( Daphne is a duchess. She'd told him she was married and that was her title and he's so far below that he might as well be an ant. Still, she pats the place beside her and it looks so, so inviting. Then she says he's not someone to be moved unless he wants to be.
She's not wrong. He, too, is impossibly stubborn and always has been (even if Steve beats him for that tenfold) and the thing he's most stubborn about is his lack of self-worth when it comes to being around people who haven't been touched by war or tragedy. He has blood on his hands. He shouldn't be in the same room as Daphne but she's here anyway.
So he moves. He sits across from her and suddenly feels like he's even bigger in this small, small space than he already is. )
Well, I only moved because you sold me on the coziness of this. Not at all because I wanted to sit closer to you.
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She's not wrong. He, too, is impossibly stubborn and always has been (even if Steve beats him for that tenfold) and the thing he's most stubborn about is his lack of self-worth when it comes to being around people who haven't been touched by war or tragedy. He has blood on his hands. He shouldn't be in the same room as Daphne but she's here anyway.
So he moves. He sits across from her and suddenly feels like he's even bigger in this small, small space than he already is. )
Well, I only moved because you sold me on the coziness of this. Not at all because I wanted to sit closer to you.