CALL Network | un: Barnes

[notthaticequeen]

If my count of the date is correct:

Happy birthday, Steve(s).

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[justakidfrombrklyn]

I also owe you a dinner or two. Why don't we take care of both of them at once?

[notthaticequeen]

[...Unexpected.

She has to wait and watch and think before she can answer - has to figure out how she feels, how she will feel, how she might feel. Has to take a few deep breaths and remind herself of the world before deciding that she's been preparing for this for a while, and she's only around 30% chicken anymore.]

Okay. Where?

[justakidfrombrklyn]

I was thinking the diner. You still like diner food, I should hope.

[notthaticequeen]

Always. What time?

[justakidfrombrklyn]

I dunno. Whenever you're feeling up to it.

But you want you want your paint, after all.

[notthaticequeen]

[Put it that way and the answer would be 'now'. She even started to change clothes, knowing that something sleeveless would be practically necessary.]

Tonight, then. Six.

[justakidfrombrklyn]

Can do. Meet you there?

[notthaticequeen]

I'll be there.

[And only after she'd typed it did she pause to wonder if this Steve knew that she was Betty. Not Bucky. (That was still a dumb name.) ...Well. He'd find out soon.]