It was Tony's idea.
His stupid, dumbass, obsessively-compulsively driven, best friend- Tony Stark- had finally pulled him aside after only two in a half months of mourning Peggy's death, and had told him to go out to a local bar and pick up a girl or two...dozen, and work out some of his anger and frustrations about how things had gone down with his old girlfriend through some rough sex.
The only real problem with that was he, Steve Rogers- a.k.a Captian America- super soldier elite, didn't do rough sex. Under any circumstances.
Mostly because he was far too old fashioned and his values coupled with his super strength prevented him from being rough with someone outside of his work as an Avenger. After all, the last thing he needed was to pick some random girl up, go home and start getting...uh...frisky? And accidentally snap the poor woman in half.
Like literally.
So just like every night for the past two weeks, he attempted to follow Tony's advice (with a few modified tweaks, of course) and just like every other night, he paid his tab, waved bye to the bartender and left feeling a sense of disappointment. And perhaps a little seething rage that was quickly beginning to boil within his blood.
Making him want to deck Tony and break his damn jaw the next time he saw him.
But he would never do that. Not to Tony, despite how annoying or annoyed with the man proved to be, or he became with the situation. After all, it wasn't like Stark had twisted his arm and made him come out to the bar tonight or the other nights before.
Still, he did wish that Tony had taken into consideration just how difficult it was for him to find someone suitable enough to even consider a relationship with.
It was practically a nightmare because his old fashioned, gentlemanly tendencies, coupled with his Avenger statis proved to be somewhat a pain to deal with.
Everyone knew his name, knew that he was an Avenger.
But they didn't know him. And he longed for someone to know him. To know the little things that he found pleasure in and share them with him. He'd had that with Peggy. And would no longer settle for anything less.