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[mucked]

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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[perfecting]

Unless you can't take them back. Then that - that's terrible.

[ it's something she's not about to forgive herself for. The last thing she ever told Barb was to go home on her own. ]

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[mucked]

It's true. Propagating rumours is an entirely different beast to merely being their subject.

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[perfecting]

I wonder who wrote these. Do you even know these people? The names on the list?

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[mucked]

Each and every one, to some degree. [ the one she knows the least is clint barton, and she's at least had a few conversations with the one stuck in the fleet. ] Most are colleagues of one sort or another.

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[perfecting]

--- I'm sorry. Are they going be douchebags about this?

[ because nancy can fight them for you, Peggy. ]

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[mucked]

[ douchebags. well, context and enough time in the fleet means she doesn't need to ask about the meaning behind the insult.

with a stilted laugh: ] Not at all. Most of the names on that list belong to well-mannered individuals. And the few that aren't? Well, they're not here.

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[perfecting]

You know a lot of good guys.

[ does she...sound...surprised? ]

I mean - that's good.

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[mucked]

I've met all sorts of bad ones, too. [ a soft smile, however. ] Most of whom I've met here can be lumped under the 'good' header, however.

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[perfecting]

Yeah.

[ she has to agree with that. ]

Most of them are really nice.

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[mucked]

-- Have you met any from the list? [ make this about nancy, perhaps, and not peggy. ] You're on Barnes's ship, aren't you?

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[perfecting]

He's, yeah. The Captain.

[ ahem. ]

I mean, yeah he's - nice.

[ not without a little smile. ok, so he's handsome, so what!!! ]

None of the others, though.

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[mucked]

I know him well enough. From home, actually. You're in good hands on the Heron.

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[perfecting]

So I keep hearing.

[ she smiles. ]

It's good to know.

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[mucked]

And you'd do well to make friends with Stefan Salvatore, also on the list. [ ... ] He makes some of the best shortbread.

[ don't tell jarvis. ]

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[perfecting]

Stefan Salvatore.

[ an exotic name. not a name you'd hear in Hawkins. She pauses, bites her lip and tilts her head. ]

Are there any...girls that are, you know.

[ she's on a ship with so many men. no one to talk to about boyfriends and finding clothes. ]

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[mucked]

-- Around your age? [ a hum. ] I think there's a young woman on the Blue Fish, but I've never met her. We had some good-hearted crewmembers here on the Starstruck but I'm afraid they've gone.

[ ... ] My First Mate only has good things to say about Kara Danvers, on the Tourist. And I trust his word implicitly.

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[perfecting]

Kara?

[ she hums and shakes her head. ]

I haven't met her yet.

[ she does so miss Barb at times like these. ]

Okay, I'll just ask. These.

[ she reaches behind her and picks up a jumpsuit. ]

I mean they fit but do we ever get something that's a bit less space and a bit more normal?

[ she doesn't really mind but still. ]

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[mucked]

[ oh, heavens, of course. poor thing. peggy smiles -- although it's a reserved sort of smile. ]

Clothing's often available on the planets we visit. It's been bad luck that our last few stops have had few options for -- humanoids, I suppose. But you'll have to save up your credits for anything beyond the standard issue togs.

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[perfecting]

[ she looks at the jumpsuit and sighs. ]

It would have helped to have more notebooks, too.

[ clothes and papers, those seem to be her priorities. ]

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[mucked]

Now paper I can provide. I stocked up early and often. [ ... ] You may need to bind it into notebooks yourself, however.

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[perfecting]

Really? um.

[ a decisive lip-bite. ]

I have nothing to give back yet.

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[mucked]

It's only paper. I've got reams of it.

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[perfecting]

Thanks. It'll help a lot. I'm picking up on my algebra.

[ ... ]

I hate algebra but - I guess I needed something to keep busy with.

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[mucked]

Algebra's not so tough once you get a taste for it.

[ she doesn't talk about it much, but mathematics is one of her strengths. ]

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[perfecting]

That's easy to say if you don't have a math teacher who talks to himself during class.

[ crossing her arms! huff. ]