orangetoughguy | phone post

Just cause you don't get drunk doesn't mean there's no alcohol going in you. [The implication being if he doesn't know he could be a carrier he'll never know he just passed it on.]

You should keep'em around even if you're taking the all-exclusive monogamous high road. Just in case. Curses happen. Shit happens.

[Well, Freddy is the expert and Steve accepts that]

All right. Lube, condoms.

[Maybe he can bypass the health talk after all.]

You're sure it's just you two? I'm not doubting your bonded loyalty or anything, just you know...when I'm from it's a big deal.

[He nods]

I'm sure.

[That might be Steve being naive, but he honestly believes it. He hasn't had enough exposure to a world where romance isn't always perfect yet. His own have only been tragic.]

Guess it must be, if you're thinking to bring it up.

You might be getting out of having kids by sleeping with dudes but that don't mean you get out of any other life sentence.

[That's that. Fingers gesturing.]

Anyway get all the lube on there, start small, work your way up to the real thing. Every guy's gonna be different, you're gonna know when it's okay to bump the gauge up. Man I should get you a movie.

[He's paying attention - this may be a little embarrassing but it's necessary and-]

Like a blue movie?

People in your time sure watch a lot of them. Amy kept trying to get Bucky to watch one.

[A blue movie he says...]

People in my time watch a lot of movies and TV period. Did he refuse?

[Because if he did that is a big surprise to Freddy.]

He didn't want to watch one with Amy.

[Gosh how embarrassing to watch it with a dame, even one like Amy.]

But watching one with you is....?

[Help him out here, Steve.]

[He's kind of quiet about it for a second]

He wanted to, back home, a couple of times. Like, not with me, not...he tried to convince me to go along but it's illegal, you know, when I'm from, so I talked him out of it.

I guess I don't know what to think about it here.

Ouch.

[No shit it's illegal, Newendyke. Sorry Steve he has to let that one sink in. A time when porn's illegal? Freddy would starve.]

Well it's not illegal here, especially not the kind I think you could use. I could talk to you about fucking ass all day but you gotta...you gotta see it and try it out with your guy, you know?

And I don't even think that the kind you think we would watch to try it out would even exist.

[A pause because, well.]

I've got to talk to him about all this anyway.

You don't even have to worry about hiding your face when you go to the porn store. I got all kinds of shit, as your friend I'll let you borrow one.

I-

[Say Thank You, Steve, his upbringing is insisting]

Thank you.

For everything. For talking to me about it.

Don't sweat it. Like I said, it's kind of an individual thing, but when you take the time to get it in it feels fucking fantastic.

[Notice how he likes to talk about this part the most.]

Guys back home talk about this kind of thing all the time - well, with dames, not fellas - but I never really joined in.

I'm sort of boring that way.

They talk about it with fellas, probably where you can't hear if you're not in the know, you know?

[Awwwwwwww Steeeeeeeeeeve.] Come on, you're not boring, you're just a tiny bit different. All guys are a little different. I was fuckin' fifteen when I slept with a girl, you think I did it because I really really liked her? I did it so the guys would think I'm hot shit. Maybe it kept me from being boring but I think that also kinda made me a little asshole at the time.

[Well, he sort of did like her but not as much as he liked the approval from other boys.]

[Steve kind of likes Freddy because he's honest and tells him things like this that should be embarrassing but he isn't ever embarrassed]

Guess so. I was kind of a loner, except for Bucky, until I joined the army, and the Howling Commandos talked about dames all the time. But by then I was kind of too busy with the war, and there was Peggy.

[There's a pause]

Was it worth it?

[Steve should meet Mr. Brown.] What's up with that anyway, I mean, do you like 'fellas' or just him?

[Bucky fucking Barnes. Er, that question kind of throws him, enough for Freddy to give a casual shrug.] I don't know, I learned a lot about the equipment but I spent a long time working on something I didn't really want.

[Steve doesn't get defensive, although he knows some men might]

Just him. I didn't even realize it until I kissed him on that mistletoe curse day.

[It isn't said with a tone that says I'm not a faggot but rather just matter-of-factly]

I haven't liked many dames, either, though. Rachel Schwartz - she lived in our tenement, she used to come out without her face on in the morning and get coffee with me, but she had a sweetheart. I liked her. A couple of others, but they never paid any attention to me. And Peggy, of course. She was here that day everyone came to visit.

What luck, huh?

[A curse induced revelation...he's not sure what to think of it but Freddy's not one to talk. Who knows what would have happened between White and himself if they hadn't been blasted to this world.]

That's the difference between you and me. My tit days are behind me, I'm a cocksucker.

[Said in good humor, because Freddy doesn't have the balls to say gay.] How'd that go anyway? You still like her?

[He has a slight flash of language on his face because seriously, language, but he doesn't say anything about it.]

I took her dancing. I still love her.

[O-okay....he's not gonna question Steve's intentions in that case nor will he muzzle his own language thanks.]

Nice you had the chance.

[He shakes his head]

It was nice.

[But even if she were here, he wouldn't choose her over Bucky. Not now.]

[..........]

Anyway, I can grab somethin' for you tomorrow.

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