[ if you give a stark a dram, he'll soon come after the whole bloody bottle -- or, in this case, an inch of charity turns into a mile when tony parlays peggy's patience into something else entirely. he knows how she feels about his puppeted suit, and yet she doesn't even bother to toggle the button -- only knocks her knuckles against its empty helmet before taking the phone and shutting the door on its face.
bloody robots.
peggy texts him a quick placeholder to inform the man that she's currently reading all of it. and then, taking a seat on her bed, she delves. into every detail of it -- horrible and dreadful although it is. every mention of steve makes her ache, and the culmination -- the near death, the flight, the fall...? she is confronted with the choice that tony stark had tried to make and...
and oh, she swears a blue streak out loud in the solitude of her room. every word of these reports are things she shouldn't know, future spoilers she shouldn't pry apart with such curiousity and appetite. but she needs to know what happens to the people she cares about. even if they break her heart. or, in tony's case, even if they aren't born yet back in '47.
he texts her after twenty. she doesn't respond again until another fifteen after that. ]
You mean you haven't been the same since.
[ say what you mean, tony stark. or peggy will go in afterwards with a red pen and correct every deflection and sneaky stretching of the truth. ]
no subject
bloody robots.
peggy texts him a quick placeholder to inform the man that she's currently reading all of it. and then, taking a seat on her bed, she delves. into every detail of it -- horrible and dreadful although it is. every mention of steve makes her ache, and the culmination -- the near death, the flight, the fall...? she is confronted with the choice that tony stark had tried to make and...
and oh, she swears a blue streak out loud in the solitude of her room. every word of these reports are things she shouldn't know, future spoilers she shouldn't pry apart with such curiousity and appetite. but she needs to know what happens to the people she cares about. even if they break her heart. or, in tony's case, even if they aren't born yet back in '47.
he texts her after twenty. she doesn't respond again until another fifteen after that. ]
You mean you haven't been the same since.
[ say what you mean, tony stark. or peggy will go in afterwards with a red pen and correct every deflection and sneaky stretching of the truth. ]