Magic Box | Tuesday

[scarlet_chaos]

Wanda had walked into the store this morning and immediately realized she needed to clean up the place. The dust had molded itself into bunny shapes and were hopping around. If that wasn't a sign to dust she didn't know what was.

She was here, duster in hand, and sneezing more than usual.

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[heroic_jawline]

It was the 538th day of January, so Steve was trying to cheer himself up from the gray awfulness with dirty chais.

"Wanda?" he called, coming into the shop. "Do you need a snack?"

[scarlet_chaos]

Steve's only response was three sneezes in quick succession from behind one of the bookshelves. Good thing she had stuffed tissues in her pockets.

[heroic_jawline]

Steve followed the sneezing. "Do you need to borrow some of Tony's small army of Roombas?" he asked, grinning.

[scarlet_chaos]

"Oh, I couldn't do that to them." Wanda was fairly sure the dust bunnies were just dust, but that didn't stop her from gently picking them up when she found one and releasing it outside.

Which was why this dusting had taken hours instead of minutes.

[heroic_jawline]

Steve's entire expression softened as he watched the bunny release. "They're cute. Patriot would probably ruin 'em, though."

[scarlet_chaos]

"In that case it's a good thing Tony has an army of roombas," she said, standing up straight and dusting herself off. Hopefully the dust wasn't dust bunny poop.

"I don't know how I let it get so bad in here."

[heroic_jawline]

"Well," Steve said slowly, smiling, "they are bunnies. There's a reputation for multiplying."

[scarlet_chaos]

"Ugh, gross," Wanda said, wrinkling up her nose. Somehow an answer that was worse than 'Maybe I have seasonal affective disorder?' because that was what she had been thinking.

"How's it going with you? Cleaner, I hope."

[heroic_jawline]

"Cleaner," Steve agreed, nodding. "Tony's launching a new line of pickup trucks because Elon Musk's made him sad, and today's class taught students about how placing letters too close together on a sign can make accidental profanity."

[scarlet_chaos]

"Oh yeah I've seen examples of those online." She couldn't believe how many ways you could accidentally spell the c-word. "You'd think there'd be people to supervise those things before they go into the world."

[heroic_jawline]

Clint was so lucky they were a PG franchise.

"I know!" Steve agreed. "Even put it past a group of middle school kids--they'll tell you everything you've done wrong."

[scarlet_chaos]

"Yeah, or like a whole department of teenagers," she said. "You present your idea and then see if they can make it dirty somehow. If they can't then you're good to launch."

[heroic_jawline]

"The gals from the USO tour could do it too," Steve said, blushing slightly. "I learned a lot."