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Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-12-07 08:02 pm

You can check out anytime you'd like.. [Hotel Corona Mingle]

Who: The Fleet!
Broadcast: If you want
Action: Hotel Corona or Planet Ikke
When: December 7th onward

a wheel-shaped space station


[After the mystery and isolation of their last destination, the Marsiva seems determined to head to brighter, busier territory. After a long journey through remote, nebula-painted space, speeding along at a brisk pace for the Host ship, the Marsiva brings her Fleet to a sudden and prominent point of traffic.

It seems that the Fleet has happened upon some sort of vacation destination! Maybe Atroma thinks that the passengers deserve some rest and relaxation... or just wants to distract them with something huge and shiny.

Welcome to Hotel Corona! Feel free to enjoy yourselves and enjoy the sites! If a hotel resort isn't your thing, you can head on over to the nearby planet and explore it's icy wonders.

In order words: it's a mingle!! Everyone get in! ]

[>> Plot Post]
mucked: (☂ deep asleep)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-12 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
At the shops. [ cool as cool can be. ] In the Redshift District, no doubt.

[ how does she know about this already? don't ask; peggy is peggy. ]
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uprightness: (pic#10255307)

[personal profile] uprightness 2016-12-12 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
How - [ but no, he seems to decide that maybe some things are better not known ] right.

[ at the redshift district, of course. ]

Not going to ask.

[ the people in his life, honestly. ]
mucked: (☂ to steal the jewels)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-12 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
-- Like hell I'd let myself spend too long aboard this floating resort without familiarizing myself with its different areas. I imagine she proceeded similarly. And, doubtless, that's how she managed all of this so quickly.
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[personal profile] uprightness 2016-12-12 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he pinches the bridge of his nose, trying to comprehend how his usual cool and collected friend went from exploring her new territory to thinking about all of this in such a short time.

probably another one of those questions that rather stay unanswered. ]


Alright so there's the museum and the - redshift district, what else?
mucked: (☂ 'cause the hypnotist entranced him)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-12 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
-- There's a beach. And some sort of ersatz forest. Nothing terribly exciting. [ ... ] Except, perhaps, for the spas.
uprightness: (pic#10445775)

[personal profile] uprightness 2016-12-12 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
A beach is rather exciting. The last one we've been at was beautiful - they created one indoors?

[ you gotta admit, that's pretty neat. ]

and the food.

[ some of it doesn't look bad at all. ]

You should go. Who knows when we'll have all of this again.
mucked: (☂ measured in coffee spoons)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-12 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll go with Natasha, should she agree to it -- [ though it has nothing to do with this reservation, nor the treats left in it. ] It's about time we debriefed one another, so to speak, after what happened.
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[personal profile] uprightness 2016-12-14 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I bet she will.

[ he nods, trying to sustain what the thought of that entire farce invokes in him, anger and an odd sense of helplessness he hadn't felt in a long while. Not being able to prevent what happened to Nat from happening again irks him. It seems all they do is tend to fires as they have no way to stop them before they erupt. ]

It'd be good for her.
mucked: (☂ if there's no one beside you)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-14 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Only if she wants it to be good for her -- [ and yet she hopes. after everything that happened with dottie, and everything she can guess pertaining to natasha's childhood? she'd like to do some good for her. ]

You know what they say about leading horses to water, don't you
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[personal profile] uprightness 2016-12-19 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Natasha never did abide by that when it came to me. Or you.

[ he gestures around them, at the room, at, well, everything. ]

No reason we should with her. What fair is fair.
mucked: (☂ talk and talk and talk)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-19 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
By that argument -- [ we, the horses. the room is the water. ] -- It almost sounds like you're suggesting we should...drink.

[ an oblique sort of metaphor. ]
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[personal profile] uprightness 2016-12-19 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ what he meant was something along the lines of roping Nat into something she needed come what may as by now they definitely earned some meddling rights in her life. but she's not wrong, the implication is there anyway and he smiles and doesn't shrug it away. ]

Almost?

[ there's a small smile there, an acknowledgment rather than denial. she stresses that last word and all at once, the line of conversation about what's best for Nat fades away, making room for something more personal. ]

Still a good argument.
mucked: (☂ i laughed and shook his hand)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-19 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ still a good argument. peggy half-chuckles, taps her well-edged nails against his knee, and then suddenly stands. they'd promised each other dinner. she crosses to a far table sorts through the sundry pages and papers that come with a hotel room. even an alien room. technology housed in their augments allows her to read the gathered materials, and so find a menu for what they might offer rumbling stomachs.

lightly, as though they were talking about the weather: ]
I ought to make it clear, Steve, that under ordinary circumstances -- all this? [ a gentle twirl of her finger indicates the whole room. peggy doesn't look up from the papers. can't quite look at him. ] Wouldn't be necessary.

[ natasha's meddling wouldn't be necessary. ]

Not for me.

[ but these are not ordinary circumstances. then again, when will they ever be? ]
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[personal profile] uprightness 2016-12-19 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's a moment where it's all very warm and comfortable. there's a breath of laughter from her and a short tap of fingernails and then she's -

gone. gone? shaken out of a momentary daze, he looks at where she stands, eyes following that finger and it takes another moment for him to finally catch up with her and oh, lord. ]


Do you really remember any time when you and I have been ordinary?

[ he smiles a bit, doesn't follow her just yet. ]

Peggy, the first time I met you sucker punched a fella in the teeth.

[ look, just saying. ]
mucked: (☂ any place is better)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-19 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I meant -- [ out from under the atroma's possible presumed eye. ] Oh, Hell. You damn well know what I meant.

[ a bit of edge, if only because she knows he knows he's making this challenging for her instead of simply reading between her stiff, stifled words. there is no romance to be found, she decides, in declaring to him that she would have gladly (enthusiastically!) consummated their odd little relationship had it not been for the mood-crushing surveillance state that is the drifting fleet.

she flips through a leather-backed book describing what room service has to offer, but barely reads a word. ]
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[personal profile] uprightness 2016-12-19 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's a mood, again. he shakes his head, decides Nat will hear from about if only because of this entire turmoil she seemed to have thrown them into. but this will not do at all, this business-like, semi-annoyed mood. when he does get up, it's filled with intent. he takes the book from her hand, places it down and takes both her hands in his. ]

I know.

[ and it's mutual, really, save for the tiny matter of - ]

Your honor aside, it's entirely mutual.
mucked: (☂ but it's still no way to behave)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-19 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ but the 'mood' isn't so quick to abate. for a moment, she might've calmed by degrees -- but then he comes out a-swinging with his bizarre over-protective bollocks and... ]

My honour? [ she laughs. sharp, and percussive like gunfire. she's so boggled by the notion, that she believes it must be a joke. despite all her training and instincts, she doesn't for a moment read his tone as sincere. ] Who does that make me? Queen bloody Elizabeth?

[ the first, of course. as the second is still but a princess. but the danger lurking under her laughter is well-apparent considering steve only moments ago referenced a man who named her for a dead queen. he got punched. ]
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[personal profile] uprightness 2016-12-19 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
What?

[ he should be able to read the warning signs by now, considering he had seen the worst of her temper before when she shot at him but the confusion grows and he can't really tell if she's amused or annoyed or whether he should duck and head for cover. ]

It has nothing to with that, a lady 's a lady.

[ he's frowning down at her, obviously lost. ]
mucked: (☂ we will save your brothers)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-19 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
A lady's a lady? [ hmm. ] What does that mean? It's too facile to be tautological so it'll have to settle for being merely ridiculous. Unless...

[ her chin lifts. something about her softens, if only because she's realized steve truly isn't trying to tell a joke, however bad. he actually thinks... ]

Oh. Heavens. [ nope, nevermind. she thought she was ready for this conversation but she clearly isn't -- turns out it's easier to tell the man you love you'd happily sleep with him if it wasn't for the presumed cameras than it is to confront the fact that the same man might actually have mistaken you for someone who's never taken that particular plunge.

peggy clears her throat. the realization is more telling about him, she decides, than about herself. somewhere in the dim recesses of her mind, his assumption annoys her -- but she can almost forgive it. right now, he reminds her most painfully of that awkward young man in the back seat of an ssr car. stumbling over his implications. ]


So, [ she rapidly changes topics, ] about dinner...?
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[personal profile] uprightness 2016-12-19 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there is a moment when he is still entirely confused about it all, she seems to shift between one mood and another before the why makes itself clear and he almost startled when he understands just how much trouble he worded himself into. but honestly, assuming the otherwise would have been so terribly disrespectful and he almost wants to tell her alla that before deciding that it's safer to leave it for the time being.

the amount of babbling this might induce would be embarrassing and this is already so so bad that he could kick himself.

he's pretty sure Nat might actually kick him if she ever finds out about all of this. He can already imagine a very dry, deadpan, smooth, Rogers.

she'd be right, which is even more annoying. ]


Right, we should, go and do that.

[ outside. where it's safe and he can maybe salvage a bit of self-respect. ]
mucked: (☂ you have made)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-19 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe we'll avoid room service, [ she suggests, reading the hesitant atmosphere now ripe around them. removing themselves from the bedroom and its fleeting (and not so fleeting) implications might be precisely the cure needed for all this twisted, tangled tension. ] Spare Romanoff's pocketbook the further expense.

[ peggy steps beyond him and grabs her jacket. ]
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[personal profile] uprightness 2016-12-19 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't wanna know what she spent so far.

[ he agrees, follows her, trying to shake away the awkwardness and fall into the comfortable pace he usually leads with her. at the same time, there is a quiet realization. The next time this entire subject comes up, whether it's in that room or outside of it, he'll have a whole other answer for her.

after all, it really can't get any more awkward than it is just did and that will have to be a comfort, for now. ]



You think there's anything around here that's familiar?
mucked: (☂ we tried to dig a decent grave)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-19 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ for now, her armour is raised. as much as she does love steve -- and even alone in her thoughts she harbours no question of its existence -- she can't help but scold herself for being too relaxed; too unguarded; too honest. it's easy to forget how much ground they have yet to cover. she had colleagues, back home, she'd known for longer than the total sum of her and steve's association.

and that despite modernization's best efforts, he is still that skinnier version of himself beneath it all. still the man who talked himself into awkward corners. it doesn't mean she'd go easier on him -- far from it. but it means she can, at least, empathize with his more graceless moments. ]


At this point, I'll settle for edible.

[ she pockets the room's keycard. the atmosphere may be chilly, but it's not hostile. ]
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[personal profile] uprightness 2016-12-19 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he had unwittingly managed, it would seem, to work himself right into what he assumes to be a rather large amount of annoyance. it's hardly the first time this had happened but unlike the last time when defending himself had proven to make things even worse ( life lesson: never blame a woman of fonduing a shared friend after you were caught kissing another woman ), this time he accepts it as it is. after all, god knows he earned this one. the method here has to be winning her back, one degree after another and it'll take time and patience and they have both.

well, they have the latter. he always hopes they still have the former, too.

there will have to be an apology, but not now. he knows her well enough to know it's not the time yet.

but knowing what not to do, while a good start, isn't the same as knowing what to do without escalating this and moving from her frosty side straight into ire.

and captain america or not, steve isn't interested in risking her ire.

he should say something. something that will be sweet enough to maybe win him back a smile or a glance or anything but this. ]


That still means no protein goo.

[ well it's a start. ]
mucked: (☂ about a thief)

[personal profile] mucked 2016-12-19 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Heavens. [ she agrees. vehemently. ] That still means no protein goo.

[ peggy's strides are as long and as confident as ever. she meets each new discomfort with the same old posture -- even this one. but she doesn't rush ahead of steve, choosing intead to walk abreast of him. calculated steps means she doesn't let him lag behind her the way some soldiers (when they know their rank) are given to walking just a few paces after. ]

Steak, maybe. Or whatever passes for one. The animals in their bloody little ersatz forest are all made of gears and wires.

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