I'd say you were top of your class, but I rather doubt you actually enjoyed studying. I'll bet you were the smartest man on campus though. And I'll bet you were cute as hell and twice as charming back then.
[Imagining James younger wasn't hard. That cheeky smile and those lovely, icy eyes would have attracted a brick wall. He probably just crooked his finger towards anyone he wanted and had them at a glance. He blinked in surprise at the dates though, mouth forming an "o" of surprise.]
You're older than me! I mean, if I hadn't been frozen, and I'd been taken from '45, not 2014 or so . . . wow. I never would have guessed. You look good for almost thirty James. Really really good.
[His fingers continued to trace up and down James' throat, though they did dip below the man's collar now and then, tracing along a collarbone, and up along James' jaw. Just for variety. He grinned up at the man oddly pleased he'd fallen for someone who was actually a nice, mature man for once. He hadn't expected that. He didn't even remember to comment on the fact James was from so far in the future it didn't even compare to what had happened to him. He was more than two centuries ahead of home.
Steve gave a slight nod and his smile turned a little wistful. Questions about home would probably always do that to him.]
After a fashion. Mostly I lived in S.H.I.E.L.D. digs, but they were sometimes out that way. Never like it had been before the war though. I never really got to go home, even after the ice, not that there was really any home to go back to . . .
[His eyes darkened and his fingers slowed even more, resting against James' pulse for a long moment before the shadows passed. He'd woken up generations later, everyone and everything he'd ever known gone. And he'd never been able to find that sense of home again. With his friends he'd recently started to come close before the island. And then once he was there, any time with Peggy had just been a balm on his soul, though with Lucas it had been a torment. And now with James . . .
Steve didn't have to lie with James. It was probably the most honest relationships, bar time with Peggy, he'd ever had. It was . . . He'd do anything to keep it. Anything.]
But now I have you James. And I can never be thankful enough.
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[Imagining James younger wasn't hard. That cheeky smile and those lovely, icy eyes would have attracted a brick wall. He probably just crooked his finger towards anyone he wanted and had them at a glance. He blinked in surprise at the dates though, mouth forming an "o" of surprise.]
You're older than me! I mean, if I hadn't been frozen, and I'd been taken from '45, not 2014 or so . . . wow. I never would have guessed. You look good for almost thirty James. Really really good.
[His fingers continued to trace up and down James' throat, though they did dip below the man's collar now and then, tracing along a collarbone, and up along James' jaw. Just for variety. He grinned up at the man oddly pleased he'd fallen for someone who was actually a nice, mature man for once. He hadn't expected that. He didn't even remember to comment on the fact James was from so far in the future it didn't even compare to what had happened to him. He was more than two centuries ahead of home.
Steve gave a slight nod and his smile turned a little wistful. Questions about home would probably always do that to him.]
After a fashion. Mostly I lived in S.H.I.E.L.D. digs, but they were sometimes out that way. Never like it had been before the war though. I never really got to go home, even after the ice, not that there was really any home to go back to . . .
[His eyes darkened and his fingers slowed even more, resting against James' pulse for a long moment before the shadows passed. He'd woken up generations later, everyone and everything he'd ever known gone. And he'd never been able to find that sense of home again. With his friends he'd recently started to come close before the island. And then once he was there, any time with Peggy had just been a balm on his soul, though with Lucas it had been a torment. And now with James . . .
Steve didn't have to lie with James. It was probably the most honest relationships, bar time with Peggy, he'd ever had. It was . . . He'd do anything to keep it. Anything.]
But now I have you James. And I can never be thankful enough.