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Who: Peggy Carter, some rumours, and you!
Broadcast: text, then video.
Action: y, aboard the starstruck.
When: today!

[ a message materializes on the network around midday: ]

Peggy Carter's got a veritable guy-pile of suitors: Edwin Jarvis, Max Rockatansky, Jason Wilkes, Jack Thompson, Howard Stark, Stefan Salvatore, Steve Rogers, Sam Winchester, James Barnes, Clint Barton, Daniel Sousa, and counting! How many more can you name?

[ and not long after (in a state of utter pique and dismay), that same network registers a rather heartfelt reaction -- but this time with accompanying wide-eyed video. ] Jack -- Jack Thompson? Un-bloody-likely. The only thing he's ever got his eyes on is the next greasy rung on the ladder. [ peggy scoffs, disgusted. ] As pranks go, this one's been truly shambolic. The first of April was days ago.

[ in a few hours, she'll enjoy her meltdown all over again when she finds a box of sponsor gifts in the cargo bay filled with stickers, each with a different so-called suitor's name scribbled into the blank space. all of them are filled in except for an ominous pile with an attached note: in case there's so many you start to forget their names. blanks included for any others that we might have missed. ]

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Funny way of showing it.

[Natasha shrugs philosophically.]

Boys.

-- It's good to hear him laugh, however.

Hm. So did you shoot him back?

I didn't shoot him, no. But I did get my revenge all the same.

[ which will remain vague considering the thread isn't yet finished, oops. ]

Oh, I don't for a minute doubt you did.

And I think there will be more of it going forward. Mandatory attendance at ship's dinners, for one.

This isn't a thing on Starstruck, is it?

Not at all. But I doubt he knows that -- he takes all his meals in his manky shuttle.

Away from prying eyes?

Indeed. And equally far from any of his complicated feelings of goodwill and camaraderie.

It does keep things simpler that way.

Simpler isn't always better. [ ... ] A wise butler once explained as much to me, once.

That sounds like him. [At least, as far as Natasha knows him so far.]

Better is a lot more subjective than simple.

Luckily, it's occasionally a ship captain's prerogative to be subjective about her crew.

I wouldn't argue against you on that one. I can just imagine how it seems to him. Simpler is definite. Safer is definite. Better... that gets harder to define, and harder to rely on.

-- Did you hear about what happened when Max tried to go through decontamination for the last planet?

I heard about it, yeah. Not from the source. Steve mentioned it though.

[In the course of Steve not being all that happy with the situation himself.]

No, I expect you wouldn't have. [ heard from the source. ] He turned rather isolationist after the incident. And so perhaps I can survive a few foam darts if it means he's finding his even keel again.

Sometimes people need a little time to themselves to recover. Especially if they're not used to people seeing them vulnerable.

[ she tries to be polite and cheery when she replies: ] You're certainly preaching to the choir.

[Very convincing. But Natasha's no more inclined to pick open scabs than Peggy.]

I figured. Just putting it out there.

Nevertheless, if he's recovered enough to shoot darts? He's recovered enough to go to dinner. Captain's orders.

That presumes that he'd have dinner with you if he was a hundred percent.

What it presumes, in fact, is that he's clever enough to know when to do as Peggy says.

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