Stephanie "Captain America" Rogers (steph_rogers) wrote in freedomtownic, @ 2017-11-30 17:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | !thread, jane shepard (cdr_shepard), stephanie rogers (steph_rogers) |
Who: Stephanie Rogers & Jane Shepard
When: Monday night
Where: Stephanie's apartment
Status: Closed/Complete
Rating: PG
Jane and Stephanie had been taking things slow since they'd started dating, taking the time to get to know each other. Right now they were both sipping white wine in Stephanie's apartment. "I think that you would have liked Joker," Jane said with a fond smile, remembering her pilot. "He just had this way of adding much needed levity to dire situations."
"Sounds nice." Stephanie laughed, rolling her eyes as she pulled her jeans-clad legs to her chest. "We just had Tony and Barton, who were straight wise-asses." Still, she was obviously very fond of her old teammates. "Sounds like Joker was far easier to deal with than those guys." Sweetly, as they talked, Stephanie was inadvertently looking at Jane with the most adorably loving eyes you could imagine. "Wow... you have no idea how great it feels to actually have someone here who can relate to me. Being with you has been.... just such a blessing all-around. I don't know that I've ever felt this happy inside."
Jane had curled up to one side, facing Stephanie, and had her legs tucked up underneath her. She had one arm resting along the head of the sofa and at some point in the conversation she had started lightly playing with Steph's hair. To Steph's admission, she smiled and nodded. "I don't know that I've ever been this in sync with someone before." Even she and Liara had more differences.
Adorably, Stephanie blushed brightly as she smiled, when Jane began playing with her hair. Hey, for a girl who's had as little intimacy in her life as Stephanie has? This was damn-near foreplay. "You.... wow. If you had any idea how you make me feel when you look at me like that..." Steph said softly, leaning instinctively into the other woman's touch.
"How do I make you feel?" Jane asked softly, wondering if it was something that could be put into words. She had an idea that she felt exactly the same way, though.
Stephanie thought about it. Even after the Super Soldier experiment, she could never entirely stop seeing herself as the plain, skinny girl from Brooklyn. But when Jane looked at her the way she was right now? She felt the way she looked now. Tall. Toned. Desirable. Beautiful.
She opened her mouth to express this... to tell the woman exactly what she'd just thought.... but instead it was unexpectedly song-time with Stephanie as she could hear music swelling behind her.
"I stare at the girl in the mirror
T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen
But the way that you see me
You get underneath me
And all my defenses just fall away
Fall away"
She stood, taking Jane's hand as she looked down at her.
"I am beautiful with you
Even in the darkest part of me
I am beautiful with you
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be
You're here with me
Just show me this and I'll believe
I am beautiful with you"
She let go of the woman's hand and backed up a few steps, doing a slight twirl as she started the next verse.
"I stand naked before you now
No walls to hide behind
So here am I, you see all of my scars
Still here you are
I bare my soul and I'm not afraid
Not afraid"
"I am beautiful with you
Even in the darkest part of me
I am beautiful with you
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be
You're here with me
Just show me this and I'll believe
I am beautiful with you"
She strode back over to Jane, gracefully laying back on the couch so that her head was on the woman's lap, looking up at her.
"I've been the strong one for so long
But, I was wrong
Doesn't make you weak cause you needed someone
I'm not holding back and I know what I want
I am beautiful with you
I am beautiful with you
You want me for myself
Look at me at no one else
I am beautiful with you (With you)
I am beautiful with you
Even in the darkest part of me
I am beautiful with you
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be
You're here with me
Just show me this and I'll believe
That I am beautiful with you"
As the song ended, Stephanie's eyes grew wide as she processed what had happened. "Oh. Crap."
Jane smiled down at Stephanie, the rare smile that crinkled her eyes (although it was becoming increasingly less rare the more time she spent with the other woman); but there was no amusement in her eyes. Only adoration. "You are beautiful," she said softly, lightly tracing her fingertips along Steph's arm. "And I am beyond thrilled that I've helped you see that."
Looking into those beautiful eyes, Stephanie made a decision right then and there. Not even a decision, really. More of a realization. She felt a slightly embarrassed blush form on her face as she nibbled her bottom lip. "I....I'm ready. Whenever you want to, you know... I'm ready."
"My heart... my body... it's all yours, if you want it." Stephanie said with a deep blush, meaning every word but clearly not used to even thinking about things like this, much less talking about them. "For the longest time, I felt lost here. Without a purpose or a future. But now I see a future here. I see YOU."
Jane smiled and continued tenderly tracing her fingertips along Steph's arm. "You have no idea how glad I am that I met you," she murmured, wanting to keep the moment tender. "You have such a beautiful soul."
"Mmm. I suspect you are very dangerous, Jane Shepard." Stephanie said with a laugh as she nibbled her lip, looking up at the other woman. "Verrrry dangerous indeed. Because I think I could fall for you, and fall very fast."
"Well, I promise to catch you and carry you when you do," Jane promised seriously, leaning over again to place another tender kiss to Steph's lips. It felt like a rare thing, to meet someone that she felt could read her mind sometimes, and she wasn't taking that lightly.
"I hope so..." Stephanie replied, a wanting little growl(!) to her voice that honestly, she didn't even realize she was making. "Because the things you make me feel... I can't see myself ever feeling with anyone else."
((Song used in this scene is "Beautiful With You" by Halestorm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v65slOA