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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. ]

Comments

video.

[edwinjarvis]

If memory serves me right, I don't believe he has, his poor ego.

video.

[mucked]

Oh, don't waste any pity on him. He's married, sure enough. To his own advancement, if not his job.

video.

[edwinjarvis]

I'm her his job is a lovely miss who deserves better.

Though I must remind you with great confusion and awe that Mr. Stark finds a single, solitary, monogamous woman in which he spends his life with. Just one. Exclusively. As a married man.

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[mucked]

It's entirely possible he manages to meet just one woman who bowls him over completely, Mister Jarvis. We all have our weak spots.

[ let's not point out hers. ]

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[edwinjarvis]

[He does give her a rather knooowing smile.]

We do indeed, don't we?

[B^))))]

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[mucked]

I haven't the faintest idea to what you might be referring. [ HUFF. ] We can't all be sentimental saps like you, Mister Jarvis.

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[edwinjarvis]

Oh!! Me, sentimental!

You are too stubborn, sometimes. It's alright to be in love, you know.

video.

[mucked]

[ oh! don't make her wince. ]

There's nothing wrong about proceeding with a touch of discretion.

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[edwinjarvis]

A touch.

A teaspoon.

A cup at most.

[Not the whole gallon!]

Re: video.

[mucked]

Speaking of discretion. [ uh-oh spaghettio. ] Steve found those blasted little images you keyed into his phone on New Years.

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[edwinjarvis]

..............

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[edwinjarvis]

Oh! Yes! The cute little images on the phone!

video.

[mucked]

Indeed. Those.

Seems he rather misunderstood their meaning.

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[edwinjarvis]

Mr. Rogers did?

I thought it was rather obviously a hieroglyphic tale of marriage.

Perhaps I am not as creative as I could've been.

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[mucked]

Obvious, yes. Except he quite obviously assumed the hieroglyphics were mine.

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[edwinjarvis]

... Oh, dear.

[He is taking this very seriously now. He's quite worried, in fact!]

... He thinks you're eloping with someone else?

I must fix this immediately.

video.

[mucked]

[ oh for god's sake.

dry: ] No, Mister Jarvis. He doesn't think that.

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[edwinjarvis]

........................

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[edwinjarvis]

Oh.

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[mucked]

And so, you see, you've put me into quite the predicament.

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[edwinjarvis]

Wh — ! Oh, you can't possibly —

How am I to know how those blasted things work?

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[mucked]

It's my fault. [ how generous of her. ] I should never have had that much to drink before handling the device. Doom was inevitable.

[ doom. ]

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[edwinjarvis]

[He frowns rather pitifully.]

Still, I'm the one who picked such a topic.

video.

[edwinjarvis]

...

....

.....

Did he say yes?

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[mucked]

For him to have said yes to anything, Mister Jarvis, there would have first needed to be a question that was asked. [ and there wasn't, she maintains. ]