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

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[revokes]

[ he comes dangerously close to being rude again, to being dismissive, to telling her she's beginning to sound like a therapist.

He bites his tongue, waits with his response a few minutes longer. ]

they're anxiety issues, that's all.

[mucked]

[ -- it's a good thing he doesn't. peggy wouldn't know how to handle being told she's sounding like a therapist. comfort and delicacy wasn't really her intention. although perhaps it should have been. ]

Shell shock. I've seen it before.

[ although she's never been good at handling it in others. ]

[revokes]

it's been a bitch lately.

I was still an asshole. I know.

1/2

[mucked]

I'm used to it.

2/2

[mucked]

...But not from you, I suppose.

[ and that had stung. ]

This isn't carte blanche. You get one freebie. Next time, I'm blacking your eye.

[ -- it's meant in good spirit. it might not come across as such. peggy equally doesn't know how to do this friendly stuff, sometimes. ]

[revokes]

right, ok.

I can live with it.

[ if only because it's still better then her being angry with him. Or worse, disappointed. ]

[mucked]

Tony.

It's been a damn long time since I've been around anything quite like family.

[ which is to say if she somehow hurt him with her neglect, that night -- well...she regrets it now. she'd been trying to follow his lead on that front: we're family. but hers has been a clumsy, odd attempt.

he worries about disappointing her. for once, in her life, she's worried about disappointing someone else. ]

[revokes]

it's been a while for me too.

[ everyone he's ever thought of as family is dead. She's outlived them all, even if, sometimes, in her later years she had mistaken him for his father. ]

I don't sleep. It just doesn't happen anymore. It's why I snapped.

[mucked]

[ she almost wants to say i know, i heard, agent romanoff told me about my death -- but she doesn't. she holds that like a little tragedy in the corner pocket. nothing he needs to think about, right now. ]

One reason why, perhaps. [ but an important one. ] I should warn you. I'm not terribly good at this sort of thing.

[ as if that much isn't already painfully obvious. ]

[revokes]

you're just fine.

Seriously, I mean it. This was on me. I dropped a mountain of issues on you lately.

[mucked]

[ she isn't, of course. just fine. but that's yet another point to abandon unsaid. ]

There is not a man or woman, no matter how fit he or she may be, who is capable of carrying the entire world on their shoulders. A wonderfully wise man told me so, once, and I suspect he would say the same thing applies to one's issues.

[ whether peggy could ever heed jarvis's advice, on the other hand... ]

[revokes]

I heard those words once. It's been a while for me.

But I spent so much of my life creating of legacy of death. They called me Merchant of Death.

I wanted to change that. That's how iron man started.

He would have told me that. I know.

[mucked]

[ oh, christ, of course. ]

It follows that you would have endured a lecture or two at the hands of one Edwin Jarvis.

[revokes]

I didn't mind.

I pretended to when I was a kid but. I never really minded. I think he knew all along.

[mucked]

I will never dare to tell him so but, God, he's a wonder when he's chiding.

[ maybe one of the few people who can properly cow and humble peggy carter without spoiling all their goodwill. ]

...It's rather nice to learn there's someone here who knows what I mean when I say so.

[ it makes her feel a little less lonely. she prays it does the same for him.

[revokes]

he's the one who raised me. He meant a lot.

I named my best program after him.Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.

[mucked]

[ -- it reminds her (just a little) of when she'd had the initials for 'shield' explained to her. ]

I'm damned happy you had him. At least.

[ she means it. ]

[revokes]

[ exhausted and hungover as he is, tony stark, against all odds, manages to smile. He leans back in his chair and closes his eyes for a moment. ]

me too.

I'll try and come over soon. to take back my phone. Say hi.

[mucked]

Do that. [ ... ] Please.

And I'll tell you about the time Mister Jarvis damn near out-drove an explosion. Unless, of course, he's already told it to you himself.

[revokes]

I never heard that one.

[ but it sounds like a good story, tony knows one when it comes knocking. A little moment from the life of a man he loved, when he was much younger, long before Tony was even born. ]

how did it happen?

[mucked]

It happened while he was pulling my fat out of the fryer. So to speak. Additional details will have to wait upon your visit.

[revokes]

oh come on.

Really??

It might take days. I have a giant electromagnetic headache.

1/2

[mucked]

I can wait. Can you?

2/2

[mucked]

Come to think of it, it was really more of an implosion.

[revokes]

[ it takes a long while for a reply to come, but when it does come, it starts as a rattle near the window. While he can pull an armani even today, Tony is currently wearing his work clothes, an old t shirt and a tired looking pair of dark jeans. At least he doesn't smell like tequila anymore.

Well mostly.

He does look terrible but ‏at least he warned her about that in advance. ]

Well.

[ he takes a seat near the table, he wants his story now, thank you. ]