Lord, but her neighbor is a handsome one. It's unexpected, the way his appearance tries to take her breath away when she really looks -- though really, that could have been the dozen boxes she'd already moved before he popped out of his apartment. Handsome, polite, a real gentlemen if his offer of help is anything to go by. And those muscles sure don't look like they're just for show.
The name he gives makes her blink, the combination of that and a suddenly familiar face catching her rather off guard. You bet she knows who Steve Rogers is, there's no way she could avoid paying attention to this Earth's most popular superheroes. Lucky for him, she's not the fangirl type, and instead just smiles gratefully and replies, "I'm Rogue. Well, Marie, but most of my friends call me Rogue, it's kind of an old nickname."
It's automatic for her to try to shift the weight of her box long enough to hold out her hand to offer to shake his, but she doesn't quite get the balance right. One second she's upright and the next...
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Date: 2017-12-07 02:16 am (UTC)The name he gives makes her blink, the combination of that and a suddenly familiar face catching her rather off guard. You bet she knows who Steve Rogers is, there's no way she could avoid paying attention to this Earth's most popular superheroes. Lucky for him, she's not the fangirl type, and instead just smiles gratefully and replies, "I'm Rogue. Well, Marie, but most of my friends call me Rogue, it's kind of an old nickname."
It's automatic for her to try to shift the weight of her box long enough to hold out her hand to offer to shake his, but she doesn't quite get the balance right. One second she's upright and the next...
Timber.