re: subjecting him to all the memes

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With all due respect, ma'am...






I think I'd rather be frozen again.

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[kneecaptain]

A bit desperate. Why can't you just get drunk?

[he says to the weirdly really familiar stranger]

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[ steve holds his hands out a little helplessly. ]

Because I actually can't. Sped up metabolism - thing of wonders.

[kneecaptain]

Sounds like crap, if you ask me.

[hmmmm]

[dated]

[ steve lets out a little laugh, unable to help himself. not quite the words he would have used, but... ]

Yeah, pretty much. Saved my life more than once but... it can make a Saturday night pretty boring.

[kneecaptain]

I don't drink to have fun.

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[ the smile drops from steve's face almost immediately. somber now, he murmurs quietly, earnestly: ]

I'm sorry.

[kneecaptain]

Don't be.

[He shakes his head.]

It doesn't sound like you're having much fun, yourself.

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[ steve lets out a little laugh, one that sounds a lot more hollow than he'd like. ]

I guess you could say that. [ he stares down at his hands. ] It's funny, actually. For a man out of time, I've got all the time in the world... [ and no one to share it with.

what does he do now, in a world he doesn't even recognize anymore? it doesn't need saving every day... what use is he to it outside of that? ]

[kneecaptain]

No one has all the time in the world.

It can just feel that way. Some of the time.

[dated]

[ steve averts his eyes. ]

...you sound like you could use a drink right about now.

[kneecaptain]

Nah. I'm good.

Besides, we're talking about your problems, here.

[dated]

Ah, well... pretty trivial, in the great scheme of things.

[kneecaptain]

Who's aren't?

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[ a pause.

and then a laugh. ]

Point.

[ he sighs a little, rubbing a hand over the back of his head. ] Have you ever been on one of those memes?

[kneecaptain]

Christ, no. Natasha would kill me.

[dated]

--Natasha?

[kneecaptain]

My girlfriend. That's her name.

[dated]

Oh.

[ well not all the memes are scandalous, but... ]

She has something against them?

[ he's tempted to ask her last name, but. ]

[kneecaptain]

She doesn't like most of the trouble I get myself into.

[dated]

She can't join you?

[kneecaptain]

She's, you know, the cautious type.

Easier to call me an idiot from a distance.

[dated]

[ ah. most likely not the natasha he knows, then. ]

Well. Good for her, actually. I've seen the kind of things you can into thanks to these memes. They're trouble, alright.

[kneecaptain]

They could drive a man to drink.

[dated]

All things I'd like to avoid, if I could help it.

[kneecaptain]

Not really your choice, though, is it?