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[ofstarlight]

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[wingedman]

"Not as far as I know." Sam shrugged. "I can change at any time, so it stands to reason that I should be able to bite someone at any time. I mean, it's not a decision you have to make right away or anything - it could be years. I just...I figured I'd kept it a secret from you long enough."

And he probably wouldn't have been able to keep it secret much longer, anyway. Trying to hide his disappearance at the full moon was always difficult.

He breathed in slowly, then exhaled. "If we could keep it a secret, then I'm willing to let Tony study whatever he can. If you agree, I don't want something going wrong that we could have prevented, you know? I just don't know how much science is gonna be able to figure out."

[stevegrogers]

"Films always lead me to believe it could only happen at a full moon," Steve explained with a wry grin, trying to lessen a bit of the tension from curling around them. The shock hadn't really faded yet and he knew it would be some time before it did. He had a werewolf boyfriend, okay, he needed time to have it sink in. He also had a werewolf boyfriend that wanted to change him to be the same. Okay, maybe one aspect of it seemed like the films he watched.

"Tony can keep a secret and he could try and study your cells and mine and see if - it would -" He gestured a hand out, not really wanting to finish the sentence of if it would - kill me. The serum might just destroy the change or it could malfunction in some way. There were so many unknown things about the serum.

"Do you know....anyone else like you?"

[wingedman]

"You know, I'm just going to hope that means you haven't been watching Twilight," Sam joked. There were plenty of shitty sci-fi movies involving shifters, and virtually none of them were accurate. "It's an involuntary change during the full moon, but I can choose to do it at any other time."

Sam had his own opinions on Stark's ability to keep a secret - the guy had, after all, called a press conference to announce that he was a goddamn superhero - but kept them to himself. There was no reason to make Steve worry. "I mean, he's not a biologist, but there's probably something he can do." Banner would probably have been a better option, and even he did...well, Sam wasn't sure what kind of science Banner did.

"Met one or two. Cats are pretty solitary, though - kinda goes with the whole cat thing. Not that there aren't other kinds of shifters out there, but obviously, no one really goes out of the way to say hello."

[stevegrogers]

Werecat? Rather than werewolf? The title probably didn't exactly matter in the long run but his mind needed to grasp onto something to make sense of all the information. "I haven't seen Twilight but have heard of it," Steve responded, shaking his head a few times. It interested him very little, especially with it being geared to the youth and obsessive romance. Plus, he never had very much interest in vampires, preferring aliens, which probably really made his life ironic. If the younger him only knew what he would discover later in life.

"We could still see. Maybe some of the SHIELD databases might have some information too." Steve already had plenty of thoughts on where to go from there. "They might know of more like you."

"I mean, we could, try if you wanted. I'm just not sure what it is going to do." The serum could be incredibly fickle and there were too many unknowns with it.

[wingedman]

"Like I said, I'm willing to go along with whatever tests Stark wants to run." Sam held up his hands defensively. He didn't want to hurt Steve, after all, and he knew that it was possible that the two different kinds of accelerated healing might react badly when combined.

He glanced at Steve, and his expression softened for a moment, taking on a certain shyness. "Do you want to see me change?"

[stevegrogers]

Nodding his head, he made a note to himself to talk to Stark later and Banner. SHIELD might have known more as well but he decided to not involve them in any way, knowing the end result without having to attempt it. As for the change, he paused a little longer, trying to decide if he could handle seeing it or not but in the end he decided he had to. They always shared everything with one another.

"I want to see," he remarked, laying his hands on his legs, trying to not appear as nervous as he felt.

[wingedman]

"All right." Sam felt a little apprehensive, but he told himself there was nothing to worry about. Standing up, he started to strip his clothes off. "I'll, uh, ruin my clothes if I leave them on," he explained awkwardly with his t-shirt up around his head. Not that Steve hadn't seen him naked before - not that Sam was really bothered by nudity in general - but this felt different, somehow.

The change wasn't too disturbing to view from the outside, though if you listened hard enough, you could hear bones snapping and reforming, and the odd grunt of pain from Sam. He was used to it by now. The whole thing took a couple of minutes, and at the end, a large black panther stood in front of Steve, the tip of his tail twitching.

[stevegrogers]

Of course, shifting would rip clothing, wouldn't it? What had his life become that it made perfect sense to him? Then again a lot of things had changed for him since waking up from the ice into an era not his own. Sam tended to make the horror of the loss a little easier to cope with. It prompted him to want to be there for him in any way he could.

His eyes widened to a near comical level as he watched until a panther stood before him. "Damn," he swore under his breath, reaching out a tentative hand to stroke along Sam's fur. What an odd thought.

"Can you - still understand me even when you're like this? Just - uh - nod if you can?"