Sam knows. Neither of us is shy about feelings, luckily.
[ Jesper feels safe telling Sam how he cares about him, because he's not someone who would be weird about it, and they've both just sort of comfortably settled into a family situation. They're very alike in temperament. The older Jesper gets, the more he's probably going to remind Sam of himself, or other people of him. It's the best comparison he could ask for.
The one thing that Jesper has that Sam apparently doesn't allow himself, though, is love. Jesper has many relationships and a lot of love in his life, not of the platonic variety, and he feels like Sam deserves a partner of some kind. He does suspect down to his core that Steve is that person, but he's not going to press the two of it on the subject. They'll get there when they get there. ]
Steve, you're part of the family too. [ That's how Jesper sees it, plain and simple. ] Distract him for me and we're good.
[ That might as well be payment, if he feels like he needs it. Jesper doesn't care either way; if he had a price, he would've put it on there. He's a merchant, after all. He makes a shooing gesture toward Steve. ]
I think we can wrap on this!
[ Jesper feels safe telling Sam how he cares about him, because he's not someone who would be weird about it, and they've both just sort of comfortably settled into a family situation. They're very alike in temperament. The older Jesper gets, the more he's probably going to remind Sam of himself, or other people of him. It's the best comparison he could ask for.
The one thing that Jesper has that Sam apparently doesn't allow himself, though, is love. Jesper has many relationships and a lot of love in his life, not of the platonic variety, and he feels like Sam deserves a partner of some kind. He does suspect down to his core that Steve is that person, but he's not going to press the two of it on the subject. They'll get there when they get there. ]
Steve, you're part of the family too. [ That's how Jesper sees it, plain and simple. ] Distract him for me and we're good.
[ That might as well be payment, if he feels like he needs it. Jesper doesn't care either way; if he had a price, he would've put it on there. He's a merchant, after all. He makes a shooing gesture toward Steve. ]
Get to work, Rogers.