8. being unable to open their eyes for a few moments afterward Omg please do this kiss prompt with pre-serum Steve!!!!
Summary: In which it’s puppy love and she doesn’t know how to show it any other way. (40′s!Reader/Steve Rogers)
Prompt: being unable to open their eyes for a few moments afterward.
Mother wouldn’t call you the adventurous kind, between a beautiful older sister and a sick, but smart as anyone you ever met younger brother. You were a footnote to your parents, who though they loved you all the same, struggled with the antics of Eliza, providing for Charlie the best they could, and watching over their little grocery store. It was your way of making their lives a little easier in the long haul, but if you had known it would have made you a footnote for everyone else — you knew you had to change something.
Maybe, that’s when you start notice a certain young man that breaks the mold – Steve Rogers. However, having it the other way around was easier said than done.
“Mornin’ James,” you welcome the two into the small store, as James smiles with blue eyes twinkling, “Steve.”
The smaller blond nods before ducking his head, your eyes linger for a bit before shaking your head. You had known them practically all your lives since your family’s store was the closest to their former homes (and now their apartment) and often frequented by the Barnes girls, but outside of hello, cashing their items (usually cheap meat from Chuckie the butcher and whatever else they could afford), and goodbye – you never actually got the courage to talk to either of them.
You decided that today was going to be different, as you take James’ ration ticket and leftover change. He thanks you before heading out, as Steve gives you another polite nod.
“Have a good day, Steve! And James…” you end up yelling and failing somewhat due to nerves, as Steve turns at the shout of his name only to see you waving at him. He seems confused for a moment before waving back, James laughing and grabbing him by the neck in the excitement of this new development.
You keep at this for a few weeks and while the blond seems apprehensive at first, he slowly eases into greeting you as well. It starts moving outside of the grocery store when you start taking volunteer courses in order to join the Nurses Corp., even if it wasn’t something your parents entirely approved of. You would see Steve walking back to his apartment as you would be leaving. A small smile from you had him a stuttering mess, and you were a little proud of that.
It was only by chance of you running back home to grab something that you had forgotten, Steve hurt in one of the back alleys (the bully long gone) that you stopped.
“Steve!” you exclaim as he stumbles, before leaning on a wall as you run over to him and push him to sit on one of the wooden crates lying around. He gives you this look with those bright blue eyes of him that you have only seen from one other person, so you try to go about this as frontal as possible.
“This is only me checking your wounds, no more…no less,” you explain as he calms down a bit, before you settle an another nearby crate, taking out your small first aid kit, “Always a spitfire, but good practice is all.”
“Thank ya,” is all Steve manage to say, as you spend a good 20 minutes in silence as you patch-up all the cuts you can see, not noticing the light blush on his face and it’s not until the very end that you get a silly idea. You brush the bandage on his left cheek with your thumb. You look at confused blue eyes for a moment before pressing a light kiss above it.
Then a sudden hitch of breath, as you move more and place another kiss to the corner of his lips. You pull back and see that he has closed his eyes and he stays like that for a moment before fluttering eyelashes show you burning blue eyes. You’re still pretty close together, breathes mingling.
“I expect compensation, Stevie,” you murmur softly, unsure of where all this is coming from but extremely proud of yourself in the moment, “Maybe a date?”
“Yeah, yeah. Sure,” you can’t help but giggle at his excited expression, knowing that a little change was okay after all.










