A/N: Dedicated to Alzenia466

Third Person POV:

"I'm ok, just a little hurt. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Amphitrite, really! Please stop!" Percy laughs as the robotic animal tickles him. 

Satisfied with his answer, Amphitrite uncoils herself from his neck and slithers to Tony. Where she takes the form of a cat and crawls into his arms. Now that Amphitrite is with Tony, Percy can turn his attention to the Hulk. He's about to open his mouth to ask questions when Sally interrupts him.

"Let's go to the living room! I'm sure it'll be much more comfortable," she says. 

At this everyone notices that they're still in the hallway and awkwardly make their way to the living room. Once they are all seated, they sit in uncomfortable silence until Percy speaks up.

"Um, Mr.Hulk? Can I ask you a question?" he shyly asks, barely looking at his hero. Hulk nods, and Percy looks like a kid on Christmas Day. He takes a deep breath and begins to speak, "HowdoesitfeelbeingtheHulk? Doyoufeelsuperstrong? Doyouthinkyoucanjumpoverabuilding? CanyouhearMr.Bruce'sthougthsinyourhead? Canyouhavementalconversationswitheachother? Canyou-"

"Woah, slow down buddy," Tony interrupts, "One question at a time!" Percy realizes that he was rambling, and a blush creeps up his face and he buries his face in his hands.

"Sorry for rambling," Percy whispers, not lifting his face from his hands.

"It's ok," Hulk replies, gently patting Percy's back; but he still fell off the couch anyways. "Sorry," Hulk says.

"It's alright," Percy replies, sitting back down on the couch. "Now we're even!"

Hulk smiles and asks, "You still want to ask questions?"

Percy's face lights up. "Really? Even after rambling?" he asks. 

Hulk nods and Percy begins to ask questions again, but this time more slowly. Percy repeats the questions he previously asked and reserves the more "science-ish" ones for when Bruce comes back. (Tony had previously designed some stretchy clothes for Bruce so when he comes back he will be in his regular clothes, just saying.) At the end of the little Q & A session with Hulk, Percy hugs the Hulk again.

"What is hug for?" Hulk asks, frozen by the sudden affection.

"Nothing, I just really wanted to hug you again," Percy replies, hugging Hulk tighter. 

Hulk carefully hugs the boy back, not wanting to injure him further. They stay like that for a while until the three adults start to hear small snores. They all look around confused until they find the source of the tiny snores: Percy had fallen asleep in Hulk's arms, he's loosely clutching Hulk's shirt- well it's actually Bruce's shirt, but who cares. He looks so peaceful, nothing compared to what he looked like less than an hour ago. Sally smiles, takes out her phone and snaps a picture.

"Well, I'm hungry. I'm going to fix myself something in the kitchen," Tony says while standing up, Amphitrite still in his arms.

"Same here, wait for me Tony!" Sally says as she stands up as well. 

Hulk realizes what they're doing and gives them a pleading look. Although he loves the little cinnamon roll already and wants to spend time with him, he didn't want to be left completely alone. And he couldn't move either since he didn't want to wake up the boy.

"Sorry, big buy. He's your #1 fan, and that means you gotta stick with him," Tony says as he enters the kitchen. 

Hulk sighs in defeat, but he isn't really sad. He was just acting that way to make Tony guilty for leaving him alone. He's actually happy to spend time with the boy, even if he's sleeping. To make the situation more comfortable for both of them, Hulk carefully removes the boy from the hugging position and cradles him like a baby. Promising to himself that he will always protect him.

*~Meanwhile in the kitchen~*

"I think they got along just great!" Tony says as he opens the fridge.

"Gee, what made you think that genius," Sally replies while entering the kitchen. Tony shoots Sally a small glare, and she just sticks out her tongue as a response.

"Is that all you got nerd? My grandma could glare harder than that!" Sally teases.

"Are you challenging me Rapunzel?" Tony says back, knowing that the nickname he gave her in high school would annoy her.

"Oh it's on short stack!" Sally says. They're about to start their little "trash-talk" battle when they're by Bruce's voice coming from the living room.

"Uh guys? Tony? What happened? Why's Percy on my lap?" he asks. 

You see, Hulk though that it would be a good idea to let Bruce spend time with Percy. But he didn't account that Bruce would have no idea what's going on and that he would be confused as to why he was sitting on the couch with a 12-year-old boy in his arms. Tiny (no, it's not a typo :D) and Sally enter the living room and see a very confused Bruce.

"Uh, can you guys tell me what's going one?" he shyly asks. 

Tony just smiles and quickly explains what happened in the last few minutes. Once Tony finishes, the three of them start to notice that Percy is starting to wake up.

"What happened?" Percy slurred while rubbing his eyes. Then he notices that he's in Bruce's arms and a blush creeps up on his face. "I- I'm so sorry Mr.Bruce- I- I mean Dr. Banner!" he stutters as Sally and Tony snicker.

"It's alright Percy," Bruce answers, "now, Tony and Sally tell me that you wanted to ask me some questions?"

Percy's face lights up for like the 14,000,000,605 (did I get the number right?) time that day and asks, "Really?!?!?" 

Bruce nods and, once again, Percy begins to ask his questions. By the time they finished the second Q & A session of the day two things had happened: 1- Bruce promised Percy that he would get to visit his lab soon and 2- Percy had fallen asleep again. The three adults are all sitting in the living room, talking softly so as to not wake the child up. They were all talking when Tony's phone rang; his ringtone is the Captain America theme song.

"It's Steve isn't it?" Bruce asks, knowing that Tony had put the Captain America theme song as his ringtone when Cap called. Tony looks at the contact and it says "Capsicle."

"Yeah it is," he replies while standing up, then he starts to exit the living room. "Excuse me for sec," he says before he disappears into the hallway. "Hello?" he greets as he answers the call.

"Where have you been? Seat empty. No note. Bruce gone. Of course I don't blame Bruce but you on the other hand..." Steve says.

"Steve, chill. I'm fine, and so is Bruce. I just had a family emergency and I needed Bruce's help, that's all," Tony replies before covering his mouth with his free hand.

"Family emergency? But you said you didn't have any other family Tony," Steve says, "Tell me the truth, where have you been?

Tony pauses before answering, "Steve, I am telling the truth. I did have a family emergency, but it's alright now. Now, I need to ask you a question: Why?"

"Wh- what?" The question catches the super soldier by surprise.

"Why? Why do you care so much about where I'm at? Whenever another team member is gone you don't freak out, but when it comes to me you do. Why are you suddenly so nice to me? When we first met, you wanted nothing to do with me. Now, you are super overprotective. I've already told you Steve, you're not my mom. I don't need you to fuss over me. So why?" Tony says, making himself sound angry. But in truth, he kinda felt the same way. He remembers when he first met Rogers, he thought he was a blonde, star-spangled, know-it-all. But ever since the little "kitchen incident" he felt super overprotective of him. If Steve was even a minute late, Tony started to freak out.

Steve stays silent before answering, " I- I honestly don't know Tony. I gotta go, but before I do let me ask you something: Are you coming back to the tower tonight?"

"Ummmm no. Bruce and I will be spending the night at my location," Tony answers.

"Ok, night Tony."

"Night Steve."

*~Meanwhile in the living room~*

Bruce's POV:

Tony left a moment ago to talk to Steve and Sally went to the kitchen to make some dinner; which left me alone with Percy and Amphitrite in the living room. Sally asked me if I wanted to join her in the kitchen, but Percy had fallen asleep and was using my shoulder as a pillow; so I politely refused, not wanting to wake Percy up. Now here I am, on the couch, with Percy. He looks so peaceful, so adorable. He's like a little puppy. I felt a sudden urge to protect this child ever since we met (even if it was a few hours ago.) He's simply just too pure, and he needs to be protected.

Hulk agrees. Hulk protect, I hear Hulk's voice say in my head.

Yeah, we need to protect this guy. I guess we finally agree on something, chuckle.

Don't get used to it, he retorts. I'm honestly taken back by his answer. He's never this sassy. I wonder why the sudden change...

Third Person POV:

A few minutes later Tony comes back from the hall and carries Percy to his room. Once Tony leaves with Percy, Bruce gets up and stretches. Hey, he was sitting in the same position for who knows how long, he's sore. Once Percy is put to bed, Sally calls Tony and Bruce to dinner. They eat peacefully, with no interruptions. And by the way, Tony definitely didn't give Amphitrite a digestive system, and he definitely didn't sneak her food during dinner. Once they are done they all go to bed. Sally in her room, Bruce in the guest room, Tony on the couch, and Amphitrite on Tony. They all slept peacefully that night.

A/N: What did you guys think of Extra #2? I hope you liked it Alzenia466