Chapter 1070: Ordinary Daily Life Before Christmas (Part 2)

A Christmas tree full of colorful lights and balls turned around. A hand holding the American flag straightened the crooked branch. Steve carefully inserted the small triangular flag on the side of the Christmas tree.

The sound of high heels came from far away. Natasha, who was graceful, greeted her colleagues and walked over. Seeing Steve in a Christmas sweater, she raised her eyebrows, blew a whistle and said, "Hey, sweet boy, why are you dressed so beautifully today?"

Steve smiled at Natasha, but Natasha was stunned. Then she said, "Captain, what medicine did you take wrong?"

Natasha looked at Steve from head to toe again and found nothing unusual, but it made her feel very strange.

This sexy and beautiful female agent is usually good at consuming male beauty. Almost no handsome agent and superhero in SHIELD has not been teased by her. Most people are used to it, and many people are complacent about it, such as Stark.

After all, Natasha's vision is very high. If you can make this battle-hardened female agent come over and flirt with you, it means that you stand out from the males.

However, not everyone is so open. Captain America is obviously a more conservative one. In the past, when Natasha was flirting, Steve would frown and turn around to see if there were any minors nearby to ensure that he did not bring any bad influence.

However, Natasha just saw that Steve seemed to wink at her. The experienced female agent felt that this was definitely not her hallucination. Captain America was in a surprisingly good mood today.

Natasha stood in front of the Christmas tree with her arms folded and asked, "What's wrong? Captain? What good things happened? Tell me."

After that, Natasha leaned towards Steve, put her arm on the railing behind Steve, and got very close to him.

Steve was busy tidying up the Christmas tree, but he didn't avoid it like he did in the past. Instead, he turned around, looked at Natasha and said:

"What good thing? Isn't Christmas the best thing? Tomorrow is the holiday, shouldn't I be happy?"

"Forget it." Natasha shook her head and said, "You've been back for a few years. When was the Christmas so happy?"

Suddenly, Natasha seemed to notice something. She patted Steve's back and said, "Keep your current state. The person you are waiting for is here."

After that, Natasha turned and left. When Steve was looking at her back with some doubts, he heard another female voice next to him: "Um... Captain, um, are you free now?"

Steve turned his head and saw Sharon Carter with delicate makeup. This younger female agent was obviously not as sophisticated as Natasha. She stood at least two meters away, with her hands folded together, looking a little nervous.

"...I'm here to apologize to you. My invitation last time was too presumptuous. I know that you haven't gotten over the emotional injury with my aunt. As her niece, it's not good for me to do this..." Carter said with some embarrassment.

"But, Captain, please believe me, even if there is no such relationship, I really admire you. After all, I also grew up listening to your stories..." Carter seemed particularly nervous, as if she was concentrating on reciting the lines.

As soon as she raised her eyes, she saw Steve's blue eyes, staring at her intently, which made her forget all the words that followed. She stood there stupidly, as if she was bewitched by Steve's beauty and couldn't even speak.

Suddenly, a cough came from a distance. Carter tilted his head slightly and saw Natasha at the end of the guardrail, leaning on the railing with one hand and fiddling with her mobile phone with the other hand.

The communicator on Carter's waist suddenly rang. She picked it up in a hurry. A text message from Natasha appeared on the screen: "Go up and kiss him."

Carter took a deep breath, put the communicator back on her waist, flicked her hair, took two steps forward, looked at Steve and said, "Mr. Rogers, can I invite you to be my dance partner and go to this year's Christmas dance with me?"

Steve's eyes were shining, as if the lights on the entire Christmas tree were rubbed into his eyes. He took Carter's hand, gently kissed the knuckle of her middle finger, and said, "My pleasure, Miss."

Carter was shyly trying to run away, and saw Natasha in the distance kicking the railing with the tip of her boots and coughing twice.

Carter covered his chest and took a deep breath, quickly moved forward, gently kissed Steve on the face, and then turned and ran away.

Steve reached out his hand, touched his cheek, smiled and shook his head. Suddenly, a hand was placed on his shoulder. Feeling the hardness of the surface of the mechanical arm, he turned around and saw Bucky's face.

"She is a bit like Peggy, right?" Bucky looked at Carter's back as he left and said, "At least they look a bit alike."

"They are aunt and niece, how can they not look alike? However, their personalities can be said to be completely different." Steve shook his head and said, "If it was Peggy, she would not care what the occasion was, and would have kissed her."

Bucky also laughed and said, "That's why no one would mistake you for Agent Carter, your old lover. Their personalities are completely different."

"Why are you here?" Steve asked.

"Howard called me over. He said he made me a new mechanical arm as my Christmas gift. It uses the latest technology and is much better than the current one."

Bucky looked down at his hand, while Steve lowered his voice and said, "Howard seems to think that it is his fault that you are in trouble. Two days ago, he almost went to the military to question those people why they gave his technology to Hydra?"

"Unfortunately, most of the generals who worked with him before are dead, and those who are not dead can hardly move. Howard looked at the generals who have already stepped half a foot into the coffin, and he was in no mood to trouble them."

Bucky shook his head and said, "I was captured at the beginning, which had nothing to do with Howard. It was my own combat mistake. It is better to say that I have to thank Howard for his reliable technology. If it was Hammer Military, I would have an arm as bad-tempered as my 'ex-wife'."

Steve patted his arm and laughed. Obviously, the joke about Hammer Military has spread in the circle.

Steve walked out from behind the Christmas tree and introduced Bucky: "Nick gave me the job of decorating the Christmas tree for the ball. I think he chose the right person."

Bucky took two steps back, looked at the huge Christmas tree decorated with colorful and gorgeous colors, nodded and said: "It's really good. Will it be decorated in the center of the ballroom?"

"Yes, when the time comes, everyone will dance around the tree, we will pray together, and then wait until midnight to start the new year."

As he said, Steve felt a little sigh: "I haven't been as happy as this year for a long time. Even counting the years before I woke up, this is my happiest Christmas."

"There is no war, no dispute, only many friends, and a bright future..." Steve lowered his head, and when the light of the colored lights shone on his eyelashes, it was like a group of colorful elves dancing and picking branches.

"By the way, have the names and dance partners been confirmed?" Bucky asked, "Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, we can't wait until then to confirm, right?"

Steve looked up from between the branches, he stretched out a finger and said, "You reminded me... Natasha! Natasha! Don't leave yet, where is Coulson? Is he in charge of the list of people?"

"He's upstairs." Natasha said as she walked over, and when she passed by Steve, she threw him a bunch of keys and said, "Move this tree to the warehouse later."

Bucky waved to Steve and said, "You go upstairs first, I'll take care of the Christmas tree."

Steve turned and left, while putting the key in Bucky's hand and smiled at him.

Coming upstairs, passing through the busy offices, Coulson was sitting in an office full of clerks answering the phone. Steve heard him say:

"Yes, that's 30,000 people. What's wrong? One wizard with a thousand apprentices, isn't that too much?"

"How can you apply the rules of ordinary universities to wizards? Do you know what magic is? Do you know how complicated and dangerous magic is? What's wrong with a thousand apprentices?"

Coulson put down the phone in a bad mood, and soon picked up another phone and said, "...What? The Sanctum Sanctorum's customer service staff is not enough? Then you Go find the Sorcerer Supreme! What does it have to do with SHIELD? "

"How many people do you want? ... Ten? ? ! ! Oh my God! Are you kidding? You have so many simple and convenient magic props, and you still want ten people? ? ! ! Dream on! ! ! "

Steve felt that he couldn't listen any more. He waved and greeted the other people in the office, and then came to Coulson. When Coulson saw that it was Captain America who came to see him, he immediately put down his work and asked enthusiastically: "What's the matter, Captain?"

"Nothing , you go about your business, I just want to ask, has the list of people for the dance been finalized? Can I see it? "Steve smiled and said, "I'm really curious about who some of them will dance with."

Colson, who was sitting next to the phone, showed a somewhat embarrassed look, pursed his lips, looked up at Steve and said, "Captain, I can see that you are looking forward to this year's dance. This year, our development momentum is also very good. All walks of life have made great progress. Society is getting better and better, right?"

Steve nodded, and Coulson stroked his fingers and said, " Correspondingly, everyone is getting busier and busier. By the New Year, I still have five or six cases to deal with, and the same should be true for others..."

Steve heard the hidden meaning in his words, and his excitement and high spirits were somewhat dampened. He looked at Coulson and said, "Don't feel embarrassed. Give me the list. I'm an adult. I know I can't force others. Follow my arrangements..."

Colson sighed, took out a piece of paper from the drawer, and handed it to Steve. Steve just glanced at the content on the paper, and his eyes couldn't help but twitch.

Half an hour later, Coulson found Steve, who was already half drunk, in the bar in the basement of SHIELD. Coulson patted his shoulder, walked over to sit next to him, took a sip of beer, and said:

"...We are all adults, aren't we?"

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