The Incredible Hulk by John Reeves (free reads txt) 📖

Elaina! David continued to call her name as loudly as he could. He could hear the tribal screams louder than he could shout, his voice growing deeper as he shouted her name. E-L-A-I-N-A. David had said for the final time before he no longer approached the situation as Dr. David Banner. His clothes hit the ground as they stretched to the limit before ripping away from the large beast. The blows against the building while he was Banner, became blows from the extraordinary strong hulk. The side of the concrete began to crack, the beast shoved his foot into the wall crushing his way through the cement wall of the laboratory. Jumping twenty feet to the ground as he landed his feet cracked the floor of the lab. The creature grabbed the large piece of the floor above lifting the solid piece of cement off of Elaina, he shoved the huge piece of floor away from the injured Elaina. The contaminated air around her was toxic to inhale, the fire was burning off fumes that were deadly. With his muscular arms he reached down picking Elaina up like a baby running with he out the backside of the building. His crashing foot cleared the way through walls and, other obstacles in his way. There were two small explosions before one massive blast the sent the building to the ground. The beast walked slowly in the wooded mountainous landscape behind the burning laboratory.

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The hulk held Elaina in his arms, as if even he could see how beautiful she was. He watched her mouth move as she told the beast what she hoped David could hear.
"I don't know if you can understand what I'm saying but, David I love you, I've always loved you."
Her eyes tired and weak closed, the cement had damaged her internal organs as it landed on her stomach. The hulk watched her die in his arms. He didn't understand what she said to him but, he understood she had just died in his arms. The tears rolled off the green face of the creature, it began to sob before letting out a growl that echoed across the mountains.
The morning sun is the next thing David remembered as he woke up laying on the gravel bed by the creek that fed into the river. He closed his eyes trying to remember how he got where he was, Elaina was the first thing that came into his mind. He remembered the lab fire and, her being inside. He remembered running around the building wanting to save Elaina just as he'd wanted to save Laura. He knew he'd changed but, he didn't know if Elaina had been saved in the process. Then McGee came to mind, he wondered what happened to Jack McGee. David walked through the wooded area with no clothes on, he tried to figure which direction the beast within took in leaving the lab. As he came to the clearing he could see the lab completely destroyed. There were cars all over the parking lot. Not sure what had happened he ran back through the forrest as fast as he could run. It was so cold his body seemed to be stinging, his bare feet were hurting as he continued to run, tears rolled down his face he knew on the inside that Elaina died in the massive blast, but the fear of not really knowing cut into his heart worse than if he just knew one way or the other.
Things had changed for Jack McGee as he sold the story to the readers of the National Register. His header read - The Hulk Kills Two In Lab Fire
Jack didn't claim the hulk had killed the two scientists to cover his own tracks. Jack had no idea he actually caused the fire in the lab. He'd seen the hulk crushing the wall in with his foot, he knew the green beast was real and, he been there that night. There was a feeling in his gut Elaina and David had been afraid of the monster. He knew they'd had something to do with the beast, though he also realized their efforts to contain or control the hulk. It was Jack's full intent on not having to fabricate the story as he conveyed it to his readers. In the end he told it like he thought it had been, he openly said in his first article on the green skinned hulk that more details would be available as more information behind the investigation was uncovered in the rubble.
As the funeral was being held for the two scientists Jack felt obligated to get the story, but in another way he felt something for both of them, he felt they were good people stuck in a bad situation. Had they created something to large to handle? Admittedly Jack had no idea, but it was there it was as real as he was. Jack stood there holding the first edition of the Register with his story on the cover. He stood beside Bill, hoping he'd get something from him about what happened in there.
"Did you really have to print that garbage?" Bill asked.
"Well it's true!" McGee replied.
"No it sales newspapers." Bill said walking away.


-The Lonely Man's Walk-

With a tear coming down the side of his face David walked towards his would be grave, to pay his final respects to Elaina Marks who had been more than just a friend to him. He loved her though he never said it to her, he wished he had the chance to tell her but that time was gone. Had it not been for Laura's death, he might never had gotten so close to Elaina, but she had made him feel good again. Though at the time he didn't realize it he had been falling in love with her all along. That maybe he had loved her as far back as medical school, though he never recognized the feelings.
"I loved you Elaina, and I think you loved me too." David put his hand on the headstone that read Elaina Harding Marks.
David took the most lonely walk away from the freshly covered grave. He didn't know where to go, or what to do next. Those concerns weren't on his mind, the thoughts of Elaina the only person to understand him was dead. She was the only person to ever see the creature he becomes and, know that somewhere inside the monstrous beast there was actually some on human who had feelings like everyone has.
He felt it all to deserving that he had a headstone right beside hers, because there wasn't going to be a David Banner anymore. Everyone believed that David too had been killed in the fire and that the beast created that explosion. David realized he must keep the beast a secret until he could find a way to control it.


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Publication Date: 01-03-2010

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