[ Their record player is still crooning soft music and she thinks, absently, that they should tend to that before it reaches the last song. But this is far more pressing and far more interesting. ]
Thank you, darling, [ is whispered right before they kiss, and she brings their joined hands to rest against her heart. She's shorter than him now, having kicked off her heels for bare stockings some time in the last hour of the party, but it's an easy thing to rise on her toes and lean against the door for leverage as she deepens the kiss, her free arm winding around his waist in turn.
It's still bandaged, but that's entirely for show. She's since recovered from their ordeal in the rescue missions and although she moves carefully with Steve now, she's sure he has, too. They share that bond, now. And maybe it's that, maybe it's the whiskey, maybe it's the spirit of the evening and the closeness of his body, but she's craving more contact than just this. The kiss may have started out chaste but she'd rather it not remain that way, not with all the false starts and stops they've had for months, not when she's riding high on the atmosphere of the evening. ]
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Thank you, darling, [ is whispered right before they kiss, and she brings their joined hands to rest against her heart. She's shorter than him now, having kicked off her heels for bare stockings some time in the last hour of the party, but it's an easy thing to rise on her toes and lean against the door for leverage as she deepens the kiss, her free arm winding around his waist in turn.
It's still bandaged, but that's entirely for show. She's since recovered from their ordeal in the rescue missions and although she moves carefully with Steve now, she's sure he has, too. They share that bond, now. And maybe it's that, maybe it's the whiskey, maybe it's the spirit of the evening and the closeness of his body, but she's craving more contact than just this. The kiss may have started out chaste but she'd rather it not remain that way, not with all the false starts and stops they've had for months, not when she's riding high on the atmosphere of the evening. ]