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I knew I should have looked up 'reality shows' a few months back.

[ The man who appears on the screen is currently looking at what seems to be a little notepad before adding the word 'space' next to the words 'reality tv'. Really, he could have done this space setting if it included an inter-galactic war or helping planets in peril.

But in all honesty, Steve Rogers: entertainer has never been his career choice and it's not his forte, either. At least now the whole thing doesn't include singing and girls in scandalously short skirts. ]

My name is Steve Rogers, currently aboard the SS Pathstone. I've done a little bit of reading while aboard the Marsiva. I understand there are those who are trying to help the people on the moon we're visiting, if there is anything you need, I'd do whatever I can do to help.

[ you might catch a glimmer of red and blue and silver just behind him. A wink as the light hits metal ]

The same goes for going home. I imagine people have already looked into ways for us to leave this place. No one should be taken anywhere against their will. I'd like to hear about the information you have managed to collect and I'll do everything I can to make sure everyone will be able to go home safely.

[ you all get a little smile. he's so awkward at these things, can you tell by now. ]

I heard I've missed quite a party.

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That, I can quickly believe. I haven't made a point of speaking to him -- but it does happen, on occasion. He does love to lord over the rest of us, however artificially.

He claims he died in his world, that he changed. With Thor gone I can't affirm that. He doesn't act different. Whatever ship he's on - I'll talk to the crew again. It's best they stay alert.

He's...involved with someone. [ romantically. ] She doesn't sing his praises, but she doesn't damn him either. I'll talk to her -- see if I can get any sort of verification on his claim.

[ he nearly drops his tea cup. ]

Loki is?

[ and here he thought the man was mostly just in love with himself ]

...well. I guess it goes to show my mother was right about the pods and the lids.

Wise woman, your mother.

She was.

[ he shakes his head ]

I'm beginning to realize just how much.

[ Loki being romantic ]

Who's the lucky lady?

[ lucky, indeed ]

Her name is Rogue. [ peggy tries to strip some of the emotion from her voice -- she quite likes rogue, all told. but steve doesn't need to hear the sentimental argument from her. ] And, from what I can tell, she hails from one of those not-quite-like-ours worlds.

Has to be.

[ from a very, very peculiar world, especially with a name like rogue. ]

Non-human?

[ he can't see Loki being anything but himself towards a human girl, ok ]

Mutant, according to her. And a few others. Apparently they exist in some numbers in some versions of the world back home.

Like Kitty.

[ said in a hum ]

Has she mentioned anything about the X-men?

[ kitty isn't someone with whom she's familiar, but she supposes the name has floated around the fleet now and again. peggy nods. ]

She has. She's one of them -- and there are more than a few kicking 'round the ships. And some mutants, besides, who don't seem to have been part at all. One named Remy, in particular. Cajun chap. Thief, actually, but I can't yet suss out whether he's reformed or not.

[ rogue. he'll have to ask kitty about her, perhaps tell her to keep on eye on her if she can. any sort of involvement with loki can be dangerous. ]

She knew me, Kitty. Her grandfather told her stories, from the war.

I imagine a great many grandfathers must eventually tell stories about you, Steve. [ -- she purses her lips. ] They tell stories about you now. [ in the '40s, she means. ] They'll likely be telling stories about you for another seventy years beyond.

[ are you becoming huffy is that a thing that's happening? ]

She's the first one here, that's for sure.

There will be others. [ -- she clears her throat. ] Notably, I suppose, a Clint Barton that seems to be from yet another alternate world. He has some interesting things to say about you.

Interesting?

[ he gives her a little look. is 'interesting' good or the sort of interesting that could get one in all sorts of trouble? ]

You ought to ask him sometime about what he calls Cap's Kooky Quartet. It's -- well, it's enlightening, to say the least.

[ are you teasing him again ]

...I'll be sure to do that. Anything else?

[ is this because he laughed at the paintball thing ]

[ everything is because he laughed at the paintball thing. ]

Oh, so you expect me to do all your investigative work for you. Hm?

[ good lord rogers, now what. ]

I doubt there's anyone better anywhere on the fleet.

Flattery won't be getting you very far, Captain. [ oh it's a lie. she's immured to a great many attempts to flatter -- but he's already ducked and dodged so many of her defenses back during the war. she can't hide the wattage of her smile. ]

even if we both know I'm right?

[ that was almost smooth, Rogers, 1 point. ]

Honestly, I try not to rub it in anyone's faces. [ i have nothing to prove, here. ] It's not like -- not like back home, in '47. The desk isn't so stacked against us.

[ she means me. he isn't exactly the underdog any longer. ]

Tell me?

[ it's always requests when it comes to Steve Rogers. to demand a lady of anything is being a pig and to demand peggy of anything is simply to be an idiot. even asking anything of her feels wrong, after everything. ]

About home, in '47.

[ of a world he misses direly, a world he can't have back, not ever. except for here and now when it's best lady is sitting by his side holding her tea cup ]

It's better than '46, I suppose. [ she puffs her cheeks. there are truths she'd kept from jim, and from others -- but truths she didn't worry about sharing with steve. he understood (even if more in memory than in current experience) what it was to be underestimated at every turn. ]

Last year, back home, I took more lunch orders than I did case files.

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deck* whoops.