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[uprightness]

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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[mucked]

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

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[uprightness]

[ are you teasing him again ]

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

[ is this because he laughed at the paintball thing ]

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[mucked]

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

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

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[uprightness]

[ good lord rogers, now what. ]

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

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[mucked]

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. ]

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[uprightness]

even if we both know I'm right?

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

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[mucked]

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. ]

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[uprightness]

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 ]

deck* whoops.

[mucked]

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.

shush ilu

[uprightness]

[ he looks over at her as she speaks. the only time peggy carter had spoken of her experiences as a woman in a world mainly dominated by men, steve had called her a dame and luckily she seemed to have found his attempts of flattery more odd than annoying. to see what the world has become for women - he is glad she was there for it. a part of him is entirely certain that women like her shaped the world into that and that he had just missed the chance to see the process.

he had missed many chances, it would seem. ]

Why? you were the best one there.

[ it's a naive question at best. he knows the why but at the same time, he'll never be able to understand it ]

[mucked]

[ a brittle chuckle. she appreciates his faith -- she truly does. but it's so moot. returning to new york, she'd been met as little more than captain america's girlfriend. something of a vanity placement, no less superficial than building a statue in his honour.

gently: ] Maybe. Maybe not. The Manhattan office had a lot of good agents -- still does, I imagine. They weren't all wankers. [ ... ] Only the majority of them.

[uprightness]

[ he has to chuckle a bit at her use of language. while he's not one to humor those sort of words, he doesn't quite mind when it's her. ]

They'll see. eventually. they're ought to. even the -

[ ok he can't repeat that word ]

less than savory ones.

[mucked]

[ she listens as he stumbles his way around the naughtiness; peggy's mouth quirks. he's adorable, isn't he? like one almost wouldn't believe who he'd been. who he is. for a moment, she almost forgets the blood and muck of the battlefield. the hard choices and the harder fights. ]

Oh, they did. Eventually. Not before putting me in cuffs and interrogating me on suspected treason charges. [ ... ] I suppose I should be grateful those details never ended up in history books or archived reports.

[uprightness]

what.

[ his gaze hardens. they what. how could they. how dare they. and if steve were there he would have gotten her out if he.

were there. but he wasn't ]

Peggy, I'm so sorry.

[mucked]

Oh, stop it. It had nothing to do with you. [ except in the sense that it had everything to do with him -- with a vial of his blood central to the whole ordeal. ] If anyone ought to be apologizing, it's Howard. But getting a single sorry out of a Stark man seems to be a feat of Sisyphean proportions.

[uprightness]

[ ha. at least it means no fondue-ing. maybe. ]

How could he had let this happen? he knows you. He ought to have known they were wrong.

[mucked]

[ her mouth falls into a line. luckily, these events are ever so slightly done with back home. she doesn't have to feel too much ire -- perhaps with thompson, still, but sousa has certainly been forgive. daniel...oh, that's a thought she didn't particularly care to have while sat across from steve rogers.

slowly, she shakes her head. ]

They leveled charges of treason against Howard first, Steve. Like you said, he knows me. So he came to me to help clear his name. Things went pear-shaped from there. [ ... ] Mucked it up.

[ it's not easy to admit short-comings to a man like captain rogers. but she has to. se won't lie about this. not to him. ]

[uprightness]

It's not your fault.

[ none of this is. it can never be, either. they all tried the best they can, what else could they do? but if they were together, the entire team - ]

I should have been there.

[mucked]

To do what? [ his concern it touching, but she needs to reassure him that it's not necessary. ] It was an SSR matter. And a storm we weathered, in the end.

[uprightness]

To get you out.

[ naturally. usually, he has more respect for the law. except for when authorities do these sort of thing. ]

[mucked]

[ -- oh, bless his boots. ]

Although your particular gallantry would have been appreciated, I promise you it also would have been unnecessary. I managed.

[uprightness]

[ he'd go vigilante for you any day, peggy carter. the signs of true love and all ]

-- it would have been an impressive operation, still.

[ gotta admit it ]/small>

[mucked]

Oh, doubtless. [ ... ] Mister Jarvis and I managed to run the table through the interrogation room's one-way mirror. I --

[ peggy pauses. ] No, I suppose you'd not have met Jarvis. Pity. What a wonderful man.

[uprightness]

Jarvis?

[ he smiles a bit at that ]

I heard that name before. It's all initials, one of Tony's computer systems is named J.A.R.V.I.S. I never really asked what it stands for.

[mucked]

Edwin Jarvis is Howard's butler. [ she refuses to use the past tense, although she understands circumstances have certainly changed by the time steve is awake once again. ] I can't speak to the acronym, but...

Jarvis himself is an admirable individual.