve doesn't know how hard that choice of words hits, and it starts Bruce off laughing all over again. He's been trying to fix it for the better part of a decade now with no luck and as much as the offer's appreciated, he's pretty sure there's nobody out there who can help him along with it.
"The Gamma Pulse Project," he says after he's caught his breath. "What I was working on when- They wanted you. We had Erskine's notes, but we didn't know, and." Shaking his head, Bruce slips back into laughter, but drier this time, without that moseying-toward-unhinged sound it had before. "They wanted you, and what they got was me. I mean - just look at me." There's a helpless shrug, and something tugs at the corner of his mouth before giving up. "It's kind of funny, you know, once you get past how ridiculously far off the actual mark I was. Hilarious, even."