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Jean Grey (alwaysjean) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2012-09-03 20:12:00

Entry tags:

jean grey, steve rogers

WHO: Jean & Steve
WHAT: What to expect when you are expecting. (Sorta.)
WHERE: Steve's Place
WHEN: Monday Night

Jean felt silly going 'over' to Steve's when they really lived in the same building, but Stark Tower was huge and honestly it felt like going over at least two blocks. So she knocked quietly on his door, wondering just how she could explain it all to him.

To say this wasn't a normal situation was obvious, but abnormal situations were sort of her specialty.

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withliberty
2012-09-04 03:26 am UTC (link)

It had been a strange few days. For all that Tony was trying to reassure him that Andrew would ask for what he needed, and that Steve ought not to try and 'parent' at all, it was hard to let go. (Or so the Captain assumed the advice went, as he still wasn't sure he understood what his colleague was trying to say.)

He and Jean were going to have a child someday. Perhaps it would've been easy to be laid-back about the whole situation had they already been married, but the relationship was still so young, and Steve was an old-fashioned kind of guy. He liked for things to happen in a linear order. Courtship. Marriage. Then children.

Unfortunately for him, he was living in a modern age and things rarely went that way any longer. Tradition had given way to a thousand kinds of family.

But when he heard the knock, Steve did his best to wipe it all from his face. He cared about Jean. He did want kids some day. Surely the rest of it didn't matter as much; what was meant to happen would happen.

"Hi," he greeted. "Come on in."

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	alwaysjean 2012-09-04 03:28 am UTC (link)
	Jean smiled, looking at him shyly as she came in. "Hey." She should have held back but she couldn't and was in his arms in a second, hugging him around his waist. "I'm sorry." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	withliberty 2012-09-04 03:44 am UTC (link)
	"Why are you sorry? Jean, you haven't done a single thing to be sorry for." Steve was confused and concerned all at once, but neither emotion stopped him from hugging her back. "No one needs to apologize. Not you, not Andrew." It was good news. It was also very unexpected news. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

alwaysjean
2012-09-04 03:48 am UTC (link)

Jean forced herself to let him go, standing there with her eyes still firmly at the floor.

She felt like the awkward girl who couldn't choose between Scott and Warren all over again, only this time she couldn't bring herself to trap a good man.

"It's all so new. And I just... I never want you to feel like you have to stay with me because of anything, but now..."

She was so very broken. It had taken her generations to really put the pieces back together before coming here. It wasn't fair to foist that on Steve.

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withliberty
2012-09-04 04:12 am UTC (link)

"Jean. I don't -- uh, I'm not great at talking to women, but it's unfair for me to ask you to read my mind, so here we go." Breath. Because it was important to breathe, right? The alternative led to passing out.

"I don't feel like I have to do anything. I've never wanted anything beyond the opportunity to serve my country and the chance to come home, meet a nice woman, court and marry and have a family."

Oh lord. And now Steve was turning a little pink. "I'm glad that it's you. I like you."

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	alwaysjean 2012-09-04 04:17 am UTC (link)
	Jean's ears were pink too. She really, really felt like that teenager right now. "I like you too. A lot, and I'm so glad it's you too." Her arms went around his waist again, burying herself against his chest. "I mean it. There's a lot of baggage, but I like you too. So much." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	withliberty 2012-09-04 04:42 am UTC (link)
	"I don't want to let this change anything. Unless it changes something for you--?" Okay. So maybe it had changed some things for him, but only along the lines of making Steve consider how serious he was about Jean. That wasn't a bad self-conversation to have. The initial startled reaction was all but past, and now the question was 'what to do?' (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

alwaysjean
2012-09-04 04:44 am UTC (link)

Jean's head shook a little bit. "This... this isn't the first time I've been confronted by a child from my future. But it is the first time they told me I was there to raise them."

She looked up at him, eyes glistening just a little bit. "I never thought I'd get this chance. And I never..." It was hard to say the next part.

"I never thought I'd get to fall in love again."

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withliberty
2012-09-06 12:04 am UTC (link)

Steve knew how that felt - not the future-children, not the fear that you wouldn't be available to raise those children - but the fear that you'd had your one shot at love? Yeah. After losing Peggy, Steve had almost lost hope.

So it was definitely a time for hugs.

"We have time. We're going to get the chance to have a family."

And okay, maybe they were rushing a bit (said Mr. Glacier-Pace), but Steve was okay with that. He was the kind of man who was confident in his decisions, and he knew that he really cared for Jean.

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	alwaysjean 2012-09-06 12:08 am UTC (link)
	Jean shook her head, wondering what the living hell she had done to deserve this. To deserve him. She smiled up at him, hoping that the tears hadn't gone into 'ugly crying' territory yet. "We are. We have all the time in the world, apparently." (Reply to this) (Parent)