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[mucked]

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

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[revokes]

Alright so until now in the months that I've been here, there was that time I drank too much and I yelled at you, and then the time when I was young and I hit on you and there was the time where Pepper left, yeah? and now Rogers is here and you're here and I think you're badass, aunt Peggy but.

[ but! ]

You're my go-person and I want to know if you have one. Not in a patronizing way, call it familial concern. I'm not asking who they are because, judging by the fact you were friends with my old man and you seem to like me and you liked Rogers - your taste in people in questionable - I'm just asking if there is one.

[mucked]

[ she purses her lips. he was right; it wasn't at all the sort of question she wanted to answer. he cautions her that it's not patronizing and, remarkably, she believes him. but it still cuts to the quick. why should she share the answer?

...it would have been easier if he'd asked her just about anything else. ]

I have my resources.

[ she answers a little stiffly. ]

One or two, at least.

[ a pregnant pause -- as though she's trying to gauge whether that answer is good enough or whether he'll take her to task on its vagueness. ]

[revokes]

[ well, this has gone a bit better than he thought it would. he nods, seems to be okay with what he has and then - ]

Two is good enough. I just.

[ he looks like he could kick himself and this is so stupid but still, he goes on. ]

Pepper said that while I don't have 99 personality flaws, I have about 36 which is fair, I suppose and she said I could lose sight of people if I focus too much on something else and I just wanted to make sure.

[mucked]

There's Jane, next door, and she's -- lovely.

[ this part is easy. talking about jane is easy. because peggy is just giddy enough over having a real and true friend, something akin to what angie could have been, that she almost seems eager to tell him about it.

she doesn't get to gush much about her friendships. it's a new strange feeling. so, almost as if to deflect away from her affection for the woman, she adds: ]

And I can't imagine you much want to hear about the other one.

[ the other resource, the other name, the other go-to person. ]

[revokes]

I know enough.

[ about the other one. Actually, he knows more about that one than he does about the one named Jane. ]

I'm not entirely self-centered.

[mucked]

He's a better man than he believes himself to be.

[ and, if pressed, peggy might suggest that tony and the other resource in question have that in common.

and actually... ] You know, it's not as though you don't make the list. [ ... ] Of people.

[ her people. the people she might actually confess to needing. ]

[revokes]

I wouldn't blame you if I didn't.

[ even when she's much younger, she's the one who he still goes to and yet, tony knows he's been unfair to her more than once. ]

But I'm glad. I didn't get to help you much, growing up. If I can, I'll do it. You know you mean the world to me, always have.

[mucked]

-- Tony.

[ she wags the spoon at him. ]

You're just about the only person I can talk to about Steve, you realize, and actually say the things I mean to say. It's not right to go and slander him to everyone else. And it's not as though... [ it's not as though she can comfortable discuss the man with rip hunter any longer. ]

You understand what it's like. What he's like. How he can be the best of us and still piss you off in spite of it. Maybe even because of it.

[revokes]

He doesn't piss me off.

[ and oddly enough, there isn't a word of lie there. ]

He used to, he used to be that friend I had that was way too uptight and righteous and yes, back then he pissed me off.

[mucked]

Oh, please. That man is as dear to me as anyone could be and he still pisses me off to no end.

[ tony might be speaking the truth -- but peggy, mild cynic that she is, doesn't quite believe him. maybe she still needs to vilify steve just a little. ]

[revokes]

At least your dad didn't make you sleep on his sheets for five years straight.

[ grumble ]

[mucked]

Take a moment, Tony, to think about your complaint. [ a beat. ] And then think about a few months ago when you tried to replace my sheets.

[ HONESTLY, like father like son. ]

[revokes]

I am deeply wounded by you, just so you know. I feel very exposed right now, talking about my feelings and you draw these comparisons. I hated Captain America, you think Iron Man is cute.

[ look at the amount of drama ]

There's a difference.

[mucked]

Oi.

[ she goes as far as rapping her spoon against the back of his knuckles. mmhm. ]

I never used the word cute.

[revokes]

Sweet, funny, charismatic -

[ he counts and wiggles his eyebrows at her ]

Downright adorable. I heard you say all of that, you absolutely did, you just don't remember.

[mucked]

[ TONY, you're a menace. ]

Even if -- even if -- I ever deigned to say any of that? It doesn't justify replacing my bed linens with something fit for a five year old.

[ really! ]

I have been trying to have company over a little more often. But you make unlocking my door a lot like Russian roulette.

[revokes]

Oh come on, haven't I suffered enough in this life that I have to sit here and discuss your company with you. You realize you're just giving me reasons to keep doing that, right?

[ Head in hands ]

[mucked]

[ she looks confused -- for just a moment -- before going slack-jawed at the realization that tony had taken her implication down a rather unintended path. ]

I'm talking about friends! For Heaven's sake. Not -- company.

[ "company." italicized and with bunny rabbit ears. a wink and a nudge. ]

I have made some, you know. Friends.

[revokes]

[ Oh, hell, he is laughing. ]

You know, a true friend won't judge you if you happen to be a little in love with your Iron Man memorabilia. That's not the weirdest thing about you, they'll understand.

[mucked]

What on earth would be weirder?

[ weirder and accurate, at least. ]

[revokes]

Uh, let's see.

[ he's going to count ]

You have a nephew more than twice your age, you're a seemingly respectable woman who eats like a broke college student and what will they say when you tell them you're guarded by a drone?

[mucked]

-- Guarded by a drone?

[ oh tony don't you dare. ]

[revokes]

He'll obey your commands and everything, it'll be brilliant. He'll even leave you alone if you ask it of him which, you're welcome, none of the others have this function installed in him.

[ ahem ]

Wanna hear what I named it?

[mucked]

Tony, you can't.

[ and she leaves it at that. one hand raised; a shake of her head. its name doesn't matter -- she flat out refuses to acknowledge this 'gift' as a good idea. ]

[revokes]

You need something you can carry that's not shaped like a gun, aunt Peggy. I'm just saying.

[ makes sense ]