Election Day kisses

[sincere]

It's Election Day~!
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Comments

MCU :: Thor/Sif

[rainfall]

The first time he kisses her, Sif gives him a black eye for his trouble. They are adolescents, and her cry of outrage rings in his ears for weeks afterwards:

"Ugh, you taste of mead and dried blood and half-spent adrenaline! Save your sloppy affections for one of your tavern wenches and leave me in peace."

Thor turns it over and over in his head while chilling his bruise with stolen ice from the kitchen. He cannot understand what part was so objectionable! He didn't mean anything by it, they were just celebrating and -- Sif happened to be there! When he tells Loki, Loki encourages him reasonably to tell Sif exactly that; surely she'll feel better if she knows it was only a mistake.

He winds up with another black eye, but even as her knuckles connect a very strange thought comes into his head and then refuses to leave him alone. Of course Sif is pretty, everyone knows that -- but she was beautiful when she struck him, and for just a moment he found...

Even knowing she would hit him for it, he wanted to kiss her again.

The sensible thing to do is ignore it, but he cannot. Suddenly it's all he can think of when they're together, and the distraction costs him sorely when they spar.

Sometimes -- not often, but sometimes -- Thor has sudden moments of inspiration, where he sees everything very clearly. He has one of them when he realizes that Sif's objection in the tavern was mostly to the tastes, and he's careful to have none of them on his tongue when he kisses her for the second time.

This time, there are no black eyes and no pain, but when he opens his eyes Thor finds her even more beautiful.