ext_54964 ([identity profile] clockwork-son.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] shatterverse2008-05-16 10:07 am

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Gabriel.

Onna farm.

Sitting out by the bunker.

Moping.

He has a pillow with him, yoinked from the living room.

[identity profile] eureka-bell.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
'Nervous' was a good word. Now let's use 'awkward'.

What the hell, Steve, is what he's telling himself. This shouldn't be difficult. Talk to him. What the hell.

But the argument blew up out of nowhere, and it's still raw in his head, and he's scared to find out what damage it's caused.

So.

Awkward.

[identity profile] eureka-bell.livejournal.com 2008-05-16 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
And Steve also wants to apologise, and he isn't certain whether he was right, but he doesn't want to have been wrong because that would open him up to more personal questions than he's comfortable with.

...he's said it before, and the narration will say it again. That's just fucking fantastic.

Steve trails towards the bunker, and sits there, not meeting Gabriel's eyes.

[identity profile] eureka-bell.livejournal.com 2008-05-17 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Steve leans into that semi-embrace, as relaxed as a violin string, apparently finding the ground a terribly interesting thing at which to look. He's tempted to just pretend that this is a normal hug on a normal (well, relatively so) day -- but pretending won't sort this out, will it?

But he seems to have forgotten how to speak.










He is, he decides, being ridiculous.










"I'm sorry I shouted."

It's something.

[identity profile] eureka-bell.livejournal.com 2008-05-17 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Steve hugs one arm around Gabriel's waist, even though he's still apparently speaking to a point on the grass some two feet away from his toes. The contact is reassuring.

"And--"

Swallow.

"If you don't want... It would be a big responsibility."

And if it causes this much tension between them, then the idea leaves a nasty taste in Steve's mouth.

Just please, no debates about the ethics of it?

[identity profile] eureka-bell.livejournal.com 2008-05-17 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That feels a little better.

...'so are we all right?' would be the most trite and ridiculous thing to say, ever.

So Steve doesn't say it.

It leaves him a bit short of things to say, however.

[identity profile] eureka-bell.livejournal.com 2008-05-17 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank God.

All right, now Steve can relax a little, turning his face into the kiss so that they're lips-to-lips. This feels better. This feels more like they should be.

[identity profile] eureka-bell.livejournal.com 2008-05-17 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah."

...Steve had been thinking along the same lines, actually. Well, so far as 'thinking' is really the right word. He's just cursed with a bashful mun.

"Might be a good idea."

For the sake of any innocent farm-dwellers who might wander past and be traumatized. Aren't they thoughtful?