"It doesn't come with an expiration date," he says, easily. More easily and more legitimately comfortable than he's been.
He is starting to think one of them here is a lot more comfortable with this kind of thing than the other, and maybe just this once the one who's more okay with it (and in their skin) is him.
Also starting to think Clint being offered this instead of going out and chasing it down in really dangerous ways is new.
It might be just that it's Steve, in both cases, and god knows he's been wrong more than once. In the past 24 hours, even. "This is nice." Proof of life, weight and warmth? Not a consolation prize. It is legitimately good.
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He is starting to think one of them here is a lot more comfortable with this kind of thing than the other, and maybe just this once the one who's more okay with it (and in their skin) is him.
Also starting to think Clint being offered this instead of going out and chasing it down in really dangerous ways is new.
It might be just that it's Steve, in both cases, and god knows he's been wrong more than once. In the past 24 hours, even. "This is nice." Proof of life, weight and warmth? Not a consolation prize. It is legitimately good.