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Something's Gotta Give	By : pinktink79 Category: Marvel Verse Movies > Avengers, The Views: 3816 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Aly slid into the booth across from Steve, laughing at a joke he had told her on the way over. They’d walked to a diner down the street and as they walked, they talked a little. Mostly it was discussing Aly’s plans for the future. Steve liked listening to her talk after all and she didn’t seem to mind sharing. Here and there, though, he’d toss in a joke or something like that to keep the mood light. She would laugh at all the right places, which made him wonder if she was being polite. Then he would see the grin on Aly’s face and he knew that she was having a good time with him. The truth of the matter was that he was having a good time too. He hadn’t thought that he’d ever get to enjoy things like this but here he was, out with a beautiful girl and Steve was actually enjoying himself. More than that, Aly was enjoying herself with him. That was something that he had never imagined would be possible.

Now that they were at the diner though Steve felt a little like he was floundering for something to talk about. It wasn’t as if they had already exhausted all the topics they could talk about but he wasn’t sure what to talk about next so Steve was going to wait to see if Aly had any ideas. This was when the fact that he wasn’t good with women seemed to come back and bite him in the ass. Steve felt nervous and suddenly he couldn’t seem to think of a thing to say to her. She slid him a menu, almost as if she sensed that something was wrong, but she didn’t say a word. He took it with a smile, opening it up and glancing at it for a second. Steve kept it on the table though so he could watch Aly. He didn’t want to have to look at her over the top of it.

“Have you ever been here before?” Aly asked with a smile as she opened her menu as well. She didn’t seem to look at it right away though. Seeing that Steve had his on the table, she did the same since she figured that it would be easier to look at him this way. She looked down at it briefly though, scanning the first two pages quickly. Aly was familiar with the menu though so she really didn’t need to look it over.

Steve watched her as she looked over the menu, not really able to look at anything else but Aly at the moment. She had all of his attention after all. He knew already that she had him caught but he wasn’t sure that she knew the power that she seemed to have over him. He seemed to be studying her face at the moment, trying to figure her out. “No. Have you?”

Aly looked up again with a soft smile, nodding. If she noticed that Steve had been staring at her, she didn’t say anything about it. She had to admit that she liked the attention after all. It wasn’t like she didn’t find Steve attractive because she did so she liked the idea that he might find her attractive as well. Aly just had the good sense not to say anything when she caught Steve staring. “I come here a lot after I train with Nate. He gets mad at me about it though,” she said with a little shrug, laughing softly. There was a shyness to her voice when she said it though and she tucked some of her long, blond hair behind her ear before looking back at the menu.

“Don’t tell me. He complains that the food is garbage, right?” Steve asked with a laugh, shaking his head a bit. When Aly nodded, he laughed again. The fact that he’d gotten that right proved to him that while some things changed, some things stayed the same. He was glad for that at least. “Isn’t that what makes it so good though?”

Aly looked up, grinning and nodding. She was glad that Steve understood where she was coming from because Nate never did. “That’s what I’ve tried telling him but Nate doesn’t believe it,” she said, shaking her head in an amused way. She turned the page on her menu again although she wasn’t looking at it now. “You have to have one of the cheeseburgers here. They’re so good. If you’re hungry, get the double bacon cheeseburger. It’s huge.” She giggled when she said it, nodding. “And they have waffle fries, which I love. Don’t get me started on the milk shakes.”

Steve laughed at how enthusiastic she was about talking about the food at the diner. There was something endearing about it actually, the way that she seemed to gush about the food. It also showed a little more of her personality which Steve really liked. Any moment that he got to see a little more of what made Aly who she was seemed like a good moment to him. Steve was enjoying getting to learn a little more about her, even if it was just that she liked greasy diner food from time to time. “I take it the milk shakes are good,” he said with a nod.

Aly laughed, nodding as well. “Only the best I’ve ever had. They’re not too thick, very creamy. I could have one of those and be full for awhile,” she said with a smile. She licked her lips a little just thinking about the food and the shakes. “If you’re worried about greasy food though, they have a great grilled chicken sandwich. My cousin, when she comes to visit, loves to come here for the grilled cheese sandwiches. They use a couple of kinds of cheeses in it. She always gets one with bacon though.”

“You didn’t mention any family other than your parents before. Where does your cousin live?” Steve asked, sitting up a little. The menu was long forgotten at this point. He was too busy talking to Aly to worry about something like that. He wanted to hear more about this cousin of hers now that Aly had mentioned having a cousin.

“Oh, yeah. She was born here but her parents moved when she was a baby. She lives in Ohio now,” Aly said with a shrug. She hadn’t realized that she’d never mentioned any of her other family members until now. She hadn’t done it on purpose. It was just that Aly didn’t see most of her family these days so she didn’t talk about them that often. “I don’t see her that often but she’ll come here sometimes during the summer or during spring break. My aunt and uncle don’t like sending her here that often though. They’re afraid something will happen to her.”

Steve shook his head a little, not able to understand the logic her aunt and uncle may have used when deciding that. It wasn’t like her cousin was coming to New York City alone. While Steve knew that it was a big city and it could be a scary city, he figured that knowing that she’d be with family would be enough for Aly’s aunt and uncle to be okay with their daughter coming to visit. “But she’s here with you. Why wouldn’t they want her here? It’s not like you’d let something happen to her,” he said, not understanding why Aly’s aunt and uncle wouldn’t trust her to keep an eye on her own cousin.

“It’s not that,” Aly said with a soft sigh. She shrugged as she seemed to try to figure out how to explain this to Steve because she wasn’t sure she was doing a good job of it right now. There were details that she was sure that she was leaving out at this point after all and it seemed like they had to be important ones or Steve wouldn’t be asking questions. “They don’t like New York City. That’s why they left in the first place. It has nothing to do with me, Steve. Hailey is a sweetheart though. She’s 12 now. I’m hoping she’ll be able to visit this summer. I miss her.”

Steve smiled at the way that Aly’s face and voice softened when she talked about her cousin. It was sweet the way that she spoke about her family. The next words to come out of his mouth were probably presumptuous of him but Steve just wanted Aly to know that he wanted to see her again and that he was hoping to at least build a friendship out of this. He didn’t think much about what he was saying and just let the words come out, hoping that he wouldn’t freak her out somehow. “I hope so too. If she does come around, I’d love to meet Hailey,” he said with a nod, grinning. “She sounds like an amazing girl. Not unlike her cousin actually.”

Aly looked at Steve with wide eyes. She couldn’t believe that he was saying things like that to her because that would mean that he was interested in her and she couldn’t see how that was possible. It didn’t make sense to her at all and she was blushing quite a bit. Maybe all he wanted was to be her friend but he was talking about meeting members of her family and there was something about hearing him say something like that, that was amazing to her. Aly picked up her menu now and pretended to look at it. “Hailey is a sweetheart. I’ll give you that much,” she said, peeking over the top of the menu at Steve. She wondered if he realized that he had made her blush. “She’s got a great head on her shoulders too. Smarter than most people give her credit for.”

“Like you perhaps?” Steve asked, raising an eyebrow at her. He tried not to chuckle at the way that Aly peeked at him from over the top of the menu or the way that her eyes widened a little when he paid her a compliment. Maybe he wasn’t good at talking to the opposite sex in general but Steve felt like he was good at talking to Aly.

Before Aly could say anything, their waitress finally stopped at their table. Her hair was dark brown but there were streaks of silver in it, showing her age. Her name tag read Trixie. She pulled a pen out of her apron as well as her order pad and she tapped her pen on the pad in time with the music that played in the diner. It was pretty standard songs from the 1950s and 1960s and it seemed from the look on Trixie’s face that she was quite bored of it. Still she flashed them a polite smile before she said anything.

“What can I get you two?” Trixie asked. Her tone was meant to be friendly but it came out a bit annoyed. She shifted her weight on her feet as she waited for them to order.

“Can we just get two waters right now? I think we’re still looking at the menu,” Steve said as he looked up at Trixie.

The waitress sighed and nodded before turning around to get them two glasses of water. The look on her face as she turned around seemed to indicate that if they weren’t ready to order when she got back, she was going to start getting a little rude. As soon as she left, Steve did a quick scan of the menu before deciding to just order what Aly had suggested earlier. He didn’t want to deal with an annoyed waitress after all.

“Do you know what you want yet?” Aly asked as she placed her menu on the table again. She looked relieved for a change of subject right now.

“I think I’m getting that double bacon cheeseburger actually,” Steve said with a chuckle. “With a vanilla milk shake and those waffle fries you were going on about earlier.”

Aly smiled now, brightly. That relaxed ease was back again as she looked at him, setting down her menu and closing it and sliding it off to the side. “Cheeseburger, waffle fries and a chocolate shake,” she said with a nod of her head as if that was the final say on the matter.

When Trixie came back a moment later with their waters, Steve ordered for them. Aly protested after the waitress left that she could’ve ordered for herself but the little smile on her face when he had ordered for her seemed to indicate that she liked that he’d done it. Steve made sure that any conversation from that point on wasn’t as personal although he asked when she started boxing and why she had even started in the first place. She explained that it was something to do when she was hanging out at Nate’s gym. Aly had started to go there because it had been on the way home from school. She had dropped in one day and talked with Nate. Nate had been nice enough to let her do her homework in his office as long as she helped out by taking out the garbage and sweeping the floors now and then. Slowly Aly had started to ask about learning to box. She’d watched some of the guys who came in to train with Nate and she wanted to learn as well. It had nothing to do with self-defense although learning to box had built up her confidence or so she said. It was more that she wanted to actually have something to do while she was there instead of sitting around and watching everyone else.

She explained to Steve that Nate had been worried at first. She was a small girl after all and he hadn’t thought that she could handle it. Aly had proved him wrong with their first lesson though. Small but powerful, that was what Nate had taken to calling her after that. She hadn’t knocked him out but she’d been quick and had tired him out quicker than Nate had anticipated. She kept training for the next few years and while Nate tried to get her to actually compete as a boxer because he thought she was that good, Aly didn’t see that in her future. It was just a nice way to blow off some steam now and then.

She asked a little about Steve and he gave her simple answers. He skirted around his truth but still gave Aly honest answers about himself. He told her where he was born and that he’d been in the military. He told her about his parents and his friends. Steve kept most of the answers short and she didn’t pry whenever it seemed like Steve wasn’t looking to give her more information. She seemed satisfied to get to know him a bit and they were back to smiling and laughing and joking with each other as they waited for their food and again as they ate.

Steve offered to walk Aly to her car and was surprised when she told him that she could walk home from where they were. He could too actually so he offered to walk her home instead. She lived closer than he did but it was actually on his way. He liked knowing that she lived so close to him. He could’ve taken his motorcycle to the gym today but it had been nice enough that he decided to walk there. It wasn’t that far after all. As they walked, Steve noticed that Aly seemed to walk closer to him now although he chalked that up to it being late. It was dark out now and she probably felt safer being closer to him.

When they reached her apartment building, Aly stopped and turned toward him with a grin on her face. “I had a great time, Steve,” she said with a little nod. She started up the stairs although she stopped at the second stair. She saw Steve was standing at the bottom of the stairs so she leaned in and kissed his cheek. “Take care. Maybe I’ll see you around.”

Steve watched, in shock, as she ran up the rest of the stairs and let herself into the apartment building. He stood there for a moment or two actually, watching to make sure that she made it safely inside. He saw a light go on in one of the apartments at the front end of the building. Second floor. He looked up and wondered if that was her place. Steve took a few steps back and looked up, seeing her silhouette against the blinds that were drawn in her windows. He smiled a little, glad to know that Aly was in her apartment and safe. He felt better about heading home now that he knew that she was okay.
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