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

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[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. ]

[mucked]

[ by contrast, peggy remains polished. well -- mostly. her sleeves are rolled up to her elbows and she's slipped out of her heels while she sits (in a chair) with her stocking'd feet tucked behind a chair-leg. she's leaning over her desk, the one he brought her, and she's watching her device with care.

except he's here now. and so her care switches firmly onto him. ]

Hello. Tony. What do you know of Nitramene?

[ she pushes her chair back and launches into it. why shouldn't she? ]

[revokes]

My old man developed it. I never worked with it, too unstable. I know it has a giant blast radius that becomes a vacuum that has to be filled. Never actually seen it at work.

[ he places both arms on the table and uses them for a pillow. ]

--- you have.

[mucked]

On more than one occasion.

[ unfortunately. ]

But in this instance, it was about a milk truck's worth of the stuff. The blast took a whole Roxxon facility with it. As well as the back bumper of the car Mister Jarvis was most expertly driving in order to get me out of said facility.

[revokes]

That guy is such a good driver, though. I never woke up on time and I was never late for school.

[ he looks at her. ]

how the hell did you get yourself into Roxxon? and how the hell did they get their hands on one of my dad's worst inventions?

[mucked]

I climbed the fence, of course. [ but that's interesting -- roxxon persists come the future. peggy isn't much surprised. sleazebags like hugh jones don't just disappear. not half as often as they should. ]

As for why and how they had his Nitramene -- well, that's a considerably longer story.

[ peggy rises from her chair and crosses over to the (yes) little electric kettle she'd taken to using after he'd suggested so. ]

I can pour us both a cuppa if you want to stay and hear it.

[revokes]

-- espresso?

[ god help him, he almost looks hopeful. it's been three hours since his last cup of coffee. ]

I haven't slept in thirty hours. tell me you've got something there that has active caffeine in it.

[ fat chance but still, he tries. ]

[mucked]

I've got assam and I've got earl grey. Anything else, Tony, and you'll have to procure it for yourself.

[ peggy carter doesn't serve coffee. not if she can help it. ]

[revokes]

[ there's a groan, he knew it. he's not the least bit surprised that what he knows as her old habits are already firmly in place. there's no helping it. ]

I'll take the Earl Grey.

[ and then he drops his head back down onto his folded arms. ]

The other stuff is too weird.

[mucked]

[ -- there's something a little too telling in the fact that she needs to consult the closet just to generate a second mug to go with the lonely single one she keeps for herself. peggy lines the two up together, deigning to make the tea the sloppy way by skipping a teapot and steeping it straight in the cup. ]

Someone stole the chemical formula for Nitramene from a -- vault. Of your father's. [ among other things, but she won't be going too far down that rabbit hole tonight. ] I was asked to retrieve it but by the time I caught up to the lead, the formula had been put to use. Extensively.

[revokes]

Of course he couldn't just go and retrieve it himself.

[ it may be unfair but there's nothing about howard stark's way of dealing with things that tony appreciates. Sending her to do his work, sending Jarvis. ]

He never got better at it, you know. Keeping his things secured, trusting the right people.

[ he looks at the cups and shakes his head. ]

You and Jarvis might have been his only good choices.

[mucked]

[ -- she lets him seethe. what use is there in explaining to tony the nuance of the situation? howard couldn't retrieve it himself. the ssr would have had him in cuffs the moment he put his feet back on american soil. but just hearing this much, saying this much, she realizes how little tony seems to know about those days.

just as well, perhaps. they can be gambling chips for her in future.

peggy waits on the kettle. she watches him watching the cups. ]

Jarvis especially. That man exudes loyalty in every pore.

[ -- but not to a fault. he did, after all, have his integrity. and she loves him dearly for it. ]

[revokes]

That hasn't changed, either.

[ but tony is much happier to talk about jarvis than he is about howard. One of them cared for him, the other less so. ]

He taught me a lot.

[ manners. Loyalty. Bow-ties ]

[mucked]

[ and peggy, by contrast, prefers singing jarvis's praises over her own. after all -- tony had suggested that both she and the butler had been rare good choices on howard's part. peggy quietly erases herself from that conversation and pivots, once again, to edwin jarvis. ]

...I don't suppose he taught you his recipe for blackberry lemon scones, did he?

[ teasing. but sweetly, almost with a smile. ]

[revokes]

I'm not stellar at cooking.

[ he smiles, too. He doesn't want to say it, doesn't want to say he misses him. Not when he missed her, too. He shifts in his chair, closes his eyes for a moment. ]

I can make you a pop tart sometimes. I'm pretty good with those.