They landed in a small alcove in a hill. It had started to rain. The Hulk crashed into the alcove, he let go of Betty gently. Betty rushed into a corner. Her body unable to take the sudden motion, she retched.
And when she turned around the Hulk was standing right behind her, casting a massive shadow of her. She picked up a rock and started throwing them at him.
“Get away,” she shouted. “Go away you monster!”
They bounced uselessly off his glistening green body, soaked through because of the rain. She backed away, picking up whatever she could from the ground and throwing it at him. Until she found herself against the wall, the craggy surface digging against her back.
“Please leave me alone!” she cried. “Please!”
She saw the Hulk stretch out a hand and snapped her eyes shut. When nothing came and all she heard was something clink across the floor, she opened her eyes and saw the wedding ring she gave Bruce lying on the floor.
The Monster had her back to her, staring out into the rain. It reminded Betty of a lonely little child, staring out the window in self-pity on a slow rainy day. It reminded her of Bruce.
“Bruce?” she said, ring held close to her chest. Reaching out to him with her right hand.
The Hulk turned and for a brief moment in his green eyes she saw blue.
And then he leapt in the rain, a green dot in the grey skies.
In that brief moment she forgot where she was. All alone in a craggy hill with no escape, that was when she felt her phone ring.
It was her dad. Soon he’d reply and they’d find her and she’d get out of this place but deep in her heart she wondered and worried about Bruce, her heart aching for the man she once loved wondering if they’d ever be together again.
…
What would you do if you saw a monster?
When Jackson and his friends in the army saw a monster, they saw a new beginning. A terrifying feeling of dread and the realisation that his time was over. That the military wouldn’t be able to handle more monsters if they came out of the shadows.
When little Timmy saw a monster his whole world came crashing around him. Little Timmy learned that the world wasn’t quite so simple and sometimes the monsters won.
Betty Ross saw things a little bit differently. She saw humanity. She saw humanity standing defiant against a broken world.
We should be glad we don’t see monsters. They have the uncanny ability to shatter the world around us, turning the world we know upside down, making things start to make less and less sense.
Nick Fury on the other hand always tried to make the world make sense. It was his job and he did it with one-eyed dedication.
Nick Fury knew that where there’s one monster, there’s bound to be more.
And the world at large had to be ready once they started popping out of the woodworks.
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