manifesting baddies this season

[enya]

the tinder meme Maybe you can't find a date. Maybe you don't want to find a date. Maybe this whole thing was set up by your well-meaning friends, or your prank-playing enemies, or your over-involved mother. Whatever the reason, you're on a swipe-based dating system. Call it tinder, cuddlr, e-harmony but for shallow assholes... you're on it. What's the worst that could happen?

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[sinne]

[ Okay, she's just rolling her eyes and chuckling now. It's been thousands of years but it's almost exactly like when they were bitty. ]

Are you being cute and referring to yourself in third person, or did you not get that I meant you?

[vintersoldat]

[ There's definitely a blink as relief washes over him. ]

Some would say I'm too rough to be cute.
And I... didn't realize you were talking about me.

Because you're ... definitely the only market I want to invest in. And I was hoping you felt the same since you did get me Sam and all. And he's been asking when you're visiting again.

[ Dogs can't actually talk, so it's really him wondering when he can see her again. But it's cute to act like it's totally the dog's want, right? ]

[sinne]

[ Good. That settles the matter, then. She gets off the app and just texts his number directly. ]

I do feel the same. I mean, I thought we were dating? Or are things supposed to work differently. I don't quite get these... modern relationship stuff.

[ If you thought a hundred was old, Buck, you're about to be in for a surprise. ]

[vintersoldat]

[ He's happy to be off the app, and to know she wants to be his... girlfriend? Maybe? ]

I'm still trying to figure out modern things too, but I haven't been interested in perusing anyone else. Just you. And I like the... we're dating, we're officially excusive?

Do you want to get dinner tonight?

[ He's going to be so surprised when eh finds out everything about her, about his past life. ]

[sinne]

I suppose that's what it is, isn't it? You and me?

Ja, if you'd like? I'm in the area. I can be there whenever you're available. [ She's always in the area he is. She doesn't need to work or worry about money; her brother's taking care of anything she might need while she's on her mission. ]

[vintersoldat]

I think so. I'd be happy to say so. Everything in me likes the idea of saying you're mine. Or well, mine and sam the puppy's.

I'd like. Swing by my place and we can go from there?
[ She'll be surprised. He heard her when she complained about a bed. There's a bed now. It has black and blue sheets, but there's a bed. ]

[sinne]

[ It's a little jarring to see two people in one person. If that makes sense. But it doesn't really matter to her since she also quite likes that other side of him now. ]

Let me just grab something for Sam real quick.

[ Wait, should she have asked for a time? Dinner's still later, will she be too early? ]

[vintersoldat]

[ At some point, when he remembers enough they should merge a little, making it more one person, but he still has some time. Though his dreams of her, those have been progressively more intense, more often. ]

I think you spoil him more than I do.
And by that I mean, we can't wait.

[ He thinks pre-dinner coming over is actually perfect. He can surprise her with the bed now. ]

[sinne]

I only haven't spoiled you rotten because I didn't want to scare you off. You don't seem like the type who wants to accept help or be taken care of.

[ But Sam's not the only one getting a bag of treats when she arrives. Bucky's getting one too, and in it is a scarf, to go with the gloves she knitted for him last time. She just finished it last night.

Though she's distracted by his surprise, laughing. ]

Ymir, you did not.

[vintersoldat]

I appreciate that you want to though, if that counts.

[ He's not the one who really knows what to do with people wanting to take care of him or help him. He had enough trouble letting people help him acclimate to this century, after all. But the scarf has him smile brightly for it, because he likes these kind of gifts, both small things but also made by her.

Though he looks up at her comment, grinning at her. ]

I had to. You complained that I didn't have one. Now I have one.

[sinne]

[ She's barely relinquished the bags when Sam comes bounding over and demands her attention. She picks the pup up and walks over to the bed while Sam licks her face. ]

You haven't even slept on it!

[ She turns back to him, her smile becoming shy as she watches him unpack his present. ] Do you like it?

[vintersoldat]

[ There's a soft look as he watches how the puppy loves on her. This feels right in more ways than he knows how to say, how to show. ]

I thought you'd want to break it in with me?

[ Moving over to her, he'll settle next to her on the bed, leaning to brush a kiss to her cheek. ] I love it. It's lovely.

[sinne]

Before or after dinner?

[ That's what he means by breaking it in, right?

If there's a skill she's polished in the last few thousand years, it's patience. She'll let him take the lead, even if it's very tempting to just take matters into her own hands. Though that doesn't also mean she's not going to try to steer things in a certain direction. She's always known what she wants and strives to get it, and that's not changed.

She leans closer to him at that, though Sam, not wanting to be outdone, licks her other cheek. She laughs. ] It's not cramping your style, I hope? I just... wanted it to bring out the color of your eyes.

[ If there's one thing that hasn't changed about him, it's his eyes. They're exactly the same shade of ice blue from his previous life, from when he'd been someone else she loved.

But she can love this version of him too. She might even already do. ]

[vintersoldat]

[ His mouth opens for a moment before it closes and he can't help the chuckle that leaves him. In some ways, her boldness surprises him, but in a good way.

Definitely a good way. ] If we break it in before dinner, we're not leaving the apartment... If you're okay with that...

[ He's still getting used to how much freer people can be with affection, with wants and desires than when he'd grown up. But to be fair to him too, unlike Steve, he was a bit of a lady's man growing up before he was captured.

Reaching, he scritches behind Sam's ear gently before catching her cheek and drawing her face up for a slow kiss. ] It's not cramping my style at all, and even if it did, it would be worth it because you made it for me.

[ It's not lost on him that it's the perfect shade for his eyes, and he's sure that's why she made it that color. Right now though, he settles it around her neck and uses it to draw her gently into him for another kiss.

He'd question if he was someone worth loving. After everything he'd done, even while brainwashed. But she's easy to fall for, sweet, patient, witty, funny. And she puts up with his nightmares in a way no one has strived to do.

Not that he's allowed many to get that far. ]