Steph watches him, close. The quiet, unsure air about him. The way he hesitates and fiddles with the pencil, tips back the shot like it's nothing. Which reminds Steph that she has one of her own.
So unsubtly in love.
She shoots the schnapps back herself, swallowing it down with ease and reaching for a stick of charcoal, laid out on fresh paper. He hadn't protested when she'd touched his things earlier, Steph won't mind a smack to her hand if she's overstepping her bounds right now.
The first strike across the paper is stark and roughly textured.
"Couldn't have been that similar, surely," she says, quiet. And if she's not shy or embarrassed, there are most certainly nerves there. Unsubtly Steph, on the defense. "Our lives are awfully similar in a lot of different ways, but they don't seem to be identical. And Agent Carter and I, we- there hasn't been a lot of time to chat or anything. We've been pretty busy on our own."
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So unsubtly in love.
She shoots the schnapps back herself, swallowing it down with ease and reaching for a stick of charcoal, laid out on fresh paper. He hadn't protested when she'd touched his things earlier, Steph won't mind a smack to her hand if she's overstepping her bounds right now.
The first strike across the paper is stark and roughly textured.
"Couldn't have been that similar, surely," she says, quiet. And if she's not shy or embarrassed, there are most certainly nerves there. Unsubtly Steph, on the defense. "Our lives are awfully similar in a lot of different ways, but they don't seem to be identical. And Agent Carter and I, we- there hasn't been a lot of time to chat or anything. We've been pretty busy on our own."