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[usavatar]

[Who is an awkward turtle? Steve is an awkward turtle. In fact, he's doing an excellent impression of one. He's had practice. When you're so used to being a little guy, suddenly being a big guy occasionally means you do little guy impressions.

That sentence is about how well his thought processes are working at the moment.

Making speeches and being a public figure is easy. He's used to that at this point. This is not official. This is personal. That is hard.]

So... I'm not- There's not- There isn't really music here, not - well, there is music, but it isn't really the sort of mmh.

[Yes, he stops himself with the noise instead of the word, and tries again.]

I'm wondering if anyone has something available that could play music like the kind back home. If they could make one, maybe. [He ducks into himself a little, scratching the back of his head.] There's a promise I'd like to keep to a friend.

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[withoutaworld]

[ ...the most suspicious look. Seriously, Steve, you are being weird. ]

Why are you acting like it's physically painful for you to ask this?

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[usavatar]

It's... [She told him about dying. He can tell her about when he thought he was going to do the same.] When Peggy and me... When the War was on, we sort of promised each other to wait. There was too much that was too important to us both. It wasn't something we ever said to each other, we didn't sit down and go 'once the war is over, then we can be together'. We were together. But the future needed to wait.

The one thing I ever promised her was a dance. When the - when my plane, I guess I should say, when it was going down, she made me promise again. She told me she'd teach me, that I just had to be there.

[He exhales slowly, eyes closed, drowning in the memory of the wind cutting against his face and making tears bite like frost into his skin. The wind and her voice on the radio.] I wasn't.

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[withoutaworld]

...oh.

[ Well that's incredibly depressing. Enough that she doesn't even care how weird it is that the woman he's talking about is her grandmother, because geez, Steve, that sucks. ]

I'm really sorry. I'm glad she's... here for you now. That you get another chance.

[ Tiny smile. ] Good luck finding something to dance to.