Lost in Time - Diana & Steve
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Voices. Laughter. Loud noises. They all reached Steve’s ears. They were familiar yet foreign. What was this place? It wasn’t long before people were staring, point, whispering. The spy didn’t like being put on the spot but he was at a loss for what to do. No one looked kind enough to answer his question, so Steve pushed forward.
Feet hit cobblestone. A walkway. Then it opened up onto a smooth surface, automobiles, unlike anything he had ever seen slowly cruised down the street. He could only assume that is what it was, since cars were on it. What the hell? Panic started to flare in his chest as he looked for someone, anyone to answer the questions bubbling over.
People were dressed strangely. Women were dressed as men. Clothing seemed to cover little of the human body. It was a beach, after all, but it seemed a bit extreme. Devices were held in their hands, pressed to their ears. Steve could only assume that it was a phone of some sort. Other’s held the device long way, pointing it at people. A picture, maybe? The sinking feeling that he’d been shoved sometime into the future was growing all the more likely. Steve didn’t like it. He was starting to freak out.
Darting to the left, he tried to get out of the main throng of people. Maybe one of the shops could hold answers. Pressing the door to one, he started inside. A resturant.
By no means paranoid, Diana didn’t feel the need to sit with a view of the restaurant’s doors. She far preferred watching the people on the beach, and it wasn’t as if anyone could sneak up on her. What would her mother think if she allowed such a thing, after all? But there was something strange about the atmosphere that morning. An itch at the base of her neck. A twitch out of the corner of her eye that finally forced her to give up on her breakfast and turn about in her seat.
Other men with the right build and blond hair had drawn her attention over the decades. How would they not? But after the first dozen years, she’d stopped peering too closely since they couldn’t possibly be Steve. Had he survived, by some miracle of the gods, he’d be older, so it was silly to expect him to look the same.
But this man, the tall man just coming through the door was different. It wasn’t the blond hair, or his face that made her pay attention—it was the uniform! This man was wearing a World War I Germain uniform, exactly like the one Steve’d been wearing the last time they’d seen each other. When they’d fought. When she’d been deafened by Ares and unable to hear his parting words!
Diana stood, her coffee cup falling from her hand when he turned toward her. It was his face! His eyes! The only blue to ever match the warm waters of Themyscira’s lagoon had belonged to Steve Trevor. “Steve?” she said quietly, walking through the half dozen tables between her and him to stand before him. “Steve Trevor?”













