dear_mun | re: subjecting him to all the memes

I consider it the lesser of two evils, ma'am. I wouldn't consider those memes to be any "fun" either.

I don't know about that, hon.

They're better than being cooped up all day if you ask me.

...maybe you're luckier than I am, ma'am.

[ he ducks his head a little, boyishly sheepish over so blatantly disagreeing with a woman. how terrible of him! ]

[Sally is used to men getting sheepish around her.

honestly boy, worse things have happened to her. :|]

Oh I wouldn't say that.

[ he doesn't know... but if he did--

]

I guess luck is pretty subjective.

I find most things are.

But maybe you'll get lucky one of these days, honey. If you were still frozen, there'd be no chance for that. It ain't fun playing it safe.

[ he bristles a little. ]

I take risks. [ his whole life had been taking chances. ] But they were all for a reason.

Then maybe you'll find another reason this time around.

Like I said, there's not much goin' for a man when he's just a frozen block of ice.

[ he can't help but smile. it's not that common now - that someone would encourage hope. it's refreshing.

and nostalgic. ]

I suppose you're right, ma'am. There could be a silver lining to all of this in the long run.

[oh man don't get her started on nostalgia]

You just make the best with what you're given. Even if it's shit.

Lemons into lemonades, right? [ and what upstanding american citizen dosen't love lemonade... ]

Or Limoncello if you're feeling daring.

[lmao she's an upstanding alcoholic.]

[ he laughs a little sheepishly. ]

It wouldn't make much of a difference, sorry to say. [ he taps his chest. ] Fast metabolism.

[she smirks as she eyes that chest of his.

ugh what a flirt stop it sally.]

Damn shame, it woulda been fun getting tipsy with a fella like you.

[ another little laugh, this one more bashful than the last. oops, how does he girl again... ]

I didn't have much of a constitution for it before - [ before the whole super soldier bit ] - anyway, so I probably wouldn't have been as much fun as you think, ma'am.

I'm sure I could've helped you with that had I known you.

[WINK.

no stop it sally you're making him uncomfortable or something why do you do this.]

And it's Sally dear. No more of this ma'am business, I'm not that old.

[ steve's smile doesn't face, but the light in his eyes seems to dim a little. ]

Maybe. [ but he doesn't sound all that convinced. ] I wasn't exactly known for my popularity back then. [ she wouldn't have spared him two looks. ]

--Sally. Right, sorry, I didn't mean-- [ well. how do you explain that, technically, you're probably decades older than her anyway? ] I'm Steve.

Well we don't all start out popular.

[yeah she probably wouldn't have...]

No harm done. And I know, my mun's told me a bit about you. But it's always a pleasure.

--they have? [ steve shifts uncomfortably now. so then she knows who he'd been. not that he's particularly ashamed or anything, but--

well having the attention of pretty ladies is still a new deal for him, okay! ]

[dude you gotta werk it. sally would totally give him pointers if she knew.]

She has, yes.

Said we might get along right as rain, being from the same era 'n all. Not many of us costumed folk from the good old days left.

[ oh man. steve perks up like a little puppy at the sound of that. ]

--really? [ y-you mean you won't make weird references to things he knows nothing about...? ;; ]

Really.

[of course she wouldn't ;~;]

[ he lets out a little laugh. relieved. ] You have no idea how good that sounds.

Oh I think I do.

Bet you feel like a fish out of water around the rest of the folks here.

[ heaving a heavy sigh. ] Like an alien, some days.

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