30 Days - Winter

 She doesn’t much like the winter. She’s been here for years and years and every year she thinks about how she doesn’t like the winter and how she should move somewhere warmer (but moving means money and she hardly has that).

 

The snow is okay, at least a certain type of snow. Not the stinging small flakes, not the ice, not most snow really, but one type in particular is good:

 

snow globe snow.

 

Big fat flakes, or small fat flakes, that drift from the sky, swirl and spin like a freshly shaken snowglobe, that settle wet and fluffy on the ground. Good for packing, for snow balls, good for sledding. Snow that is soft and looks like every holiday card she’s ever seen.

 

That part of winter, she would miss.

30 Days - Diamond

 Traditionally, Steve knows, an engagement ring has a diamond. And, supposing Steve had ever found someone to marry before the super serum–or that he’d not been frozen–he likely would have got one with a diamond too.

 

But some of what he loves about the future is how easy knowledge is to come by, even though that means sometimes he learns things he doesn’t like.

 

He won’t get Loki a diamond because there’s a lot he doesn’t like about how they’re gotten, or the trade that goes on around them, but there’s apart of him–a traditional part, Steve Rogers before waking up in the future, a Steve who didn’t know those things–that registers a formal, tight-voiced complaint that he’s giving up how it used to be done.