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[uprightness]

Who: Steve 'belated bday boy' Rogers
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: the ss star(spangled)struck
When: current

[ after the incident which involved steve rogers, a misunderstanding regarding technology and some ( very flattering ) photos of one Peggy Carter, Steve tried to avoid addressing the entire network regarding anything less than a security threat.

And then today happened.

The video opens up to the Starstruck though the ship looks drastically different due to the large number of red, white and blue balloons and confetti that seems to be everywhere. To make matters weirder, there seems to be a rather big cake reading 'Happy 1776th birthday, your Highness' and a song that seems to be playing every few minutes and rather loudly.

And in the middle of it all, there sits Steve Rogers himself and his smile is absolutely long suffering. He looks up and waits for the song to end before speaking rather hurriedly, mostly since he's worried it'll start over. ]

--- My birthday was last month but - thank you. Tony. For arranging alla this.

[ is he saying it through gritted teeth? Oh yes. And why? ]

And more importantly to Pinkie Pie who dedicated her time and effort to doing all of this. It's - very kind of you. Can't say I've ever had that much done for my birthday before.

[ and now if you'll excuse him, he's off to kill Iron Man. ]

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action » aftermath

[uprightness]

hypnotism?

[ he wonders if there was a man like that present when HYDRA created the winter soldier. Bucky's mind was taken from him though Steve still doesn't know how. ]

Peggy, this isn't your fault. Stuff like that - hypnotism, it's not something anyone can see coming.

action » aftermath

[mucked]

[ -- and there's the rub. because fennhoff was put in in the same holding facility as zola, and peggy can't help but feel responsible for marrying leviathan ingenuity with hydra devilishness. is she at fault for what happened to james barnes because she failed to dispense with fennhoff's punishment herself? there's a tight flicker of muscle in the side of her jaw.

it's the sort of worry she intends to take to her grave. ]

Leviathan. HYDRA. Same monster, but with a different name. [ ... ] Above and beyond the hypnotism, Steve -- what they did to the children they raised as their agents.

[ she changes the subject -- pushing away from what happened in nyc. away from what howard nearly did, and away from a second painful radio conversation. ]

action » aftermath

[uprightness]

[ there is something there that he doesn't know. thoughts that he can see burdening her but are kept close, so close that he can't even guess it. It's one of Steve's highest hopes that these men she works with will come around sooner rather than later. At times, it sounds as if Peggy Carter carries the burdens of her world on her own.

he shifts, places a hand over her elbow. ]

When HYDRA resurfaced from inside SHIELD, it was a whole mess. Fury was supposedly dead, Natasha and I were fugitives from the organization we worked for. It was bad, very bad but I - you know, I thought about you.

[ he had visited her only days before it all went to hell, confessed that part of the reason he joined SHIELD was because she founded it. and it was also part of the reason he took it down. Peggy Carter created SHIELD and Steve knew she would have done the same, if she were to know.

he never told her. ]

about doing the right thing and when it came down to it, others did the right thing to. They may resurface and they may do all those things but when it comes down to it, I know there will be people who would keep cutting those heads and sending them where they belong.