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PEGGY CARTER | MCU | ENTRANCEWAY ( action, video, voice, or text )

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[revokes]

they need some more work. I'm still figuring out the local stuff. They'll say sorry. They'll mean it, too.

[mucked]

If you honestly believe that, Tony, then I've got a bridge to sell you.

[revokes]

I don't know. I already have a few buildings and hotels. Wouldn't know where to put it.

[mucked]

Hotels?

[ -- my, my, stark industries has diversified hasn't it? ]

Terribly lovely ones, I take it.

[revokes]

They bring good profits, I think.

That way, the master suite is also available, too. Two birds. One stone.


[ they were pepper's favorites, her own picks for a holiday. tony barely gave the purchase a thought. that way, she always had a room when she had to travel for business-purposes, too, ]

[mucked]

[ oh, hell. trust a stark to get into the hotelier business just to have a place to stay that's up to snuff. but the comparison, the connection, isn't a prudent one to make given the mess with their -- his -- shadow. so she keeps it to herself. ]

And do you also take such a personal interest in furnishing those master suites? I've settled on a dresser, by the way.

[revokes]

the people who did usually have good taste.

I'm not the one who redesigns them if they don't. I have someone on that end.

[ or at least, he had. ]

[mucked]

[ have someone, he texts. and peggy finds something distasteful in the syntax, but she leaves it at that. ]

You must be in possession of a fascinating payroll list.

[revokes]

wouldn't know about it.

I don't work for my own company anymore. I have another CEO, gives me more time to spend on my other hobby.

[ iron man. ]

[mucked]

To call it a hobby is a touch flippant, isn't it?

[revokes]

I don't know.

My worse criticizers might not agree with you.

[ tony stark and his childish fancies about saving the world, about bringing in a different future and not taking responsibility over the damage innovation brings.

it's what he tried so hard to explain to steve rogers some months ago. there are people to answer to, there always are. ]

[mucked]

Oh, I fully believe they wouldn't. But I'd hope neither of us would be judged wholly or only by our biggest detractors.

[ because, oh well, she's got many. ]

[revokes]

I spent a long while ignoring them.

but mine are people who got caught in the middle. people who the avengers couldn't save but also didn't bother answering to.

I wanted iron man to be what I couldn't be. I'm still trying to make that happen.

[mucked]

Mine tend to be bureaucrats. Right bastards.

[ very eloquent and thoughtful, pegs. truth is -- the 'caught in the middle' folks barely know she exists. it's how she prefers it. ]

[revokes]

I'm afraid I became one.

big disappointment, I know. i'm working for the UN these days. government things.

balances and checks. we all need those.

[mucked]

Not a disappointment. Not at all. I suspect the world needs bureaucrats -- although I haven't yet stomached the idea that I'm on track to become one.

[revokes]

sometimes you gotta work with the system to make the world better.

or try to do the best we can. it's all we can do, which isn't really comforting when put like that.

[mucked]

Rather depends on the system.

[ some can be worked within. some -- the ones in the '40s -- have a way of grinding you down to dust. ]

[revokes]

but then, the same can and had been said about the avengers.

earths mightiest heroes or a bunch of idiots needing to be kept in check. it was bound to happen. I think for a long while, I tried to ignore it.

[mucked]

[ ...he's not hearing her. that's alright. maybe that's not what he needs, just now. ]

Earth's mightiest heroes or a bunch of idiots needing to be kept in check. Are those really the only two options?

[ this is gonna be one of THOSE talks. ]

[revokes]

[ there's something he wants to say and doesn't, you're beginning to sound like Rogers. but there are rules, and tony knows it'll be low to bring up steve. ]

according to many grieving mothers, yes. those are the two.

[ it stuck in his mind, Who's going to avenge my son, Stark? He's dead... and I blame you. ]

[mucked]

[ excuse you, rogers was the one beginning to sound like her....... ]

That's your guilty conscience speaking. Dichotemizing the problem solves nothing.

[revokes]

yeah, I heard as much.

[ at least he doesn't say from who. ]

[mucked]

[ he doesn't need to. ]

Frankly, I'd be surprised if that was his argument. He's usually far too much of a stubborn arse to allow for many shades of grey.

[revokes]

the best hands are still our own.

which okay sounds very heroic but I nearly destroyed the world trying to save it and he became a poster for the grey areas for his old army buddy.

people change.