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

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[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.

[mucked]

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.

[revokes]

I know. I knew back then, too.

[ but he still didn't listen. it wasn't a logical decision but then, so few of his are when it comes to the matters of the heart. ]

I never told you about BARF, did I?it's not as bad as it sounds, just needs a better name.

[mucked]

It had better not be as bad as it sounds.

[ which is, of course, his signal to continue. ]

[revokes]

Binarily Augmented Retro-Framing. In short, it hacks into the brain, helps the whole process of handling, processing and clearing traumatic memories. cost me a couple hundred millions to develop.

it's a bit like what the last game was like. the memories in our rooms, only not as horrifying. It allows for changed and resolutions. I thought it could help people make peace with things they need to resolve, last goodbyes, words unspoken. things like that.

it didn't work for me, though. which I knew but I had to see him anyway.

[mucked]

It sounds as brilliant as it is macabre.

[ impressive -- but just a little bewildering. peggy's not certain she likes the sound of it, although the science behind it is devastatingly clever. ]

You say it didn't work for you. But it did work? That is, the mechanics of it.

[revokes]

of course it worked.

I invented it.

[mucked]

I wonder where I've heard that before.

[ look, she tries very hard not to draw direct lines between the father and the son. but this was one impossible not to make. ]

[revokes]

well.

You did know him better than I did.

[mucked]

It's still the present tense for me, Tony.

[revokes]

yes, it is.

Can I ask you something? I mean you don't have to answer but.

[mucked]

Shoot.

[revokes]

I have to know.

What's he like? Seriously why are you friends with this person?

[mucked]

For starters, he never expects me to fetch him his coffee or answer his phones.

[revokes]

your other friends do?? Seriously?

So you're surrounded by assholes. That actually makes sense.

[mucked]

My colleagues, yes.

[ -- she won't claim to have friends. for so long howard was the only one in new york. she's just getting used to this cavalcade of new ones. ]

It's...getting better. But after the war, he seemed to be just about the only one who didn't treat me as though it was time I put myself back on a shelf and wait for marriage.

[revokes]

so he doesn't actually stand at the top of Mount Jackass. That's good to know.

Listen. They say everyone needs friends but i'll be honest. We're doing the honesty thing. I think you're too good for him. Just

Be careful.

[mucked]

I am much, much, much too good for him. Yes. Many times over. Fret not, Tony, I know it.

He's a wanker and a snake and an opportunist of the highest degree. But -- he sees me when he looks at me. For that, I suppose, I can forgive a great deal.

Don't you dare tell anyone.

[revokes]

at least one of us can say that. I don't know if I have ever felt like that about him.

I won't tell a soul. You may not have noticed this but I'm not a very popular guy.

[mucked]

The decent ones rarely are. In fact, I'd venture to say it's the popular ones you've got to keep your eye on.

[revokes]

don't I know it.

don't worry I won't tell anyone you think I'm cute, either.