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Who: Lance Hunter and yourself, should you choose to engage!
Broadcast: yes
Action: Marsiva
When: no time like the present!

[ the comm seems to be haphazardly leaning against something, and the image you get is crooked. a sleeping man, who almost instantly awakes with a start. no scream, mercifully, he's quite over screamer videos, and besides, it wouldn't really be that surprising under the circumstances, now, would it? his eyes dart around the room, his feet flying off the cot and touching the ground. the moment he speaks, his accent undeniably and unapologetically identifies him as an englishman. ]

Not again - [ he groans, looking around him. the first time he was knocked out and kidnapped happened because he was foolish, he trusted a friend when clearly he had overestimated the bond, bloody spies, he's had his fill of bloody spies. but this time - he has no idea what happened. one minute, he's in a pod, sailing to freedom and the next - he's in this bed. he must not have deactivated something. do they have a blasted tracker beam on these things? so paranoid! ] Oi, @therealshield, you forgot to paint your eagle - I'm gonna have to deduct your merits - [ no answer. the room really doesn't seem like anywhere his previous captors kept him in, and that's rarely a coincidence. he gets up, and the comm seems to slip off whatever it was leaning against and end up in a new position, one that shows the back of the man, as he walks towards a window. ] ...you have got to be joking.

[ and a moment later ] Bloody aliens!

[ the man comes in and out of the frame, as he's clearly examining his surroundings, before he heads back to check on what he's got by his cot, and notices the comm. picking it up, you now get a close up of his face - ] Little red light - you're either going to explode or - [ that sure looks like a camera, doesn't it? he holds it directly in front of his face. ]

Take me to your leader.

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All the more reason to cut the interrogation portion of the evening short. What are you asking me, not-yet-director Carter?

[ hardly a guarantee for an answer, but if anyone's going to be yanking on anyone's chain he'd much rather it be him, thanks. ]

[ a grimace. clearly, the play on her name comes with a stab of displeasure.

but, diplomatically: ] How about we wait for you to get put onto a ship, hm? You can stop by the Starstruck. Have a cuppa. I'll ask my questions then -- and we needn't depend on the crackle of a science-fiction radio getting in the bloody way.

[ so, she's averse to saying too much over the network. a little protectionist. ]

[ he's averse to it as well. he's averse to saying too much in general, and he's not sure how he feels about walking in on her home turf.

but then, there's a promise there for great rewards, considering what he's heard of space refreshments. ]

When you say a cuppa - [ please tell him you mean real tea. he will walk into your lion den for real tea. or fly, or whatever the hell you call it here. ]

Real and proper. You have my word. [ whatever it's worth. ] I've amassed a modest collection of infusions and leaves from various planets -- but I also have something a little more conventional.

[ and in exchange for a 'friendly chat' she will brew it for you, mister hunter. but! ]

However, if you're hoping for coffee instead? You're out of luck. I don't do coffee.

Let's make something abundantly clear here, Peggy - [ he's seen that grimace, and a promise of a real and proper hot cup of tea has put him in a more appeasing mood ] You can put the man in America, but you cannot put the America into the man. [ yes, he drinks coffee. but when it comes to leisure - he's a tea man all the way. ]

Another point on which we certainly see eye to eye. [ innuendo aside. ] Working in across the pond has its benefits, but the normalization of muddy burnt bean water is not one of them.

Nor is having to listen to the mangling of the English language day in and day out.

[ with their absurd slang and 'likes' and 'totallys' littered throughout every other sentence. and they have the gull to say they can't understand him. ]

[ preach it, buddy. ]

Seven decades' worth of distance only makes it more egregious. I assure you.

There are few things in this world quite as irritating as being told to speak English by a bumbling idiot with a stupid accent who can't string two words together without creating a grammatical murder scene.

[ shield, he has a very hard time bonding over. but this? this has been building up for a while. fitz keeps to himself and simmons he doesn't really know that well. it's nice to finally have someone to commiserate with. ]

Thank you. Yes. [ ... ] Steve won't play word games with me because he's got the gall to say I make words up. And yet will claim, in the same breath, that 'aluminum' is a valid pronunciation.

[ peggy's non-subtle dragging of captain america will give tony stark a run for his money. ]

With a code name like Captain America, what do you expect; hero or not they may still banish him if her starts making too much sense.

[ he's not going to be starstruck (ha) at that namedrop, though of course the avengers are exciting acquaintances to make. he knows their stories far better than he does hers. ]

[ frankly, it's appreciated -- there's little peggy tolerates less than the myth and persona of captain america. especially just now, under his current circumstances. ]

I always hated the name. But so it goes: they can't do anything without bloody fireworks, can they?

Must be one of their amendments, who can keep track.

[ it's definitely one think she won't have to worry about with him. he's not really one for myths. ]

Can't argue with their jazz, however. Perhaps the nation's one true redeeming feature.

No, it is rather difficult to argue in your sleep.

Mister Hunter. Are you implying that jazz music is dull?

[ it may be many things. but dull? good god. ]

Am I? I thought I was outright saying it.

I suppose you prefer that modern garbage, then.

[ #shotsfired ]

I'm going to give you a break and assume no one's played you the Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd...

Haven't the foggiest. [ the hip'n'young around here tend to manage the soundtracks for any given party -- and their taste is rather distant from hers. her idea of 'modern' music is shaped like taylor swift. except... ]

Although a member of my crew managed to get his mitts on a record player. Turns out, I'm half-partial to a man named Johnny Cash.

[ clearly she should extract herself from their poisonous influence post haste, they sound like absolutely terrible people. ]

Not a bad start. What's the garbage you're referring to, then?

God knows. It's all thumps and bumps and electronic alterations. Sounds more like a bad telephone connection than singing. [ autotune is something of an affront to someone who'd grown accustomed to some of the finer lounge singers and jazz vocalists found even in the less fashionable parts of new york. ]

Somebody Swift? I didn't bother to learn.

[ oh, she knows. it's taylor. but her insouciance is calculated. ]

[ autotuning can suck it, he's with her on that. ]

I see your problem, try spending time with someone over the age of 16 and not currently going through a breakup.

That's becoming increasingly difficult in this place.

[ -- which is unfair of her to say, really, because she mostly speaks with people her own age and older. truthfully, however, your mid-to-late-twenties are worn much differently in '47 than they are in the 21st century. it shows when she interacts with some of her 'peers' in the fleet.

no matter which way it's cut, she feels older than them. ]

Edited 2017-04-25 15:27 (UTC)

I believe it. I feel like I'm trapped in a Disney princess tea party.

[ what with the actual disney ~~princess~~ chief's daughter and the pink haired princess he's sharing the marsiva with. ]

Without the tea. [ so there's no silver lining. ]

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