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

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[revokes]

[ it takes a while, a lengthy while. He records another audio session, lets F.R.I.D.A.Y keep the records of the telling of the latest event and the ghost that looked like him ( looked like his father ). He doesn't shy away from his failure to see it through. If this was an experiment then F.R.I.D.A.Y did well while tony did terribly.

He addresses all of this recordings to Pepper. ]

what is it?

[mucked]

[ oh, she does not like being made to wait. if she suffers it now, it's only because she'd suffered it before with howard. ]

I was hoping you'd have spare example of an integrated circuit sitting around. Something I could have a look at. Not tonight, obviously, but...

[ tony has been putting reading materials into her hands, after all. physics textbooks and computer science primers. most of it is as good as greek to her -- even the more basic chapters depend upon bits of knowledge she simply doesn't possess. but a microchip? that sounds tantalizingly within reach of her own decade's science.

and it seems like it might be just the right kind of olive branch to remind tony that -- ultimately -- she aims to keep her eye on the ball. ]

Soon.

[revokes]

[ he knows there is a deeper truth here, the real source of his frustration. It has nothing to do with her, not directly anyway, and he shouldn't be punishing her for it. The truth of the matter is simple, he will always be a reminder of a father he resents and furthermore, in the depths of his heart tony begins to understand that he must stop expecting to see the woman he once knew. She met him at 47, the woman he remembers knew him since before he could walk. But accepting this also means that he has to accept that this person is really gone and that they will never see each other again.

It's so very obvious but he ignores it still. ]

I have about a hundred of them.

1/2

[mucked]

I only want one.

2/2

[mucked]

Or...maybe two. One to take apart and another to show me how to put it back together again. The magnifying glass I can get from the closet -- it, at least, I know how to conjure.

[revokes]

[ he did much of the same as a child. Lacking much attention and playmates, he took things apart and rebuilt them. When he was 8, tony stark built his first creation, a something out of nothing and that had remained his greatest love in life, build and create and innovate. ]

well, they're all on the workshop table. You can pick whatever two that aren't frayed.

[ wonderland doesn't make creation easy. ]

[mucked]

I've got permission to touch the workshop table now, do I? It seems I'm moving up in the world.

[ a joke -- and a bad one -- because by all accounts it feels much more like she's been somehow demoted in his esteem. ]

[revokes]

You always had it.

Just try and leave the robots alone.

[mucked]

Certainly. Provided they extend me the same courtesy.

[ they prod her, tony! ]

[revokes]

they're robots.

They're programmed to get the job done. Nothing personal. They're very polite, totally respectful.

[mucked]

I think one bruised my arm last night.

[ bollocks. she's crying wolf. inviting him to get on her case for something -- anything -- else that doesn't make her stomach churn quite so anxiously. ]

[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. ]