Bruce wasn’t sure if he had been the best person to talk to someone else about anger issues but he knew that it was something that he could do, he would be someone that thing such as anger and control could be best talked to him because he was the one with the most experience with losing control and doing things that you don’t have complete control of. From what he had seen of what had happened with Barton he had injured and killed people that he had been working with; yet it was different due to the fact that he was the hulk he could feel that it hadn’t been his actions that had been caused by another body almost and it was something that meant he could distance himself from the actions. Of course the first couple of times he had felt bad when he had caused casualties when he had been the hulk. Now he was sorry for the loss of life that he might have caused but he also accepted there was nothing he could have done to stop it.

He had never been under the control of someone else however; Hawkeye on the other hand had been under the control of Loki and it was nothing that he could compare to. Yet he felt that he should have tried to talk to the other man about the events due to the fact that he could give some insight into the hulk and hopefully the other man would change the outlook on what had happened. Of course he was not completely sure how much the other man had felt from the events of the war that they had gone to with Loki and the army that he had assembled. As Clint arrived he noted that he did seem pretty calm of course the fact that he was at the firing range there would be more confusing than anything. When the other man asked how he had found him there he couldn’t help but smile. ”From what I have heard this is the best place to find you.” he said.

When he asked who he was he had to think of the fact Clint didn’t meet him as Bruce when he had been in control of himself a lot. They had fought alongside each other during the war against Loki but they hadn’t really sat down and talked if he was being honest. “Yeah I am Bruce Banner.” he said ”I thought I would see how you where given what happened with Loki if anyone knows what it is like not to be in complete control it’s me.”


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Bruce knew what it was like to not be in control and he got the feeling that the other man would probably cover up everything that had happened and he would have gone to what could be described as local haunts, that had been what had lead Bruce here pretty much due to the fact that it was known that Hawkeye liked to spend time alone. That was someone that you could have argued was a sign but at the same time he didn’t know enough about the man and he was only going on what he thought was true not what necessarily could have been seen as true. The fact that he had been able to find the man due to what he had been told about him and shown that he preferred to act like nothing had been wrong Bruce knew how that was but he wasn’t going to push the man as it would only make things worse. ”You’re a lot easier to find than you think you are.” he said calmly.

When the other man talked of how he could live with what happened Bruce could tell already that the man didn’t believe it, of course it was convincing, the man was trying to will it to be true yet for someone who had been in that position it was obvious to Bruce that the other man wasn’t ok. He had been an expert had hiding such feelings himself so he could tell that there was something that the man was beating himself up about. He had been through this himself and he knew that it wasn’t something that was easy to deal with but he wasn’t that sure what to tell the other man either.

”I am sure you can cope with what you did.” Bruce said hating what he was about to do ”Has the doubt crept in yet? About if people trust you if the people that you see as your friends aren’t going to turn their back on you because they don’t know if you are going to be in control of yourself or the doubt that you don’t know if it is truly you in control of yourself anymore whether that control is as strong as you think it is or you are just being allowed to think it is?”


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“I am guessing a lot of people are easy to find.” He said “Steve likes his peace and quiet myself I am able to find in a lab the same for Tony I am sure that he would be in his tower more than anything in the world.”

Bruce knew that the other man would be going through everything and anything right now it wouldn’t be something that would be seen as easy due to what he had gone through but he was planning on helping him as he could there wasn’t a lot that he was going to be able to but he would give it a try. After all it wasn’t like he knew the man that well but at the same time he was the expert about losing control sure he knew that was like to be in control of himself and not in control of himself yet he knew that it was the fact that he had tried so hard to keep control of himself and it had been something that he knew the best as it had been him that had been losing control and turning into the hulk before anyone even really knew who he was.

When the other man talked of what he felt he knew how that had been it had been something that he had been through himself and he knew that it wasn’t easy. After all he knew that what the man was going through was normal he had been through it himself it wasn’t easy but it had been manageable over time if he was honest. ”It does get easier over time.” he said “If you don’t let it beat you, I know it mustn’t be easy for you but this is not something that Is going to just go away because you want it to Clint. You can’t just bottle it up and hope it doesn’t happen again because if you do then yourself doubt will be worse, hell there have been days when I didn’t even know if I could get out of bed because I was worried about what I could do, the difference is Clint you can honestly say you couldn’t fight it, after all it was an alien weapon that took control of you no one blames you and you shouldn’t blame yourself.”

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