003: Video

[hulkbusted]

[It's after the night siren and Bruce is looking frazzled, irritated, and... like he forgot that he'd been getting ready to sleep, since he's wearing boxers and glasses and apparently nothing else. As he settles his NV, a pair of mice skitter across the desk he's set it on. There are little movements in the background and Bruce has to stop and hop around, cursing under his breath as something apparently runs over his foot.]

Okay, look, the Darkness thing I'm up on, but is it common for random objects like, say, my pillow to turn into mice?

[ooc: Loki'd]

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[therightchoice]

[ He has his moments. ]

I'm eleven.

[hulkbusted]

Let me look into it. The way this place sucks people in randomly there have to be processes in place for unaccompanied minors.

[therightchoice]

Thanks, Bruce. I don't know where to look.

[ This is the grown up stuff he has no idea on how to handle. ]

[hulkbusted]

Neither do I, but I can do bureaucracy. We'll get it worked out and you can hang out with people more your age.

[therightchoice]

Do you hang out with people your age?

[hulkbusted]

Sometimes, when I can, but I have friends who are all ages. [Thinking of everyone from Tony to Kevin to Scatach.]

[therightchoice]

Back home, all of my friends were around my age. I didn't really talk to grown-ups very much before I came here. [ Or when it was revealed he was half demon, but whatever. ]

[hulkbusted]

I think that's how it's supposed to be. You and your friends are learning how to be kids and someday adults together. It's not like it's easy being young. It's even harder when you're on your own.

[therightchoice]

[ And now this talk is making Jesse sad again, as he will never see his friends again, let alone grow up beside them. ]

I never thought being young as hard.

[hulkbusted]

Maybe it was just me. [He shrugs.] I don't spend much time with kids who aren't patients.

[therightchoice]

Are you working as a doctor now?

[hulkbusted]

No, I'll help out where it's needed, but I'm going to teach physics and biochem at SPU when the fall term starts.

[therightchoice]

[ Now, Jesse knows little to nothing about colleges and careers and stuff, but it even to him sounds so crazy to hear someone being both a doctor and biochemist and a physicist at the same time. ]

I have no idea what to do when I grow up.

[hulkbusted]

[That's what happens when you're one of the geniuses of your generation, but Bruce would note he's an unlicensed physician anyway.]

What do you like?

[therightchoice]

I like playing Derby. I sometimes draw, but I'm not very good at it.

[hulkbusted]

To be honest I can't draw either, but I don't know what Derby is.

[therightchoice]

Oh, I mean Pinewood Derby. It's when you make your own race car out of a block of pinewood and plastic wheels and have a race to see which one is the fastest.

[hulkbusted]

You'd be surprised how much physics can help you with things like that.

[therightchoice]

I thought physics is about reading your mind.

[ ... seriously. ]

[hulkbusted]

[That surprises a laugh out of him.]

That's psychics. Physics is about how things move - cars, people, even light.

[therightchoice]

Oh. They sound the same. So it's like measuring speed?

[hulkbusted]

That's part of it, and what things do when they bump into each other, and why a paper airplane moves differently than a wadded up paper ball when you throw them.

Physics gets down into the things that make the universe and gives us the math to understand them.

[therightchoice]

[ Wow. That's deep. ]

What about wormholes?

[hulkbusted]

I thought you didn't know anything about physics. [He's teasing a little.]

[therightchoice]

I saw the Twilight Zone. Wormholes are part of the universe.