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#he looks sooooooooo cute and happy in it 😍
earl-grey-love Β· 8 months
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I've definitely been spoiled with content of my faves in this game. I'd like to thank my luck for that.
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ronearoundblindly Β· 1 year
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Just a little thought for your sweet Sunday prompt, don’t worry if it’s not the sort of thing you want. Kind, soft old fashioned gentleman Steve looking after the reader when she’s having a particularly bad time of the month. I love that man so much and I adore how you write him.😍
Fair warning: this gets sweet but sooooooooo deep after the feels. I went overboard on the semi-angst because periods and (my) life sucks. Steve's just so magical, that bastard....
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Hour seven of cramping and you contemplate just giving up and heading to bed. You look over to the clock.
20:23
No way. Too early. You can wait one hour more until another dose of painkiller.
Except now you're out of snacks and either have to watch only half a movie or search for a TV show.
There's a knock at the door, and why someone checking on you makes you want to cry is beyond you. You just do want to cry. You don't want to explain WWIII in your uterus; you want ice cream, dammit.
"I bought three kinds," Steve announces, using his foot to close up behind him, arms covered in grocery bags like a pack mule. "Four if you count the sandwiches."
When he finally looks up, he stalls seeing you curled into the couch, covered in thick blankets, a pillow squished harshly to your chest, and tears brimming in your eyes.
His eyes soften. "Hun," he whines, dropping his arms, "you could have texted me."
You shake your head before tucking it into the pillow. "Not gonna bother you," you mumble through fabric.
"That bad, huh?"
Steve doesn't need an answer though. He's speedy in the kitchen while you scroll absently through Netflix. You still have no clue what to watch.
He returns to your side with a bowl: one scoop of every flavor capped with an entire ice cream sandwich...minus one bite.
"Sorry," he winks, "boyfriend tax."
Steve's cute when he's cheeky, and he knows it.
"That's a big bite, mister."
He shrugs, simply adding, "inflation."
Another sharp pang hits you above the hip, one so brutal and deep you hiss. He asks about medicine, if you'd like hot tea or chocolate, and what else he can do. There's nothing. Just another pang before the other even recedes.
Concern falls off his face suddenly, and Steve holds up a finger before hurtling over the back of the couch.
He comes back but sits on the floor with his hand out. "Foot, please," he adds, brandishing a pair of your fuzziest socks.
"One sec," you groan and clutch the bowl tighter. You can't lift your leg until the cramp stops. You watch Steve school his face with patience instead of sadness.
Some months are worse than others, and Steve doesn't like unpredictable things. Even though he's patient. Even though he rolls with the punches. He will never get used to seeing his best girl in pain, and so most of the time, you hide it from him. You've trained yourself to play it off like it's nothing more than a temporary stomach ache, but this one is bad. You cannot play off this month.
You drank as much water as you could handle. You peed every twenty minutes and cleaned up every time as if it would matter. You want to shower every hour, but that would be just as useless. You'll feel gross and bloated no matter what.
You should feel so pampered and loved when Steve gently slips the soft sock over your heel. You should be happy beneath his gorgeous, blue, adoring gaze. You should not start crying into your confection. It's not salted caramel, for christ's sake. Get it together.
Which, of course, you can't do.
You can't stop any of it, and then you're happy you can't stop it because then he might stop. Somehow Steve only becomes more doting as you shovel ice cream in like air. He sneaks another bite of sandwich to make you smile. Somehow smiling makes the tears come faster. He peels away some blankets and the pillow, politely waiting until the spoon clinks against empty china. Somehow he wrestles you into his lap and hugs.
The firm grip he puts you in is soothing like a weighted blanket, tighter than you can wrap against your own gut, and it feels so good. He curls around you as you were curled in the cushions, a universal pressure, a universal peace.
"You want to watch a comedy or a nature documentary?" His voice rumbles against your back.
"Neither."
His chin pokes your cheek with a questioning hum.
"Tell me about your day," you reply, sighing, letting your whole self lean into Steve even though you feel swollen and grumpy.
He squeezes a little firmer around you, waiting to feel more tension drain from you. "Well, Sam complained that I was heavy again."
"Oh?"
"Yeah, he had to lift me ten stories higher between buildings."
You scoff. "My god, how hard can it be?"
"I know, I know," he mutters, "I'm light as a feather. Practically lean."
"Yeah," you finally smile. "Go on. Have another ice cream sandwich, you skinny boy."
His chuckle rattles behind you. "Only if we can share...then I'm thinking a hot bath and more of this--" he cuddles up closer "--if you're game."
"Just a minute longer," you beg in a whisper before adding with more strength, "you still haven't told me about Sam and Bucky's latest tiff."
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