Steve freezes at her laugh, only relaxing again when Rogue explains that he didn't monumentally screw up the language, but just that he sounded so formal. "Yeah, I learned from a Frenchman, and an American who took it in college. I figure of the 2 of them, Gabe knew the more proper way of speaking, so I tried to learn from him." Although they were both fairly young men, and it had been war-time; meaning both of them were still pretty dirty a lot of the time.
God, he misses them. Not the piercing sharpness of missing Bucky or Marie, which was like losing a limb; the others was more like losing a tooth. You didn't notice it all the time, but every now and then something would remind you, and you'd start prodding the area where it used to be, feeling the edges of the hole that used to be filled.
"Beauty, brains, and fighting skills," he teases, before catching himself. He doesn't want to put her on the spot, and he's not flirting with her - not on purpose, anyway. It's just the truth.
At least he hadn't finished his thought. Which would've been to say, no wonder I'm attracted to you.
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God, he misses them. Not the piercing sharpness of missing Bucky or Marie, which was like losing a limb; the others was more like losing a tooth. You didn't notice it all the time, but every now and then something would remind you, and you'd start prodding the area where it used to be, feeling the edges of the hole that used to be filled.
"Beauty, brains, and fighting skills," he teases, before catching himself. He doesn't want to put her on the spot, and he's not flirting with her - not on purpose, anyway. It's just the truth.
At least he hadn't finished his thought. Which would've been to say, no wonder I'm attracted to you.