[ he bites his lip, totally not having to fake the bashfulness. he forgets how perfectly gamora can fake it, at times. because when it's her real emotions, she doesn't know how to deal with them. it makes this exercize both strangely satisfying and completely foreign. like he's with a totally different person and he doesn't necessarily like that feeling. he likes gamora for her emotionally stilted self. but of course it's hard to resist to one-up her too. he's nothing if not competitive, especially with his friends.

he drops their hands to wrap his arm around her waist, reeling her in close while they walk. on a wim he leans in and presses a soft kiss against her cheek. ] Do you remember what I said to you on our wedding day? [ he asks, close to her ear. ] I told you nothing bad could happen so long as we were together.