"You are quite welcome." Her smile warmed a bit further as he continued, gaze warming a bit at the smile she noticed him trying to hide behind his own cup. He was... sweet. Genuine in a way that she did like.
"I think I would also enjoy that. It's not often I come across such an interesting man on my days off." She'd gotten more comfortable with the idea of flirting over the years, almost an extension of banter in some ways. She knew she'd like to make friends with Steve, and while she wouldn't rush into anything, she could certainly see herself letting the flirting turn to something a bit more genuine if things continued to go so well.
And don't think she didn't notice that peeking at the album Steve. After she'd taken another sip of her coffee, she reached a hand to slide the album towards him a couple inches in invitation.
"Feel free to look; I was in Turkey last summer for work and had a chance to take some pictures in the countryside. One of my contacts was gracious enough to loan me her color camera for the task even." Arranged in neat rows were a variety of pictures, some of focused subjects; a cat sitting on a bench in a hookah lounge between a pair of customers, sitting like she was queen of the castle with half-slitted eyes. A bird with a beak almost as long as it was and bright blue plumage sitting on a flat rock. More general landscapes, forests and beaches, with a focus it seemed on the rockier terrain, the coasts with high cliffs and twisting rock formations. "With your focus, I thought you would enjoy them as I do."
Diana hasn't seen him in his saltier moods yet, but he's usually not too unbearable. Bucky still hangs around with him, anyway, and while Bucky may be abnormally loyal, her hardly has the patience of a saint. More the opposite.
Steve blinks at her and gives a little smirk. "I don't think anyone's ever called me interesting before, but I'll take it. Do you meet interesting people on days you're not off work, then?"
Oh, if only he knew.
Anyway, he's eager to see the album, especially when he hears what she's got in it. "Oh, wow...I've never seen color photography outside a gallery before. Is it kodachrome?"
He flips through with quiet awe, grinning at the scene with the cat, especially. He does a great deal of drawing still-lifes and nature, but he also has an eye for more human and humanlike interactions.
As if she wouldn't find his salty moods to be part of his charm in some way.
"You Steve are quite interesting, I assure you." She couldn't help but chuckle a bit, hiding her smile by taking a sip of coffee. "And yes. I do meet some... singular individuals in my line of work. Those who keep antiques tend to be rather... eclectic as a general rule." That was putting it nicely anyways. Some tended towards the nicer side of eclectic while others... well, she definitely didn't feel bad about fighting them in that case.
"I believe so, yes. She said it was one of their new types of film, and I have to say the color does come out rather nicely." And there was plenty in the album. Nature, animals, some buildings with architecture that had caught her eye. Also children. After being raised on an island where there weren't any, Diana was absolutely fascinated by them. Which showed in the photos she'd gotten, a younger girl with her mother and grandmother, a pair of siblings playing outside a cafe, a veritable hoard of them splashing in the surf on one of the beaches. "I am fairly certain the camera was worth more than my shop. I was a bit worried when she handed it to me that I would accidentally break it."
Aw, shucks. His ears are pink again, but he's run out of the will to contradict her, just feeling pleased instead. "That so? Artists tend to be a little nutty too, sometimes. I feel like I'm pretty middle-of-the-road."
He pauses to linger over a picture of a mother with her child, and something in his face softens. He misses his mom quite a bit.
"Unh? Oh, geez, that much? I had no idea cameras could get that expensive."
"As if everyone wasn't at least a little 'nutty' somehow." Yes good accept the compliments Steve, Diana is getting especially amused with how little it seems to take to make him blush.
And she notices that shift in expression, not commenting on it but able to relate to that emotion without a shadow of a doubt.
"She did not say a word about it until she had set it in my hands either." Said in a conspiratorial sort of tone, brows lifting because Steve, can you believe such a thing? "I almost dropped it on the spot."
"Sounds like someone was trying to get you into trouble," he tells her with a grin. "Or maybe it wasn't as fragile as you were afraid of? Anyway, the photos are definitely worth it."
He turns through the last couple pages happily and sighs. "Maybe I'll get to travel some day. You think? I've never been outside the state."
And mostly only outside the city for short field trips and occasional apple-picking with the church he used to go to, when he was young.
"She is absolutely the sort to try and get me into trouble." Not like she would comment, but to be fair everything was fragile in her hands. Not that her friend had known that when she'd teased her, and Steve certainly didn't.
At his comment, Diana simply tilts her head a bit. "I don't see why you cannot."
And it was true. Sure, he might have health issues, but since when had that ever stopped a person doing what they dreamed of? It was the type of resilience that she admired from humanity, that stubborn optimism.
"Where would you like to go? Anywhere in particular, or is it more travel for the sake of travelling?"
"Some day, maybe. If I can make a go of it as an illustrator." He smiles at her. Health issues might keep him from trying too hard to cross the ocean recreationally (a boat, especially, would not agree with his constitution well), but mostly it's finances holding him back.
He and Bucky get along amazingly well, considering how shaky the economy still is, the fact that they're just starting out, and the way Steve is barely able to hold down his part-time job. Art might pay better some day, and that would help.
"A little of both," he tells her. "I'd like to see Rome, I guess. Barcelona. Maybe Paris. Got any recommendations?"
She seems pretty sophisticated. He has a guess she does plenty of traveling, herself.
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Date: 2017-06-15 03:31 am (UTC)"I think I would also enjoy that. It's not often I come across such an interesting man on my days off." She'd gotten more comfortable with the idea of flirting over the years, almost an extension of banter in some ways. She knew she'd like to make friends with Steve, and while she wouldn't rush into anything, she could certainly see herself letting the flirting turn to something a bit more genuine if things continued to go so well.
And don't think she didn't notice that peeking at the album Steve. After she'd taken another sip of her coffee, she reached a hand to slide the album towards him a couple inches in invitation.
"Feel free to look; I was in Turkey last summer for work and had a chance to take some pictures in the countryside. One of my contacts was gracious enough to loan me her color camera for the task even." Arranged in neat rows were a variety of pictures, some of focused subjects; a cat sitting on a bench in a hookah lounge between a pair of customers, sitting like she was queen of the castle with half-slitted eyes. A bird with a beak almost as long as it was and bright blue plumage sitting on a flat rock. More general landscapes, forests and beaches, with a focus it seemed on the rockier terrain, the coasts with high cliffs and twisting rock formations. "With your focus, I thought you would enjoy them as I do."
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Date: 2017-06-15 02:33 pm (UTC)Steve blinks at her and gives a little smirk. "I don't think anyone's ever called me interesting before, but I'll take it. Do you meet interesting people on days you're not off work, then?"
Oh, if only he knew.
Anyway, he's eager to see the album, especially when he hears what she's got in it. "Oh, wow...I've never seen color photography outside a gallery before. Is it kodachrome?"
He flips through with quiet awe, grinning at the scene with the cat, especially. He does a great deal of drawing still-lifes and nature, but he also has an eye for more human and humanlike interactions.
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Date: 2017-06-28 11:22 pm (UTC)"You Steve are quite interesting, I assure you." She couldn't help but chuckle a bit, hiding her smile by taking a sip of coffee. "And yes. I do meet some... singular individuals in my line of work. Those who keep antiques tend to be rather... eclectic as a general rule." That was putting it nicely anyways. Some tended towards the nicer side of eclectic while others... well, she definitely didn't feel bad about fighting them in that case.
"I believe so, yes. She said it was one of their new types of film, and I have to say the color does come out rather nicely." And there was plenty in the album. Nature, animals, some buildings with architecture that had caught her eye. Also children. After being raised on an island where there weren't any, Diana was absolutely fascinated by them. Which showed in the photos she'd gotten, a younger girl with her mother and grandmother, a pair of siblings playing outside a cafe, a veritable hoard of them splashing in the surf on one of the beaches. "I am fairly certain the camera was worth more than my shop. I was a bit worried when she handed it to me that I would accidentally break it."
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Date: 2017-06-28 11:56 pm (UTC)He pauses to linger over a picture of a mother with her child, and something in his face softens. He misses his mom quite a bit.
"Unh? Oh, geez, that much? I had no idea cameras could get that expensive."
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Date: 2017-06-29 12:10 am (UTC)And she notices that shift in expression, not commenting on it but able to relate to that emotion without a shadow of a doubt.
"She did not say a word about it until she had set it in my hands either." Said in a conspiratorial sort of tone, brows lifting because Steve, can you believe such a thing? "I almost dropped it on the spot."
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Date: 2017-06-29 01:07 am (UTC)He turns through the last couple pages happily and sighs. "Maybe I'll get to travel some day. You think? I've never been outside the state."
And mostly only outside the city for short field trips and occasional apple-picking with the church he used to go to, when he was young.
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Date: 2017-06-29 02:29 am (UTC)At his comment, Diana simply tilts her head a bit. "I don't see why you cannot."
And it was true. Sure, he might have health issues, but since when had that ever stopped a person doing what they dreamed of? It was the type of resilience that she admired from humanity, that stubborn optimism.
"Where would you like to go? Anywhere in particular, or is it more travel for the sake of travelling?"
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Date: 2017-06-29 10:19 pm (UTC)He and Bucky get along amazingly well, considering how shaky the economy still is, the fact that they're just starting out, and the way Steve is barely able to hold down his part-time job. Art might pay better some day, and that would help.
"A little of both," he tells her. "I'd like to see Rome, I guess. Barcelona. Maybe Paris. Got any recommendations?"
She seems pretty sophisticated. He has a guess she does plenty of traveling, herself.