For chuju

[iamsteverogers]

Steve normally didn't mind giving these little tours. He didn't have to do them often, usually as a favor to one person or another, but they were generally pretty fun and the people he got to walk around were enthusiastic. Every once in a while though he got to give a special sort of tour, the kind where it meant at lot to the person he was giving it to.

This tour for Chloe was definitely one of those. After talking with her it was easy to see how much SHIELD, and to a lesser extent the Avengers, meant to her. Plus she had just been fun to talk to. She treated him like he was a real person and not some icon. Anyone who could joke with him in a way that they weren't afraid to take a few shots at him was a good person in his book.

So while he waited out front of the compound he found himself actually looking forward to this tour. Even doing a few silly pictures at his desk for her seemed like a fun idea. He just hoped that it was going to be everything she hoped for.

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[iamsteverogers]

Steve’s cheeks turned a bit pink at that comment. You’d think after spending so much time around Natasha and Tony he’d be immune to that sort of thing but apparently he wasn’t quite immune. He did like that smile on her face though, it was a very good smile even if she was teasing him. Or maybe it was because she was teasing him?

“You did say you wanted to see my desk,” Steve said with a bit of a cough. Oh, Daisy was going to be trouble, he could already tell that. Fortunately for Steve, he never minded it when women were trouble. “But I guess technically that is an invitation to see my bedroom. I promise you though it’s not all that exciting.”

[chuju]

That hint of pink on his face is absolutely perfect. Daisy never teases anyone who can't take it, so she's glad to see that her estimation of Steve wasn't off. Bruising his feelings or making him overly comfortable is the very last thing she wants to do, but he just rolls with it, which is a very good sign. (Of what, she refuses to admit.)

"Maybe you should let someone else be the judge of that," she informs him, expression softening and all teasing set aside. Watching him for a moment, something flickers across her face before disappearing. "Come on, tour guide. We're wasting daylight."

[iamsteverogers]

“Does your ride turn back into a pumpkin at midnight,” Steve teased before he took her into the facility. There was a brief security check and then after that they were off to the indoor training grounds.

“So this is there the magic happens, by which I mean the grueling and repetitive training that we do. I’m sure you know what that’s like- it looks flashing but it’s a lot of doing something over and over until it’s perfect when you’re not even thinking about it.”

[chuju]

His teasing return gets raised eyebrows in response but then she just shakes her head, appreciating that he feels comfortable enough to throw it back to her like that. It's a good start.

Looking around the training area, she turns in a circle to slowly take it all in, trying to read between the lines to discern the different areas and recognize whose strengths they might be tailored to. She can see signs of his own training in all of it, which is confirmed by his description. Smiling, she nods and agrees, "Oh yeah, I know all about that. The first months of my field agent training with May were nothing but grueling repetition."

After her transition, though, things had been far less monotonous. Which leads her to a question. "How do you handle people with powers?"

Sorry this is so late, time got away from me!

[iamsteverogers]

"How do you mean?" Steve asked, wanting to make sure that he understood the question. "Handling" people could go a lot of ways, especially when it came to people with powers. "If you mean helping people understand what they're doing, Dr. Banner is very brilliant and talented. If you mean the destructive nature... well we try and practice control. Believe it or not we hope to cause as little damage as possible."

That wasn't always how it worked out of course, sometimes they caused A LOT of damage, but Steve knew they did what they did as safely as possible.

"But we do have some places we train at where we can let loose now and then," he said with a grin. "You can't expect the Hulk to not smash through walls every now and then."