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

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[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. ]

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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.

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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.

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[ ...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. ]

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[ 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. ]

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[ 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.

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People change.

[ peggy agrees.

and then she thinks she might have liked to confide in tony just then. to tell him why she's been so twisted into knots, strangely down on herself, the whole shebang. only it's a matter of the heart, isn't it?

and she won't have tony accusing her of being an adolescent once again. ]

Sometimes by quite a lot. On some days, I barely recognized the man I met here.

[revokes]

the weight of the world.

I'm not being sarcastic. it's a lot these days. the aliens made sure of that. he's a self-righteous asshole but I won't pretend the world's been fun.

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It's not the world back home that engendered the most of it, I think. Change. But the three years he spent here.

[revokes]

seriously?

well. if we're still here in 2 years and I begin rambling about values and patriotism, shoot me.

[mucked]

I should damn well hope we're not both still here in two years. Good Lord.

[ -- it's not the values and it's not the patriotism she means, however. but it seems sulkish to bring up some of the finer points of her bad blood with steve rogers. ]

But you have my word. I'll keep a bullet with your name on it, shall I?

[ dark, but that in itself is a good sign. had she said something nice...? well, then we'd know trouble was afoot. ]

[revokes]

alongside that punch, yes?

[ it takes another moment but he does send her another message, an apology of a sort ]

I should have listened to you. about my ghost thing.

[mucked]

Yes. You really should have.

[ do as peggy says, they used to say among the howlies. ]

I was speaking from experience. Hard bloody won.