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justindulgemeToni stared at the phone book entry in her smartphone as she sat on the front step of the restaurant.
If she'd been less of a mess she'd have sent for the Maiden, but letting her wet hair drip all over the inside of her trillion dollar baby was simply not acceptable.
Had Happy and Pepper not been spending their evening off with each other she would have called one of them, but as it was she didn't want to be the person to break up their alone time. Neither would forgive her for it for weeks, most likely, and this night had been rotten enough without making her most favorite and essential employees mad at her on top of everything else.
That left just one more person nearby to call who might not laugh at her situation openly...
With a sigh she tapped Steve's number and held the phone carefully away from her wet ear as it rang, wincing some as she heard his sleepy voice come over the line. Oh right, it was past midnight...
"Steve? Hey, it's Toni. Sorry to wake you."
If she'd been less of a mess she'd have sent for the Maiden, but letting her wet hair drip all over the inside of her trillion dollar baby was simply not acceptable.
Had Happy and Pepper not been spending their evening off with each other she would have called one of them, but as it was she didn't want to be the person to break up their alone time. Neither would forgive her for it for weeks, most likely, and this night had been rotten enough without making her most favorite and essential employees mad at her on top of everything else.
That left just one more person nearby to call who might not laugh at her situation openly...
With a sigh she tapped Steve's number and held the phone carefully away from her wet ear as it rang, wincing some as she heard his sleepy voice come over the line. Oh right, it was past midnight...
"Steve? Hey, it's Toni. Sorry to wake you."
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Date: 2012-07-13 03:30 pm (UTC)"You know, when I heard the legends about Captain America as a kid you were really not what I pictured. I think I expected you to be a lot more of a hard ass in person."
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Date: 2012-07-13 06:00 pm (UTC)He paused, eyes narrowing. "Did you just call me a peach?"
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Date: 2012-07-13 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-13 07:01 pm (UTC)The shock wore off and the sting of that grave look of displeasure on his face sunk in enough to jar a word out of her.
"I... sorry. I hadn't gotten the impression that you minded the nicknames."
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Date: 2012-07-13 07:28 pm (UTC)Christ, he was such a dick.
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Date: 2012-07-13 07:37 pm (UTC)"You jerk! You looked so stone-faced serious! Don't DO that to me!" she scolded through her chuckling, more than eager to accept an explanation that meant she hadn't done anything she had to apologize for!
She took a big swallow from her glass and shook her head at him.
"I am no good at telling when you're kidding, jeez!"
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Date: 2012-07-13 07:41 pm (UTC)"I forget that people aren't really used to my sense of humor." Nevermind the fact that most people were fairly certain that he didn't have a sense of humor. He took a swig of his own drink, humming at the taste. It was nice.
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Date: 2012-07-16 12:49 am (UTC)"I just gotta be around you in more situations that allow for joking. Alien invasion wasn't really conductive to sharing our best wit."
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Date: 2012-07-16 03:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-16 12:34 pm (UTC)"Oh yes, I knew THAT was a joke. I'd have laughed at the time if I wasn't trying to get the Hellcarrier back in the sky."
She opened her mouth to elaborate but the ding of the elevator and their arriving food cut her off - "Just a sec, Steve, Hey Tito!" - but it only took her a minute to make the exchange of money for goods with her favorite burger delivery person and settle back onto the couch, passing the larger of the two bags of food to her evening's rescuer.
"So, I had a thought while I was in the shower." Toni said as she unpacked her food. "Do you like formal parties much?" she paused. "Actually scratch that, have you ever BEEN to a black tie affair before?"
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Date: 2012-07-16 03:24 pm (UTC)"So, yes, I've been to formal parties." He didn't think about why she was thinking about him in the shower, because that was-- well, he didn't want to think about her in the shower. It'd be rude. "Why?"
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Date: 2012-07-16 03:36 pm (UTC)She raised a curious brow in his direction.
"There would be delicious food. And it's for charity."
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Date: 2012-07-16 03:45 pm (UTC)"I think that'd be nice." Wait...did he even have a tux?
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Date: 2012-07-16 03:57 pm (UTC)She grinned, delighted to what was probably a slightly irrational degree, but fuck it. The idea of showing up at a formal event with Captain America - the man, the legend - on her arm was doing a lot to improve her previous crappy mood.
She dug into the first bite of her cheeseburger with a happy sigh.
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Date: 2012-07-17 12:43 am (UTC)"I can get my own suit though, you don't need to worry about it." He knew that Toni liked to spend her money on people, and that was fine, he didn't have any right to say how she spent her own money, but he definitely could buy his own suit. He wanted to, in fact. "You could..help me pick it out, though."
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Date: 2012-07-17 02:14 am (UTC)The way she was smiling should probably have tipped Steve off that he might be in trouble.
"Party'is next Saturday night. Shopping Thursday?"
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Date: 2012-07-17 02:36 am (UTC)"Sure. Thursday sounds great." He tried to ignore the nervous feeling that was slowly tightening into a ball in his chest.