"Good job, you two. I knew you would make a good team." Grant said, patting Griffin on the back and nodding at you approvingly. Your first mission as partners had been a success, and to almost everyone's surprise, you and Bucky actually worked well together... Which was saying something, considering how difficult Griffin could be.

Mission after mission, you and Griffin developed a strong partnership, and you might even dare say, a friendship. After a particularly long week, the two of you were at Charlie's Place, a local bar that had been in New York since Prohibition. You were laughing at something Griffin had just said, taking a drink of your beer, and he just smiled back at you.

"You're not what I thought you'd be like." You said with a chuckle. "Mean and scary?" Griffin asked with a smirk before taking a drink of his beer. "Yeah..." You admitted with a shrug, drinking your own beer. "Yeah, well... I actually thought you would be mean and scary, too." Griffin confessed sheepishly. "You're terrifying." He smirked. "Wait, really?" You asked, not expecting to hear something like that from him. "You know the effect you have, doll." He shook his head and looked away, clearly embarrassed.

You took a drink of your beer and shook your head. "I don't know what you're talking about." The idea that you had any kind of effect on Griffin was unfathomable. "'Course you don't." Griffin shook his head and took another drink of his beer.