[With the deep well of self-blame that Bruce carries with him, it takes little effort to leave him teetering at its brink, knowing that almost everything in his life is the result of his choices or simply his existence.
If they weren't in public, if there weren't innocents passing them even now, he'd let it go and leave Loki to face the brutal simplicity of the Hulk's mind.
But he can choose here and he does, the roar underlying his thoughts is loud, almost deafening, but still damped down because Loki has already made him change once almost at a whim, and Bruce isn't handing him that power again.
All of it, all of the madness being forced into his consciousness, the sheer alien nature of Loki's mind, leave him with bolts of pain slamming through his mind, sending showers of sparks across his vision.]
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If they weren't in public, if there weren't innocents passing them even now, he'd let it go and leave Loki to face the brutal simplicity of the Hulk's mind.
But he can choose here and he does, the roar underlying his thoughts is loud, almost deafening, but still damped down because Loki has already made him change once almost at a whim, and Bruce isn't handing him that power again.
All of it, all of the madness being forced into his consciousness, the sheer alien nature of Loki's mind, leave him with bolts of pain slamming through his mind, sending showers of sparks across his vision.]